Fri, Jan-21-05, 16:39
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Plan: UDS
Stats: 199/190/190
BF:12%/11%/6%
Progress: 100%
Location: Pflugerville, TX
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Originally Posted by betastas
Hey there
I've recently started Low-carbing again (I was doing well for a few months last winter, but fell off the wagon as finals approached and stress loomed), and I do a pretty strict regimen at the gym about 6 days a week. Normally it consists of weight training (3 seperate workouts - Chest/biceps, shoulders/triceps and legs, essentially. I know there are other muscles to work, I do them too).
However, I then go for an hour on the elliptical trainer about 4 times a week, depending on how I feel after the weighttraining. I typically burn 800 calories. However, how much of this is bodyfat? When I burn 800 calories after the induction phase, is it 800 calories of fat leaving my body? Is it perhaps the fat that I ate at lunch, some 4 hours ago? I'm just wondering how I should count the progress I make - I know there are the visual results, but I'm in engineering and I love to do the numbers.
Thanks for any input!
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IMO, Dr. Ellis would be the perfect person to answer this question, however, I'll try and shed a tiny bit of light on this for you.
I believe that it has more to do with your diet composition over the past several weeks. In the absence of carbs, your body becomes more efficient at burning fat for energy (fat adapted) over time. The range of carbs should be somewhere below 25% of your daily caloric intake. The main thing is that you burn the calories. If at the end of the day your body needs more calories to feed your lean body mass, I believe it pulls most of it from stored fat and to an even lesser degree (thankfully), muscle tissue. I don't know the exact numbers here (or science), but you can minimize the loss of muscle mass by providing optimum stimulus, protein and fat. |