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<blockquote data-quote="Fleegle" data-source="post: 1488641" data-attributes="member: 402985"><p>I completely agree, it is so individual. Examples help to and I liked <u>Kristin251</u> diet plan - really clearly laid out.</p><p></p><p>Also things will change overtime. Just consider that if now you are carrying say 10KGs of excess weight and you lose it - the body will be burning less calories because, in every normal activity your body has less work to do.</p><p></p><p>I can give you my own experience. Following the LCHF diet - I have tried to eat less than 30g carbs a day and not worried too much about protein amounts (I really like nuts and meat) and not eaten too much fat - just enough that I do not want to snack. I never feel hungry now and I did when I ate carbs - in fact then it was most of the time. I have lost over 2 stones in about 6 weeks. I have seen people lose more and seen people lose less but given I am about 4 stone overweight when I started very happy with that so far.</p><p></p><p>What I have read - but I do not claim to be an expert:-</p><p>You will be surprised how little your body really needs. I read that to satisfy your 2500 calorie demand in a day the body could just turn to your stored fat and burn about 1/2lb of fat. The cells in your body only need fat to operate and it is harder work for them to do this than use glucose in the blood - so you burn more calories. There is obviously one organ in the human body which cannot use fat (the brain) and that is the brain and the liver can easily satisfy that by burning stored glucose or worse case break protein (muscle). And if you have a slightly fatty liver then that will be great news as it starts to deplete it. That is why fasting isn't such a big deal for the body and a good way to lose weight but obviously not something to do for too long too often.</p><p></p><p>Medicines will also have an impact. You need to watch what you eat carefully if you are taking anything that will lower your glucose and some cause weight gain so you have to work a bit harder to get rid of it.</p><p></p><p>As I say not an expert, really happy to be corrected on any points here as this is all going to help my own education...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fleegle, post: 1488641, member: 402985"] I completely agree, it is so individual. Examples help to and I liked [U]Kristin251[/U] diet plan - really clearly laid out. Also things will change overtime. Just consider that if now you are carrying say 10KGs of excess weight and you lose it - the body will be burning less calories because, in every normal activity your body has less work to do. I can give you my own experience. Following the LCHF diet - I have tried to eat less than 30g carbs a day and not worried too much about protein amounts (I really like nuts and meat) and not eaten too much fat - just enough that I do not want to snack. I never feel hungry now and I did when I ate carbs - in fact then it was most of the time. I have lost over 2 stones in about 6 weeks. I have seen people lose more and seen people lose less but given I am about 4 stone overweight when I started very happy with that so far. What I have read - but I do not claim to be an expert:- You will be surprised how little your body really needs. I read that to satisfy your 2500 calorie demand in a day the body could just turn to your stored fat and burn about 1/2lb of fat. The cells in your body only need fat to operate and it is harder work for them to do this than use glucose in the blood - so you burn more calories. There is obviously one organ in the human body which cannot use fat (the brain) and that is the brain and the liver can easily satisfy that by burning stored glucose or worse case break protein (muscle). And if you have a slightly fatty liver then that will be great news as it starts to deplete it. That is why fasting isn't such a big deal for the body and a good way to lose weight but obviously not something to do for too long too often. Medicines will also have an impact. You need to watch what you eat carefully if you are taking anything that will lower your glucose and some cause weight gain so you have to work a bit harder to get rid of it. As I say not an expert, really happy to be corrected on any points here as this is all going to help my own education... [/QUOTE]
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