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One of the common reasons is a deficiency in your diet, of a vitamin or mineral (b12, iron, manganese etc). Or you may not be having a healthy sleep despite those 7-8 due to waking up midsleep etc. It's the best idea to visit your doctor indeed.

****, I knew it. It's all about eggs and smoking. All of those patients moved their *kitten* off all through their lives but 3 eggs a week and bam!

As you recently added coffee to your diet, I take it that you don't have caffeine addiction. In that case is your morning need for a stimulant related to poor sleep? You will also have an increase in appetite if your body doesn't get enough rest. As for me, a strong black coffee (no cream, no sugar) always curbs my…

Indeed the difference is usually not much. Same goes for HDL/LDL levels, triglycerides, insulin levels. But in a not monitored diet, a high carb diet is inferior to HP or HL. If you look at the diaries of most people going over their caloric goals, you'll mostly see higher than daily goal carbs. They're usually low on…

And I never said it's unsafe ;) But from the opposite perspective this is not a solid evidence to convince "sugar is poison" followers. However if they think it's not possible to lose weight with sugar... :huh: Then they need a reality check like this. I follow neither, and I agree with you. If you're sitting on the couch…

After some digging, I found a HF vs HC on 10 obese men with favoring HF over HC but it kinda lost me with a facepalm with 10cal/kg at deficit and 30cal/kg on maintenance diets. http://www.ajcn.org/content/30/2/160.full.pdf+html

I'm not one of them but you have to take the fact into account that these studies are usually short term studies. Some of them can't be followed for long because of the high deficit and naturally you won't find many people who will dedicate himself to a longer study. Needless to say it also gets harder to monitor people…

It's hard to find an isocaloric research, at least I haven't run into one yet. Like how a HP, HC and HF diet would affect a <Fit BF% people without exercise at maintenance.

Good grief, that's a 1100cal diet on BMI 35-36 women. No wonder. Still the fat loss difference seems little despite the deficit. Both studies are a bit too in vain. Expecting people to gain weight or not to lose weight on a deficit is against thermodynamics. However what they need to do is to compare results with HP and HF…

Oh, then leave a hundred or so calories after your dinner and eat cottage cheese if you don't have any problems with dairy. Casein is a slow metabolized protein and will keep you full.

Black coffee. Black tea with a pinch of cinnamon, black pepper, cloves, ginger (okay, basically masala chai).

Take that sugar limit as a limit for added sugars. As long as you hit your macro goals and stay in your calorie goals, you don't have to worry about sugar from fruits and vegetables (unless you are eating a lot of servings every day~then you're most likely not hitting your macros anyway). They come with vitamins, minerals…

Never mind, mistook who the post was directed to. Sorry >.<

It says that it doesn't matter when you get that protein, you don't need a postworkout shake. And you won't bulk unless you are on a surplus. The extra weight you're trying to lose won't be enough to bulk up unless you have elevated testosterone. ETA: Scrapped the intake grams from your diary, I misread them. ETA: Overall…

Hawaii! No wonder. What a lovely place to live. I can relate to being on budget as some things are pretty expensive in Europe as well especially if they're imported so I always stick to what I can find local. On islands, it's even harder as sometimes even water can get very expensive compared to mainland. Since you already…

I agree that cartoons suck these days. I can't stand the battling pets or digital monsters or whatever ****. Thundercats, Batman: Animated Series, Bravestarr, Darkwing Duck, Duck Tales, He-Man, Inspector Gadget, Mask, The Real Ghost Busters, TMNT, Transformers, Adventures of the Gummi Bears, Count Duckula, Tiny Toon…

Cashews have more carbs compared to almonds and walnuts, compared to walnuts they (almonds as well) have very low omega 3. But they're still dense in minerals and different vitamins. Personally I like my walnuts and would never change it for anything else. But if someone doesn't like the taste, I can't argue with that.

They're great but only as good fat sources, they're high in unsaturated fats either mono or poly. Most of them are also rich in vit. E, riboflavin and minerals so a handful of nuts is a great choice in diet. They're not protein snacks like most people suggest as on cal/protein ratio they're worse than a McD hamburger (of…

Great post. I do follow the same get protein first as it's too easy to build up on calories as most simple carbs give a short term fullness and I can speak for myself that the more carbs I get, the more I look for. If anyone's focus is just to lose weight, yeah twinkie diets do work. With high carb, high sugar, bad protein…

So the question is how you feel with your food choices at the moment. Do you feel tired or find yourself in cravings? You're drinking a great deal of water by the way. Especially while strength training compared to walking, you may experience more water retention for a week or two and that may be seen on scale. Don't let…

I think your diary is really really good! Normally I don't like that much carbs in my diary (completely personal choice as even good complex carbs make me more sluggish) but your choices are great. I think you can safely consider upping your protein intake to 150+ grams, you will still be getting plenty of carbs if you…

I'll be honest. You should start with better food choices if you're serious about eating healthy. Your diary, every single day has some sort of fried food or a pizza or a muffin or some chips or a cake, and mostly that's not one treat but a whole meal or more. Whereas I'm not a "YOU MUST EAT CLEAN!" preacher, I think you…

I'd suggest a fat-free tea cake but that the original recipe is still high in sugar because it uses sultanas and dried fruits (though I don't use them as the cake gets too sweet for my taste). I'd made the below cake and it turned out okay but I didn't use Splenda as I don't favor Splenda's taste even with vanilla. If you…

I know, I wouldn't pick on it if you haven't joked about people crying carbs. :tongue: One other thing about increase in caloric intake is the social side of it. http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~rothblum/doc_pdf/weight/GenderDifferenceinSocial.pdf is an interesting study in general from 1988 but it's one citation that drew my…

Hence some people deserve being reported. :angry:

But the findings of that study also shows that on average despite the decrease in fat and protein intake, carbohydrate is the only macro that is consumed more between 1971 and 2000. People are eating more but they're focusing on carbs. Does carbs make them "fatter"? Not necessarily but carbs aren't famous for keeping one…

It's not a study about efficiency of milk vs X. It's a comparison between whole milk and fat free milk postworkout.

I'm not saying it, the study you took the numbers from does: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5304a3.htm That said, I'm not a carb hater or have any problems with my lovely insulin but quoting a part of study and assuming what people may think is not objective, no offense.

What kind of discussion were you expecting? Support or help? "Oh I hope your showers burn many calories :flowerforyou: "? Whereas I don't agree with any belittling comments and I think that people could do better without laughing their *kitten* off, I don't see any info-shoving here. Following a nutrition and exercise…

Easy easy ;) Don't fret that you may not be exercising enough. As an easy rule for any exercise, if you are doing your exercises with little to no effort, then you need to increase your pace, your repetitions, or add more stress via inclination or added weights. If you are doing 3x 30 squats easily then it's more…