Analysing My Bloodwork - Did Crash Dieting Ruin My Hormones? Fat Loss & Testosterone
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- I dieted on very low calories for 4 weeks. Here are my results, observations, thoughts and blood work after the dieting period.
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Hello Eugene, any thick sweaters coming back in stock in your apparel shop? Happy new year and thanks for posting these awesome videos 👍.
@@MetalsForBrunch yes! This Friday
@@healthyandrew5294 normally it's 500. It's down to 250 this week
Oh noooooo how did I miss this?!!
The in-depth blood work analysis was super interesting to see ! Thanks for motivating me to do a more agressive cut before summer lol
Thanks Eugene this was very insightful. Awesome quality as usual
Thank you! 🙏
Lol this was always how I shredded and people always lectured me about 'crashing my metabolism' and ruining my hormones.... etc, etc. I got suggested to reverse diet by 100 calories, and so much more complicated riducolous sht, but for me this method always worked perfectly without a fault. But the slow method never worked for me and neither did slow 'reverse dieting'. Just like you, I eat roughly 1500 calories with 10k steps whenever I want to shred, and I shred really fast, then jump back to my maintainence at 2500 calories/eat at slight surplus at 2800 calories and it works for me year round without any problems.
Yes!!
@MoneyMoneyMoney That’s awesome. I’m definitely going to give this a try. Just curious, are you using any exogenous hormones? Any TRT?
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Nope, but I am early 20s and generally don't ever notice any side effects which are indicative of hormone crash or issues.
@@ThinkAbstract good to know man. 👍👍
@@ayo9057 Yes.
I honestly love this so much, 'crash dieting' is what works best for me for a variety of reasons. It's how I (accidently) went from morbidly obese to a healthy weight years ago. But the more I learned the more I felt anything more than 500 calories would be unhealthy/dangerous/kills all my muscle, etc. But I can't do the 500 calories, I can fast, I can drastically reduce my calories, but the long small deficit-slog has failed me.
This makes bulking a lot less daunting and my body definitely shows the best results with it. Thank you for putting this information out there to kill the fear.
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I think its way too hard to measure small deficits honestly- better to aim towards something like 1300 kcal, and then fail 1-2 times a week.
I reference these videos when people say I'm crazy for eating 1800 calories a day as a 200lb guy. Super informative series, really helped me lose 20 lbs and get in shape.
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thanks for this series Eugene, you have inspired me to go a little bit more aggressive with my fat loss!
Good luck!
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Im trying your aproach, you are amazing
Love it. I didn’t realize you are 150-165 pounds, just shows how much lean mass you have on you. Very impressive!
I’ll check out your other video about this as I’m curious about your macronutrient breakdown. From my understanding, as long as the protein intake is sufficient, you should keep most of your muscle even on a hard cut.
Did you study human anatomy and physiology in college? Awesome knowledge that you can just retrieve as needed.
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Chinese New Year coming up soon bro. Even more food! (great vid - thank you)
Yes! Thank you! 🙏
I just started this “crash dieting” my self just passed week 1 and have gone from 105.2kg to 102.9kg at around 1300-1500 cal. I have always gone about cutting nutrition calories the old school method but since seeing your original vid regarding the “crash dieting” I thought I’d give this a go. Cheers for the information and motivation Eugene.
good luck with it!
remember, you are 30kg heavier than him. Maybe eat a bit more kcal. Im dieting at 2500-2800 rn. My maintance is around 3700 and i bulked at 4000 kcal before that. I started at 102kg at 193cm ~20% body fat and im around 98kg after 14 days. So im still in a ~1000 kcal deficit daily overall which is still pretty aggresive imo
You're far heavier than him. Up your calories. You can't use what he says for yourself verbatim. It doesn't work that way. Say, I'm 80kg and 178cm and I'd even have more than 1,300kcal for dieting.
