Weight Loss Thread

fifey_sl said:

Life without pizzaand carbs is a life I don't want to live.

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Agreed.

Looks like cardboard to me, Tucbro.

Would eat the bacon bits and cheese in the first pic.

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Tuco_sl said:

You're really making huge assumptions here. Yes carb addiction is a thing. Yes the American diet is too high in carbs. But to say someone will lose all interest in carbohydrates is just ridiculous. ]

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I've been low carb/carb cycling off and on for the last 18 months. It definitely gets easier to completely remove sugary treats the longer I go on. Reintroducing them, eg over Christmas, definitely gives you the taste for sugar again and I can find it tough to go back to being strict with my diet.

I probably went up to 15% BF between Christmas and March, just because I couldn't go two weeks without succumbing to a Dominoes + Cookies + Ice Cream combo. Decided in April that I would be strict and cut back down to 10% and will be lean enough to start bulking again by July. Definitely the longer you go without sugary treats, the easier it gets. Although, that's probably partly fuelled by motivation from seeing results in the mirror each week

Tuco_sl said:

It's just a pasta dish, a particularly healthy one, that according to Himeo is turned into poison in your body.

Ossoi aren't you the guy that eats like 10x chicken breasts a day?

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On non training days I go low carb, which means getting 300g protein. 1kg of lean meat and a protein shake is usually sufficient.

Sugar is poison?

So the liver is basically just a giant sieve?

Do you even lift?

I even lift.

Speaking of liver problems, blood results before keto and after:

Before Keto
ALT (12-61) 78
AST (9-40) 59

After 3 months keto
ALT (12-61) 22
AST (9-40) 14

Cleaned up my fatty liver problem in a hurry.

Himeo_sl said:

I even lift.

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If you lift weights then, unless you're fat, you should be cycling carbs to fuel muscle growth. There's no reason to ignore them completely

Oh, you mean it in the way that "an excess of any particular component is detrimental to the system".

Well yeah, sure. No shit. Preach that gospel.

It is not actually poison. The converse is also true: the complete lack of any particular thing is detrimental.

I actually like no carb/low carb diets because in order to use them and in order for them to be effective a person has to educate themselves on basic physiology and WHY they work in the first place.

But if they're not willing to take that step, it's way way better to just tell them to eat whatever they want, just less of it, and move more.

Tuco_sl said:

What do these numbers mean?

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I think it shows the amount of poison sugar in his body. That shit's like manticore poison; as soon as it hits your heart, you're gone.

Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT)

ALT is measured to see if the liver is damaged or diseased. Low levels of ALT are normally found in the blood. But when the liver is damaged or diseased, it releases ALT into the bloodstream, which makes ALT levels go up. Most increases in ALT levels are caused by liver damage.

The ALT test is often done along with other tests that check for liver damage, including aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alkaline phosphatase, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), and bilirubin. Both ALT and AST levels are reliable tests for liver damage.

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Aspartate Aminotransferase (AST)

Low levels of AST are normally found in the blood. When body tissue or an organ such as the heart or liver is diseased or damaged, additional AST is released into the bloodstream. The amount of AST in the blood is directly related to the extent of the tissue damage. After severe damage, AST levels rise in 6 to 10 hours and remain high for about 4 days.

The AST test may be done at the same time as a test for alanine aminotransferase, or ALT. The ratio of AST to ALT sometimes can help determine whether the liver or another organ has been damaged. Both ALT and AST levels can test for liver damage.

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It means I was being poisoned by sugar. LOL

Fucking retards. I'm dropping gospel truth on you and you refuse to listen. Just trying to save your lives, bros.

Ossoi_sl said:

If you lift weights then, unless you're fat, you should be cycling carbs to fuel muscle growth. There's no reason to ignore them completely

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Yeah, this is bullshit. Sure if I've been lifting for a few years it might help. But I've been lifting for less than six months. Them newbie gains, brah.

Iannis_sl said:

The converse is also true: the complete lack of any particular thing is detrimental.

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The complete lack of tobacco is detrimental?
The complete lack of hydrochloric acid is detrimental?

Get the fuck out of here.