(05-20-2012 05:12 PM)Smaug Wrote:  I've lost 24 lbs since the middle of February. I'm about 6 lbs from my BMI ideal weight, and may never get there, because I'm pretty close to what my body wants to be.

I'm on a 1600 calorie a day regimen. 400 each for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and 400 parsed out over snacks every couple of hours.

Doesn't seem to matter the quality of the calories, but that's what I'm currently working on.

Meanwhile, I'm running 3 miles every other day. I didn't expect to, but I enjoy running.

Try upping your protien and cutting a few carbs out if you want to try to ditch those last 6 pounds. I'm on a 1550 calorie a day limit and I've found that upping protien at the expense of carbs usually fills me up for quite some time. I usually come in around 1400 a day without any hunger at all.
I break mine up <350 breakfast, <250 around 11, <250 around 2 pm, and around 700 for dinner before 6:30. Carbs early, protien later in the day. I keep broiled chicken breasts around incase I need a snack in the evening, its only around 130 calories and very filling. I'm down 29 pounds since mid-March.

(05-20-2012 05:12 PM)Smaug Wrote:  I've lost 24 lbs since the middle of February. I'm about 6 lbs from my BMI ideal weight, and may never get there, because I'm pretty close to what my body wants to be.

I'm on a 1600 calorie a day regimen. 400 each for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and 400 parsed out over snacks every couple of hours.

Doesn't seem to matter the quality of the calories, but that's what I'm currently working on.

Meanwhile, I'm running 3 miles every other day. I didn't expect to, but I enjoy running.

you're going to need to increase your caloric intake if you want to keep losing weight. Unless you're extremely small, there's no way you can maintain an active lifestyle on 1600 calories

I'm about 5'8" and currently 160.

Thing is, I think I'm about ready to transition to maintenance, because I've lost pretty much all the weight I wanted to.

(05-20-2012 01:47 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(05-20-2012 01:10 PM)Jugnaut Wrote:  Tried this out and got to say it makes it really easy to lose a little weight. I'm already pretty fit, just want to lose a little bit of belly fat. This is definitely working and its working quick. Feel great. Only problem I've noticed is weight training at the gym seems to suffer a little.

No glucose for your muscles to burn. Hitting the wall when exercising is when your body has no more glucose left so it starts eating itself for fuel. The wall comes quick if you're in ketosis. That's why I wouldn't recommend long duration intense workouts like running to people on a low carb diet. I'd recommend low impact high duration or high impact low duration.

After the first few initial weeks, your body will adapt to it's ketogenic state and as long as you're eating enough fat, can supply all the glycogen stores needed (there are long distance Olympic athletes who have been in a perpetual state of ketosis).

That being said, if you're looking for gains in the weight room, a low carb diet isn't going to be your best option but that's not due to a lack of glucose in your muscles, it's due to a lack of insulin production and the anabolic effects that accompany that. Still, you can easily make gains while on a low carb diet and unless you're lifting competitively, you won't notice a huge difference. And health-wise, not spiking ones insulin often, if at all, is a major plus in the win column.

(05-21-2012 07:05 AM)UCF08 Wrote:  After the first few initial weeks, your body will adapt to it's ketogenic state and as long as you're eating enough fat, can supply all the glycogen stores needed (there are long distance Olympic athletes who have been in a perpetual state of ketosis).

I'm definitely not there yet. I'm floating between 25 and 100 on the ketostix ... and just going up a flight of stairs feels fatiguing to my legs.

(05-21-2012 07:43 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(05-21-2012 07:05 AM)UCF08 Wrote:  After the first few initial weeks, your body will adapt to it's ketogenic state and as long as you're eating enough fat, can supply all the glycogen stores needed (there are long distance Olympic athletes who have been in a perpetual state of ketosis).

I'm definitely not there yet. I'm floating between 25 and 100 on the ketostix ... and just going up a flight of stairs feels fatiguing to my legs.

How long have you been testing this high? Never read of it lasting more than 4 weeks at the most, and what you're describing is pretty intense IMO.

