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Every morning I wake up and weigh myself and I'm the same weight. Then I check my handy dandy body fat monitor and see that a few more 10ths of a percent of my body fat has been turned into muscle. I'm in the weight loss stage called "Reconfiguration", when my body is burning fat and gaining muscle at almost the same rate, so the scale tells me the same weight every morning. Without a body fat monitor, I would be at risk of losing heart and giving up. I assume you use a handheld electric impedance monitor. Don't trust them. They will take the path of least resistance thus if they are hand held that means through your arm, across your chest and back through your other arm. It will completely miss your belly and lower body. If it's a scale think the same thing but genital region lol. Unless it sends through the hands and receive at the feet or vice versa be extremely skeptical |
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Horribly untrue. Low fat is bad. Your body needs fat. Dietary fat and body fat are not the same thing. Stick to healthy fats which are unsaturated. Lowcarb diets are OK in the short run but ultimately don't work as people can't stick to them. Spider what is your workout routine like? I only watch what I eat on weekdays. I eat what I want on weekends. I eat carbs all the time. I lost 6 pounds in 4 weeks with minimal cardio. I do martial arts 2 times a week but missed all but 2 days last month. I lift 3 times a week. If you don't have a good lifting routine you will lose muscle. 
Nah it is not untrue at all. If you read my whole post it says balanced diet - watch the fat and oils as well as the carbs... and here was the link I posted earlier. No crash dieting. No extremes. But a steady lower calorie balanced diet with less high calorie foods. Combined with regular exercise. 
Here was the reference I posted earlier on the subject: http://health.usnews.com/best-diet/mayo-clinic-diet |
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Horribly untrue. Low fat is bad. Your body needs fat. Dietary fat and body fat are not the same thing. Stick to healthy fats which are unsaturated. Lowcarb diets are OK in the short run but ultimately don't work as people can't stick to them. Spider what is your workout routine like? I only watch what I eat on weekdays. I eat what I want on weekends. I eat carbs all the time. I lost 6 pounds in 4 weeks with minimal cardio. I do martial arts 2 times a week but missed all but 2 days last month. I lift 3 times a week. If you don't have a good lifting routine you will lose muscle.
Nah it is not untrue at all. If you read my whole post it says balanced diet - watch the fat and oils as well as the carbs... and here was the link I posted earlier. No crash dieting. No extremes. But a steady lower calorie balanced diet with less high calorie foods. Combined with regular exercise.
Here was the reference I posted earlier on the subject: http://health.usnews.com/best-diet/mayo-clinic-diet You specifically said a low fat low Carb low calorie diet works best. Carbs dont really matter but you need fats. Low-fat is unhealthy and just kind of a bad idea 2. Fats: Generally speaking, although the body can get away with short periods of very low fat, in the long run your body NEEDS fat to maintain general health, satiety, and sanity. Additionally -any form of high intensity training will benefit from a 'fat buffer' in your diet - which acts to control free radical damage and inflammation. General guides: Average or lean bodyfat: 1 - 2g fat/ kg body weight [between 0.40 - 1g total weight/ pounds] High bodyfat: 1-2g fat/ LEAN weight [between 0.4 - 1g LEAN weight/ pounds] IF low calorie dieting - you can decrease further, but as a minimum, I would not suggest LESS than about 0.30g/ pound I have also seen studies that say that people who eat low fat tend to weigh more. BTW for those that dont know, lean weight is yoy weight minus your fat, so everything but fat. |
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Horribly untrue. Low fat is bad. Your body needs fat. Dietary fat and body fat are not the same thing. Stick to healthy fats which are unsaturated. Lowcarb diets are OK in the short run but ultimately don't work as people can't stick to them. Spider what is your workout routine like? I only watch what I eat on weekdays. I eat what I want on weekends. I eat carbs all the time. I lost 6 pounds in 4 weeks with minimal cardio. I do martial arts 2 times a week but missed all but 2 days last month. I lift 3 times a week. If you don't have a good lifting routine you will lose muscle.
Nah it is not untrue at all. If you read my whole post it says balanced diet - watch the fat and oils as well as the carbs... and here was the link I posted earlier. No crash dieting. No extremes. But a steady lower calorie balanced diet with less high calorie foods. Combined with regular exercise.
Here was the reference I posted earlier on the subject: http://health.usnews.com/best-diet/mayo-clinic-diet You specifically said a low fat low Carb low calorie diet works best. Carbs dont really matter but you need fats. Low-fat is unhealthy and just kind of a bad idea 2. Fats: Generally speaking, although the body can get away with short periods of very low fat, in the long run your body NEEDS fat to maintain general health, satiety, and sanity. Additionally -any form of high intensity training will benefit from a 'fat buffer' in your diet - which acts to control free radical damage and inflammation. General guides: Average or lean bodyfat: 1 - 2g fat/ kg body weight [between 0.40 - 1g total weight/ pounds] High bodyfat: 1-2g fat/ LEAN weight [between 0.4 - 1g LEAN weight/ pounds] IF low calorie dieting - you can decrease further, but as a minimum, I would not suggest LESS than about 0.30g/ pound I have also seen studies that say that people who eat low fat tend to weigh more. BTW for those that dont know, lean weight is yoy weight minus your fat, so everything but fat. You are not appreciating what I meant by a low fat diet. Most people get too much fat in their diet with too many calories. Most get too much meant, sugars and simple carbohydrates as well. I advocated a DASH, TLC or Mayo Clinic type diet as a starting point. I think that the following summary of the top diets for overall health has got it about right. I eat a DASH diet and it has been great! One can readily lose weight with DASH especially by not overeating and with regular exercise. I also like to exercise 1-2 hours daily.
http://health.usnews.com/best-diet/best-overall-diets |
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I think dash has it's fat count right at about 35% however I think they did horrible with protein at 18% and carbs at 55%. I would do a lot less carbs and a lot more protein
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I would be interested in reading your scientific evidence regarding muscle tissue containing fat.
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I would be interested in reading your scientific evidence regarding muscle tissue containing fat. Ever ate a steak? That is muscle and therfat in it in many cuts. |
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Nice example.
Here is an understanding of the type of fat in muscles, which was kind of what I was after. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_adipose_tissue |
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