@@Jay-we2ek looks like he did do 300-500 more so his 1300-1500 range is still good to go. It’ll have him dropping the 1% ish total body weight per week
this guy. love this guy
Great video 💪🏻💪🏻
Thank you! 🙏
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Best plan I've used for a cut is eating 2400 calories a day from Monday to Saturday and then a fast on Sunday until breakfast Monday. It creates a huge energy deficit and the grind is for only 1 day out of the week.
Nice!
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Very interesting. Thanks for sharing Eugene. Can you share where you get your blood work carried out? Thanks
I-screen. Australia only though
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I'm about to start a low calorie diet aswell and was wondering would it be better to have a low carb/high fat (keto like) diet or a higher carb/low fat diet?
Protein intake will remain high of course.
I’m down 40kg, dropped the first 30 doing keto until I stalled. Another 10 protein focused , mix carbs and fats, push hard for a couple weeks then maintenance for two, then push again. Finding maintenance is tricky
About to do a 90 day body transformation challenge and at the same time have signed up for a 6 month weight loss goal… 41lbs. Currently 206, haven’t started my diet yet and am already hungry just from fasting for a blood test.
Salute bro
You click on Eugene's video to learn one thing, and end up learning a dozen. Amazing vid. Quick question, do you have a link to the company you had your bloodwork done through? Loved the interface and how the panels were displayed but didn't catch a company name in the video. Thanks!
Thank you! 🙏 it's I-screen but they're Australia only
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I have a feeling coach greg is about to release a video on you , pretty soon , looool 😂... BTW , good job :)
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Great that you included a full blood test breakdown. It spots some light on my client who had a significant amount of fat hanging around but was afraid to reduce calorie intake.
Now your journey shows what an aggressive yet successful diet can do.
Thx man
Thanks brother
Hi Eugene, have you stopped posting daily workouts on the app?? I couldn't find dailies since Monday 😔
Eugene, where did you get the blood work done? Online source?
It seems like you live an overall healthy lifestyle…food choices, etc., which contributes to a stable blood profile, even when temporarily screwing it up. Also, I don’t recognize the different standards such as mmol/L. I’m sure it’s the same as in the US, just different ways of measuring. Good job, Eugene!
Hey Euegene, i'm looking to do a similar blood panel. What is the specific test you ordered through iscreen? Or did you do a custom test and included all of the biomarkers you were interested in? Thanks!
I did the most expensive one 🤣
Ah yes, the platinum health check lol
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Do you have usually such high SHBG or it rises dramaticly when cutting calories?
couldn't ask for a better birthdaygift. Just ended my bulk and will start my dieting tomorrow. Now i know what to be aware of and what's normal
Thank you! 🙏
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Thanks bro
I'm 175 cm and 75 kg, not very muscolare but i carry fat around my waist all the time, bf around 20%. Does it make sense for someone like me to do this crush diet, in order to have a better starting weight for muscle gain?
I saw you at a expo in Melbourne a few years back and its hard to believe what weight you sit at from how you look in person. Obviously you have been in the industry for years so the muscle maturity is there but you look bigger and heavier (muscle mass) in person for sure crazy how perception is.
How about taking creatine in a linear manner for preventing muscle loss while doiing this?
I'm thinking about that, since I try this diet + I feel how well creatine monohydrate affects me :)
What website did you use for these tests
Was there an instance of your weigh-in being more than the previous day's weight despite being on 1000 calories only? Or was it nearly always a guaranteed lower figure? I tend to lose motivation when being at 1000 calories and don't seeing a lower number on the weighing scale.
Weighting yourself everyday is not good for the mind cuz one day it’s Lowe then the next day is higher that the 1st day just weighs yourself every 2 weeks lets say so you actually see the actual results and not loose your motivation on the 3rd day
If you try a slower cut next time, we could compare the results with this one and get a better idea of which one is better. If they end up being very similar, then that could solidify your conclusion here.
My cal deficit would be at 1800 that I was planning for after this bulk in two weeks.
