Weight loss advice

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The “bro” at the store told me to eat 6 meals a day and cut carbs at noon. Is there any information/methods as far as diet that would be more practical and possibly get me quicker results?

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Do not do this! You will spike your insulin so many times throughout the day your head will spin.

You need to eat a fasting focused ketogenic WOE. Keep your net carbs <20g a day and your macros should be 80% fat, 15% protein, 5% carbs (no more than 20g of net carbs however).

Also utilize intermittent fasting protocols the best being either an 18/6 (18hr fasted 6hr eating window) or a 23/1(essentially OMAD).

I'm currently down 26 pounds since late March. I started by going low (but not 0) carb, giving myself cheat meals after every so many pounds I dropped. Gradually, I started adding more and more exercise while trying not to increase my calorie intake. I eat more carbs now than when I started, but I'm definitely still carb conscious. I also found that totally skipping breakfast didn't work for me. Personally, I think my metabolism slows and I burn calories slower if I don't eat anything until later in the day.

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get me quicker results

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This is the wrong approach. You want sustainable results. Find something you can be consistent enough with to maintain. I'll report back in a year and let you know if my approach is sustainable or if I'm a fat-arse again.

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Diet and Exercise

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Personally, I think my metabolism slows and I burn calories slower if I don't eat anything until later in the day.

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100% false

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Diet and Exercise

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Exercise is a very small component to losing weight. You need to track your intake with a calculator and you’ll be shocked I bet at how much you are shoving into your face.

everything you just said is bro science.

utilizing a carb cutoff as he was advised to do is a perfectly aceptable way to control calories.spiking insulin doens't mean shite in terms of fat loss until you get down into the 10% bf range. if what he was todl to do didn't work then bodybuilders wouldn't be using the same protocol to get in better shape than you and i for the last 5 decades.


OP, you just need to eat in a deficit. All the ways of doing that are just tools when it comes to fatloss. People are going to scream about health and scream about IF and Keto and I am a fan of those, but 90% of your health benifits are going to come from the fat loss in it self and that has been proven in studies.

Keto doesn't cause any statistically siginifcant more weight loss then controlling calories. neither does IF, they are just tools.

Figure you what works for you. If you aren't lifting weights, start. If you aren't doing morning fasted walking, start.

tell us more about the foods you like, age, stats and if you plan to start lifting and we can give you your macros to start based on that.

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Make small adjustments first by cutting some pure sugar stuff like cokes and candy. Then get MyFitnessPal and track your stuff for at least a week to see how much you are really eating.

Start a simple to follow workout plan and don't overdo it.

After a month of continuing this, increase the difficulty of the workouts And start decreasing the amount of processed foods you eat and lower the carbs.

Once you have been tracking weight and calories for awhile you'll know what your calorie restrictions are. Reduce by 400-500 after the first month.

After you have done that for a little bit. You can now start doing things like IF, keto, low carb.... You need to know how to do this stuff before jumping into the deep end.

Always try to do more exercising to lose the weight before reducing calories. You'll hit the floor on calories before the ceiling of exercising.

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Pretty much this.

he has gone into the cult where its the only way, everything else is shite. HE GONE!!!

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everything you just said is bro science.

utilizing a carb cutoff as he was advised to do is a perfectly aceptable way to control calories.spiking insulin doens't mean shite in terms of fat loss until you get down into the 10% bf range. if what he was todl to do didn't work then bodybuilders wouldn't be using the same protocol to get in better shape than you and i for the last 5 decades.

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What did I say that is bro science? You’re going to tell me that spiking insulin is not a signal that tells your body to store fat?

This guy isn’t a bodybuilder he’s fat and needs to lose weight. He should attempt to never elevate his insulin levels beyond the basal level for sustaining life.

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You need to eat a fasting focused ketogenic WOE. Keep your net carbs <20g a day and your macros should be 80% fat, 15% protein, 5% carbs (no more than 20g of net carbs however).

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You can do what pissboi suggests and want to kill yourself.

Or, you can count your calories and enjoy a bag of M&Ms every once in a while.

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I’ve been on and off lifting for a while. I’m currently on week two of the grey skulls LCI method, but I’ve gained three pounds since I started it... from the responses it sounds like I am probably eating way more than I think I am.

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Excellent, start tracking calories and try to get about 300g of protein daily and about 11*bodyweight in calories. It just follow the sample diet in the LCI book.

At week 5 start adding 30 min or so if fasted walking every morning.

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When Calories are accounted for keto doesn't cause faster fat loss then traditional iso caloric diet

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What about drinking your own piss though?