secret to weight loss

Every IFBB-er is enhanced to the max; hence why they are dying at an alarming rate…. !
Jeff knows his stuff for sure.
Someone who’s both funny and knowledgeable is Greg Douchette. He was formerly enhanced by has seen the light now….

 

True, but Almonds are calorie bombs compared to lean meats. Besides, research has shown that it is extremely difficult (weight loss hack here!) for proteins to be converted into body fat. With fats and carbs that’s much, much easier. Meaning if you are starving, eat some more steak or chicken breast, you won’tr gain weight from it; yes even when calories increase!

Always better to rade in the Margarita’s for straight up whiskey or tequilla.

 

And has clearly been proven to be extremely, extremely unhealthy.

 

I would never fast for more than 1 day at best. The negatives start to outweigh the positives very clearly. Dexa scans show that internal organs are compromised after such a fast.
In reality, nothing magic happens after a long fast, you simply lose weight due to lack of calories.
Hey, if it works, it works and congrats for sticking with it.
But I wouldn’t make it into as long term plan.

 

Yes but I would pick them up small lots of 6. That will buy you an hour and you can do it 4 or 5 times per day for around 100 calories total.

 

True, but you would want to limit your calorie intake to 4-6 meals including snacks per day.
We used to think it would be better to sppread our calories out as much as possible per day.
Recent research has shown that you get more stable bloodsugar levels overall by keep some time between any kind of caloric intake versus a low caloric intake but with much higher frrequency. Meaning, if the time between meals is too long, simply eat 200 calories from ythe almonds versus 2 x 100ca;lories from the almonds.
From a muscle building / muslce prserving perspective, you actually want bigger protein spikes in one occaision (meal) versus sipping on proytein shakes / meals throughout the day.
It's the spike in Leucine that drives MTor signaling (muscle growth trigger) through a bigger meal. It needs to gup with sufficient protein (amiono acids) and come down afterwards.
Sorrt if I'm overcomplicating things here...

 

Intermittent fasting is a great approach. I have done 18/6 for years and its great.

 

And very easy to follow for the majority of users. Especially beginners that find it hard to stick toa certain diet.
Or if you have a busy schedule; simply skip breakfast and you’re good to go.

 

It's absolutely true.

 

Don't stop eating, that's for sure! Stopping eating will decrease your metabolism and your fat won't loose its stored fat. What you can do immediately is to divide your meals into smaller ones. Frequent small feedings are best and this increases your metabolism. It worked wonders for me. Here is a good article on this issue https://betterme.world/articles/how-to-lose-2-pounds-a-day/ . Hope this helps

 

Not entirely true. Our metabolism is very, very, very adaptive. Yes, your metabolism will drop during a diet and yes it will ramp up when you eat a large meal. However those changes are very temp. Once your big meal is digested, your metabolism drops down to your diet metabolism.
Take away point is that how you overall eat is more important than quick fixes as “ eating a small bit to increase metabolism” .
If you are dieting and are not hungry, then don’t eat. Try to eat when you are hungry and try to do it slooowly.
And make beter food choices so you are never hungry.,

 

Actually, burning 3000 calories per day with exercise is damn near impossible. An intense bike ride or jogging and hour burns aprox 1000 calories.
I would never advise someone on a diet to try and burn more than 1000 calories per day from exercise. You will burn up and feel like crap in 1-2 weeks.
We automatically burn calories during the day with everything we do. Even when you are sleeping. That set point is different for us all.
Simply adjust calories until you start loosing weight. If you continue to lose weight, don’t change. Results stop, simply eat a tiny bit less.
That’s the easiest way to go about.

There is also a lot to say about not eat a large meal frequency. In fact research shows that most respond beter when eating 4-5 meals per day including snacks.. we though 10 years ago that you “ needed to keep eating to keep your metabolism running”. That has proven to be a myth.
Not eating all the time and allowing insulin to come down is a much beter approach.

Majority of European eat 3 meals per day with snacks in between. I would make a strong, strong case to say that in Europe portions are nothing like in the US….!

 

Sorry to sound like just a "**** car guy that thinks he knows everything".
This direction happens to be my profession for the past 30+ years.
Pharmaceutical en neutraceutical R&D.
Merely trying to help here by keeping everything in laymans terms.

 

This is getting out of hand… I never said or meant that.
Calories always matter, please read all my posts above.
I perhaps took your comment out of context but was trying to explain in layman’ s terms.
You won.

 

I love these threads. Everyone is an expert! I wish people had to say what their current BF % is before posting. Go keyboard warriors go!

 

I think it’s the main reason why experts drop out of forums.
Back in the day when bodybuilding.com was the biggest forum on fitness in the world AND one of the top 10 most viewed forums in the world. Several ‘ famous’ old school bodybuilders also came on there to start a thread and help people out.
I vividly remember Serge Nubret having to proof it was actually hi for the fist 100 pages or so!

The safety of typing a comment anonymously is just too alluring combined with the fact that some love to question everything without having reason for it, could be Forum’s downfall.
Sometimes someone has more knowledge about you in fitness, gear boxes, car design, crypto, whatever. Deal with it.

 

Well stated.

I feel like most posts here typed by people that can barely get to their keyboards.

Rob has it right. But down the ****ing fork. Is there nuance with it? This is thermodynamics, not rocket science.

 

There is only one way to lose weight:

Take in fewer calories than your body uses every day.

Now, there are probably 1000 different ways to do that with various types of sacrifice but in the end, there is no magic bullet. You cannot eat anything and everything you want anytime and lose weight.

Once you get that through your head, it starts to get easier. Just pick the method and stick to it.

The "sticking to it" is the hard part.

 

True, the magic word here is 'moderation'. Every diet works that puts you in a caloric deficit.
Simply eat less calories that you need.

Long term a new approach to food always works best to stick with it.
Hunger and suffering should have no place in one's life (nor diet) unless we're talknoug about health threatening situations.

Or in layman's terms "put the fork down!"

 

I have had good results in the past by tracking calories with the free version of the MyFitnessPal app on my phone. Lost about 30lbs over a few months last year just doing that and not drinking beer. I gained some of it back since because I got lax about using the app and reintroduced craft beer. Going to start back up with the app and drop the beer again.