Anyone ever do a low carb diet? Anything one should watch out for? What did everyone find most difficult?
02-24-2013 01:42 PM
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Low CarbAnyone ever do a low carb diet? Anything one should watch out for? What did everyone find most difficult? | |
02-24-2013 03:42 PM
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No. Carbs. Level 8-4. | |
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02-24-2013 04:01 PM
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Define low carb. There are a lot of different interpretations as to what that could mean. For example, based on my observation in the U.S., most people in most situations should eat less carbs. Most people would do well to replace their bagels, cereals, pastas etc. with meat (fish, eggs) and veggies for example. Does that necessarily mean going low carb? I don't think so, although a lot of people get that impression. | |
02-24-2013 04:11 PM
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Ja I did one with help from jyms. I've fallen off the wagon massively the last few weeks with essay/exam stress etc but I've still lost 8 or 9 pounds since December with just two solid months of the diet. | |
02-24-2013 05:07 PM
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IMO don't completely prohibit carbs, it just makes life suck too much. Prohibit pasta and rice since they are like 99% carb and 1% protein and generally dishes with pasta and rice are dominated by the pasta and rice. A good whole grain bread on the other hand actually has some protein and usually is only a couple hundred calories as part of your meal. When I was doing a low carb diet I would sate my carb urges with a daily bagel with lox and I lost a lot of weight. | |
02-24-2013 06:52 PM
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Breads are so bad for you, it's not even funny. | |
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02-24-2013 07:05 PM
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hmmm i think i might try to watch both of those today |
02-24-2013 07:35 PM
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02-24-2013 07:45 PM
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02-24-2013 07:48 PM
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Reminds me of Wooderson. | |
02-24-2013 08:04 PM
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half persian half hispanic? |
02-24-2013 08:30 PM
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02-24-2013 08:40 PM
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I am trying this for 30 days. Low carb being sub 25 grams per day. Since this isn't long term, i doubt ill cause serious damage even if its a bit unhealthy. | |
02-24-2013 08:50 PM
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The best shape I've ever been in was when I was using food combining in my diet. Mostly it's about not eating carbs and proteins together instead of going low carb all together. Mebbe check it out? | |
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02-24-2013 10:24 PM
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Vitamin C is a good supplement to take when low-carbing since you're not really getting it naturally on the diet. | |
02-24-2013 10:29 PM
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I'd imagine it's harder for 1/10 people to cut fruit out of their diet but they'll have no problem getting protein supplements. | |
02-24-2013 10:29 PM
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Okay so you'll torture yourself with this shit, but you won't meditate? | |
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02-24-2013 10:32 PM
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02-24-2013 11:08 PM
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Fruit is too awesome to leave out of any diet, IMO. | |
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02-25-2013 09:02 AM
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Replace the fruit with the veggies and get more vitamins and minerals for less sugar and calories. The hardest part about low carb is dealing with every moron that has a story about how bad low carb is. Low carb is awesome, but take planned breaks. The first few days are rough then the next few weeks are easy because your learning new ways to eat and the pounds will be coming off. You will feel a lot better too if you have been eating shitty. If your pretty clean eating in the first place then you may not notice the difference as much like the clearing of brain fog. | |
02-25-2013 09:11 AM
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Ya, I think if you look at longer term and just decide when and how you should be not eating things makes it a better idea. For example, I don't eat carbs almost ever during the week but if I go out for dinner or someone makes dinner and it has carbs I just eat them. 95% of my meals now are 0 carb (by no carb I mean starches) but I do eat them on weekends when I am happier with my weight/shape. Learning to just have a flow or flex to your diet and be less on and off diets works great once your closer to your target. Nothing wrong with doing a full month or two strict diet after holidays or when you have been slacking, but don't think in terms of always on or off and things will go longer term and you will have a lot better success. | |
02-25-2013 09:31 AM
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I know all about the pizza substitutes. Being in Korea leaves me without an oven and in a small apartment. Pizza only knocks me out of keto for a few days and I get back in it quite quickly. | |
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02-25-2013 03:01 PM
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The science behind lower carb eating is really starting to emerge. I am a big proponent of eating low carb, especially on days you don't work out. Check out this site for some links to some studies on low-carb eating. http://www.dietdoctor.com/science | |
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02-25-2013 04:21 PM
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Most people can fit some fruit into their diet. At the very least the brain needs some glucose to function, even in ketosis, and getting the glucose through extra protein via gluconeogenesis is a costly way to do that in more ways than one. So maybe that's 30-50g carbs a day right off the bat. Also I have noticed the occasional person who just don't function well in ketosis. Even after an adaptation period some people are just miserable, useless human beings in ketosis. For them maybe 100-125g carbs/day is a more appropriate minimum specifically to stay outside of ketosis. Personally I am lucky and function perfectly fine (in my opinion ) in either state. | |
