Join Date: Oct 2007
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What exactly are you eating anyway on a typical day? As a regular poster in my log, you probably already know some chemical enhancements for your weight loss, but along with optimizing that, what foods are you actually eating to get to around 2k cals? There's ways of eating 2k calories that will leave you fairly sated with consistent blood sugar and ways that will have you up and down, hypoglycemic, dizzy, and too hungry to sleep properly.
A few easy adjustments
1. Coffee in water with artificial sweetner AM, pretty easy to not eat for 90-180 minutes after consuming this first thing AM.
2. Oats in skim+protein+egg whites one of the most sating meals on the planet. Oats digest so slowly that they are near impossible to overeat. The combination of complex carbs+whey+egg whites gives you a nice consistent energy and keeps you full for a long time
3. Brokaid or Primatene tablets OTC at the local walmart. This is ephedrine. You will need to show your ID since this can be used to make meth or something. This will crush your appetite when coupled with caffeine. It directly acts on fat cells raising BMR by about 2-10%, but the main fat burning comes from the stimulant effect increasing your expenditure and from it lowering your appetite. Standard dose is 25mg ephedrine +200mg caffeine, but starting lower is smart.
4. I don't use it often just because I'm a high carb dieter, but if I were doing the low carb/keto thing, I'd probably use 2 tbsp pb+2 scoops whey+2tbsp skim milk and mix it up as a pudding. super sating and actually tastes surprisingly good. Quick and convenient to eat, as well.
Are you prepping your meals? What about your protein? If you are around 180-200lbs, I'd be shooting for 250-300g protein/day. Not because of any magical muscle building properties, just because it is the most sating macro and with the thermic effect of food, each gram of protein is *really* only like 3.3 cals instead of 4 because of the energy required to digest it.
