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Most of us actually have muscle definition in the abs, the problem is that the muscles are covered in fat. If you are doing any reasonably structured lifting program that includes the large compound movements you are working/strengthening your abs. But you still need to get below a certain BF % to actually see the muscle…
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Think about it... people who work overnight and sleep during the day can still lose weight and they - for the most part - will be eating most of their calories after 8pm.
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What 'value' are you attributing to IF other than weight loss? From personal experience, I ate over 200 grams of carbs yesterday and I was down .6 lbs on the scale this morning - and I do IF every day. Calories > IF > food choices each and every day of the week.
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Don't know who told you this... if it was your Dr they need to go back to school and take rudimentary biology classes and if it was some rando on the webs you need to stop listening to them. The only time your metabolism 'stops' is the day you die. Yes, too few calories will cause your body to start down-regulating…
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You realize that's 115% total for your numbers? OP - the only thing that you really need to worry about for keto is the carbs - you should keep net carbs at or below 20% of your daily totals. Let the protein and fat fall where they may.
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Two major problems with that study (and with most of the studies of the sort): 1. It is based on food questionnaires which are notoriously inaccurate 2. It can establish correlation but it cannot establish causation - i.e. we noticed that people who eat red meat die sooner, but the study cannot show that the consumption of…
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No one was attacking you personally... just the study that was connected to your post. Yes, soda raises glucose levels in the blood, but then so does just about anything you eat except for pure fat. The fatty liver thing - if you get your weight under control, that will pretty much resolve itself as well. Sodas, as with a…
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Doesn't work that way - you make the claim, you support it.
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Got some links to prove this?
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The thread you replied to is 10 years old... you would probably get more responses if you simply started a new thread.
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I would make sure - my wife had 'just a cold' until we tested (yes, she was positive) and it went thru the entire family. We are boosted as much as possible and we had fairly minor cases - mild fever, congestion, sinus issues - so thankful for that.
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Neither - both are known for producing over-priced mediocre sugar bombs. If I want a smoothie, I can make it at home, it will taste better and cost less than half of what these places charge.
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For both of you... how much weight do you have to lose and what rate of loss did u choose?
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No, the science does not. I have maintained a 50+ pound weight loss for over 3 years and eat half or more of my daily calories between 5 and 9 in the evening. As for IF, there are a lot of people who can't do because of BG issues - my wife being one of them. I personally prefer not eating in the morning so I regularly do…
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Not really - ketosis is reached by restricting carbs, it has nothing to do with your fat intake, esp. if you are trying to lose weight - the body will use your on-board stores to get the fat that it needs for energy.
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MFP doesn't track magnesium because it is not required on food labels, which makes it problematic to get amounts in foods.
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Sorry, but nope. The average transit time for food to pass completely thru the digestive tract is 24-72 hours. The stomach will empty quicker than that, but not the rest of the system. Unless you are doing extended multi-day water fasts, you are not resting the vast majority of the digestive system. In fact, once you begin…
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Or, the more likely culprit is that somebody made a mistake when creating the label and it didn't get caught in quality control... hint, this happens to other products as well. I think it the more likely scenario than attributing some nefarious attempt to mislead people on the part of the company.
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Since this isn't the first post on this issue, I'm really curious as to why people think monitoring their glucose will have anything to do with weight loss?
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As long as you maintain your energy balance (CICO), the only thing you will gain back is the water needed to store the extra glucose that the carbs deliver to your body. You will NOT gain it all back simply because you are eating carbs... As for the misery part, some people are quite happy cutting back on or completely…
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I don't know about the less-satiating claim, but since whether or not a food is satiating is a very individual thing, making a blanket claim that UPF's are less satiating is kind of silly. As for the blood sugar spike - any food that contains lots of simple carbs (including fruit, sweet veggies, etc.) will cause a blood…
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It is not a problem or a glitch - they moved the barcode scan to the pay only memberships at the beginning of October.
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The only must on my list is coffee - it greatly increases the life span of people who interact with me in the morning.
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What I do with mine is rest one foot on the scale until I get a reading and then weight myself. Keeps the scale from remembering a previous weight.
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Knock on wood - I haven't had a stone in several years and and the only consistent thing in my diet thru those years has been to stay hydrated. I regularly eat 150+ grams of protein a day and don't have issues.
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First, you need to know what type of kidney stones you develop... there are 4 kinds and none of the 4 kinds are caused by protein intake. The most common stone formation in the US is the calcium oxalate stone, caused when oxalates (most common in spinach and chocolate in the American diet) combines with calcium in the…
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The problem is that out in the real world, most people do not equate 'starvation mode' to adaptive thermogenesis. They equate 'starvation mode' to a point where your body literally quits burning calories and saves all of the calories that you eat as fat to protect you from starving to death.
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No - only if there is a medical reason for it to be this low.
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Eating a wide variety of foods contributes more to healthy gut flora than any supplement that you can take.
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Context always matters in these cases - for example, when I go for longer bike rides (2+ hours at a time), I always take sugar in one form or another to keep me going thru the ride and to make sure I make it home - usually hard candies or just simply glucose tabs. Sugar as pure as possible, is the ONLY thing that will give…
