Weight / Fat loss

I've done low carb diets in the past, but I'm not convinced you that you lose more fat (cos you want to keep your muscle normally) perse.

BUT your blood sugar can be more stable on them, I definitely got that effect in the past where my blood sugar was wildly unstable due to eating any carbs (this has now settled).

They seem to work better for people that are already on the way to diabetes and that need to lose fat, and I found my skin improved on them too.

But I think that is due to cutting milk (I only eat skyr/fage now and have tiny bits of milk) and bread/pasta (which I should not eat too often)

Never trust a fart if you put coconut oil in your coffee.

Coffee mugs made of bacon. I see a kickstarter...

Listen to Hippy for all diet advise.
Quite enjoying my extra 700 calories a day of alcohol & dairy free chocolate

Try it though. Coconut oil 'makes' a great coffee

I've tried almost every other variant of coffee I've seen so I probably will.

I'm never calling a coffee 'breakfast' though.

#breakfast

Last weekend I drank 0 beer, rum and fanta fruit twist zero instead. The week has been good! Graph dropping progressively.

However:
Chip shop last night
All you can eat pizza for lunch today
Wagamamas tonight
BBQ tomorrow

Birthday weekend - getting lean can do one for a couple (four) days

I won't drink anything with aspartame in. That stuff is dangerous

I won't drink anything with aspartame in. That stuff is dangerous

It's one of the most studied artificial sweeteners around. Evidence of harm?

"The studies provide no evidence to support an association between aspartame and cancer in any tissue. The weight of existing evidence is that aspartame is safe at current levels of consumption as a nonnutritive sweetener."
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/aspartame-truth-vs-fiction/

While I was at uni one of our lecturers was telling us that the sugar industry had to get someone on the board making the decision on aspartame, just to give it the go ahead. Which I imagine happens a fair amount.

Not concrete evidence I know, but enough to make me never want to drink it. I'll stick to good old fashioned diabetes inducing glucose.

Steven Novella from Yale - sponsored by coke, dunkin donuts etc etc

I'm not sure how that makes any difference. The chemical is either harmful or not. Since there's been loads of studies worldwide and no evidence of harm, I'll continue to not worry about it.

Coke, who use sugar and aspartame?

Where is his 'sponsorship' noted?

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/coca-cola-science/

And that website was just a convenient summary. Feel free to dig into the actual studies quoted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Novella

Novella is a proponent of scientific skepticism, which he defines as:
one who prefers beliefs and conclusions that are reliable and valid to ones that are comforting or convenient, and therefore rigorously and openly applies the methods of science and reason to all empirical claims, especially their own. A skeptic provisionally proportions acceptance of any claim to valid logic and a fair and thorough assessment of available evidence, and studies the pitfalls of human reason and the mechanisms of deception so as to avoid being deceived by others or themselves. Skepticism values method over any particular conclusion.

89.4... on a Monday.

It was the AF beer that did it!

You say that but I was only drinking the alk-free AFTER being at the pub with mates on Sat.

And this was last night:

What's hiding under that foil? C'mon don't leave us hanging...

A big fookin' kebab, obviously!

Well things seem to be going in the right direction. Now around 88kg and I’ve stopped the mostly daily drinking, just looking through mfp and I was borderline 80kg in 2002 😞

89 still. Probably just slightly warmer weather maintaining higher level of dehydration...

So I’m done on the cut phase.
64.5kg. 8.5%BF (Caliper).
Now we shift to maintenance.
170g carb, 50g fat, 200g protein. For 1930cal BMR.
So happy.

Good luck and congratulations!

Birthday weekend seems to have not been catastrophic so not unhappy here.

Fantastic! Very low body fat too, how long did it take you to achieve that?

16 weeks. Total weight loss 7kg, BF 15% ish at start.
It was fucking hard work.
The next 6weeks of maintenance will be interesting.
Already seeing changes in strength which are nice.