Thu, Oct-08-09, 11:29
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Senior Member
Posts: 517
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Plan: Carnivorous / WAPF
Stats: 168/152/145
BF:
Progress: 70%
Location: California
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Quote:
Originally Posted by carlh_uk
You have to diet to lose weight. By diet I mean to consume less calories than you burn.
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do you also mean by that that you have to make a conscious effort to minimize those calories with the expectation of being hungry most of the time? this is of course what most dieters do. But losing excess weight does not have to be done this way. The prefered way of the LC person is to get insulin levels way down by learning to prefer fat and shun carbs. Then weight is lost easily without the need to be constantly hungry, while food is also enjoyed. This is possible because as many of us have observed, when carbs are replaced with fat for an extended time, one learns to actually not miss the carbs anymore. Temptation becomes only an occasional thing, not a constant gnawing.
Regarding my experience with weight, I have for most of my life been either at a good weight or underweight. Now, at the age of 45 my weight is creeping up more and more and I am alarmed enough to go on a low insulin diet to nip this thing in the bud. Back in the day my weight was so stable that I rarely moved more than a few pounds in a year. But that protein powder, which advertised itself as being of the highest quality whey (but in the end it's just a byproduct of the cheese industry, traditionally fed to cattle) gave me about 6-7 pounds in just a few weeks. I have never put on weight that fast. It was not water weight or else it would have come back off just as quickly, which it did not.
I know I still owe you those references.
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