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Originally posted by GatorB
You guys makes this all a lot more complicated than it needs to be. It's comes down to CALORIES. If you eat more calories than you take in you will gain weight. I don't care WHAT kind of calories they are. If you burn more calories than you take in you'll LOSE weight. Now you don't want to starve yourself, that will screw your metabolism up. The problem is people want everything NOW. They want to lose that 20 pounds NOW. It took YEARS to gain it, but god damn it, it has to come off NOW. everything in moderation.
All this talk about only 20 carbs a day is INSANE. ONE slice of bread has more than 20 carbs. Even if your carb intake was less than 10% of daily calories that still be 50 grams of carbs a day(based on 2000 calories a day). Then what's the other 90% made of? FAT? well not more than 30% should be that. So you're going to eat 70% PROTEIN? That's 350 grams of protien a day. Even body builders don't need that much protien.
3 pounds a week is a reasonable amount of weight to lose for a man unless you're morbidly obese, then you should be seeing a doctor or checking into a cemetary plot.
Also no matter which diet people sue the most successful dieters also were the one's that EXERCISED also. Also some weight lifting wouln't hurt since it's a known fact that for every 1 pound of muscle you put on your body you burn and extra 30 calories. Doesn't sound like much, but added up over time it is.
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calories from protein don't store as fat. the important thing with protein is a steady stream of protein throughout the day. so your body doesn't use muscle for energy.