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I've lost (at least) 95 pounds as of today with low carb. Not Eat Less Move More. Not CICO. Not Energy Balance. None of that baloney.
Not starving myself. Not slaving away in the gym. I lost most of that, about eighty pounds, with zero exercise while being very sedentary. I remain very sedentary and only exercise for about 20 minutes a week. A week. Not hours a day. Not three or five or seven days a week.
When someone who knows nothing about you tells you something as stupid as 'people starve in concentration camps therefore CICO/energy_balance' you are interacting with a shallow thinking boob. When a 98% recidivism rate is dismissed as a character flaw you know that the person spouting that nonsense would be stymied by a wet paper sack.
LC isn't magic. It is biology. It is physiology. It is about returning your hormonal regulation, wrecked by the truly criminal low cal low fat high carb dogma of the mainstream, to normalcy.
I'm not saying that LC is effortless but compared to the mainstream's CICO ELMM WB, it is orders of magnitude easier and more effective *and* much, much, much, much, much healthier for you.
Understand this, if you keep failing because you are driven to eat despite your fervent desire to lose weight, LC will fix it. It fixed it for me and it can fix it for you. I'd still be a fat tub of lard if I hadn't found LC. According to the intellectually vapid mainstreamers I had a big character flaw and I was too stupid and lazy to ELMM when I was fat and a carb eater.
Their answer to the baffling conundrum of how I was fat because I was stupid and lazy but became skinny with carb restriction? Oh, see, I am still stupid. Actually, I became even more stupid. The only reason that restricting carbs worked, per these mental giants, is that I cut carb *calories* lol.
And! I was still lazy. I purposefully did not "Move More". Early on I found out about the disconnect between exercise and weight loss. Since plain English is not difficult for me, I refrained from exercise to prove the point that weight loss is not predicated on exercise. Further, most modern exercise regimens make it *harder* to lose weight not easier. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Exercise Mafia.
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170.3 lb
Lost so far: 68.7 lb.
Still to go: 0 lb.
Diet followed 100%.
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losing 9.1 lb a week
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Don't forget the other reason the CICO crowd give for losing weight on LC. You know it is just water weight. Lol! That's right 95 pounds of fluid. Ridiculous!
06 Dec 13 by member: Clueless101
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Wahoo! Congrats on an awesome 95 pound weight loss!
06 Dec 13 by member: Clueless101
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Yep.
The other version of that water weight thing: LC "works" because you lose a lot of water initially and the first week's success tricks you into continuing to succeed.
Isn't it odd that no matter what explanation is given by the Horde, the root of the success is the stupidity of the LC'r.
:p
06 Dec 13 by member: reddarin
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95 pounds is definitely not just water. Congratulations and I wish you continued success! Just remember the heart is a muscle. I tell people to exercise to tone, strengthen, repair and build their muscles. By natural design, muscle burns more calories so the better condition your muscles are in the more fat you can potentially take off. Muscles need food and finding the right balance to eat while exercising is a challenge that can lead to weight increase if you are not consuming enough at the right time. But if the goal is only to lose weight then everyone must address the frequency, quantity, and quality of your nutritional intake. So even the EXERCISE MAFIA (too cute) will agree with you, dieting is biology. Way to go!
06 Dec 13 by member: IamMadeline4
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Thanks :)
"Just remember the heart is a muscle."
*This* is something that the Exercise Mafia actually ignores. Just like any other muscle in the body, it is possible, even likely, to abuse this most important of all muscles by over doing exercise.
Somehow the exercise crowd never seems to acknowledge the fact that exercise can easily, and often does, become a zero sum game. Running all the time? Good bye knees. Lifting all the time? Good by joints and tendons. Doing silly crap like flipping tractor tires? Good bye back.
Injury, not just minor nuisance type stuff, from exercise is not uncommon but to hear the EM tell it, not only is there no risk but the risk only runs in one direction and that direction is from not doing exercise.
I'm not opposed to exercise - there are lots of potential health benefits to be gained. But if weight loss is your primary goal then exercise is not needed and it will almost certainly interfere, even strength training.
Most people make a very fundamental mistake when they decide they need to lose weight. They always think in terms of losing weight *and* getting in shape as though the two concepts are joined at the hip. The real problem with thinking like that is you increase your chance of failure by a bajillion percent (roughly) when you take on two distinct challenges and goals that often conflict with one another. If you need to lose weight and you'd like to get in shape, tackle weight loss first. When you get that process well established, then and only then, tackle getting in shape.
:)
06 Dec 13 by member: reddarin
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I hear you REDDARIN and I support your statements regardless if my fellow Mafia does. I always joked that I exercised so much because I love food - the smells, textures, presentations, and the taste!- before I ever dreamed of becoming a trainer, I was fit. And when I finally started to look the part of a well feed foodie, I was still more fit than the average Joe. Those muscle were just under a nice insulation of fat. :) If you and I could retrain the public to see weight lose and exercise as two distinct challenges we should win some sort of life achievement award. LOL. Gaining muscle mass in certain area of the body can make is harder to lose the fate in those area so YES there is benefit in getting rid of the fat first. One of my disclaimers is: I am not a nutritionist. Change the way you eat if you only want to lose fat.
06 Dec 13 by member: IamMadeline4
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FS doesn't have a thumbsup smiley or I'd give ya one :)
06 Dec 13 by member: reddarin
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Reminds me of the old saying "I'd rather see a sermon than hear one". Congratulations - you prove there is hope for us all!
06 Dec 13 by member: BuffyBear
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06 Dec 13 by member: reddarin
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