Re: OT: LeBron James Shows Off "No Carb" Weight Loss You can eat carbs, just eat oatmeal, green apples, berries, brown rice etc. The zone diet is a fantastic way to live your life
Re: OT: LeBron James Shows Off "No Carb" Weight Loss I found 16 carb buns. I'll have those once in a while after I'm done with the induction phase of the diet.
Re: OT: LeBron James Shows Off "No Carb" Weight Loss My diet is nothing like the zone diet. I've not had rice or bread or pasta or oatmeal or anything that has 25g+ of carbs on their own. The meat I eat is not low fat, either. The burgers I made tonight are from 70% lean hamburger meat.
Re: OT: LeBron James Shows Off "No Carb" Weight Loss So more like the Atkins? Whatever works for a person is great. I've always been skinny, but put on a little weight after tax seasons and it immediately shredded right off on the zone diet.
Re: OT: LeBron James Shows Off "No Carb" Weight Loss It is pretty possible to lose tons of weight super fast on NO carbs. I would eat six Wendy's junior bacon cheeseburgers with no buns or lettuce. I lost 50 lbs in a couple of months. Then I stopped doing that and gained 167 lbs over 10 years. Peak, 467. This week I was 336, no ***gy low carb diets. No stupid zone, paleo, blah blah blah, jenny craig bullshit. Portion control, a variety of different non processed foods and exercise. Low carb diets are just a bandaid that people who need to lose 40 lbs use. I still have 70 lbs or so to go so I have no room to bash others for their diets but common sense should rule the discussion.
Re: OT: LeBron James Shows Off "No Carb" Weight Loss Denny is going to put up 10 different graphs showing you that you're wrong.
Re: OT: LeBron James Shows Off "No Carb" Weight Loss I have to mention that watching what other fat people put in their carts at the grocery store is shameful. There was a Samoan chick in line in front of us, burgers, chimichangas , bacon, frozen pizza.......... fucking disgusting.
Re: OT: LeBron James Shows Off "No Carb" Weight Loss I am sure. My broken toilet seats beg to differ.
Re: OT: LeBron James Shows Off "No Carb" Weight Loss Bodyman you basically described the zone diet. Five to six small portion meals a day and nonproccessed foods. You basically have lots of protein, some complex carbs and some healthy fats like avocado, salmon, natural peanut butter, almonds etc.
Re: OT: LeBron James Shows Off "No Carb" Weight Loss Not Atkins. I learned about induction reading about it, though. I count net carbs as carbs minus fiber. Atkins also subtracts sugar alcohols. Most foods I see don't show the sugar alcohol amounts, so it's hard to really track what you eat. It's not paleo, either. It's just counting carbs, eating lots of veggies, and I'm taking a vitamin and fiber supplement as well. I'm quite sure I'm in ketosis. Induction is working. I'm also walking at least 4 miles most days. That helps a lot. I have no problem eating at restaurants either. Burger without bun, vegetables, and salad at the least. We ordered from pizza hut the other night and they have bone in garlic Parmesan wings that are 1g carb per 2 wings. When I'm done with induction, I'll increase my carb limit to 100 or so, and see how it goes.
Re: OT: LeBron James Shows Off "No Carb" Weight Loss Bodyman stopped doing his diet and gained weight. Sorry to hear that, but he quit on the diet that worked.
Re: OT: LeBron James Shows Off "No Carb" Weight Loss Could be, however....if you do a diet and then cheat you feel bad. I may gain a pound or two one week and lose 6 the next. I don't ever worry about it in the long run.
Re: OT: LeBron James Shows Off "No Carb" Weight Loss You said you stopped your diet and gained a lot of weight. Why did you stop or not adjust it?
Re: OT: LeBron James Shows Off "No Carb" Weight Loss Did I mention the part where I lost weight and felt worse? Because that is what will happen. You ride 11 miles, gain 900 feet of elevation while it is 104 degrees and see how you feel. Me ten years ago....stroke. Me at 40....easy mode.
Re: OT: LeBron James Shows Off "No Carb" Weight Loss You didn't say you felt bad, just that you stopped and gained 167 pounds. I don't know of any diet that recommends eating zero carbs, so yeah, use a little common sense and eat a more balanced diet than Wendy's burgers.
Re: OT: LeBron James Shows Off "No Carb" Weight Loss If you think you are going to count carbs/avoid them for the rest of your life you are fooling yourself. I played basketball for 3 hours a night and lifted weights when I was 25. I ate shit food. You can't do that forever. Let me tell you what happened when I started eating carbs after avoiding them for two months. When I would eat bread my face and scalp would turn instant red. I gained 30 lbs of water almost instantly because your body stores water to use to burn carbs. On Atkins, I lost that water first off and gained it back times 2 after. Anything you do to trick your body does just that. I should mention that my aunt had an an extremely rare type of stroke at the age of 54 while on Atkins. Does that prove anything? No, but it doesn't help.
Re: OT: LeBron James Shows Off "No Carb" Weight Loss I think you will find the term common sense in a post of mine a few posts back.
Re: OT: LeBron James Shows Off "No Carb" Weight Loss If you weighed 500 lbs and low carb was a last gasp, I could see it. To lose 40 - 50 lbs......seems stupid IMO.
Re: OT: LeBron James Shows Off "No Carb" Weight Loss I know people who are vegans and have been vegans for decades. Why do you think it's so hard to avoid mass quantities of carbs? I was already on a diet and lost any water weight long ago. I was just staying the same weight, not gaining or losing. I'm not missing foods with carbs. So far I've been able to find substitutes that make me happy enough. Atkins has four phases of diet. You were overdoing phase 1 (too much protein, not enough vegetables), at best. You never did phase 2 or 3 or 4. In phase 2, you add 5 grams of carbs to your diet each week. In phase 3, you add 10 grams of carbs to your diet at a time until you reach your desired weight and until you stop losing weight. In phase 4, you know how many carbs you can eat without gaining, so stick to it.
