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[Speaker to Animals]

Soda free. Fast food free. But ... you know ... alcohol and cigars.


Gotta enjoy life while you’re here, right? All things in moderation (including moderation).

You'd actually be better off switching your vices with diet soda and eating an occasional fast food meal like once every two weeks.

[clubgop]

Fruit juice IS BAD for you.

After 8oz you might as well drink a soda.

[Okeefenokee]

I did the no carb diet again, this time with no alcohol either.

Lost twenty pounds in two weeks. Crazy. Went back on carbs today.

I might have been wrong thinking I had transitioned into old man metabolism.

[Speaker to Animals]

Two big issue here:

(1) If you cut carbs, you are going to lose a huge amount of water weight. Here I am talking about somewhere between five and ten lbs depending upon your overall mass if you are also in a sustained calorie deficit (which causes even more water loss).

(2) If you cut carbs, you are likely just on a calorie deficit as well. You can do that any way you please and lose weight.

(3) Lumping all carbs together is midguided. There are bad carbs that most Americans eat way too much of (bread, chips, tortillas, bagels, donuts, candy, sugary sodas..). There are good carbs you generally want to eat a lot of, especially vegetables.

If you don't believe me, weight yourself in the morning after you download to get a baseline weight without carbs. Then go back to your regular carb-eating diet, but try to eat at maintenance calories so you shouldn't add any more fat. In two days of that, repeat with another weigh-in after you download. You will be surprised by the result, because there is no way you could have gained 5+ lbs of fat in two days. You didn't. It's just water.

Carbs cause water retention, which doesn't make you look fat. Actually quite the opposite. They make your muscles look bigger.

Focus on eating good carbs like spinach, green beans, broccoli, peppers, carrots, onions..

[DBTrek]

Leto works for me. Went off on Thanksgiving and ate and drank with wild abandon until March. Packed on 16 pounds in the interim.

On Keto - lost 10 pounds in two weeks. The last six pounds are slower to go, but a small I enter week 5 I only have 2lbs to go.

Everyone has to find what works for them, but for me erasing 3.5 months of food and drink debauchery with 5 weeks of Keto is a no-brainer.

[Speaker to Animals]

Mostly water.

You did not likely gain that much weight in fat. Your body just retained more water when you left a caloric deficit and even more water when you began to consume sufficient carbs again.

You should go by direct measurements and appearance. If your abs start to fade away, then cut your calories a bit until they come back. Abs are a great indicator of your fat levels, since having a visible six pack means you are at worst around 12-14% body fat, which actually is ideal. If they start to go away, then you are gaining far. This doesn't work for women as well, since they tend to put fat on their ass first.

[C-Mag]

Leto works for me. Went off on Thanksgiving and ate and drank with wild abandon until March. Packed on 16 pounds in the interim.

On Keto - lost 10 pounds in two weeks. The last six pounds are slower to go, but a small I enter week 5 I only have 2lbs to go.

Everyone has to find what works for them, but for me erasing 3.5 months of food and drink debauchery with 5 weeks of Keto is a no-brainer.

Somehow we have the same fitness planner.

[TheReal_ND]

Anyone into warhammer 40k? I've been listening to a podcast about it and it sounds absolutely fascinating. The lore is. I don't know how to go about playing it but I kind of want to paint some little plastic space marines now.

[Haumana]

I kind of want to paint some little plastic space marines now.

Go lead but make sure you wash your hands.

[Hastur]

I kind of want to paint some little plastic space marines now.

Go lead but make sure you wash your hands.

Lead in miniatures has been banned since 1993. They use lead-free pewter now. You can lick them if you want to.