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There you go :) Take it as a good thing when no one quotes you because that usually means they have nothing to correct you on or to clarify about what you've said. What you said is pretty much spot on!

Yes this is what these "journalists" don't realise - the articles stick in people's minds as well as books etc. I don't know if you've ever heard of The China Study by T. Colin Campbell but it is a very in depth book about the apparent dangers of any type of animal protein and fat. He comes out and blasts them for causing…

Yes and correlation does not prove causation either. This sounds like it was likely an observational study which really proves nothing. Observational studies are only useful to observe trends and to be used to then develop theories and test them in studies. So I do hate when people come out saying things like "Fat causes…

As someone above said, this has been disproven and it turns out that sugar and trans fats raise LDL more than sat fat. Also, LDL levels only matter to the point of the ratio to HDL and also particle number. Elevated LDL alone means very little.

Definitely the more you have to lose the quicker you will lose it. The higher your maintenance calories and the larger the deficit you create, the more you will lose. Someone with maintenance cals of 2,500 can cut their calories by 1,000 a day and expect to lose around 2lb per week and still get a decent amount of…

As far as I'm concerned, Chris Masterjohn makes some pretty compelling arguments about the conversion of fats to glucose. If you wish to believe there is not enough evidence of what he says then that is your stance. I prefer to have an open mind and look at what the evidence suggests and to me it suggests that we can…

It depends on the intensity. If you're sprinting or doing short bursts of high intensity exercise, a ketogenic diet may hurt your performance. If you're doing low intensity exercise a ketogenic diet should be fine as the body favours fat for aerobic activity. However, if you have been used to using glucose for fuelling…

Yes I'm aware that glycogen stores are depleted on a ketogenic diet, and this is where I'm confused about your explanation that keto adaptation makes fat the body's preferred fuel. How can you possibly know this if glycogen stores are depleted and there is no opportunity for the body to bypass the glucose? You are saying…

I'm sorry but you seem to be continuously twisting my words. I don't know if this is intentional or unintentional, but my main point was that ketosis and burning fat for fuel are essentially the same thing whereas you claimed they are not and then said something about being keto adapted and fat being the body's preferred…

No, it depends on the TYPE of exercise you do. I'm not a dietician but I am studying Nutrition and this has just come up in my latest study module. High intensity exercises will burn muscle in the absence of glycogen as high intensity exercise requires glucose. Low intensity, short duration exercises burn fat and don't…

If you're not losing weight then you're either eating so little that your body is fighting back really hard and your cortisol is through the roof, or you're eating more than you think. Hormonal imbalance will slow weight loss but it won't completely stop it. Your metabolism never slows down enough to completely halt weight…

Ok, well first off, 290 calories above your weekly goal is not a binge. In the greater scheme of things, 290 calories is not going to make much difference when you consider that 1lb of fat is around 3500 calories. Restricting calories in itself does increase the urge to binge. It is a natural physiological response that we…

This doesn't explain why what I said is wrong. I said the body enters ketosis in a fasted state and anytime it has to use fat for fuel. This has nothing to do with fat being a preferred source of fuel. As far as being keto adapted goes, the only benefit I see to this is getting over the "keto flu" as they call it. I have…

I always see an increase on the scale after a big day, but only if calories are something like 2000 and carbs are 200g+. It depends how much you ate over the whole day and how many carbs I'd say. I've been on a diet where I would have a very low cal day and then a higher cal day, but it'd only be around 1600 cals and the…

Your TDEE may be lower than you think and therefore your deficit is only enough to lose half a pound per week. If you're logging accurately and are definitely eating 1700 calories a day this would suggest your deficit is around 250 calories a day. This is a safe rate of weight loss of course, but if you want the weight to…

Except she has said her net is 100 or so calories after exercise. That is NOT ok.

First of all, I'd question whether you are really burning 700 calories of exercise. It would take around 2 hours to burn off that amounts of calories - are you really working out that much? But without exercise 750 calories is far too low and you should not be working out whilst eating so little - this is a recipe for…

I believe they're based on government RDAs. You can change the percentages on the "goals" tab and choose to manually change your goals.

I'm really not sure what you're suggesting the difference between ketosis and burning fat for fuel is. Yes ketosis occurs when blood ketone levels are elevated, and ketone levels are elevated when the body is turning fat into ketones for use as fuel. If what you're saying about burning fat for fuel only happens once keto…

I have found that some FODMAPS cause more problems for me than others and you could try just eliminating one thing at a time and see how you get on. That way, you may not need to avoid ALL FODMAPS in future. For example, I get a lot of distress if I eat too much coconut meat, baked beans, dried fruit and sweeteners but I'm…

Meal replacement shakes aren't the best way to get nutrition, but it's better than nothing. You don't need to eat breakfast - fasting can actually be beneficial. But if you're getting hungry then it's a good idea to keep something to hand. You could always do a smoothie, adding in more fruits and veg for nutrients and then…

You can't gain fat in a calorie deficit, but if your body is fighting back hard it will make it more difficult to lose anything. You don't look like you have much to lose at all so that may be a problem. It could be down to regular weight fluctuations or down to something you've been eating so having a look at your diary…

Yes working out in a fasted state is believed to be good for weight loss and some studies have shown this to be the case, but this applies more to low intensity cardio short in duration than anything else. This is because this type of exercise uses fat for fuel in the absence of glycogen and it will have to burn body fat.…

It's pretty hard to figure out exact LBM unless you use one of those high tech pods, but even those aren't 100% accurate. Standard government guidelines are a minimum of 0.8g per kg of bodyweight and up to 2g per kg is considered safe for active people. Those are official guidelines to keep you within known safe levels of…

Protein amount depends on your current weight. Up to 2g per kg of bodyweight is said to be safe if you are active, so 140g would be fine for someone weighing 70kgs 0r 154lbs. It really depends on you. You should get at LEAST 0.8g of protein per kg of bodyweight and aim for a max of 2g so a good number would be around 1.5g…

It's a tough one without knowing what you're eating exactly. It doesn't make sense that you would stop losing on a diet of 1200 calories. Sometimes weight stalls for a couple of weeks and then re-adjusts so you may just need to give it more time. There could be a number of reasons for the scale going up though such as…

Metabolic adaptation will always occur to some degree when you lower your calories, but I believe that if you're within 1,000 calories of maintenance it's only around 10%. This is why weight loss slows after a period of dieting and you have to further lower calories to see the same rate of weight loss. You're also right…

It honestly depends on how your body works and how long you want to be dieting for. I'm not going to advocate any sort of starvation diet, but whilst a small deficit is recommended initially, the longer you diet the worse things get physiologically and psychologically. So for me, I'd rather go as low as possible whilst…

The number of things I've read on water don't seem to have any hard evidence that it does assist with weight loss, but as health is important to weight loss it fits in in that respect. Also, if you're retaining water drinking more water can help get the scales moving by releasing the excess stored water.