I'm glad I watched your videos because even at that ive heard a lot of negatives about staying in deficits too long so I just had a bunch of questions and misconceptions answered. Im going to try out 1,000 as my first cut, should save a bunch of money on groceries 🤑 which is an added plus haha but also the fact that even at 1,800 I'd be in a deficit makes it mentally feel . . .mmm less taxing because stressing about eating EXACTLY 1,800 seemed to be the most annoying thing. So knowing I can stay at 1-1,200 and if I eat a sweet or two because I have a sweet tooth I'm not really going to worry about the extra 2-300 cal I just ate because. . . I'm still in that deficit and I didn't just eat enough sweets or whatever to put me into maintenance and that day just went to waste on the fat loss. So I actually love this method. Can't wait to try it out in 2 weeks!!
Once I get used to a low daily calorie intake I am set. It usually takes me 2-4 days to get into the zone however. This can be the hardest part depending on how big the gap is between new caloric intake and previous one.
Super late, but same here. The first few days are always hard, but after that it’s honestly pretty easy, even at 1000-1200 calories
When on low calories as well as fasting 20 to 24 hours omad i think whole boiled eggs is probably going to be the best food choice i mean 9 boiled whole eggs(which i take) is about 675 calories daily gives good amount of protein and good fats and vitamins and still gives room to eat other foods i always feel recovered the next day..food for thought
What service did you use for blood tests? I really like how the whole site is layed out. Pretty keen on trying it out, although might've missed it during the video.
It's called I-screen. It's local here in Australia so not sure if you'll be able to access it
@@coacheugeneteo Thanks! I live in Queensland so I sure can. I'll check it out.
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that was incredibley interesting eugene , i just fasted today for 24 hrs and it felt good but when i finally had something to eat , it was then that my body started saying things to me like , why did u just do that , i felt weak i was going to fast again tomorrow but i think my body has other plans , any way not going to fast tomorrow ,,,see how it goes , let u know then eugene ,,,c ya then.. i just wanna get rid of this fat that been hanging around my belly for too long .
If you wanna go into bulk after and not more shredding, do you still do the maintenance period for few weeks or go straight from deficit to huge surplus to bulk?
I'd still go for maintenance
@@coacheugeneteo also for half the period i was dieting? or less time period?
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Super informative video 👏🏽👏🏽 can't wait to see the stats post maintenance! NOOT NOOT 💪🏽🐧
NOOOOOT
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where did you get your blood work done?
Hey folks! i hope y'all are doing well!
A little question here; what do you mean by "Maintanence phase" after a diet? can someone elaborate a bit on what is the meaning, or the practical part as of, what to look for when doing the maintanence?
Hugs and Greetings!
As in stay at the same weight via eating an amount of cals that causes you to not lose or gain weight
Can you do an intense calorie deficit like this if you're carrying a little more body fat? Not obese or anything but just some extra flab. I assume it would require doing it longer than just 4 to 6 weeks.
I'm 6'1 and about 100kg, I workout and want to get leaner in a short time frame and have no issues with sticking to my diet consistently, would 1200 to 1400 cals be okay?
You certainly can. I'm not sure on the actual number though
I did. I went from 90 kg to 70kg in around 4 months. I ate at 1500 calories with roughly 15-20k steps around two years ago. My protein was at 180-200 grams the entire time, and every now and then when I went out I just ate whatever I wanted. Low calorie approach always worked me.
@Psyche If I didn't do steps around 500-600. With Steps around 1500
How did it affect your TDEE?
As you age you may realize longevity (lifespan) is more important than peaking your physique. You're burning the candle at both ends
Hi Eugene, Just wondering what I-Screen test that one was? Thanks.
Found it in another comment, all good.
When you diet , do you maintain the proper amount of protein grams per lbs of body weight ? And what is the right amount of protein intake per body weight ? Thanks and really enjoy all your videos , very informative !