02-25-2013 04:25 PM
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Also there are some lifestyles that are pretty much impossible to live while running a strict low carb diet. examples include doing physical labor for a living and various athletes. That doesn't apply to a lot of people though obviously. | |
02-25-2013 07:02 PM
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I just ate the best brownie. | |
02-25-2013 07:18 PM
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FWIW lukie, as we have talked about in the past, I am not really focusing on low carb and refeeds and actually following a few different IF protocols again but I am getting about 50-100 gms a day on average, just not everyday.. | |
02-25-2013 08:50 PM
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First off how the hell are ya !luck? I haven't been on here in about a year sure miss the hell out of it. | |
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02-25-2013 09:07 PM
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02-25-2013 09:13 PM
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Yeah that type of eating is soooooo much better than the typical diet that a lot of people eat. I do think you can go too far into the clean territory, as is often the case where some people go to great lengths to avoid perfectly neutral foods like potatoes or a small amount of milk or fruit. Then again there is a certain amount of biasesness from me when I say that being young, train with heavy weights and don't want my bodyweight getting too low, pretty fast metabolism etc. For a lot of people the most important thing from both health and physique perspectives is to just lose the weight and how you accomplish that is often secondary in importance to just getting it done and keeping it off. | |
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02-25-2013 09:40 PM
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There is a huge difference between the way someone should eat when they are healthy and working out, exercising intensly or working hard labour type jobs and people that have been eating horribly and are out of shape. Using more extreme dietary measures by eliminating whole food groups and adding large supplement dosages can go a long way in correcting things that are inhibiting people from getting into shape. | |
02-25-2013 10:16 PM
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Great stuff guys. I am one of those people who had no idea how to eat without carbs. At the very least it forcing more knowledge on me. I may be taking on too much of a challenge since I'm also cutting out alcohol for the month. But, I feel I can be successful. | |
02-25-2013 10:28 PM
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Agreed.. do you remember this pyramid? It was pretty much standard when I was growing up anyway: http://images.huffingtonpost.com/201...od_Pyramid.gif | |
02-25-2013 10:49 PM
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~Luck, you're not even that bad where you started. Depends on body style somewhat, but if you just make some subtle changes with both increasing workout and cutting one or two "bad" things from your diet you will probably be healthy. (I forgot you mentioned quitting drinking, if you do that and the things I mentioned you will see a huge difference in a month and be pretty happy, just make sure to maintain some of the good habits you developed.) | |
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02-25-2013 11:42 PM
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i wouldnt be surprised to find out that fruit carbs aren't problematic |
02-26-2013 08:33 AM
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They aren't in a normal healthy metabolism or diet. Not everything is about how they are stored. Most overweight/fat/obese people have issues with other things like food cravings, swinging blood sugars and even food induced cravings. Just the taste of something sweet like a diet cola or a mango can throw people into low blood sugar from the rush of insulin. Do you know that just looking at sweet food can make overweight people have an insulin pulse? Without actually getting carbs to shuttle to the fat stores insulin will lower what little blood sugar they had and induce a need for fast carbs to balance the body. | |
02-26-2013 08:41 AM
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02-26-2013 04:40 PM
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Thanks I did run a 5k on my 50th birthday which was almost two years ago. As for now I am doing CrossFit 4-5 times a week. We run often during our workouts and my cardio is through the roof in comparison to what it used to be. I'm going to run another here soon just so I can compare my times which I have no doubt I'll crush my previous. I've never felt better than I do now even at 52 years old. | |
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02-26-2013 05:01 PM
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02-27-2013 05:27 PM
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I did low carb diet awhile back. I lost almost 30lbs with a small amount of exercise at the same time. | |
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02-27-2013 06:17 PM
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Saturated fat / cholesterol being bad for your circulatory system is a myth. | |
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02-28-2013 01:51 PM
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02-28-2013 02:44 PM
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02-28-2013 02:47 PM
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It's pretty much standard knowledge now amongst anyone who cares about research in Diet and nutrition. The only people that don't know about it is the mainstream media and pretty much anyone who gets their information form them. Oh and Most General Practitioners who get their info from Pharmaceutical companies. | |
03-01-2013 01:07 AM
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Last edited by BooG690; 03-01-2013 at 10:30 AM.
