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Originally Posted by EleqTrizi'T
1) Count your calories. It's THE ONLY WAY to understand why your diet sucks. Every fad diet that works does so because the food you intake basically boils down to lower calorie intake, including Atkins and South Beach. When you count your calories, you quickly discover that flour, sugar, and fructose foods are incredibly calorie dense and hardly satisfying. When you start counting your calories, you realize you can still be satisfied and full if you simply eat better.
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Not quite. If you go into keytosis, Atkins makes you worse at metabolising the food you eat. Keytosis is your body kicking into emergency starvation mode, which is one reason I'm leery of Atkins.
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Originally Posted by gh0ti
I've been stuck at ~250 for the last year or so. I guess I follow most of what you said above, minus the diet part. I like to eat. I love to eat. My body has definably changed over the last year of working out. I can tell the difference.
I guess what I figured out was that I shouldn’t judge my appearance solely on what the scale says. If I look in the mirror and see a difference and my clothing feels looser I'm happy.
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Waist size matters more to appearance and to health than weight. Body fat % is harder to get than waist size.
Get a belt. Watch the notches fall away. Get a new belt!