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Hi,
Been low carbing again for the last month, and the weight loss is steady but slow - around 1 pound per week. I know - I know - this is good - but it never was this slow before I fell off the wagon end of last year. Especially annoyed as my TSH is .3 and free T4 over the top of the scale, so am borderline hyperT - which I would have thought would help with weight loss. Apparently not. (makes me irritable and fuzzy headed and sleepless though) Moan over - back to my 20g carbs a day and the anti candida diet (no dairy or fruit or alcohol - just meat/fish and veggies/salad) Martin |
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On Jan 26, 6:46*am, Martin Barrett wrote:
Hi, Been low carbing again for the last month, and the weight loss is steady but slow - around 1 pound per week. I know - I know - this is good - but it never was this slow before I fell off the wagon end of last year. Especially annoyed as my TSH is .3 and free T4 over the top of the scale, so am borderline hyperT - which I would have thought would help with weight loss. Apparently not. (makes me irritable and fuzzy headed and sleepless though) Moan over - back to my 20g carbs a day and the anti candida diet (no dairy or fruit or alcohol - just meat/fish and veggies/salad) Martin Imcreasing excercise has been known to work. |
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Martin Barrett wrote:
Been low carbing again for the last month, and the weight loss is steady but slow - around 1 pound per week. I know - I know - this is good ... It may well be there's never been a dieter in history satisfied with their rate of loss. Nah, there's gotta be someone out there who is - I've just yet to encounter one in ten years of low carbing ... ;^) I think wanting faster than you can get is a part of the deal. I also think that knowing that on an intellectual level helps a little but when it comes down to it what helps is to stay on plan and see lack of regain and new lows on a realistic time cycle. No one likes realistic time scales but realistic time scales are what actually happens. - but it never was this slow before I fell off the wagon end of last year. I wonder how true that really is compared to the factors that apply. Stuff like seeing the initial carb loss that includes the water it was dissolved in, having more to lose giving faster loss rates, being more willing to follow the directions simply because that's what the book says to do next ... |
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On Jan 26, 2:07*pm, Orlando Enrique Fiol wrote:
wrote: Been low carbing again for the last month, and the weight loss is steady but slow - around 1 pound per week. I know - I know - this is good - but it never was this slow before I fell off the wagon end of last year. Especially annoyed as my TSH is .3 and free T4 over the top of the scale, so am borderline hyperT - which I would have thought would help with weight loss. Apparently not. (makes me irritable and fuzzy headed and sleepless though) Moan over - back to my 20g carbs a day and the anti candida diet (no dairy or fruit or alcohol - just meat/fish and veggies/salad) Too much fat in addition to those carbs might be stalling you. Try consuming only lean protein in addition to cutting the carbs. Orlando If that's the case, then how do you explain the concept of a fat fast, which is a technique to break stalls, which Atkins recommended. Plus, he's NOT even close to stalled. Also, curious concept going from "too much fat" to consuming only lean protein, which would be zero fat. I would also suggest that consuming only lean protein is a prescription for trouble. Fat keeps you satiated. It was avoiding fat and replacing it with carbs that made America fatter than ever. Bottom line, what he's doing is working. He's losing a pound a week. What the hell do you expect? No need to screw it up. |
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Orlando Enrique Fiol wrote:
Too much fat in addition to those carbs might be stalling you. Try consuming only lean protein in addition to cutting the carbs. Bad advice - Not true while on low carb. So long as your total calories are not out of line fat does not interfere with loss while on low carb. No matter that you may think it because it's obvious, obvious does not equal true. Fat help suppress appetite - the form where it determines how long befor ethe next time you get hungry rather than the form that determines how full your stomach feels - and hence it actually leads to eating lower total calories. Try it and see. There are also hormonal reasons that calorie for calorie fat leads to better loss than protein. Going low in fat pushes glucagon levels low and thus pushes low the rate fat is withdrawn from storage. It's part of the old "fat fast" experiment. |
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On Jan 27, 1:14*am, Orlando Enrique Fiol wrote:
wrote: Also, curious concept going from "too much fat" to consuming only lean protein, which would be zero fat. * I would also suggest that consuming only lean protein is a prescription for trouble. * Fat keeps you satiated. *It was avoiding fat and replacing it with carbs that made America fatter than ever. I never said zero fat; South Beach, which I prefer to Atkins, is almost like induction during its first phase, except that only lean meats, eggs and vegetable oils are permitted. You didn't say zero fat, but you did say that in addition to cutting carbs, to eat only lean protein. That would seem to exclude the vegetable oil and eggs. Somehow I don't think your above statement is what you really mean either, as I think SB's first phase is more than just that short list. This is mainly for people with astronomically high cholesterol. Which has what to do with Martin's issue? It's pretty well established that dietary cholesterol isn't very well corelated to serum cholesterol. For example, most people switching to Atkins see their total cholesterol numbers either stay the same or improve, while HDL rises. This while eating more animal fats. I think in the real world dietary restrictions have to be so severe to make a significant change in serum chol, that from a practical sense, it just doesn't work. Even lean meats and mono unsaturated vegetable oils satiate just as much as animal or saturated fats. The true satiety comes from protein anyway. Orlando Which could you eat more of? Turkey breast or butter? And if you want to now include veg oils, how does that square with telling him to eat only lean protein? |
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