Because they are fake, it's 99.9% about the basic law of thermodynamics.

These diets you guys speak of work because they are restrictive. My uv-xyz diet is best because it's the most restrictive. Get my drift bro? It's working for you because it directs you to remove over half of what's in front of you. But it's loltastic to think you will gain more muscle or lose more fat than someone who eats the same calories but from 100% donuts + whey.

Everyone is different Loco. Never know till u try it!

u mad bro?

He may be mad, but he's not wrong.

Plenty of legit research about all of this.

Good gym session this morning.

3x4 heavy press
3x10 press
3x10/10 super set muscle cleans and db lateral raises

4x6/12 super set preacher curl, hammer curl
3x15 dips
3x12 face pulls

2x1min planche

Weighed in 3.4kg down from my first morning - v happy with this for 18 days in. Goal is to aim to lose the same again in the next 3 weeks and 2 days

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You're in agreement as far as I can tell, but phrasing it like you're disagreeing and spreading the truth. Both of us mentioned that we enjoy the diet for reasons that are not "low carb shreds fat" as you seem to be implying.

This is not correct. Keto replaces a lot of things which are high carb and not particularly calorie dense with some calorie dense, not particularly sating, items such as avocado, nuts, nut butters, butter and oils. If you want to adhere to keto and still lose weight then calorie counting is probably even more important.

Also this, but I can understand how somebody sprinting around the internet looking for an argument to win may not be able to read every word

Just got to the 2/5/10 table. All Asian kids in their 20s talking about ranges and win rates. Why do they do this?

Because being perceived as a great player is more important to them than actually winning money. And a lot of them aren't even winning players.

Oops - posted this in the wrong thread. Agree

As someone who has had decent success at both live and online poker, I can say that 80% of the online players that come and play live get crushed. And those guys are generally the type of guys who talk about ranges and **** at the table.

More enjoyable dieting?


The truth of the matter is that you feel success on paleo because it is so restrictive and filling that it controls your overeating. Same thing for bluegrass and keto.

That's my point and the other newbs must understand why these diets work. No science, all restriction.

I think a lot of the confusion here is stemming from the fact that "diet" has more that one definition:



You seem to be stuck on the first of these definitions, whereas we moved on to the second one a long time ago. (Also you seem to be blowing up one sentence from some random website that lists some macros and are applying it to everyone on the diet)

These were the changes that I made to get into ketosis. As you'll notice that's not particularly restrictive, if it's restrictive at all.

As I mentioned in my last post, a lot of keto friendly foods such as oils, nuts, nut butter, avocado, butter... really anything that is high fat (and keto is a high fat diet)... are not necessarily filling and not restrictive. As I said, if anything it's likely people need to count calories more when eating these foods.

So going back to the two definitions, we passed the "caloric deficit = lose weight" stuff a long time ago and then moved on to what diet (different definition) makes us feel good mentally, physically, and is easier to adhere to. So while you think you're saying "caloric deficit = weight loss" what you're now saying is some IIFYM nonsense where people will feel just as good on the ice cream and protein powder diet as a well balanced diet because all that matters is that you are in a caloric deficit.

Basically:

For a successful diet to work you need to be in a calorific deficit.

A good diet can result in having more energy and feeling better in general.

But it's also my point

This has been amusing, but there is no evidence of any enhanced mental performance for people in ketosis long term. (Healthy pops obv)

If anything, Keto fans would need to show that it is even equivalent given the Bayesian prior. Also, unless you've been keeping a log of your energy/thinking levels (Pref with a quantitative reference for mental acuity) you're also certainly just falling prey to the same cognitive biases everyone else does.

That. ^

And also fat being a suboptimal fuel for any high intensity work.

But if performance isn't a concern, then i suppose it doesn't matter.

As much as I'd like to hear what my cognitive biases are, and what the definitive Bayesian prior for starting keto is (pretty sure it's not what mine was) I will give the definitive, quantitative proof that keto makes me have higher mental performance and be done with this:

Arguments with Thremp while not on keto: whether raising children is difficult, whether or not Thremp understands the ending of a book better than the author of that book.

Arguments with Thremp since starting keto: None. Won't be entering into some debate about trying to quantify my mental clarity while on a specific diet, especially when I'm apparently not a good source for how I feel.

G4S: Personally I have no problem with intense activity for a half hour or so, but for longer duration cardio I do not do nearly as well as when I was eating more carbs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice-supportive_bias

bgp,

Congrats on realizing you're nowhere close intellectually. While I'm interested in you threatening to ban me for asking you to support your equivocating stances, I'm not interested enough to read your meandering and ultimately meaningless thought pieces. (That was a vapid response that didn't acknowledge basic cognitive biases, which I assume you know virtually nothing about, since you'd be in agreement otherwise, nor did you provide any real evidence that supports your view.)

Christ, today is going to be a challenge.

Was in the most incredible 5/10 game last night and just couldn't allow myself to leave the casino til after 2. Home at 3 and was so wired that I didn't get to sleep til after 4. Awesome then to get woken at 6.15 by my son

We have some family coming over for breakfast in an hour and I've been sent to the French bakery to buy almond and chocolate croissants and baguettes. Not at all confident of my ability to fade all these pastries

faded the pastries, but have been picking on bad food all day - Doritos and potato chips that were left hanging around and a handful of leftover French Fries.

Fatigue really is the diet killer - my willpower disappears on 2 hours sleep and I start craving sugar, salt and booze. if I can get through this evening without cracking open a bottle of red, it'll be a moral victory

went for an hour long walk with my wife up around the coastal paths and did a little work in my garden, so a good active rest day.

I am worthless and weak

@fatigue = diet killer. No doubt - this is how I gained 30+ lbs in 4 years playing poker at night and getting up for work 3 hours later.

8 hours sleep last night was awesome. Felt a little groggy at the gym this morning and was too busy tracking NFL scores to train too hard

4x8 KB Squats
3x28 KB walking lunge
INterval work on the assault bike

back on the horse after yesterday's mulligan and committed to having a strict week

Put down the phone at the gym and train. No gainz will ever be had with that type of workout.

thanks for the pep talk!