Wed, Aug-10-16, 12:27
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New Member
Posts: 2
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Plan: Ketogenic Diet
Stats: 252/155/157
BF:10-11
Progress: 102%
Location: East Tennessee
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Hi springy,
I few thoughts...
1) Are you weighing your food? If not you need weigh everything so that you get an accurate picture of your true caloric intake. Do yourself a favor go on amazon and buy a heavy duty/big kitchen scale to weigh what you cook at home and a smaller one that you take with you (for travel/eating out). I have a scale for my Wife's car, my car , office and when I travel. I do this to hold myself accountable and weight everything even when I am out to eat/ food tasting event/ sporting event ect...... you get the idea.
2)The thing you have to realize is that with heavy exercise (assumed from burning an average of 1800 calories) is that you're effectively damaging tissue on purpose, and making new tissue grow in its place. This causes some inflammation, which is essentially fluid retention. So, after a tough workout, you may notice either no change in weight, or even a slight increase the next day, as your body is repairing itself. This always used to frustrate me! Also, if you continue to do heavy exercise, but not eating enough, your body won't actually build new tissue, but will still become inflamed. You'll actually even begin to eat away at the muscle tissue you have, which is not the best weight loss plan. You should at least try to eat at your at just below BMR. You actually loose more weight by upping your calories if you religiously exercise.
3) You probably all know this but...if you are new to VLC there are major factors in weight loss that have not been addressed and or overlooked despite the literature being available. Ie long term high insulin levels; insulin resistance; overall lengthy hormonal imbalances; epigenetic changes (from obesity/ metabolic disease); years of increased systemic inflammation and developing medical issues stemming from being overweight (increased BP/ fatty liver ..ect) Yes 6-8h workouts, calorie reduction , dietary counseling will initially work but ultimately will fail in the long run because because it does not address the core hormonal and metabolic factors …just like many of us have done until we found Keto/Low Carb ect.
The beauty of going Keto/Very Low Carb is because it starts addressing damage done from high insulin levels, insulin resistance, inflammation ect (the list is long). Keto allows us to reduce those foods (ie carbs) that constantly keep insulin high allow our bodies to slowly repair the damage done over the years and start responding to real food the way evolutionary we were supposed to.
4) I would look into intermittent fasting 16/8 or 18/6 or just skipping breakfast.
Sorry for the lengthily post,
STICK WITH IT!!!
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