i went from about 25%+ bf to around 12% in about 40 days doing very low carb and high fat 65/30/5 with minimal exercise and wasn't starving myself in the least. Obviously exercise speeds things up as well.

you need fats every day, not once every few days. Like i said, nuts and seeds are fine for in betweens, don't have to do it with cheese and bacon.

Glen,
Could you post your diet during that weight loss. What you ate for breakfast, lunch, dinner etc. I am looking to do a quick cut too.

Cheers

In June 2012 I was 240 lb at 5 feet 11 inches. I started such a diet:
Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs, 1 piece of rye bread with liver spread, 6 green olives, 1 cup of green tea.
Dinner: 1 tomato + 1 cucumber salad and 1 piece of rye bread.
I also drank as much water as possible. That's it. :))
OK, I also used walking - about 10 miles per day. So in September 2012 I was 160 lb and felt fine.
Now after two years and a half I'm still about 170 lb and still feel fine. So I think everything is up to one's will. :))

Does that include going out? My thought was that since I am restricting myself to these specifics, I am saving on going out. I almost never cook so I am surprised that people can live on less. Are carbs cheap? Do you eat the same thing all week long?

Example: I love to order Jimmy Johns sandwich and chips. $11 after tip. Add a cookie and 66% of my daily budget would be gone, and I have drink water with it.

Not sure how you guys can do it. A bottle of wine is $10 at least where i live. Friends come over, we have wine and then go out to dinner and I have spent $50-100.

cocaine keeps you thin:-)

Did you blend a few diet ideas together or is there one plan that you sort of followed. I am up for a change on some of this as it gets monotonous.

You refer $22/day as a cheap? By yourself, or is that some four member family? In the latter case I would say "cheapish", in the first case not so much.

What are you eating?


EDIT: Nevermind, it is already answered.

the war on fat needs to end. I've been doing pretty much the same thing you are. Good fats and less carbs have been great for getting leaner. I use ketostix to check my ketone levels and I've pretty much figure out how to get into ketosis at will. For those who don't know what ketosis is(I'm sure Glen knows), it's when your system is using bodyfat as an energy source instead of carbs. Basically people need to change their systems from being a sugar burner to being a fat burner. It takes a while, but doing high(good) fats lower carb will make it happen.

Dropping calories without focusing on macro balance will cause you to drop muscle weight. Having less muscle means slower metabolic rate 24/7. It's lose-lose all the way.

Things like Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig have trained people to think that eating fat makes them fat. Then they sell all of this low fat crap, and add addictive sugar so they can keep selling their garbage-ass food products.

You get Jimmy John's, chips, and a cookie, and now want to crash diet?

You are going to need to change your habits across the board. :-)

Learn to cook. You'll save even more money, you'll eat much better, you'll eat much healthier, and what lady doesn't like a guy that cooks?

Wrote it down, will try it, thanks :thumbsup

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Reminded me of that saying:

"Refraining from junk, fatty, sweet and salty food will make your face look thinner, but sadder."

mmm dat low carb high fat goodness... Down 70 pounds in 10 months. Plus never hungry, and $22/day haha? Only if I go to whole foods.

What has happened is I did this diet a few years ago. I lost weight but over time it came back. Repeat.

Then I thought well lets not go through this. Make some changes and focus. Pretty much have kept a constant weight. Then changed ladies in my life, going out, traveling, living it up. Well the small changes quickly were forgotten, and I got out of hand.

So I was running 190-200 lbs as a long term weight (205 caused the concern). Now with working out etc, I thought maybe a 185-190 range with a better physique is doable. So crashing down to that weight and then add back in the small changes to keep it there.

And crashing is maybe a misnomer as I have/had 60 days to drop the 15 lbs. A bit quick but not crazy.

I cut out the Mt Dew and that has helped over the years but added in vodka/redbull so not so good there. hahahah

I don't want to reinvent the wheel or learn too much about this. yes I am lazy. Any book, author, plan etc you can share?

To add some extra fat to your diet, drink bulletproof coffee. It's just your coffee with a tablespoon of grass fed unsalted butter and some coconut oil, which has MCT's(medium chain triglycerides). Eating less carbs is easy. Just avoid sugar and bread.

It's called the Ketogenic diet.

Ketogenic diet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Doing that, loving it :thumbsup

A bit extreme for me. Would be cool to try it for a month and rip down the fat.

Edit: Other applications is a pretty cool read.

Extreme it is not. You can do keto without being extreme. Just up your g of carb intake. Just be conscious of what you eat.

losing weight by starving your body isnt clever move. excising is the right wait for it

Not starving. I can eat as much as I want. I am just taking out carbs for the most part. Also continuing to exercise everyday.

"Because of the risk of complications during ketogenic diet initiation, most centres begin the diet under close medical supervision in hospital."

Edit: I do feel like I am starving so maybe. And today was beef so higher fat for lunch.

I don't understand all this love for the chicken breast. It's the driest, most flavourless cut. Give me a skin-on, bone-in thigh anyday!

no, low carb isn't less than 20 carbs a day.

look up the difference between low carb and no carb diets

congrats on your 15 kilo loss, i lost 40 pounds on a true no carb/ketogenic diet with exercise and cut my bodyfat down to under 7% at 47 years old.

under 20g of carbs, ESPECIALLY when those carbs are brocolli/vegetables, is a zero carb diet.

:)

i cant wait to be old, i will find all the best informations here on gfy :)

You have to admit, you can get some good ideas quickly. But "good" is relative.

uraghhhhhhh, not tasty, is it?

Update: down 16 lbs and maintained it through the holidays. I still avoid carbs but not fanatically. It has pretty much been easy and painless for the most part.

If you feel like you're starving yourself then your losing the wrong kind of weight....muscle. Eat at (or a little below) your maintenance level and focus on building muscle. The fat will take care of itself.

When you lose weight on a severe calorie restriction, you're training your system to be a fat storage depot. Put on muscle and you'll be a fat burning machine.