(05-21-2012 02:18 PM)UCF08 Wrote:  

(05-21-2012 07:43 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(05-21-2012 07:05 AM)UCF08 Wrote:  After the first few initial weeks, your body will adapt to it's ketogenic state and as long as you're eating enough fat, can supply all the glycogen stores needed (there are long distance Olympic athletes who have been in a perpetual state of ketosis).

I'm definitely not there yet. I'm floating between 25 and 100 on the ketostix ... and just going up a flight of stairs feels fatiguing to my legs.

How long have you been testing this high? Never read of it lasting more than 4 weeks at the most, and what you're describing is pretty intense IMO.

Went to 0 carb* Sunday before last. Starting turning trace Wed night. Been steady around 25-40 most of the time, but spiked near 100 after working out ... the workout was murder.

* probably like 20, all of it incidental like greens, dressing, splenda

Oh, then you should notice a difference fairly soon. It's weird when it happens but you'll know it.

Had Hardees 2/3ib Monster Thickburger last night. Including the buns. Then split 4 bottles of wine among 6 people to celebrate a former coworker escaping the insane asylum. That 40 or so carbs ... and the alcohol ... didn't even dent the ketosis ... was at 80 this morning.

.... and I still lost 1.2 ibs. Hahahahaha. AWESOME.

(05-22-2012 11:24 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  Had Hardees 2/3ib Monster Thickburger last night. Including the buns. Then split 4 bottles of wine among 6 people to celebrate a former coworker escaping the insane asylum. That 40 or so carbs ... and the alcohol ... didn't even dent the ketosis ... was at 80 this morning.

.... and I still lost 1.2 ibs. Hahahahaha. AWESOME.

Dude... so not right to talk about food like that. You have no idea how bad I would love 2 of those right now, or a bojangles 4 piece supreme dinner with picnic fry and large sweet tea. On a related note, I did manage to eat half of a pepperoni and sausage pizza last night. My first reward since March.

(05-20-2012 05:29 PM)flyingswoosh Wrote:  

(05-20-2012 05:12 PM)Smaug Wrote:  I've lost 24 lbs since the middle of February. I'm about 6 lbs from my BMI ideal weight, and may never get there, because I'm pretty close to what my body wants to be.

I'm on a 1600 calorie a day regimen. 400 each for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and 400 parsed out over snacks every couple of hours.

Doesn't seem to matter the quality of the calories, but that's what I'm currently working on.

Meanwhile, I'm running 3 miles every other day. I didn't expect to, but I enjoy running.

you're going to need to increase your caloric intake if you want to keep losing weight. Unless you're extremely small, there's no way you can maintain an active lifestyle on 1600 calories

I've hit my target weight as of this morning. Actually 0.2 lbs under my BMI ideal weight. Am going to start transitioning to maintenance. The chart says 2300 calories, but I'm going to ramp up to it, starting with roughly 200-250 more the first week.

(05-23-2012 10:34 AM)Smaug Wrote:  

(05-20-2012 05:29 PM)flyingswoosh Wrote:  

(05-20-2012 05:12 PM)Smaug Wrote:  I've lost 24 lbs since the middle of February. I'm about 6 lbs from my BMI ideal weight, and may never get there, because I'm pretty close to what my body wants to be.

I'm on a 1600 calorie a day regimen. 400 each for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and 400 parsed out over snacks every couple of hours.

Doesn't seem to matter the quality of the calories, but that's what I'm currently working on.

Meanwhile, I'm running 3 miles every other day. I didn't expect to, but I enjoy running.

you're going to need to increase your caloric intake if you want to keep losing weight. Unless you're extremely small, there's no way you can maintain an active lifestyle on 1600 calories

I've hit my target weight as of this morning. Actually 0.2 lbs under my BMI ideal weight. Am going to start transitioning to maintenance. The chart says 2300 calories, but I'm going to ramp up to it, starting with roughly 200-250 more the first week.

When I transitioned to maintaining, I gained two pounds within the first week. I have kept that same weight since. I have a feeling there is just more food matter in me than before.