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if you're well below your calories, and you're not going nuts, no it doesn't matter that your carbs are high. For health I would make sure to get enough protein and EFA's and micronutrients, saving a serious rare condition, everything else is satiety and sanity and individual preference/quirks

I'm not criticising you, more power to you if keeping this close an eye on things works for you, It would drive me insane if I started tracking stuff like that... in work tomorrow (where I'll do 11 hours followed by gym) I might get a shift of 2.5 hours at the information counter, or I might be sitting down for 2.5 hours,…

Sounds fine to me, if you're eating plenty of nutrients you're good to go. If you're dropping 2.5lbs EVERY week for a prolonged period it might to time to consider adding some cals, but weight drops are not linear and sometimes a large amount comes off at once. Nothing to worry about. Keep it up! don't. pure myth. Only eat…

I eat boring at home (very nutrient dense, low cal), and have fun eating out or accepting chocolate at work. Works great

This is a good post. Issues are often attributed to one ingredient, when the consumer is missing out consideration of other ingredients in what they consumer. IE. Aspartame in Diet Coke causing stomach upset/gas & shakiness... It's filled with carbonation and caffeine!!! You also have a lot of issues attributed to gluten…

This is vastly overestimating your own ability to know things without bothering to have a light shone on them and see how they stand up to scrutiny. There is a profit motive available in convincing anybody of anything diet related. It couldn't possibly be that people believe in all sorts of woo and many people find a…

I turned 30 in October. I used to be fit and healthy. On November the 11th, 2016, I was 234 lbs, at 5'11. Now I'm 192lbs.

If I had a penny for every time somebody specified that the aspartame in all the diet coke they drank used to make them fill with gas and get really jittery, I'd have dozens and dozens of pennies, and any thesis of how people are really bad at attributing causation anecdotally (brb how are you that oblivious to caffeine…

Can I ask you a question (one that even excludes most potential variables)? In what foods/drinks did you take them?

Aspartame is possibly the most studied food ingredient on the planet. While I'm sure most of our nutrients are better for you, pretty much nothing - natural or not - has a better established safety record. Looking for anecdotes rather than scientific information - in regards to harmful effects, and not personal tastes - is…

Yep. Even if somebody's using different language to say some of the same things (so; practically useful but confusing, misleading to anyone coming from a different context), it's important to tackle it directly and get down to what the facts are, in both commonalities and differences of positions. So we can be really clear…

Thanks!

What a helluva post to flag. This is why direct, honest discussion wins. It benefits from being argued with and having light shone on it.

Good luck OP! So long as it's not contingent on a given brand...

It has already being discussed, and solved. He was just wondering if you realized it.

Turns out she was counting macros all along, so counting calorie subgroups, which of course is indirectly counting calories, calories of course which have everything to do with the keto diet working (and not), and how that counting of macros actually functions, and how the coffee fits in to it all, which all vindicates…

I'm referring to you here, because I don't like passive aggression - like this quote of yours - from people who are resentful at the idea that their own ideas are being countered rather than satisfying a sense of entitlement of support of anything you have to say: A discussion happened. Things were argued. This was…

Nobody said you had to be so 'technical', not sure where you're getting that from. There is nothing technical about pointing out a vast difference in one thing happening at >400% the rate of another thing, when you brought up these rates to defend a position of those things being equal for you. Just pointing out that your…

A few things: What's your weight goal? Where are you now? And how many calories (total) are you eating a day? Weight loss tend not to be linear, but you're still losing, so it's not being completely masked by water retention or whatever (which can cover a greater rate of loss for a few weeks). Assuming all is as it sounds…

There's a vast difference between losing 6lbs in 3 days and 7lbs in two weeks. Carbs retain water.

Reduce your calories/macros. Don't reduce the deficit... If your weight loss has stalled, it means the deficit has already reduced, and you want to increase it by lowering your calories.

That's because you're indirectly calorie counting by counting macros (which are calorie groups). It's like counting the kilogram weights you put on the bar every week, but not counting the overall poundage. You're still controlling that overall poundage, and thus any programming of progressive resistance. And it's the…

Carbs retain water, which is not my opinion. People do vary for countless reasons, but as a single variable, carbs retain more water than no carbs.

I.E. decreasing your calories. And that is correct - at a lower bodyweight, you require less calories to be at maintenance.

A deficit is when you consume less calories than you expend. If you are on low carb, and not in a calorie deficit, you will either maintain or gain weight (excluding the reduction in water retention caused by low carb). If you are on high carb, and in a calorie deficit, you will lose weight.

The effects tend to be considerably more dramatic in low carb diets.

That is not what he is saying. Most of the initial weight loss on a low carb diet will be water. Obviously that whole 50lbs is not all initial loss. Lots of people have lost weight on every given diet. Any diet works if a calorie deficit is in place.

I am not being what could fairly be construed as negative or unsupportive in any way. In truly healthy communities, people argue to hash out what the facts are/clear up miscommunications etc. It is a deeply rotten and toxic community where one can reasonably expect their statements to go unchallenged.

If you are tracking your food my macros, you are controlling them by calories, albeit via an indirect measurement.

if you're counting them, you're (indirectly) counting calories. And in that situation bulletproof coffee is still going something to fit your macros. IE. exactly the same situation (just reading different measurements) as a calorie counter who chooses something more preferential to them on the basis of their own…