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Wait, that sounded different in my head. Unused protein, like unused carbs and unused dietary fat, turns into fat on your body.

Unused food turns into calories.

Don't drink any of your calories is good advice for most people, but that's because most people are drinking empty calories that don't add anything in the way of nutrition or satiety. That's not the case with Nomadic_frau. Her smoothie is not what I'd drink, but there's nothing wrong with it. I drink almost 2/3 of my daily…

It doesn't mean that I can't still like The China Study, though.

Thanks, but I've read that before. Not that I put as much faith in blogs as you do, but I started looking for views contradicting Campbell's because his theories just didn't quite make complete sense. That's when I found your linked blog. I think the blog has some flaws as well. In the end I decided to disregard Campbell's…

What sources? I read The China Study. I liked it. The author advocates low protein levels for health reasons, most notably as cancer protection. I think it makes intuitive sense, since a lack of protein (or very low levels) would make it harder for cancer cells to reproduce. If I had cancer I think I'd consider following…

56kg? That's 123 pounds. So you should be getting around 98.4 to 123 grams of protein.

If I was trolling and trying to get people to take a ridiculous statement seriously, I'd be laughing now.

92 grams of protein isn't a whole lot of protein. Unless maybe you weigh less than 92 pounds. You should probably be getting somewhere around 0.8 grams to 1 gram of protein per pound of bodyweight, which helps maintain and/or build lean body tissues whether you're on a cut, maintaining, or trying to bulk. Protein is also…

Freak out. It's not water weight. Water weighs 8.34 pounds per gallon. Water weighed 8.34 pounds per gallon last week, and it'll weigh 8.34 pounds next week. Nothing has changed. Freak out.

According to your first post, roughly half of your weight loss came from fat, with 5.7 lbs of fat loss, 6.3 lbs of lean body mass loss. (Based on going from 162 to 150 pounds and 35% BF to 34% BF.) Losses like that are not out of the question, even with heavy lifting, but at your age I doubt that that's what's going on.…

If we had a "like" button I would have used it. Good job on improving your advice.

You should have made this one number 17, not number 1. But you did and I took your advice. I stopped reading right there. (Not really. I got as far as muscle weighing/not weighing more than fat. That was the real point where I decided to follow #1. But it sounded better to say I stopped reading earlier.)

I eat yogurt and kefir daily, and sometimes sauerkraut. I don't know if there's any evidence that bacteria from food is better than pill form, but it seems to make sense. The bacteria in food is already alive, feeding, and possibly multiplying before you eat it. I would think that would improve the chances that the…

Exactly. For details on how and when to set up a refeed day: muscleforlife.com/refeed/

1. He didn't. 2. Yes there is. It's nice that we have people protecting each other here. It'd be nicer yet if they knew what they were talking about. That was a good article that Catscats linked above, but while helpful, it can also be misleading. The first few paragraphs from the link: Potassium is an essential mineral…

"Shake Diets:" As others have already said, don't do it. There's nothing magical about liquified foods. Blended calories are the same as solid calories. However, there's nothing wrong with smoothies. As long as you're not counting on them to somehow make you skinnier, they do offer some benefits, such as the convenience…

I read that book and liked it a lot, particularly from the food manufacturing/ historical aspect. I don't remember the part about fats causing the same responses as sugar, but I'll take your word for it. I agree with your whole post, especially the part about addiction not being a helpful way of looking at things. There…

I didn't deny that sugar is 100% carbs. I didn't try to verify whether it is or not, but your claim sounds right to me. But sugar is not a macro, sugar is a type of carbohydrate. It is a subset. I will not call you passive aggressive, illogical or silly. But really, stop arguing and just think for a minute. And sugar has…

You go ahead and argue that sugar is a macro. I'm obviously not going to get through to you on this. Donuts don't taste as good. AS good. They still taste good, but not as good. Do I need more words than "as" and "good?" I should be able to come up with something if necessary. And I didn't necessarily think the original…

Barring preexisting medical conditions, protein, even "too much" protein is not bad for you. But your body can only use so much. The rest is more or less wasted. Studies have shown that protein synthesis maxes out around 0.8 grams of protein per pound of total bodyweight. Other recent studies have increased the maximum to…

Ceoverturl, as you know, macros are protein, carbohydrates and fat. Sugar is a carb, yes, but it's a subset of carbs. Sugar is not a macro. Sugar is ALWAYS combined with other ingredients? Probably. I've eaten sugar by itself. It doesn't taste so good when it's not combined with other things. A sugar binge in response to…

Sugar is not a macro. Protein is essential for life, as is fat. Sugar in no way belongs in the same category. And yes, sugar is usually combined with other foods. Those other foods may or may not have specific benefits. Cutting down on sugar = a resulting sugar binge? Aside from that sounding like you making the case FOR…

That's not nonsense. In itself, there's nothing terrible about sugar. Including sugar in your diet will not make you gain weight. However, sugar does nothing for you on a micro nutrient level and does nothing more than a quick boost on a macro level, almost identical to what you get from eating highly processed simple…

I have a Vitamix. I use it to get my fruits, veggies, protein and fiber in, all the (hopefully) while staying under my calorie goal. I don't know how I'd fine tune my diet without it. Note: blenders don't make you lose weight. What you put into them is the key.

I think losing weight is relatively easy. I might not have said that when I first started, but since switching my focus to losing fat while gaining muscle -- simply losing weight (no matter where it came from) was easy. If calorie counting really is your issue (I only hate calorie counting on days when I'm determined to…

Either way is fine, if it's working for you. I used to eat back my exercise calories and I was still steadily losing weight. And then that kind of quit working. I don't know why, but my Fitbit is now crediting me with more calories burned, at about 125 calories per mile walked. That's too much. Also, your body adapts to…

My routine: Monday-Chest: Bench, Incline Bench, Dips Tuesday-Core: Ab Wheel, Leg Raise, Bicycle Crunch, Bridge, Front Plank, Side Plank Wednesday-Back: Pull ups, Curl, Row Thursday-Legs: Bulgarian Split Squat, Deadlift, Calf Raise Friday-Shoulders: Overhead Press, Side Delt Raise, Bent Rear Delt Raise I use Power Block…

I think you meant to say that if your goal is to lose weight, calories are calories. Barring specific health problems, there's nothing wrong with sugar in itself. The biggest problem with sugar is that in the typical diet it usually shows up in the form of soda, candy, ice cream and other junk food. And while there's…

My mistake. I should have paid more attention to some of my cycling books.