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I do daily eating window. Usually hardcore black coffee in the morning. I maintained easily with this for a year. But I've started having lunch with my colleagues at noon...and I'm gaining now. Meh. Ofc, it's about macros, calories and lower volume of exercise too. But in my experience, fasting is a great tool to keep…

Yea, homemade bone broth will help restock (pun intended!) on minerals. I think the general advice on 1200 kcal as minimum and a varied diet is to make it easier to hit all the nutrients needed. Did you know that liver is a good source for vitamin C? ...and so is yellow turnip! Anyway. I understood that you kinda wanted a…

OP, IMO snacking is conterproductive to mobilizing from STORED fat. Can someone lose weight with snacks? Sure, especially if you're like a 25 years old 300 lbs physically active male. If someone is, for example 60 yo sedentary female, snacking eats up the calorie budget really fast. So WHY is snacking not good for fat…

Yes, a caloric refeed 1-2x/week will suffice. Listen to body. I'm same with brekkie. Once I start eating I get "hungry" and can eat everything in sight. So I try not eat until afternoon. If I can hold off the first meal, I'm not hungry at all. It's all very confusing. Re beef and nutrients. Umm...grass fed beef is more…

I'd do calorie cycling, so body doesn't get used to a constant low intake. I agree that bets are off concerning the accuracy of standard TDEE and BMR calculations. Any medical or metabolic condition that deviate from standard is likely to make impact on YOUR body's interpretation of ingested intake. My body never followed…

That's me after having ramen or pasta. Ty for the cute share :)

I had the keto rash when going through adaptation phase 1.5 yrs ago. It was red bumps itching like hell. After a couple of weeks it stopped. My theory is that it's got to do with cells transitioning to or from sugar burning. Could be the enzymes or the blood sugar levels itself. Haven't found any good info on this topic.…

I'm reading his book now. Not much new for those of us who have watched all his excellent lectures on youtube. But I wanted to support him. Since he was instrumental to me to understand stuff. He also put out countless hours of research for free on youtube in a comprehensive way for a layman. Anyway. It was Dr. Fung and…

Less or gone: IBS, eczema, cystic acne, joint pain, desperate hunger, hypoglycemia and snoozing off 15 mins after meals, hair loss, brittle nails, painful gut, edema, footsole pain, depression and that ache-y feverish feeling of constant inflammation. There's still some unresolved issues, but with the nagging everyday…

Showing, not telling :) A lot of posts on r/keto about people converting others just by example.

OP, you have restrictions that are pulling in different directions, hence the extreme restriction. Actually there's some dissidence concerning the carb threshold to get and maintain nutritional ketosis. Many say 20g net. I don't know which keto experts you refer to. But, some of the most respected researchers in the field,…

From all the threads in this group, I'd say many, many in this group feel the sunny hope Lowcarb gives us. I was pretty desperate before this woe. It's not a cure all, but it certainly helped me in more ways than just weight loss. I know more from all my experimenting what works or not. Not all carbs are created equal in…

Try log the bacon fat? It's very calorie dense. At least you get a better estimate of your kcal intake. Men have more muscle mass than women. That impacts both how much they burn and general insulin sensitivity. Unfortunately people close to GW may have to scrutinize their habits more. It all boils down to what are you…

Belief and hope are very underrated variables IMO. I wish I was more religious. There must be a reason why billions practice faith in some way or another. About focus and perspective. Personally, I experienced major changes in my moods and general outlook when I started focusing on being grateful for the things in my life…

From my understanding, alcohol makes the liver too busy to make ketones. The body perceives alcohol as a toxin, so it wants to get rid of it ASAP. This means you're not thrown out of ketosis. BUT, as long as the liver is processing the alcohol... fat burning from STORED fat isn't gonna happen or is greatly reduced. In…

So you had a misstep in the wrong direction. Forgive yourself of it and move on, cause guilt tripping is toxic. Try remind yourself that success over time is more about consistency. We all do mistakes. Refusing to learn from those mistakes is what gives a vicious cycle. Building habits with baby steps is what ultimately…

