Weight Loss Thread

Just eat carbs. Super high protein diets are a pain in the ass. You're not going to lose more weight eating less carbs. Whether you store the carbs as fat from a meal or not is irrelevant. Daily caloric deficit will take care of that. Goes straight back to it all works, you're either eating less calories than you consume or you aren't. Now for health you want it to be good food and .8 g/lb of protein is the agreed minimum. It's up to you from there. If you're happy with mega protein then good on ya but you sound like you're not, it requires shitloads of meat.

Tilluin_sl said:

Thanks for the tips - after being fat I'm a bit hesitant to bulk as I have that nagging thought in the back of my head I'll do it wrong and end up fat again. My goal is to be trim / lean and I was hoping through lifting I'd create lean muscle to make me look toned.

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Just like how you can't get jacked overnight, no one gets fat overnight either. Both things require an immense amount of time. As long as you have a basic understanding of how your diet impacts your body (e.g. if you load up on 100g more carbs than you're used to, you know that it'll make you bloated), you don't need to worry about accidently doing anything.

The problem most people has is one that's related to will power. It's just a lot easier to say screw it and eat a donut at work, or shitty fast food for dinner. Those choices on their own won't make you fat, but you do them consistently enough and the country all the sudden has an obesity epidemic. Personally, I eat little cheat meals all the time. I just make sure that I'm aware that I'm doing it and do something that offsets those calories (either exercise or other food choices). Hell, this week I've probably eaten a fucking s'more every single day (we went camping last weekend and had tons of shit left over). The god damn s'mores are delicious. But I don't pretend that they're not calorie bombs.

S'mores are delicious, even as a Brit I know that! I do find the low carb hard as I find it's normally my favourite part of a meal and I'm happier being low carb as opposed to no carb which I did for a few months. Sleeping is fine but I definitely suffer with low energy throughout the day - I'm fine in the gym as my preworkout is full of caffeine etc but I'm always in bed by 9.30pm (I wake up at 5am on lifting days, 6am on normal days). Losing weight made me secure in looking at long term goals and not watching the scales every day but it sounds like I'm going to plateau unless I take my meal plans a bit more seriously. Going on holiday to California in 3 weeks is going to lead to some bloating too - cheesecake factory will not be denied!

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Elurin, off-topic, but I was reading old posts in this thread and you mentioned stalling out on your cut then dropping 4 pounds overnight. This might be informative if you haven't read it already. It's the most bro-sciency I've ever read from Lyle but *shrug*

Of Whooshes and Squishy Fat | BodyRecomposition - The Home of Lyle McDonald

Warmuth_sl said:

Just eat carbs. Super high protein diets are a pain in the ass. You're not going to lose more weight eating less carbs. Whether you store the carbs as fat from a meal or not is irrelevant. Daily caloric deficit will take care of that. Goes straight back to it all works, you're either eating less calories than you consume or you aren't. Now for health you want it to be good food and .8 g/lb of protein is the agreed minimum. It's up to you from there. If you're happy with mega protein then good on ya but you sound like you're not, it requires shitloads of meat.

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Maybe it's just me, but I find it's easier for me to eat at a caloric deficit long-term if I'm getting excess protein versus heavy carbs. A small steak will satiate me all day if I eat it for lunch, as long as I grab a light snack for dinner... meanwhile I'd have no problem chowing down 1200+ calories worth of pasta for lunch and I'd still be hungry 5 hours later.

I've been lifting 4-5 times a day now for about 2 months now, stored some dumbbells right next to my bed. It's a lot easier for me to do 5-10 minutes of a single exercise or 2 until muscle failure before bed (30 lbs for curls/ohp or pushups) or when first waking up rather than dedicating an entire 45 minutes all at once.

Oh, and I hadn't posted pictures in a long time, here is me current versus 3 years ago and 2 years ago. Slow progress, but I do see a difference. 240 vs 220 vs 200

Good job man, you can really tell a difference in your face for sure. Now my neck hurts.


I guess I'm going to start in this thread, because what's life without goals, right? Seems to be a lot of weightlifting info in here, it's hard to sort out where to start.

I was recently diagnosed with the Die a Beetus, so I've been checking my carb intake for the last month, and I've lost 17 lbs so far. I have a number of underlying health issues that make exercise difficult, but not impossible, and I'm hoping to get back into the swimming pool soon to help out. When I collapsed yesterday (Health Thread) I fubar'd my right knee something awful. Hopefully soon I can walk.

Anyway, hopefully this first post here will be something I can look back on for reference after I'm all buff and shit.

Gravy_sl said:

I guess I'm going to start in this thread, because what's life without goals, right? Seems to be a lot of weightlifting info in here, it's hard to sort out where to start.

