Low Carb - High Fat diet

[MyUserName]

The 1980's called they want their weight loss advice back.

When you exercise you build and appetite and then eat more than you would have if you hadn't. Food nowadays is calorie dense so you need to exercise for hours just to burn off a small meal. Also a high carb diet increases your appetite and makes it more difficult to cut calories, so the old "cut your calories and exercise" advice is naive and shows a lack of understanding based on current scientific research.

I am pretty happy that this is a sound principle for most of the people most of the time, I lost 2 stone using it and others have done similar and much more.

Saying you need to exercise for hours to burn off a small meal is meaningless. What exercises done by whom at what intensity after eating what (how small was the meal? What was in it? What else had they eaten recently? ) when they were in what physical condition to being with?

You are over complicating it. Eat a healthier diet (reduce calories, cut down processed food and sugary snacks/drinks) and exercise more. If you do that for 3 months and see no difference then look at things again.

[russell]

Nonsense. If it takes you hours to burn off a small meal you're not working hard enough. You can burn over 1000 calories per hour if you're prepared to sweat and feel pain.

True, but most people don't do that level of intensity and certainly not everyday, if they did also they would likely eat a bigger meal than normally after it negating the calories burned.
If you ate 3 slices of pizza it would take 2 hours to burn it at normal intensity exercise. Why not just not eat the pizza.

[Mich the Tester]

If you want to build large muscles then yes high protein diet vs fat is better, otherwise your body doesn't need that much protein to maintain and slowly grow muscles.
GI personally would go for a 75-80% fat and 15-20% protein with a tiny amount of carbs from veg now and again. I can eat a meal at 10am and not feel hungry till 7pm with this split.

Your body needs approximately 1 gram of protein per kilo of body mass. Do any exercise and it needs a little bit more, not to build more muscle mass but to rebuild existing muscle mass after exercising it. But it also needs various other nutrients found alongside proteins in meat, fish, pulses, mushrooms and so on; minerals, vitamins and the like. Plus, if yu build just little more muscle mass then you will burn more calories just to keep it fuelled during the day and you will be able to store a bit more glycogen (although most is stored in your liver). You'll also burn off more fat. Adding 3 or 4 kilos of muscle mass to your whole body will not make you look like Arnie, but it will let you eat a couple of hundred extra calories a day without getting fat.

[Mich the Tester]

True, but most people don't do that level of intensity and certainly not everyday, if they did also they would likely eat a bigger meal than normally after it negating the calories burned.
If you ate 3 slices of pizza it would take 2 hours to burn it at normal intensity exercise. Why not just not eat the pizza.

You can burn 500 calories per hour with fairly moderate exercise. 1000+ is what proper fit people do.

[russell]

I am pretty happy that this is a sound principle for most of the people most of the time, I lost 2 stone using it and others have done similar and much more.

Saying you need to exercise for hours to burn off a small meal is meaningless. What exercises done by whom at what intensity after eating what (how small was the meal? What was in it? What else had they eaten recently? ) when they were in what physical condition to being with?

You are over complicating it. Eat a healthier diet (reduce calories, cut down processed food and sugary snacks/drinks) and exercise more. If you do that for 3 months and see no difference then look at things again.

This is why you lost weight, you cut sugar and carbs.

[Mich the Tester]

This is why you lost weight, you cut sugar and carbs.

No, he cut his calorie intake.

[russell]

Your body needs approximately 1 gram of protein per kilo of body mass. Do any exercise and it needs a little bit more, not to build more muscle mass but to rebuild existing muscle mass after exercising it. But it also needs various other nutrients found alongside proteins in meat, fish, pulses, mushrooms and so on; minerals, vitamins and the like. Plus, if yu build just little more muscle mass then you will burn more calories just to keep it fuelled during the day and you will be able to store a bit more glycogen (although most is stored in your liver). You'll also burn off more fat. Adding 3 or 4 kilos of muscle mass to your whole body will not make you look like Arnie, but it will let you eat a couple of hundred extra calories a day without getting fat.

Some say its more like 1g per kilo minus 10%. So I would need around 85g to maintain.

3 eggs and a couple of chicken breasts or a steak/burger should be enough, that around 85g of protein, add more if you want to build.

[d000hg]

I constantly kid myself that if I can keep my BMI at 24.9, then that's OK.

I'm nearly there!

[russell]

How much dietary fibre? All from veg?

Yes, haven't tulip for a while.

[Mich the Tester]

Yes, haven't tulip for a while.

So you're full of tulip.