****Official Weight Loss and Exercise Thread****

[SenselessChiefsFan]

Originally Posted by Silock

I didn't say you won't lose weight. I said it's not the most effective and efficient way to do it. Science agrees.

It's very hard to eat below your BMR without ingesting fat. Fat makes you feel full. Carbs do not. Carbs leave you feeling hungry by design. Not saying it's impossible, just difficult. That's why a lot of dieters fail. You have to have massive amounts of self-discipline to eat low calories and low fat.

Yet, many studies conducted prove that thin people in the best shape, typically eat a higher carb diet than fat.

Eating a high fat diet is stupid. I don't care if you lose 50 lbs, it is still bad for you.

The key is excercise.

[Silock]

Originally Posted by SensibleChiefsfan

Yet, many studies conducted prove that thin people in the best shape, typically eat a higher carb diet than fat.

Eating a high fat diet is stupid. I don't care if you lose 50 lbs, it is still bad for you.

The key is excercise.

Thin people in the best shape typically exercise a lot, so they get away with eating more carbs than normal. There's nothing wrong with that. The problem comes when you eat a ton of carbs and don't do enough exercise to burn it off, which is what happens to the majority of people. It's difficult to fight more with more.

For instance, I did a cardio session yesterday for an hour and 20 minutes with an average HR of 174. Burned a little more than 1,400 calories. That's barely enough to offset the handful of Oreos and milk I ate last night. Hard to fight more with more.

And proof that high fat diets are bad?

>12% saturated fat diets have been shown to reduce coronary plaque, whereas high carb diets were associated with heart plaque progression. Yeah, sounds TERRIBLE for you.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...ubmed_RVDocSum


Reduction in LDL-IV with high fat diets

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9...ubmed_RVDocSum

Okinawans are the longest living people on the planet. They consume a lower carb, high fat diet. They also have an incredibly low incidence of heart disease.

http://drbganimalpharm.blogspot.com/...fat-diets.html

There's a ton of info out there about the benefits of a high-fat diet.