Eaat big to get big breh
He address this is the video lol
Wow, 24.8 nmol/L is ~715 ng/dL (units typically used in the states). That's pretty high, esp for being in such a caloric deficit, albeit just a short period. I wish I had that level naturally. I got tested during a lean bulk at less than half that amount.
How interesting! I've shown up far lower in the past. So this really did shock me
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Small dense particles are HighDensity Lipoproteins, and they’re good.
The big fluffy low density lipoproteins or LDLs can kinda block your circulation if they’re high cuz they’re so big for their small weight
5:23 you did mention that it's a loose number to play with but 1kg of fat is not 7700kcal. That number in the studies corresponds to weight with the assumption of a certain P-ratio i.e. it factors in some loss in lean body mass. The number of calories it takes to lose 1kg of pure adipose tissue is actually 8260kcal.
Ok thank you for pointing that out
Thanks for sharing your results, Eugene. Just for the record, do you use, or have you in the past used, PEDs? John Meadows (RIP) openly admitted his use of PEDs and I admire his transparency surrounding this issue, which is rare in the fitness world. I think it's important for people to have a realistic sense of what kinds of physiques are achievable naturally and which likely require chemical enhancement. My hope is that more folks in the fitness community will honor John's memory by being honest about their use of PEDs.
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Late reply but yes he has admitted he used PEDs in his reels / shorts videos , there is 1 where he mentions it openly
Hello Eugene, wanted to ask two things, 1st about your water intake, did you increase, decrease or kept it at the same level as before, and 2nd, did you have any refeed days? If so, how many calories did you eat on those days? Thanks in advance for your time
I didn't change water intaje noticeably. And answered question 2 in the video!
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I eugene, saw your ESR result. Wouldn't be too worried about it (I'm a Medical Lab Scientist) its just a test that determines general inflammation. If you wanted a more accurate test for inflammation and are curious get a CRP test done (C-reactive protein), its another test for generalized inflammation.
Thank you! 🙏
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I’m 5’7 and I got up to 172lbs skinny fat. Started cutting in January and lost 20lbs in 3 months from walking and being in a calorie deficit. Looked slimmer but still have a gut. Took 5 months off just maintaining that weight..started cutting again and got to 140 in 24 days by sticking to 1,200-1,300 calories a day. Still have a substantial amount of fat on my belly. Currently been doing 1,000-1,200 calorie a day and I’m now down to 137lbs..gonna shoot for 130lbs.
What is the difference between a crash diet and a minicut?
Tío Eugenio 🙏
What service did you use for the blood work analysis? I asked gp for a blood analysis and they turned me away ..
I go private. I-screen
A GP won't do that 🤣
No wonder they said no. You have to pay if you want bloods for non medical reasoning. It is a bit of a joke to have them done for training purposes tho IMO. But each to their own.
What do you think of the study that says that you can lose only ~69 g of fat per kg of fat carried? I know this comes from a questionable study that didn't explicitly look at this question but I doubt we can ethically repeat the study these days!
Could you explain how something like this is different or better than any other kind of disordered eating? Not trying to hate, just genuinely curious on how a restricted diet like this compares or contrasts to someone struggling with an ED. Sorry if you've already answered this!
This is a planned and controlled cut with educated reasoning behind it.
@@DC-wo2yb I totally understand that. My only concern would be someone struggling with disordered eating coming to these same conclusions and using these videos as confirmation that it's okay to drastically cut your calories for the sole purpose of losing weight quickly
Thanks for the video, you mentioned your weight, but didn't mention your height. That would be useful to see approximately what is a normal bodyweight to height ratio for this kind of physique. If someone knows it, please let me know :)
164cm
@@coacheugeneteo Thanks! That's 5 feet 4 9/16 inches. May I ask, what was your waist circumference in the two pictures?
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Who'd you get the blood work through
Im 5 foot 10 and weigh 76kg, does anyone know what is a reasonable amount of calories to eat to do a drastic cut?
I think i eat 1800-2000 at the mo so maybe 1000? 1800 has me losing 0.5-1kg a month which is too slow. Any ideas very welcome and appreciated!
