What are your go to foods when dieting?

dust is my food and tears are my drink

doesn't sound very healthy 0_0

it's perfectly healthy - I learned about it from marjory dawes from fat fighters. if she says it, it's got to be true



as for the tears, well, that's just my own idea - dieting makes me sad, so I cry, but then that becomes my drink

Rice cakes smothered in TheProteinWorks 0 calorie maple syrup.

What's the taste like? I always see CJ downing that 0 cal Walden farms **** but didn't know you could get anything similar in the UK!

It's decent actually, very runny but pretty sweet. You can get the Walden's Farms stuff on MuscleFood, their chocolate and caramel sauces aren't bad but the pancake syrup tastes like what I imagine singed ass hair would taste like

It's decent actually, very runny but pretty sweet. You can get the Walden's Farms stuff on MuscleFood, their chocolate and caramel sauces aren't bad but the pancake syrup tastes like what I imagine singed ass hair would taste like

Cheers man, will have to take a look! The way CJ talks about them you'd think it was liquid gold

This stuff has zero calories?

I eat plenty of carbs while cutting, doesn't stop me dropping almost a stone per month. The whole insulin response idea has been shown time and time again to not hold much merit where most types of food spike insulin, and the need for usable energy overrides the tendency to store calories subsequent to an insulin spike.

I don't know wtf you're talking about. Glycogen as a polyasscharide of sugar as opposed to fat trains your body to be inefficient at using energy. Plus, glycogen is definitely not necessary in cellular reproduction. You can lose weight by eating McDonalds everyday but in a mere inefficient way

How would it be innefficient if you're losing weight, if it's working? While overall weight loss may be faster in a keto diet compared to a diet with carbs of the same daily caloric content, that's not always a good thing. The extra weight loss is mostly going to come from the breakdown of proteins (i.e. muscle) - in most cases, this wouldn't be desirable. For a start, more muscular weight means a higher TDEE and a more healthy looking figure.

If your goal is to make a certain weight on the scales quickly then a keto diet is worth a shout, but for general purpose fat loss to look good, extreme dieting is unnecessary and, for many, hard to stick to.

Ketogenic diet isn't extreme?! You must think it's the same a protein sparring diets or 1000 kcal a day diets lol. I'm able to eat 2000 calories at no more than 50g of carbs, and cycle everyday and go gym - I don't look like Ronny Wesley. Please enlighten me on the science correlating muscle loss to KDs assuming there is no calorific surplus. One is merely replacing carbs with fat which are both energy sources. Sugar is inefficient as far as weight loss is concerned. High glycemic food such as white rice spikes your insulin levels and therefore trains your body to rely solely on it. If you tell a newbie to eat a HCLF diet, they'll take that as a excuse to eat grapes, pasta, white rice and anything that is easy for the body as far as energy consumption is concerned. http://www.popsugar.co.uk/fitness/Study-People-Who-Eat-More-Foods-Lose-Most-Weight-38411073

Nope I'm not, but cutting out an entire macronutrient from your diet is extreme.
Well, for a start, the body needs glucose and glycogen - where does this come from in the absence of carbs/glucose? Glucogeneosis. Namely, the breakdown of proteins (muscle tissue) into amino acids to be converted to glucose.

You got something right but not quite right. As I said PSMF isn't the same as KD. There are unavoidable correlations with PSMF and glycogeneogensis - that's obvious. Carbs are not pivotal for humans, and whilst amino acids are essentially the building blocks of life, glucose and fatty acids aid in cellular respiration. But when you exclude all fat from your diet, you are left with all sorts of health problems. You take carbs out, your body adapts to ketones bodies and apart from the usual you experience from drastically changing your diet, there are no long term side effects. I suggest you read up on 'ketones' before making the assumption KD is extreme. In addition, ketogenic diet doesn't cut carbs completely per se - you're getting it mixed up with 0 carb extreme diet that anorexic girls do. I take in 50g of carbs and fibre constitute to 80% of my polyasscharide intake.