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Originally Posted by kingpole  I hate to be the bad giuy but you may be restricting your calories to much. unless your under 4'9" a 1000 calories is quite adequate for losing weight. The diet concept you have is great with lots of protein and water. I would add in some healthy fats as well and just a few carbs. Get those calories up to 1600 per day. What will happen if you don't is the weight you will lose will mostly be muscle. you will have sagging skin when you are done. And your set point will be so low that you will likely gain the weight back pronto. Also are you doing any kind of exercise? |
hey kingpole
Thanks for the concern but I think I'll be just fine. Since its more of an intense diet I actually go to the doctors once a week on this and I've been doing just fine. The protein is more to ensure that I don't lose muscle and lose fat. The point of the 1,000 calories a day is to enduce a more controlled based ketosis. By my body not taking in an glucose/sugar at all, it automatically begins to break down the stored fat I have in my body to feed my brain the glucose since the brain only consumes glucose. This is why I am losing the weight I have lost because its actual fat burn to feed the body the sugar it needs rather then me intaking any. I do have cheese and such. I pretty much eat chicken, sirloin steaks, sea food and cheeseburgers. I just would buy the meat, make the cheeseburgers, make 'em and just not have it with the bun. Same for the other things. And the doctor gives me a multi-vitamin shot once a week so that I'm not depriving myself of the nutrients that I may also need. Hence why its more of a controlled ketosis.
Also, if you do any research on ketosis, you'll read that I won't gain the weight back on pronto. One of the biggest reasons people continue to gain weight is there body switches from getting energy from stored fat and begins to take it only from foods being intaken, most of the time from over eating. Then the rest just gets stored if not used rather than the majority processed and disposed of. I am doing this to help switch around that process to both intaken foods and stored fat so that the weight doesn't just plump back on.
As for excersise, I do tons. That was the biggest thing, I do cardio, I do and teach Shaolin Kung fu and T'ai Chi yet I was unable to get myself below 280. I wasn't eating much and at one point even became a vegetarian for a year and my body seemed to just stop at that point. I was even doing modern dance and small amounts of jazz and hip hop. I just wasn't budging. So thats why I turned my diet more into a high protein and water based diet, the multi vitamin shot and continuing with my excersise and the weight seems to be just melting right off a lot easier.
I think most people refer to this diet as a "B-12" diet though I'm not taking any B-12. I just take a multi-vitamin shot and I just last week began taking a MIC shot so that the fat is broken up and easier to burn with my cardio. Since then I seem to be doing a good 5lbs a week.
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On a more bio-chemistry based undestanding. Two strands of glucose together make the sugar we eat. Three is start and of course five is diabetes. The goal is to take the two strands together (stored fat) and just have my body break that down to the one strand of glucose to feed the brain. Controlled ketosis.
I really do appreciate the concern though
