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Ok, just to make sure the basics are covered. Have you taken measurements, pictures of progress, tried on too tight clothes ? When so close to goal, progress might not be visible in scales. It's shown in better fitting clothes etc. Just to illustrate. I'm almost same weight as in January, but the undies I bought in size 38…

If dairy is the thing reacting with Metformin, I'd cut it out:( Read Dr Fung's series on fasting and why addressing the twin cycle of insulin resistance and dysfunctional beta cells in pancreas is healed with fasting. Lowcarb is good for many things, but is only a part of repairing metabolic syndrome. If I were you, I'd…

Yes, you reduce the insulin response slightly and calories. No, by drinking calories in bpc, you effectively stop burning from stored fat. You give it easy energy and keep it too busy to «eat from within». I can't give you an answer on this. You need to enter a metabolic chamber and run a test. If you're very curious, I…

First off. Calm down. Take several deep breaths and exhale SLOWLY count to 4-6, hold breath, count to 4-6, inhale count again. Do this a couple of cycles. This is a breathing technique that switches on para sympatethic nervous system. Use it whenever you feel stressed out. Second. In your case you're all over the place.…

You choose to listen to whatever source of info you want to. However, there is NO such thing as BPC fasting, IMO. Those two words don't belong together, because they mean two opposite things. Caloric intake and non-caloric intake. BPC is a handy tool to ween off eating solid foods. But it's still a DRINKABLE meal, with…

When dizzy, cold or cramps you need electrolytes, especially salt. When fasting and drinking lots of fluids, you flush out vital electrolytes. Usually we get them from foods. Or have a cup of broth. I also drink pickle juice. Try up electrolytes and experiment with food intake, maybe you can eat less on FD :)

I get very hungry week before shark week. Bottomless pit. Eating window does help curb it a bit, since it's harder to physically stuff myself. Thank god I'm not eating all day! I can still easily manage to eat 3-4k/day if I went for it. Usually I'm able to stop myself somewhere between 2,5-3k. However, I haven't really…

I have not done my low cal fasting this week. Usually I'm ravenous week before shark, so could be it. It's always been very irregular. So don't know. I suspect there's a bit of mental justification going on too. My primary goal right now is to recomp. Meaning, being able to keep up my exercise regime of 1-2 hrs/day is what…

Coconutmummy. I do eating window every day. Start eat between 2-5 pm. Sometimes later, sometimes sooner. Don't sweat the hours. Until then NO EATING. Only drink water coffee, vitamins, fiber. I'm sorry to burst your bubble but BPC breaks fasting. Calorically. Meaning your body gets busy metabolizing the hwc, co, butter.…

Yes, it's annoying that there are multiple, often wrong entries. It is what it is: A user driven site that's FREE. Although it's important to try pick "as accurate" entries as possible, at the end of the day, there are just too many variables and instances to get wrong. Exercise burns is one good example. So it's…

@Flumi. Congrats for getting out there! ...and it's good you have standards. Just know that online dating is not for the fainthearted. It's bit like hunting for real estate, IMO: You run around looking for something that's within your main criteria. 90% of the time it wasn't a match because you know real estate agents will…

Intermittent Fasting, IMO. I have detailed my methods and protocols on this board ad nauseam already. So not gonna repeat it. I've lost a lot more from belly than all other spots, according to measurements. I don't recall exactly, think it was somewhere around 108 cm at start, it's now 73 cm. However, this is my N=1. YMMV.…

I weigh the thigh raw. Then subtract the bones or weigh the cooked meat off bone. In general, for most entries on fresh produce on mfp, I enter «xxx usda gram» when searching. Then the usda with grams floats to the top of results. Hope it helps :)

There's so many different types and functions. If I were you, I'd think about what you typically would use it for. I have had several types and price ranges. In general you pay for the quality on blades and the connecting parts...up to a certain range. A small immersion type from Braun does most smalljobs. Chopping nuts,…

To all of you experiencing adjusting annoyances, know that like anything in life IF have some growing pains to conquer. If you wanna throw in the towel, that's ok. The body is a very conservative entity, it does NOT like abrupt changes, whether it is a very hard workout session (more DOMS) or not being fed, when you…