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This thread should really just be renamed the fitness thread or something. It's the only fitness related one that seems to have any staying power. It's sort of become the de facto one anyway.

Antarius_sl said:

Maybe it's just me, but I find it's easier for me to eat at a caloric deficit long-term if I'm getting excess protein versus heavy carbs. A small steak will satiate me all day if I eat it for lunch, as long as I grab a light snack for dinner... meanwhile I'd have no problem chowing down 1200+ calories worth of pasta for lunch and I'd still be hungry 5 hours later.

I've been lifting 4-5 times a day now for about 2 months now, stored some dumbbells right next to my bed. It's a lot easier for me to do 5-10 minutes of a single exercise or 2 until muscle failure before bed (30 lbs for curls/ohp or pushups) or when first waking up rather than dedicating an entire 45 minutes all at once.

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Sure, everyone's different in what they prefer. I enjoy not restricting carbs, neither high or low carbs affect my appetite more than the other but I like the flexibility and I get tired of all protein and fat. It does work better to be low carb for people who don't track nutrition because as you say 1k worth of carb calories goes down easy.

one more pic, for comparison to the 2 year old pic. Now that I've broken 200, I'd like to push myself even harder to get to my goal weight. Fixed the sideways prior to uploading too.

You'd look a lot better if you smiled.

Sorry, not using rerolled as a dating site, only to track my weight and body progress.

We got some hot bitches here, bro

I just assume everyone here is a male until they've proven themselves to be transexual.

I'm so glad I decided to catch up on this thread from page 1 -- rofl -- Ossoi you've been going strong since the start of this thread. I love it. Someone called you the Lumi of the weight loss thread, hahahaha.

Eomer_sl said:

You dropped 2-3 pounds of fat in a week without starving yourself (assuming you're somewhere around 150-200lbs)? That's the equivalent of having a deficit of ~10,000 calories in a single week, or about 1,500 a day. Stop and ask yourself if you think that's realistic.

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Ossoi_sl said:

you're idiot

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Ossoi_sl said:

Did I say anything about physical weight of fat I lost? No retards, I didn't - since when was % a measurement of weight?

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McCheese_sl said:

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Did you get a chance to read the coconut oil debacle of 2013/14?

BruuceWarduck_sl said:

So I have a hernia and have to have surgery next friday. I guess Ive had it for the last 12 years. No more lifting for at least 6 weeks after that. Im going to try to keto until i can lift again to try to drop these last 10-20 bodyfats

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Im dying reading this and thinking I only had that much bodyfat left to lose. Oh young April 2014 Bruuce... But I lost 15lb since this post and have finally been able to get back into the gym and lift after my surgery. I feel like I lost nearly every ounce of progress(sans using better form) i made the last ~year. I stopped keto once i started going back to the gym because just fuck that. Ive been back on carbs again usually eating over 100g a day and I did jump from like 153-155 to 158-160 in about a week but I stabilized there. So now Im around 160 and prob around 15-17% bf Id estimate. I want to bulk so bad but I still wanna lose this bf so my plan is to still eat at a 300-500 deficit minimum. Ive been ok at counting my calories using mfp. Usually overestimate on the things I dont know. I dont weigh my food at work on my lunches....YET. Im not really using a scale as a judge rather than what I actually look like to my eyeballs and just using the scale as a rough guide to tell me if Im way off on my calorie estimations which typically tends to happen after estimating for a while. Always eat 160g protein, 65g fat and try to get the rest in carbs but i usually nearly double the fat. Whatevs. I m good at staying away from processed foods for the most part but I dont really eat very clean or healthy. I just want results you know.


Today I am also changing from Strongbads stronglifts routine to this:Novice Routine - Bodybuilding.com ForumsIt looks more fun. And thats my ADD post for the month

I wanted to post this here due to my semi participation of the weight loss thread back in FoH.

I started to gain a lot of weight after high school and decided I needed to lose weight back in Fall 2009. I was about 220 pounds back then (and that's A LOT for someone who is only 5'8"). Over the course of 2 years, I steadily lost weight down to about 165 pounds, but because I was doing some workouts wrong, I hurt my knee. I couldn't really workout due to my knee and I stayed around 165-169 pounds for nearly a year before ballooning up again to 175-180 at the start of 2013. From January to April I made decent effort to improve my fitness level by going to a muay thai gym and seeing a PT. My knee got better during that time so I slowly went back to the gym. I still wasn't losing weight though because I ate too much and didn't go to the gym often enough. Around 3 month ago I was sitting at 180 pounds when I decided to go on a better diet (count my calories) and gym at least 3 times a week. I am now 155-157 pounds for the last week or and I feel great. I wear small now, and my waist went from barely fitting 36 inches down to 30 inches being a bit loose.