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03-01-2013 01:34 AM
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I like when you speak korean. | |
03-01-2013 09:57 AM
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03-02-2013 03:25 PM
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It's a bit pricy keeping this up. But, I am made it nearly a week so far. | |
03-02-2013 04:05 PM
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Great info here: | |
03-02-2013 04:15 PM
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diet has to be balanced, without carb u won't have any energy | |
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03-02-2013 04:17 PM
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almost as inspiring as your sig | |
03-02-2013 09:38 PM
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03-02-2013 09:39 PM
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Last edited by givememyleg; 03-03-2013 at 03:10 PM. | |
03-03-2013 06:57 AM
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hahahah | |
03-03-2013 02:51 PM
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03-03-2013 03:10 PM
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still hurts me so much that my avatar is small. | |
03-03-2013 03:12 PM
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03-03-2013 03:34 PM
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I have a bigger image, but the forum autoresizes when us plebs upload an avatar | |
03-03-2013 03:41 PM
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Ya I changed mine when we first switched to phpBB and I got screwed | |
03-04-2013 12:58 PM
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There's actually a clear correlation between statins and lower mortality rate: | |
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03-04-2013 06:46 PM
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I wouldn't call 18 out of 1000 people avoiding cardiovascular disease over 5 years by taking these drugs to be a clear correlation. The only sentence in the abstract that points to a lower mortality is this: | |
Last edited by BooG690; 03-04-2013 at 06:49 PM.
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03-05-2013 12:39 AM
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Huh? THat avatar size thing is still in effect? You sure? | |
03-05-2013 01:20 PM
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Full quote: | |
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03-06-2013 07:27 AM
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03-06-2013 04:42 PM
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no avatar yes sig gif is correct way to go |
03-10-2013 07:26 PM
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u starve for bread and sugar quick, hell ive done it and quit after 4 hours before. |
03-10-2013 07:34 PM
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^^^^ | |
03-10-2013 09:55 PM
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I love how skinny kids think they are some expert |
03-10-2013 10:14 PM
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how classy is it to say that someone who has worked in a gym and has posted quite a bit of nutritional information in the past and in this thread is " a skinny kid who thinks he's an expert". |
03-10-2013 10:24 PM
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jyms can bench press your mom |
03-10-2013 10:59 PM
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03-10-2013 11:00 PM
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Sorry, I'm classy: urinating. | |
03-11-2013 06:16 AM
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03-11-2013 06:43 AM
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that advice is kinda outdated, you can substitute the two glasses of water for just one glass of diet mountain dew | |
03-11-2013 09:31 AM
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Funny how some people just have no clue. I would love to hear how the freetroller explains what to do if eating 8 meals a day? What if the person is doing an ESE or IF protocol and only eats once? Does he account for differences in Aerobic or anaerobic training? Do you take into account the types of fruits, Vegetables or other liquids int he diet? | |
Last edited by jyms; 03-11-2013 at 12:32 PM. | |