Depending on how long and hard I plan my workout to be. If a normal session 1-2 hours with little sprinting, fasted. If harder 2-4 hrs, bcaa, creatine mono, maybe a protein shake, mct, CO, and I bring ca 15g of Haribo I chew before the hardest sprints. TKD style. Pork rinds and HB eggs as fuel if very long sessions. These…

Source? Or maybe someone misunderstood along the line? I'm sorry, but pretty sure the bolded above is incorrect. We «burn» fat all the time, the body is in a constant flux of anabolic and catabolic states. (the cells). There are different degrees on a continuum. We «burn» a higher degree of stored fat overnight during…

First off, congrats on your progress and doing the experiment! I'd just wanna say that if the experiment was to test difference between 60 and 30g carbs, then you should have kept all the other variables, such as snack and caloric intake roughly the same. As it is now you're changing too many variables at the same time,…

I notice that even though the difference in mean lbs liters is only about 3 lbs, there's a huge difference between person 1 and person 3. Comparing person 3 and 4 is even more telling, they're basically same weight. Yet person 3 is the leanest. I also notice that the leanest guys in this chart have more muscles in leg and…

Ty for the share @camtosh. It was a very interesting article, although it was a bit too broad in scope. IMO, the microbiome theories are mind boggling. They are the best candidate to explain the huge variety in the human condition. Even with the variety with genes and action potentials, they don't change so fast.…

Is ADF the 4:3 ? If so that's Varady's protocol. It's more aggressive than 5:2. Varady actually got annoyed by Mosley using her research as scientific basis for the 5:2. Which is a valid point. He was sloppy using her numbers on his own protocol. Anyway if you do 4:3, I'd expect a faster weightloss or it might jumpstart…

Great points baconslave! The thing is, with almost anything concerning diet and lifestyle choices, the variables are not constant and can interact. Which makes it almost impossible to make valid generalizations for everyone, since we're individual after all. The hormonal responses from exercise and IF can impact carb…

I don't really know of good low calorie veg protein, cept maybe chickpeas. Sorry, I reckon some googling might turn up something for you. Only wanted to say that you need complete amino acids, whether vegetarian or meat eater.

Wow, that's great! and good for you that you're already able to move that boundary of not eating at first sign of hunger. Great NSV!

Are you boiling the fish ? All seafood needs to be treated with TLC. For single frozen fillets I do this: Lower temperature in soup/water until stop boiling. Take out the fillet from freezer. A 130g fillet needs roughly 10 mins POACHING. If preparing several fillets at same time, adjust the time up slightly. Set a timer on…

You're breaking fast with this BPC. For attempting to repair INSULIN RESISTANCE, fats are ok since less insulinogenic. BUT, if you want to LOSE WEIGHT, breaking fast with a large caloric intake with fats or whatever STILL gives the body easy calories it has to metabolize BEFORE working on the STORED fat. Meaning, if you…

Ignore the growling. It usually passes if you wait it out 15 mins. If it comes back, have ONE TINY bite of something. Gherkin, protein, CO whatever you fancy. Sometimes if it's hard to "hold out", use the clock as a tool. "15-30 more minutes or 1 hour". Just doing this on a regular basis is exercising your willpower muscle…

Hi jeanetteluparia :D Can you please give your full stats ? And describe in more detail what you already tried. The more info, easier to give advice. If you don't wanna post here, you can pm me your info. Oh, and have you changed anything since you last were able to shift scale weight? As for me I've "stalled" scale weight…

You can't really tell, cept abrupt scale gain overnight is usually water weight. Just know that there are a number of variables that can give added water weight: sodium, new/hard exercise, carbs (Not sure bout this but I think each glucose molecule brings along 4 grams of extra water retaining, hence carb bloat), stress,…

Agree! I find that if I keep overeating to the gills over several days, the tummy "widens" and get used to more and more. When I fast, on the non-FD after fasting, I feel very full much faster. Don't know if this is a physical response to fasting or an increase in hormonal effect. Possibly increased leptin sensitivity.…