Bcoulal's Journal, 25 March 2016

and still losing?? I've been very concerned about my calorie intake lately but I've simply been hungry. still been 1500 and below ...  

Yeah, still losing weight, but weight isn't the target goal here. My target goal is 5% bodyfat by September of this year regardless of weight. 

when I say weight I really mean fat loss. at 160 I was in great shape and had muscle even if the charts say I was over weight. ... right now it's easier for me to think in pounds than percentage. when I lose more weight Ill probably switch to being concerned with body fat%. but that's insane that you are losing fat while taking in that amount of calories.  

Good job!Keep going!I am same as you are try to keep in this style of eating!I also doing 18/6 hours IF the same time and keeping my weight training stronger ever. 

I don't eat 3,000+ calories every day. I always keep my body guessing by consuming different amounts of food while keeping the macros the same, to me that's more important than calorie counting. Once in a while I'll bump the calories from 3,000 to 5,000 calories to make my body rejoice on ketone production. Other than that, I'll eat normally eat once a day (24hr intermittent fasting) and average 2,000 calories a day. 

8hunter6, weight loss is part of fatloss since bodyfat is 14% water, but weight loss alone doesn't determine final bodyfat composition. So in essence, weight loss only accounts for 14% of your total bodyfat, but if you subtract intramuscular fluids, that's accounts for 4% of fat loss. You really should use bodyfat calipers, they're cheaper than scales and more accurate. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. When I started in January 1st, my bodyfat was 25%, then it went down to 18.5% in February, then now it's 14.5%. I hope it hits 10% by July so I can concentrate on getting rid of the last 5% by September. Keep in mind, my weight loss has slowed down, but my bodyfat % loss is accelerating. That's Ketosis doing its job. In order to have 5% bodyfat, you'd literally have to have 2-3mm skin folds on 75% of your body (legs, triceps, and chest) and the last part, which is slowest part to lose bodyfat, at least for men, is the abdominal area (right around the belly button), and the skinfold in that can be larger (10-15mm). My thighs have 2-3mm skin folds, no problem losing fat there, then my triceps are similar around 3-5mm, then my chest isn't far behind with 5-10mm, then the largest fat area is the navel area with around 20mm of skinfold. 

5000??? holy hell! lol what do you eat? a whole farm ? who am I kidding... before I'm sure I could down a few pizzas and blow that out of that water lol!! .... you sir, are an interesting person to follow! you definitely are making this seem easier than I had it built up in my head. and that's great because I was starting to feel very pressured before I started talking to you... I was afraid I was gonna crack. so thank you 

ok... so my husband is a robot programmer in the aerospace feild and he has a caliper for measuring stuff at work.... think I could use that dealie to do it?? or do I have to buy another?? it kinda looks like a weird adjustable wrench ha ha ha  

Yeah, I'd stick with buying a reliable and cheap one from a fitness store or amazon.com. The basic ones are only $10 and comes with a chart for men and women, but if you wanna go fancy, they could cost anywhere up to $50. I have the plastic $10 caliper, best investment I've ever made. 

Amen! I'm keeping my carbs around 23-25% but you're right. Every time I use something as a sweetener, it reactivates my sweet tooth  

The ironic thing is I have not yet set foot inside a gym. I've been procrastinating, lol. What do I hate worse than calorie counting? Exercise. I'm all about efficiency, work smart, not hard. I'd say about around April-ish I'll start doing some light walking on the treadmill to accelerate the fat burning even faster. Just be careful and know the difference between aerobic and anaerobic exercise. Only one of these two consume fat as fuel. Low intensity eats fat, high intensity eats glycogen. If you're doing HIIT and are on the keto diet, you're going to burn muscle because you're supposed to be in protein and glycogen sparing mode, but since you're using fast twitch muscles that uses glycogen, you're going to use those preserved glycogen stores and eventually your body will start eating its own muscles because of the higher demand for glycogen. Low intensity doesn't eat glycogen. Sprinting is for carb eaters, long distance slow paced jogs are for fat eaters. 

I find whatever works for any individual is great. I had tried different ideas over the years an found only one thing works for me - calories in and calories out. Even when I average your chart it comes out to your average daily calorie intake is about 1920 calories a day. If I stay around that amount I tend to keep maintain - if I go to 1800 I tend to lose, and above 2500 I gain. For me it is as simple as that. But I congratulate you for something you can be excited about and something that motivates you.  

There's a problem with the "calories in and calories out" theory, it's a nutrition and human biochemistry fallacy. The human body is more than just a passive container that accepts energy in the form of calories, it's an advanced biological machine that selectively chooses which calories are turned into fat, which are turned into muscle, and which are used as energy. Putting calories into every cell of the body isn't as easy as pouring water into a bucket, these calories have to go through a panel of hormones and pass the entrance acceptance of the body's immune system before it's absorbed into the body. I understand that you mean well, but you can eat 3,000 calories in only meat a day and not gain an ounce of bodyfat. As a matter of fact, you can look at this study where two scientists, Stefansson and Andersen, ate nothing but meat for 1 whole year to mimic the diet of the Inuit. Stefansson and Andersen make paleo dieters look like vegans. The results were unexpected, they lost weight, their hair got thicker, they no longer had teeth problems (because they aren't eating bacteria feeding carbs), and they were overall healthier. Here's the link to the study: "Eskimos Prove An All Meat Diet Provides Excellent Health Part"~www.mendosa.com/stefansson1.htm, Even before Dr. Stefansson wrote these articles, the Journal of Biological Chemistry reported on the experiments performed on him and a colleague at New York's Bellevue Hospital in this article, "Prolonged Meat Diets with a Study of Kidney Function and Ketosis" by Walter S. McClellan and Eugene F. Du Bois (J. Biol. Chem. 87: 651-668, July 1930). 

The rate at which the human body assimilates energy is more selective (via hormones) than the way the human body expends energy, which is one reason why the over-generalized calories-in and calories-out motto doesn't apply to human biochemistry and nutrition. The mechanism in which the human body absorbs energy is quite intricate and complicated and shouldn't be treated like a physics project, because it isn't. To do so is to insult the nature of the human body and its purpose, which is to survive and evolve into a more energy efficient being. 

Well I'll try it with the fancy caliper since I have one...... long distance for fat eaters.... good cause I'm not a good "sprinting" type lol and I can't do what I used to on a bike cause I have to bring my baby with me.... and that's right the inuit definitely don't have gardens lol.