Unfortunately can't say for absolute certain
Depends a lot on your lifestyle and what you do for work. I'm roughly the same, 5ft 10 at 73kg around 13% body fat. My job is very active, if I have anything lower than 2500 I lose weight very fast and get very hungry.
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how can someone cut weight without causing hormonal issues?
Would you recommend running this only for 4 weeks ? And then maintaining?
Nah you can run it for much longer if you have more to lose!
@@coacheugeneteo ty kind sir for your video and help!
Give the results to Derek and have him react to this cutting approach.
That'd be awesome!
Greetings from Brazil!
I am currently on week 2 on the "crash dieting" and i am seeing AMAZING results. i've lost 2.3kg so far, and im still not feeling tired or sore. Thank you for this mindblowing content.
Sorry for my bad english grammar.
How tall are you?
update video soon?
Follow up video?
How much muscle mass would you say that you lost during your diet?
None
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Hi Eugene if you are enhanced, or not of course how did this affect your hormones in relation to the dieting, i am just watching the video now
Its interesting for myself as i am natural but need to drop some considerable fat down to at least 240lb from 300lb right now, Usually keto and fasting works excellent for me, as long as the exercise isnt too intense, high reps to almost failure and lower level cardio really works while on no carbs. Cheers!
i thought the dutch test was over hyped
I find your statement about 'yo-yo dieting' both helpful and hurtful. I say this because for the majority of human history, food scarcity for long periods has been the norm. A person could go between 1 month to 3 months without a good food supply and that was more normal. The human body is much more capable of going through these cycles than food being available all the time. It wouldn't be out of the ordinary to go through such depletion at least twice a year, and would likely be very beneficial to do. Taken to extremes, I would whole-heartedly agree this is not the best way to live.
Do you have gyno? how to deal with it?
No. Probably surgery 🤷♂️
Would you somewhat approve of a similar "crash" diet that consists of protein powder (super cheap+easy to follow)? It likely will total under 1000 calories, tons of protein, and will certainly lose weight. I would add fiber supplement, multi vitamin, fish oil, creatine, and salt. Maybe also a tablespoon of avocado oil.
Unlimited amounts of Non-starchy veggies is a must to keep intestines healthy and minimum 8 cups water daily
@@romeou4965 Yeah veggies good idea, but such a diet I proposed would be super short term. 10000% not a long term life style.
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Agreed. I’m doing the nutrisystem diet and the NuMi app has me at 1000 cals where nonstarch veggies don’t count. Then it’ll jump to 1700 cal after 1st week. They say continuing 1000 cal meal plan for more than one week in any consecutive four-week period may lead to health complications and is not recommended.
Says his test is generally on the low end naturally yet it's sitting at 24.8 during a cut (which is even lower then his supposed natural low!). I'm 26 5'11" 170lbs and workout all the time and my last blood work showed 19.8 😭 time to start juice I guess!
P.S I have hypothyroidism though it's corrected with medication and my levels are perfect.
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Your 69kg on the picture on the right?? Are u 5feet 4??
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Hey man! Been watching your channel for a while now. Just some constructive criticism for you. Try to shorten your videos and be more concise as these 20-30+ minute videos are very easy to get bored or dose off. I want to see your channel grow as you are highly intelligent and there is no bs in your content. Do this and I believe you will rise to the top in no time!
How would this work if I’m doing something like CrossFit? I’m interested in an aggressive deficit but I’m not sure if there’s a difference due to the activity.
Don't do it, it's a waste of health
2:10 what a diff dropping 6kg of fluff does 👍
3:20 !
Probably works fine if you're able to very slowly increase your caloric intact to maintenance. What most people do is they crash diet lose a ton of weight, and then go back to eating like an obese person and they wonder why they regained it all.
