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Steady wins the race - slow just takes more time. As long as its sustainable and doesn't negatively affect your life, go as fast as your body will let you. I'm not saying be miserable, but I think that everyone has a pace and that pace shouldn't be called fast or slow.
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I think the best way to approach the end is to not consider it the end. I'd start focusing on how you are going to maintain whatever weight you are going to be and just lock in that lifestyle. What good is losing the extra 25 if you are going to gain it back? I don't have a fixed goal weight yet. I wish I could get a real…
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Elvis was partial to butter skillet fried peanut butter and bananas. Add some chocolate on that and you are talking about a sensory firework - and a cardiac arrest. Hell, if you want to die happy, take a graham cracker pie crust, put a layer of peanut butter, then a banana cream base, drizzle with chocolate and whipped…
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So many varieties of vegetarians, so many different choices. If all you want to eat are things that don't have the ability to move on their own (I'd use nervous systems, but some plants have that) - beans, quinoa and a whole host of foods easily googled are available. If you start getting into byproducts of living things…
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Everything we say to another person is absorbed by the prism of that person. If you aren't trying to communicate effectively, what are you doing opening your mouth? It's like using the 'n' word. I'd never do it - I'm too old to pretend I'm hip and its pretty clear that a very very large number of people find the word…
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I know there is a lot of people here with absolutely no license giving medical advice - but all calories are not equal, all carbohydrates are not equal. Same with fats and proteins. They are general groupings and the science is so much more complicated that it's getting laughable when people make it so generic. Sugar does…
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What you are saying may make sense, but it is true in the most extreme forms of starvation. And by starvation, I mean levels where certain body functions start shutting down because of insufficient nutrition. Some people confuse water release in the muscles with muscle deterioration - not the same by any stretch. Everybody…
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Whatever makes you feel good every day, gets you more healthy and accomplishes your goals in the time you've given yourself. We can eat fewer calories when we are eating the right nutrients - and while there is a general/generic level that is suitable for a huger range of human beings - learning your very specific nutrient…
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I don't have diabetes, but I am on a diabetic diet because it works for me. I don't eat more than 10-15g of sugar - nothing with sugar added, only the natural sugars that are part of the whole foods I eat. My wife is a dietician, and we worked out my diet based on my bias. It happens to be the kind of diet she'd recommend…
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I think you should try 1400 calories a day for at least two weeks. Make sure you are getting all your nutrients, so be conscious of the quality of food instead of just the calories. Figure out what your body craves and feed it that (offsetting the things you don't crave so much). If you have proper energy, focus and are…
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Go to - Egg White McMuffin. 250 calories, the only bread I eat all day and easy for me to deal with on a daily basis. Love to - Poached Eggs on veggies with some smoked salmon. Favorite meal of the week and I used to be ambivalent to breakfast.
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I think that sugar is the easiest thing to cut out of a diet. I'm pretty much on a diabetic diet, even though I don't have diabetes - but have found that keeping my sugar below 10-15g per day has not effect on my cognitive abilities nor my appetite. Evolutionary speaking, the amount of sugar Americans eat (I know this is a…
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When you start a diet you need a baseline. One of the great things about the MFP system is that you can enter in everything you eat - and for newbies, I think its a good thing. Most people that haven't weighed or measured their foods underestimate their calories and also overestimate their workouts. That's why something…
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I think your hypothetical is extreme, I don't think starvation would happen if you ate 10,000 calories of protein only. But the overall point you are driving is right-on. I don't think I've eaten over 20g of sugar since I started my diet - I norm at about 5-10. I think sugar is one of the least nutritional components out…
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Love Eggs. Sixty Calories of goodness. I like mine poached on top of asparagus, mushrooms, peppers and a bit of smoked salmon. Eggs were considered bad in the 60s-70s. It was around the same time people were told to eat margarine instead of butter.
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That kind of advice is way to general to give to a class. I am on a very very low calorie diet, and started just walking because I knew that if I pushed myself I'd need more food-energy and I wanted my body to get used to the low calories. I've held 700-800 calories every day for a month and a half and am now walking 4…
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Every body is different - and has different needs in terms of Fat, Protein and Carbs. Some fats are better than others - but I'm trying to think of the food composition where the fat is higher than the protein and the carbs are very low. Seems like a very unnatural diet that is difficult to sustain. Again, I'm talking in a…
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And the Starvation Mode / Myth is so misunderstood that it would be comical if it wasn't passed on by so many people. Your metabolism does slow down as you eat less, but it is like tapping on the brakes compared to the stomping of the accelerator of calorie deficit. That isn't to say that there isn't a delay as the body is…
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Nobody but you can really figure out what your correct caloric intake should be and what your caloric use can be. If you stable, you need to increase your activity or reduce your calories. Tinker with it for a few weeks. Lower your calories by 10% and add some walks to your routine. If you are going to cut calories, get…
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My wife used to run an optifast clinic and I used it a few years ago with great success. It is a great product - nutritionally dense and quite tasty. As much as it works, I think it also creates a psychological addiction in many of the clients that use it. It becomes a crutch - such that you believe that you cannot lose…
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Try walking in the morning. Nothing fast - don't go for time. Just a nice walk for 30min to an hour. Get your body going, enjoy the walk and don't go for time (trust me you'll start walking faster on your own as you get into it). Keep your heart rate low - if you have a friend, it should be easy to talk and walk at the…
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Concentrated balsamic vinegar, concentrated fruit vinegars... Also, some salt can bring out the sweetness in some foods as well. I got bored one day and mixed a small 50c fruit cup (no added sugar, baby food size) into my chicken and that was a nice change from the savory that I am used to. I also will drizzle the…
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I weigh myself every day. I track my food every day, I track my exercise every day and I weigh myself every day. I don't care about the daily fluctuations, I could be up a day and I know its water, down a lot one day and know that I may not have that low reading the next. But I have the nice daily graph to tell me how I am…
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There are so many different kinds of carbs, proteins and fats that saying any of the three are good or bad is naive. Our bodies are also very well equipped to give us signals as to what we need - once we learn how to interpret. I'm a very low sugar guy - I don't need much at all, a big day for me is 20g - but I usually…
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The good thing - for me - is that the weight is flying off. I'm eating a low calorie diet, but it is all whole foods and well balanced. Plus vitamin and mineral supplements. I started by walking 3 miles a day - then 4 - then increasing my time. I'm never over doing my walks - not putting any pressure than to just walk my…
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I can keep going, but the trend is to take a healthy protein (lean animal or fish) and use any number of gourmet condiments to compliment the flavor. I eat sashimi 2-3x a week. I also have gotten back to loving high quality foods and haven't had much to any processed foods. I eat a very savory diet and my portions are…
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Take a small veal chop and sprinkle some smoked sea salt, a touch of extra old balsamic (highly concentrated) and truffle oil (also concentrated). Cut away any extra fat, shave black truffles and serve with asaparagus or artichoke hearts grilled.
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Buy the best smoked salmon you can find (order it from Barney Greengrass in NYC). Poach a couple of eggs with some grilled asparagus. Hit it with some caviar if you really want to go to town.
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I'd cut back the weight pump, increase the cardio and monitor your heart rate to keep it at a lower rate. Do some endurance training which is longer, not faster. When I was super serious back in the day, I would have weeks where I went off my pump and just focused on endurance, massively cutting back weight but working…
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I ran my first Marathon in 2009 and preferred half marathons thereafter. It's definitely worth checking off the box, but the time commitment and ramp up to the race became a thing in itself. I admire the runners that don't need to train past the 26.2 mile mark ahead of races - but for my first race I was running 30 miles a…