The more I read your posts, the more I think you are my intellectual doppelganger.
If BRUTE is so willing, can you provide the studies that allowed you to gain the above in-site?
The more I read your posts, the more I think you are my intellectual doppelganger.
Yes.classical_Liberal wrote: ↑Fri Jun 29, 2018 6:17 pm@kreigspiel
Obviously change in body composition will impact resting calorie consumption, hence BMR. However, it has been shown that BMR changes occur independent of composition changes. IOW, body will run "hot" with sufficient calories and will run "cool" with insufficient caloric intake.
sleep affects insulin and cortisol, so it's not an either-or. brute's point was that diet and exercise are overrated in body composition, not insulin/hormones.classical_Liberal wrote: ↑Fri Jun 29, 2018 6:17 pmAgree that other factors impact hormonal balance. However, the cause-effect relationship to metabolic syndrome seems less proven wrt sleep and stress than insulin spikes. Hormonal research is rather expensive, without backing of the pharmaceutical industry correlation may be the best we get in the near future.
the current stint is brute's 3rd or 4th run on very low carb/keto. there were almost no cravings this time. brute is unsure if this is because he had prior experience with keto, or because the benefits were just so great this time.
brute drinks coffee with cream in the morning and throughout the day. on the weekends, he mostly only eats some cheese for lunch, and a big dinner. sometimes he forgets to eat until 4pm or so. if social events happen, brute will often eat at them. it's not really a strict schedule.
brute has not checked. they were fine before. brute assumes they are fine now.
too high. brute was quite happy with his body fat levels after a long time of not working and doing nothing. since starting work again, brute has gained a lot of body fat :-/ diet and exercise unchanged. this proves to brute that keto is very good for fat loss in the right circumstances, but it's not magic. if stress/sleep mess up brute's hormones, it doesn't matter how strict the diet is or how much he exercises.
all the time. with ribeye steak. seriously though, no. all the most delicious foods are high fat. plus the benefits are just too good to even think about it. brute has fallen out of ketosis maybe 3 times in the last 2 years, usually because of hidden sugars.
brute doesn't like the term WOE. what's wrong with diet? word twisting.
it is much easier not to eat. but not eating requires energy to come from body fat reserves. if hormonal conditions are not right, there is not enough lipolysis going on to supply a sufficient amount of energy to sustain fasting.
so much effort. tbh, brute has intended to get his blood checked forever. he just never got around to doing it. any day now.
see 1. brute has tried this - it does not work in current work circumstances. brute plans to FIRE and then lose the fat again. maybe a different job would be more suited, so if brute switches jobs before FIREing, he'll try again.
brute forgot where he originally found it. if banker22 will search for it, there are thousands of articles. afabk, it is currently the best (blood lipid based) predictor of heart disease.
brute has lost weight on a >4,000kcal/day diet. brute has failed to lose weight over 1 month of ~800kcal per day (mostly carbs).banker22 wrote: ↑Fri Jul 06, 2018 1:40 am- reading through this old post, it seems you were staunchly against the CICO model (which has never really been disproven), mainly because you lost weight on a lot of calories. Now you are gaining weight on a lot of calories, you don't admit that maybe CICO is true, rather there must be some other factor at play. Can you talk us through the thought process and show us it's not just cognitive dissonance at play (which we are all guilty of!)
I think C40 said it best in a different thread.
C40 wrote: ↑Sun Jun 10, 2018 10:14 pm
I had visible abs most of the time ever since I started learning about nutrition around 20 years old. I was the leanest in my life while working, at age 30 - maybe as low as 5% bodyfat.
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If you think you are fat because you're working, you're doing some really lame mental gymnastics to pretend that you're not actively deciding to eat poorly. Just be honest with yourself.
*shrug*
Not true in what way?
Mostly meat and vegetables. (mostly chicken... no root/tuber veggies). Plus some fats from things like butter, olive oil, sardines, avocados. I weigh myself about each day in the morning, and if I'm not losing 2-3lbs per week, adjust food quantity and/or proportions. (If losing too quickly, eat more total and higher portion of meat/fat.. and if losing too slowly, the other way)