Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Phil's accomplishment

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

[fast5] Re: Phil's accomplishment

Hi, Phil. What a great accomplishment!!! Are you going to Vegas to celebrate those couple of years of a hard work? I would definitely celebrate your tremendous weight loss. I can't imagine to loose half of yourself. Good luck with your Vegas goal, if you have a month, it might be possible. You've gone so far already...

About the previous posting: I think it is really working that longer you don't eat carbs (cakes), less you want. My friend, that own restorant, brings me deserts sometimes, but I've never seen her eat one. I asked her the other day "What is your secret?" and she said that she just avoid it and the longer she does it, less she wants to try it. I can't push myself to try this formula, but really want to try.

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Phil Voelker <mail4pvoelker@...> wrote:
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> Hi, Daniel - can you tell me where that information comes from?
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> It would occur to me that the lower your caloric intake goes, the more selective you have to be about what it is you're actually eating in order to really get nourished. Now, I'm a nighttime binge eater, and I haven't really noticed a reduction in my "desire" to binge eat after doing this for several weeks, but I have found that I manage it better by pushing my window to later in the evening and shortening it by two hours. One thing I don't have a problem with is getting enough calories, lol!
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> Regardless, I'd have to say that the plan is working well for me and I've generally found it surprising how well I've acclimated to it. I was well over 400 pounds in 2000-2001, down closer to 300 in 2006, and through diet and weight training was around 220 or so when I started this program a few weeks ago. I'm about 207 now (6'4" by the way, so I'm a big guy) and I do believe that I've retained all my muscle and possibly added a little. I'm very happy with the results, and even my dreaded "shar-pei tummy" is going down. My upper body is looking pretty ripped for an almost 42-year old, and I'm really looking at this as a way to really see what a formerly obese person can do if they set their mind to it. I'm going to Vegas next month for the first time in 20 years - how strange to think I might be a person that would actually take his shirt off in public!
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> Personally I've found that my propensity to overeat has been really helpful from a muscle development standpoint while on this plan. The times when my calorie intake goes over 3000 generally coincide with a heavy lift, and I usually do around 1000 calories worth of cardio daily. By cycling three or four low-cal days (under 2000 calories) with a high calorie day (usually double that), I've seen the weight come off and the muscle stay. Really cool!
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> As far as strength conditioning goes - I wonder if part of the reason why you keep more muscle when you lift regularly isn't just because 'you're building muscle.' I wonder if it's because you're training your body to know that it's going to need that muscle, and it responds by protecting it. Just thinking out loud, really. I think that anyone on this plan would really benefit by weight training, even if it's not for the purpose of muscle building. I suspect that even light weight training would help you keep the good stuff while the fat goes away.
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> I haven't been under 200 pounds since high school, and haven't had a 34 waist since I don't know when. I've got a month before Vegas - I think I just might hit it. I've already lost over half of me, and I haven't seen many people that have done that without surgery. :-)
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> --- On Wed, 5/13/09, Daniel Lurie <dl1021@...> wrote:
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> From: Daniel Lurie <dl1021@...>
> Subject: Re: [fast5] Re: so FULL
> To: fast5@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 7:16 AM
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> On Wed, 13 May 2009 08:51:55 -0400, Cassie Luu <cdluu@...> wrote:
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> > is there a minimum number of calories/day that we should be striving for?
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> Going below 10 cals/lb/day is generally a bad idea unless you have a huge amount of bodyfat.
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> The leaner you are, the less of a calorie deficit you can tolerate.
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> Thanks,
> Daniel Lurie
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