re: PuttaDaForkDown

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I haven't taken out anything major like carbs or sugars.

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this will help a ton. it is hard, but manageable. try eliminating known sources of sugar like soft drinks, sweet tea, cookies, cakes, ice cream, etc. And, try to limit your carb intake to about 100 grams a day instead of the recommended 300.

That should help you a good bit.

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when I start eating normal amounts of carbs and sugars again

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well, that's part of our problem. We need to lower our "normal amounts of carbs and sugars." I've been trying to eat virtually no carbs a day and virtually no sugar unless it is in the meat, veggies, and fruit I eat.

Once I'm healthy, I'll try to continue to limit my carb intake to 100 grams a day. and, i'll limit my sugar intake to maybe once a week of some sugary snack. Limiting these is not only helpful for losing weight, but it is great for just being healthy in general.

This link contains good phases for low carb zones.

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300 or more grams/day - Danger Zone!
150-300 grams/day – Steady, Insidious Weight Gain
100-150 grams/day – Primal Blueprint Maintenance Range
50-100 grams/day – Primal Sweet Spot for Effortless Weight Loss
0-50 grams/day – Ketosis and Accelerated Fat Burning

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For Example, the Atkins diet has you starting at the Ketosis and Accelerated Fat Burning phase and slowly moving up to the Maintenance Range when you finish the diet.

So, you can use that as a guide or pick your own "sweet spot" of how many carbs you'd like to have after you lose weight. I'd just recommend setting 150 as the absolute highest you'll go a day.

I'd watch Fat Head to help see some misconceptions about fat gain/loss, etc. It is a direct response to Super Size Me by comedian Tom Naughton. It's a great film and it is free on Hulu at the link above.

Myth, yours is not a nonplateau, but the flat at the valley base. you'll have to dig to go deeper.

eta: survived CADFast. shrimp and catfish for supper. fried=

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I just get so darn tired the day after...

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Are you including some cardio? That may help.
225/193/185
So for 2 weeks no cheats and probably having 20-30 carbs a day, I had some beer and shrimp creole last night. I blew up

170/152.5/147

CADFast 2 lb flush. hoped for more.

Well, the office contest is over. I had a mental meltdown for the last 3 days and the damage done will be impossible to drop in the last 3 weeks of the contest.

I'm going to Cadfast to try and drain out the sodium damage but the 39 million calories I ate, stored some real fat back on my bones.


The only explanation for my mentat meltdown is of course.....



Alien mind control. They finally got me when I took my foil mind control protector off and once they had control, they wanted me to eat a little bit of everything so they could vicariously taste earth food from my perspective.



Hope the Cafast can drain a few pounds off! Oh the humanity!

170/154/147

another weekend indulge budge

Whip us into shape, slack. We're all bad.

Keep it going. And at some point you have to realize that the only person you can rely on is yourself. Once you get to your goal weight, if you can't rely on yourself, you'll just gain it back. Gotta hold yourself accountable.


Keep up the good work