Thu, Oct-09-03, 04:50
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Plan: lots of meat
Stats: 00/00/00
BF:goal: 17%
Progress: 41%
Location: Germany (Canadian abroad)
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Just wanted to agree with the initial point that this thread makes. If you're truly stalled, and not stalled because you're just maintaining your weight with low carb chocolate and snacks and this and that then calories are probably the culprit. Too many people (including me for a long time) have the "all you can eat and still lose weight" concept in their heads. What is healthy about stuffing yourself with massive meals? Seriously, it may be emotionally gratifying in some way to eat large delicious meals all the time but it won't help you get a trim figure.
As for being hungry on low calories (I'm 5 10" and weight train+cardio regularly) and the question what's the point of low carb if you have to keep your calories low......
1) low carb high fat diets are the most muscle sparing which is important because you want to burn FAT, not muscle when you diet otherwise your shape won't change.
2) on 1200 calories a day of mostly fat I am not hungry. I may want to EAT, if I have come off a period (vacation or so) where I have been eating large meals my stomach may want the FULL feeling that it is used to, but I am not hungry. Eating 2000+ calories of low fat, higher protein leaves me hungry and wanting food all the time. I'll take less food thanks for the more comfortable feeling.
Thanks for starting this thread, calories seem to be the forgotten key to continuing fat loss in low carbers.
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