GotchaThese days if I'm active. Say I go backpacking, on a 5 mile hike, etc. I eat an extra few thousand calories. Intense mental activity can also increase demand.
If I'm sedentary, I eat less.
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GotchaThese days if I'm active. Say I go backpacking, on a 5 mile hike, etc. I eat an extra few thousand calories. Intense mental activity can also increase demand.
If I'm sedentary, I eat less.
I can relate to the soft centre and skinny arms and legs with high carb low fat. Maybe increasing protein would help with this?
Also, what other differences besides composition do you notice? I'm guessing it is high fat and high protein you are running at the moment with your diet
What has helped you the most and what is the best way to reach 10 %?
Would one advised to use fat-free milk instead of 1% milk? Or am I losing a lot of nutrients by doing that switch? I am trying to lose 10 poundsBy weight loss I take it you mean fat loss. A high metabolism leads to muscle gain and bone density increases, which add weight.
For a while I had more fat than ever but now I'm at typical leanness. The periods I had the most fat I was still eating lots of fat, total calories above 4000, and I was stuck in glycolysis with high cortisol and adrenaline.
Starch-free Peat-suggested diet alone was insufficient to correct these within a year, though diet allowed me to quickly improve with immediate results from:
Pregnenolone and red light lowered cortisol
B1, Diamox, Naltrexone inhibited glycolysis
Tetracycline and Penicillin lowered adrenaline. Clonidine helped diagnose.
And switching to skim milk allows me to cut fat pretty much whever I want. I still eat queso fresco, chocolate or some other fat with skim to slow absorption of its sugar and protein
Daily calorie consumption is still 4000-6000 but I've shifted to more sugar less fat as my metabolism repaired
How many grams of fat made you catabolic? I did a cut once with 200g protein, 200g carbs (as starch) and 45g of fat and I got fairly lean (prob around 10% bf. Could have gotten leaner if I continued longer). I think I retained my muscle pretty well (indicated by not losing strength in the gym).For me; Very low fat drops weight fast, but I am very catablolic, and the weight seems to come off in the wrong places. I get lean but skinny arms, shoulders, and legs but stay soft in the middle. Plus I need to eat constantly.
Low carb with enough to stay out of ketosis, and limit gluconeogenesis, drops fat from my middle and face, and makes my chest/arms/shoulders/legs more heavily muscled. Plus it's easier to run in a caloric deficit without feeling like I am.
I do think my protein intake is fairly constant with both approaches. But I do enjoy my protein more when it comes with fat. I can't do skim milk or lean meats for very long.
What are your thoughts on meat? Specifically, the amount of meat to eat, and when not to eat it?1) No starch at all. Crucial some peat reader's advocate starch. I would not consume it at all. I can tell very quickly the way it changes body comp through endotoxin,stress, and water weight. Even gelatinized pressure cooker potatoes and white rice are a now go. Trust me. But test it yourself
if loosing weight/fat on a peat diet or any other diet is a mystery i suggest you start reading some basic nutrition knowledge first and educate yourself on calories and general thermodynamics.
That's not true. The bigger the deficit, the more muscle you lose and the less fat you lose plus the faster your metabolism slows down. Multiple studies confirm this.Lots of anecdotal results and studies out there that fasting is better for muscle preservation and thyroid / metabolism than caloric deficit