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Originally Posted by Plan9
I'm obviously not a dietitian (hell, I'm not even close to intelligent); my occupation involves picking out meals from a prison food menu. I'm still totally baffled by how someone can eat the equiv of the grease trap at Waffle House for a month with some spinach leaves on the side and lose weight. Apparently I've got a lot to learn. I've been eating sensible USDA-recommended meals my whole life and my weight hasn't fluctuated more than 5 pounds aside from the starvation diet I was on in the military for a month.
Something tells me that without weight training and running, you'll plateau quickly when your body adjusts to the natural fat bombs you're consuming X times a day.
I wonder what a diet like this would do to me. Probably make me look like your "Before" picture.
If you drop to 200 on this diet, I'm going to start eating bacon sandwiches 3 times a day.
Great thread. Keep us updated.
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By forcing yourself into a very dangerous state of ketosis. It's the sort of starvation mode that would occur if you were alone in the desert for a few days. Only extended over months. I'm with everyone else - grats on getting to where you are, now switch to a healthy balanced diet and maintain it.
Me? I just dropped 8 lbs by cutting out high fructose corn syrup. Blood sugar is an incredible thing, and carefully considering food to keep it healthy causes dramatic weight loss. "Keto diets", as tele used, just force an extreme state of gylogen-deprived blood sugar starvation - it quite literally has to convert fat to energy to avoid simply dying or going into organ failure.
Aside from kidney failure and body density issues inherent in ketosis - there is compelling research demonstrating animal-heavy diets (particularly those that emphasis meats and dairy containing high levels of the protein casein) more than triple your likelihood of liver cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, and other hormone-linked cancers.
To be fair, though, overweight and obese people have elevated risks for a number of ailments, from T2 Diabetes and CHD to cardiovascular disease.