It's chronic calory restriction that makes you lose muscle. If accute caloric restriction would lead to muscle loss how would our ancestors be able to hunt if they didn't have luck for a week? In an accute state of fasting your adrenalin rises which leads to fat loss and your hgh rises aswell. Iirc there is a pathway in ketosis that also leads to muscle preservation.
Our ancestors weren't bodybuilders though. They had the amount of muscle mass they needed for every day tasks. What we're trying to do is building up and keeping muscle mass we don't actually need.
how to restore test after extreme weight loss
Eat at maintenance for a while
I've noticed that no matter how low or how high my calories are during a dieting phase, my biofeedback gets horrible around week 8 (disturbed sleep, extreme fatigue, DOMS, amenorrhea, etc.). I've decided to do a more aggressive, short-term approach to see if it solves anything.
I'm sure that's just gonna make it worse for shorter rather than waiting weeks for it to be bad....
It's not really going to solve anything. Like I said, you'll just get it as bad, or worse but it'll just hit you quicker.
Good thing it's all experimental! Just testing how my body responds and what works for it. You might be right, but I'd rather just try it for myself and see 🤷🏻♀️
@@leahdarski no doubt.go for it to see the results 👍👍
Good luck!
Do you ever discuss your drug use?
if 1 g of fat is 9 cals.. why is 1000g of fat is 7700? Shldnt it be 9000?
I fast 3 days then do a refead (keto) for one day to stay fat adapted and stay energized i lose about 1kg of pure fat every 3 days its so bueatiful
Men, your free t is higher than mine even taking testosterone (trt) even at a huge caloric deficit. Shows again that genetics matter a lot (not to disregard hard work - but genetics are HUGE in terms of hormones)
Weight gain is soo hard man 🤧..i am trying to gain,and watching how to loose fats🤣
It's not, just eat really calorie dense sht.
It's not hard. Stuff like whole milk, peanut butter etc. Those are hefty in calories before mentioning the man many many other high calorie non junk stuff.
Aggresive diet just doesn't work for me i lost 6kg in 6 weeks too and it's been horrible and 've quickly regained 3kgs in just a month after dieting. The average person won't be able to keep it off.
I’m doing this while on trt. Hopefully goes well
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Started this yesterday
I'm around 83kg, and wondered what macro amounts I'd roughly need ?
Covered in the other videos!
I was in an emotionally bad place from the start of October and literally couldn’t stomach any food. Was training 5 days a week, with literally no food. I think the most I went without eating was 48 hours, then when I did I had something small. I have lost over 1 stone since then, gone from 83kg to 75kg and actually feel so much better for it physically. My strength is not up, but it is pretty much the same as it was when I was heavier, muscle tissue is still at a decent amount. The physical change has also helped my emotional and mental mindset.
Sounds like an ED
@@gankt ED?
@@joshwatton9335 eating disorder. Sometimes youtube doesn't like that phrase and censors the comment
@@gankt oh ok. Never really thought about it like that, just put it down to grief. I don’t think it is though. 🙂
@@joshwatton9335 are you okay now?
Your white blood cell counts go down when you diet. Everything looks pretty normal & healthy.
@eugene: you should be looking into reducing meat and diary products to get those LDL cholesterol levels to where they are supposed to be. I transferred to vegan because of this and it helped a lot to change it. (Of course this comes with a lot of required attention on other things, but reducing should be easy to do and already helps)
Thank you! 🙏
I’m sure you tell everyone you’re vegan
Crash Dieting is the only thing that has ever worked for me…..I drop my calories to 1000-12000 a day, no cardio and PowerLift train 2 times a week to maintain, I Refeed every 2 weeks to enjoy life…..and the fat just melts off…..I’m so in Ketosis I’m not even hungry……when I do the usual “eat 500 calories less than maintenance and do cardio” I’m literally day and night dreaming about food.
Lyle McDonald has been talking about these type of approaches for years…..he was also talking about KETO before it got trendy and hippy.
Buy his book “The Rapid Fatloss Handbook”…..it’s worth the read!
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69.2 😏 nice
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