Springfield1970 Member

Age just brings a certain laziness in every day activity like walking around and fidgeting etc. I'm lucky I have an 11 year old to keep up with. As I get slimmer I'm more likely to be out and about. That's what revs up the metabolism. Moving like a young un. This is metabolic slow down.

Haha! I love that stuff though.....

No. Knowing what you do now, you didn't need drugs. Just food.

No need for drugs-just food.

Glucose is the fastest releasing carb. It is good because it provides instant energy during hard sports workouts after glyocogen is used up and body fat cannot burn fast enough to keep up the pace. Sucrose does this too. Pasta and starchy carbs trigger the insulin spike after weight training to transport amino acid into…

I wake up 2 hours before I run and eat a 500cal breakfast. Sometimes I go back to sleep for a bit. I generally eat greek yoghurt oats sultanas bananas and honey. Low fibre is better. I hate running unfuelled, but if it's a really early start then a banana and a gel just before?

Oh gosh where to begin. I am metabolically challenged, just as much as any other human. I put on weight super quick, hence the reason im here counting calories. Again. I maintain on 1750 calories. I'm a triathlete. I add my exercise cals and eat them all. I can eat a certain amount of food then I gain, whether fat, protein…

I think maybe you should study the diets of East African runners, or some olympic athletes, or many of the fittest, strongest and leanest people on this very website!

Sorry that's just not true OP. I've reached 15% body fat and I'm 45, with just the same amount of calories as when I was 19. This is on a pretty high carb diet, with syrup, wine, pasta etc etc. Calories in calories out. I also time my nutrients but it still all works out, whether I was eating one big meal at night or 25…

I'm about the same. 250 cals naturally over. What's that? A glass of wine or two, or a treat. Easily easily done.

I think it's a body fat thing. I look and feel 10 years younger at sub 20% body fat. That happens to be about 127-129lb at 5'7" while I'm lifting and quite muscular. If not its 126lb and under.

Perfect plan. It keeps you in the zone, so when you have a little bit more, it really feels like a treat. It stops that creep creep creep of slightly bigger portions and more treats and escalating hunger.

I don't use percentages as I change my calories everyday to suit my activity level. I have a base of 1750 (or 1650 on a cut), then I eat back my exercise cals (600 ph for my fast runs, 400 for cycling, etc) I try for 100g of protein (.8g per lb of body weight) and the rest carbs and some fat, I tend to be lower fat and…

This tallies with my experience of plateaus of 4-6 weeks and a sudden drop onto target. I read about it on Lyle MacDonalds website. He believes in plateaus, and calls it the Woosh effect. The fat cells replace with water, masking the weight loss, and then suddenly release, (I've had it happen after a heavy night of…

It doesn't make sense though to me. Think of all the highly stressful situations like war and famine when people lose weight. Maybe it causes a stall, where the fat cells, and lean mass hold on to water, but eventually gets released. It may also slow the transit of food through the sstem, which creates the appearance of a…

I'm with you! I sprinkle jerk seasoning on mine. Hell yes!

Smaller deficit, fuel properly around workouts.

Well I gained weight over the holiday period and was on a total break from exercise, so I went from a fat bulk to a cut! I'd forgotten how much I can eat for pleasure and how fast it packs on!

I'm on a small cut too and my lifts are so bad right now. It's incredible what just a few missing calories can do. But I just want to maintain my muscle now, my main goal is staying lean and eating to keep at a certain weight and fuel great workouts. So challenging in itself. Stupid food.

I have the same skinny drainpipe jeans that cost a fortune from deisel and they are my litmus test. I love love love them and just hate it when I start to muffin top!

You just lost water weight that was all.

It's so simple. Just eat a small deficit, make sure you're getting 100g + protein and lift to preserve the muscle. I've under eaten 100 cals a day for 30 odd days and I'm down a pound. In pure fat. I look totally different at 130lb than I do at 132. When I hit 128lb I'll again look totally different, that will be April.

I like Scooby's calculators, and he has a point about overweight people not bulking. That's why it's really important to get down to low body fat before a bulk. I tried recomping and didn't get anywhere for a year or two. I cut to under 15% body fat for a running experiment I was doing on myself to find my racing weight.…

I must admit though, I've been eating very close to 100 cals under a day for 35 days and my loss (taken from a rolling average) is hilariously ONE POUND. I know each food item is either under or over, as is my exercise and General maintenance figure, but whatever these small errors are, overall it really works.

Glad this is cleared up. Back to work everyone. It's insane out there.

Sorry, but many of us eat lots and lots of carbs, and artificial sweeteners (I keep that to minimum as I believe they interfere with gut flora) and we are the leanest and fittest people here. I was 30%+ body fat after years of low carb attempts. Now I'm sub 20%, and was 15% last year, all the while munching every kind of…

There's still too much inconsistency and random events. Find some patience, log meticulously for 6 weeks, weigh yourself every day and average every 7, then plot it out on a piece of paper. You're not being disciplined enough that's all.

Fat cells are funny things. They empty themselves and fill with water (so Lyle MacDonald theorises), making you think all you hard work and hunger is to no avail. Then one day, woosh! They empty. Also , muscles and organs fill themselves up with water and glycogen, from food, or to repair, then Woosh! Stomachs and…

This ^^^^^^ Also, make sure you're not on too much of a calorie deficit, eat .8g protein per pound of your own body weight and keep lifting heavy. Hopefully you'll just target fat loss and keep all of your muscle.

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