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Originally Posted by carlh_uk
I dont agree, this is exactly how it works. Your statements leads people to believe they can eat all the protein and fat they want and still lose weight. The simple fact of the matter is that if they are eating more calories than they burn they will not lose weight (only water weight if just starting). Carbohydrates are seen as the devil on this forum, but they play their part post workout for people doing intense weight training.
To the OP, the only way you can accuratly work out your BMR is to be very consistent with your diet / training for a few weeks and monitor your weight. This is the most useful thing i have done, as now i can just manipulate the numbers to lose what i want.
I agree on not losing any more than 1 - 2 pounds a week to maintain your lean body mass. If your training intensely you will want the extra calories to recover. Another thing i would recommend is having a weekly refeed day where you eat more calories than you burn. This is to trick your body so it does not get used to a consistent calorie deficit causing a "stall". You will obvioulsy have to factor in the calories taken in on this day so you still have enough weekly deficit to lose fat.
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We can and we do eat as much fat as we want and we still lose weight. But we can't eat as many total calories as when we eat carbs. We're just not hungry. Ever. Maybe it's because as we eat no/low carb, insulin level drops, fat is released from adipose tissue thereby adding to the total calories available.
A short quiz on how our body works.
If our body stores surplus calories when we eat too much, by what mechanism does our body determine how many calories to use and how many calories to store? What's the hormone or organ that does this selection and how does it do it?
If our body stores the surplus and uses the stored calories when in deficit, how can our body store a tiny surplus or use a tiny deficit over long periods when it also has the capacity to adjust to the varying caloric intake day after day?
Does our body react the same way toward carb calories, fat calories and protein calories?
Does our body use carb calories, fat calories and protein calories for the same purpose? Does it process them the same way?
When using calories for fuel, is the cost of using carb calories, fat calories and protein calories the same for all forms of fuel?
Do our cells use carbs (glucose,fructose, lactose, etc), fat (fatty acids) and protein (amino acids) directly when it uses it for fuel?
Do cells use glucose and fatty acids the same way?
How many ATP (adenosyne triphosphate) molecules does one molecule of glucose and one molecule of fatty acid yield?
Can carb calories, fat calories and protein calories produce the same insulin response?
Does carb calories, fat calories and protein calories satiate us the same?
Is our blood lipid profile the same when we eat a high carb or a high fat or a high protein diet?
Which macro-nutrient is blamed for diabetes? Which macro-nutrient should we not eat when we have dabetes?
Which macro-nutrient is blamed for Metabolic Syndrome? What happens to this condition when we stop eating that macro-nutrient?
Which macro-nutrient is required for cancer growth?
What is insulin resistance and what causes it? What happens to lean tissue when it becomes insulin resistant and how does that fit in with a carb up diet?