Good for you if that is actual loss from stored fat. However, in general I would personally be sceptic about any diet plan that lure with a 1-2 lbs weight loss/day. From my knowledge and experience of dieting...very rapid loss or gain is fluctuations in water weight. Carb bloat is real. But that's not a real fat loss.…

Lowcarb kids start on the Maillard reaction from glucose and insulin rollercoaster later than average people. Meaning, if they were to adopt a typical high carb, western diet....the clock to insulin resistance would start counting down for them too. So you and the lady were both kinda right ;) I do agree with you…

On r/keto board dairy is a known issue for plateaus. If that's a calorie issue or that some types of dairy stimulates more insulin than others, I don't know. Just seen it been tossed around as a possible thing. I also think that SOME people are more sensitive to SOME types of foods. No one solution fits all.

@wabmester. I usually agree with you. Unfortunately this time my body disagrees with the Mg - chocolate theory. I've never been big on chocolate. Plates of it can stay untouched in the fridge door for months. I used to have terrible cramps as sugarburner. After I started supplying Mg 3x/day --> cramp free! Maybe you have…

Typically I have 1-2 meals/day. The usual window is somewhere between 2-10 pm. But I don't sweat the hours, I tailor it to my schedule. As long as I have a long window where glucagon is allowed to chip off from stored fat, maintenance is effortless :) I try avoid any snacking...or «careless calories» which are poor in…

«Hunger» is a treacherous cue to follow blindly. IF you are in FA many lose hunger feeling altogether. Exercise notoriously ups hunger feeling as well. It's the body responding to increased demand. But many eat back too much obliterating their deficit. Fasted training is an acquired taste, needs adjusting to it, ca 2-3…

You don't need to eat before training, but it's an aquired taste. Give it two weeks to let your body transition. The body is very resilient and flexible. More demand, it regulates = homeostasis. It will respond according to what tpu throw at it. But respect that the body is a conservative entity, it prefers gradual…

...Oh, and you need to be in deficit,though. Recalc your macros and caloric intake. Sleep more (we burn most of the stored fat in the later stages of sleep), stress less. Elevated cortisol is not only bad for fat loss cause it mobilizes energy, but it can also in extreme cases, like performance anxiety ridden athletes, be…

Hi spiciest/Marla, welcome :) There's no problem to stack protocols, 5:2 with 16:8 or other variations. In fact they build on each other, IMO. I did this 1 year ago plus low-carb macros and lost ca. 1 kg/week for 3 months. It's not for everyone's taste or lifestyle, but it certainly broke my almost 1 year stall desperately…

It's cool you got re-inspired. But what you msy be describing above is about the emotional aspects of the journey. We each have our own reasons for getting fat. Ask yourself: - Why do I keep doing things that isn't good for me? - ...and in which situations or contexts do I resort to self sabotage? - Do I not want to…

Have you tried all the usual suspects common when stalling? Cycle through them first, before going into details. Easy pickings like accurate logging etc first. Harder measures like improving sleep and lowering stress levels later. Also, the scales are lying SOBs when closer to GW. I've been hovering between 56-52 kg since…

Hello everyone :) Haven't posted in a while. Haven't weighed or logged any food since July or so either ;) But I do end up on spontaneous FD here and there, just because I've lost hunger feeling altogether. Meaning, I usually eat sometime after 2pm, skipping brekkie and lunch. Fasted training or walks, but have to supply…

@Dragonwolf's reply up top is sound advice. It depends on context. So read up on the links she gave you :) Fruit is fructose, processed in liver. That sugar isn't touching the muscles, so eating fruit to «power workouts» is placebo. Becoming lightheaded is usually about electrolytes, specifically too low sodium. Try up the…

Well, hunger is a finicky, tricky bastatd! Depending on what kind of hunger it is, choosewhat to do. No need feed emotional hunger. No need snacking, cause peckish. Most people don't need to eat if feel full. BUT. I have a past of bingeing. Then it was important to build healthy boundaries. Now, I lost hunger feeling…