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Who's still on the low carb diet?

Originally posted by: Lager
I just wanted to see some hands on people who are still on the low carb diet.
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I'm not on a low carb diet . . . it's just London Broil can be had for $1/lb. and I'm a college student and carnivore 🙂 Nothing like steak for dinner every night.
 
Originally posted by: Atomicus
Sorry, but when I work out I'd like to NOT faint or fatigue in less than 30 minutes
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Up your fat intake while on the diet. Slam a few teaspoons of flax every day. That ll gut the fatigue.

:: Raises hand ::

And so begins the long ardous proccess of cutting. 2 weeks in, down about 10.

teh pwn.

One of my good friends has been with it since mid january. Down something like 70~80 pounds.

It s so weird looking at his old pics.

LONG LIVE LOW CARB
 
Sorry, but when I work out I'd like to NOT faint or fatigue in less than 30 minutes
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uhhh, ok. It's called lifting smartly... There have been MANY times where I have had 2 hour lifting sessions and not had problems at all... It's all about planning for what you are going to do.
 
Originally posted by: Bulldog13
Originally posted by: Atomicus
Sorry, but when I work out I'd like to NOT faint or fatigue in less than 30 minutes
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Up your fat intake while on the diet. Slam a few teaspoons of flax every day. That ll gut the fatigue.

:: Raises hand ::

And so begins the long ardous proccess of cutting. 2 weeks in, down about 10.

teh pwn.

One of my good friends has been with it since mid january. Down something like 70~80 pounds.

It s so weird looking at his old pics.

LONG LIVE LOW CARB
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Good luck keeping off the weight. Many people think that when they're done dieting they can resume their old eating habits. Surprise! The weight comes back in a tenth of the time it took them to lose it.
 
Originally posted by: WHipLAsh13
Seen the new carb diet that is out. I actually lost 100lbs eating nothing but carbs.
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This is also very true. If you're eating empty carbohydrates - white breads, pasta, potatoes, etc., you will not lose weight. However, if you go on a 180-degree turn, eatng a completely veggie diet with high levels of WHOLE grains and dark green leafy veggies, cutting out refined sugar and most fatty stuff, you'd be surprised how quickly the pounds drop combine with exercise.

Of course, virtually nobody does this because they'd rather do the Atkins or some other crappy fad low-carb diet, the former and most of the latter which are diets for people who refuse to admit their eating habits suck.
 
Originally posted by: ThaPerculator
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June 30th makes it a year, not counting the month I took off to intentionally bulk in the winter.
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Same here, June 30th marks a year for me and still 45 lbs down from when I started.
 
Originally posted by: Atomicus
Sorry, but when I work out I'd like to NOT faint or fatigue in less than 30 minutes
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'Spose it depends. Some people do just great energy-wise on low carb. Unfortunately, I'm not one of them. Sometimes I've had more trouble climbing long hills on the bike while on low-carb, but for whatever reason, when I was last doing it (a few weeks ago) I had absolutely no problems with fatiguing on the hills. When weightlifting, it does seem to make the medium rep range (8-12) a little harder than it is on a non low-carb diet. I'm certainly not going to poop out after 30 minutes just because it takes a little extra effort to make it through the same routine.

I figure that's part of the point--it makes training a little harder and (hopefully) improves your body's ability to deliver and burn fat and oxygen while exercising (fat metabolism requires more oxygen for the same amount of energy expended). People come out here to Colorado to train at altitude for much the same reason.

Personally, I think that 4-8 weeks of low-carb, typically combined with lots of endurance training and backing off a bit on the strength training, followed by high-carb plus heavy strength training, every one to two years is a fine thing.
 
Originally posted by: MadCowDisease
Originally posted by: Bulldog13
Originally posted by: Atomicus
Sorry, but when I work out I'd like to NOT faint or fatigue in less than 30 minutes
Click to expand...

Up your fat intake while on the diet. Slam a few teaspoons of flax every day. That ll gut the fatigue.

:: Raises hand ::

And so begins the long ardous proccess of cutting. 2 weeks in, down about 10.

teh pwn.

One of my good friends has been with it since mid january. Down something like 70~80 pounds.

It s so weird looking at his old pics.

LONG LIVE LOW CARB
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Good luck keeping off the weight. Many people think that when they're done dieting they can resume their old eating habits. Surprise! The weight comes back in a tenth of the time it took them to lose it.
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That made absolutely no sense.
In what part of my post did I mention either my eating habits or going back to them or if they were originally bad in the first place.

Oh wait a minute, so you re telling me if I diet via a caloric deficit methodology, and go back to my "old eating habits" it will stay off ?
 
No, I still maintain my balanced diet.

I'm not fat, so I don't need to fix anything.
 
I guess its all about your metabolism. If its high like me, I eat 3 straight meals and stack on 2000+ calories a day and even with only moderate exercise after work I still stay slim....
cholesterol and fat DV is pretty low in my diet though, until I go back to Wegmens for more 6lb tubs of ice cream 😀
 
Originally posted by: MadCowDisease
Originally posted by: WHipLAsh13
Seen the new carb diet that is out. I actually lost 100lbs eating nothing but carbs.
Click to expand...

This is also very true. If you're eating empty carbohydrates - white breads, pasta, potatoes, etc., you will not lose weight. However, if you go on a 180-degree turn, eatng a completely veggie diet with high levels of WHOLE grains and dark green leafy veggies, cutting out refined sugar and most fatty stuff, you'd be surprised how quickly the pounds drop combine with exercise.

Of course, virtually nobody does this because they'd rather do the Atkins or some other crappy fad low-carb diet, the former and most of the latter which are diets for people who refuse to admit their eating habits suck.
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Actually, the diet that you describe is part of the Atkins maintenance regimen. Maybe you should edcate yourself first. :roll:
 
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