Jonny

I am 16 years old, 6ft 1" and about 12 stone. I have a little bit of body fat, not a huge amount but enough to stop muscles such as the abdominal's and pectorals's looking so impressive.

What is the best/quickest/safest way to lose body fat. A friend of mine used to take something which reduced body fat by speeding up the heart rate, but unfortunately I was born with a slight heart murmur, and although I think it has just about cleared up now, it's not something I would like to risk.

I am aware that the amount of body fat a person has is largely dependent on diet and excercise, but is there anything else I can do to help?

Thanks,
Jonny

PreacherMan

Proteins to get that appetite down, and increased cardio (5 times/week).

Also, very important: consult your physician before trying anything on your own.

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Prince

It's all about your diet!

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Scotty the Body

Yes, its diet, you can increase your meals to 6 times a day (smaller meals of course) this will help to increase your metabolism and loose fat quicker.


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TheSupremeBeing

I hate to say it, but a ketogenic diet would be the fastest way to lose fat. As far as best and safest that's up for debate, but IMHO for the time that is needed to be on the diet it's perfectly safe, and whether or not it's the best depends on a lot of things.

Anyhow, I can give you a great plan for losing fat if you're willing to follow it....

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Foodio

Friends,
Eat less food. It’s simple.
If you want some definition on top of that then eat less food, work out and do some cardio (jogging).

Friends

Foodio

Ohh, and make sure that the less food is of a healthier variety.

I mean, don't right-off-the-bat go cold turkey and chop your food intake in half. Gradually bring it down...

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Scotty the Body

I wouldn't necessarily eat less food, just less cals but I would increase the frequency of eating, say 6 meals a day.

Back when I didn't know shit about diet (I'm still learning all the time know) I did just that, eat less food, just salids and fruit.
Sure I lost alot of weight, like 40lb but about half of that was muscle cause I wasn't eating enough protein or enough calories.
So don't just "eat less", eat right.



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TheSupremeBeing

Eating frequently isn't necessary....

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TheSupremeBeing

Foodio - define what makes a food "healthy".

And I agree, dropping calories too quickly is the worst thing you can do.


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MtnBikerChk

Foodio, my friend. I think you are in for a big debate.

TheSupremeBeing

No, I was just trying to make him realize that there is no such thing as "healthy" foods.

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w8lifter

TSB...if you're going to post something like this, why don't you post the whole thing. Give all the reasons why eating frequently isn't necessary (like you did elsewhere), and explain why you still choose to eat more frequently. These one-liners only serve to confuse newbies and stir up sh!t.



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junebug

TSB you said you had a plan to loose some fat with regards to one's diet. If you don't mind sending me that, it would be great. I am having a hard time shedding right now. I lost about 12 pounds over the last 10 weeks but the last week or so I have been in a rut, with no weight loss. Later...

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Foodio

Listen, what goes on here is people simply eat too much food.
Your body only needs a certain amount.

After that “certain amount” food basically turns in to a narcotic, like cocaine, ludes or hash – you just want more and more.

People love food, and a lot of people have mental issues, like myself, so they eat to forget, because eating food is like a temporary high.

Get a hobby, eat less food, your body doesn’t need all this extra food floating around in the neurons and cells and enzymes.

Friends forever

Scotty the Body

I never said it was necessary, I said it would help.
A cobination of what I said along with other things would all help loose weight.


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Prince

I disagree.



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Maki Riddington

Prince as you frequently dissagree with TSB can you explain why you dissagree?

Thanks.

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Foodio

Just eat less food. Everyone is always trying to find ways to stuff their mouths.

Prince

Sure, by eating small, frequent meals you keep your metaboism high and it prevents spikes in blood sugar levels, it prevents you from over eating, when you skip meals your body will hold onto fat calories (survival mode) and burn muscle because that is the most readily available energy source. This will in turn lower your metabolism, making it that much harder to lose weight.

It's pretty simple, do you see it differently Maki?

Has TSB ever dieted for a contest, or even weight loss? I doubt it! From what I remember he has to eat 5,000 calories per day just to gain weight.



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Maki Riddington

*** I agree with the notion you disagree.
Just wanted to see why.



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TheSupremeBeing

OK this is what I posted "elsewhere":

Benefits of frequent feedings...
OK, it is often said that more meals are superior to less when it comes to dieting.

Some of the arguements are that frequent feedings keep the metabolism high throughout the day. But, let's look at this closer. Each macronutrient consumed requires some number of calories to digest, and this number doesn't change. So, say you eat 3000 cals in 6 meals, each meal = 500 cals. So, the whatever amount of cals needed to digest that meal would be burned. What if you ate 3000 cals in 2 meals? That's 1500 cals per meal, so the body would have to burn however many cals it takes to digest that meal. The metabolic rate is not changed.

Another arguement is that frequent feedings are required to keep amino acids available at all times. But, if you eat, for example, 30g of protein it will take about 2-3 hours to digest (depending on the protein source). But, if you were to eat 100g, it would take much longer to digest, for the sake of arguement let's say 6-8 hours (although it's prolly more). So, regardless amino acids are in the blood stream the same amount of time.

Another arguement is that the body will go into "starvation mode" if you don't frequently eat. But, if you are eating enough calories to maintain your weight then why would the body think it's starving? Remember, you still have the same amount of nutrients in the body between feedings, metabolic reaction is equal, etc...so that arguement is flawed.

OK so you like eating often, why not? Well, eating carbs often keeps insulin high. You may be thinking, "but insulin release will be the same". Perhaps, but insulin is release as a "spike", meaning it rises and falls quite rapidly. So, while a larger meal would have a higher spike it would return to normal before the next feeding. With frequent meals the spike may be lower, but since you are eating more often you keep the spike high, not letting it return to normal. High insulin = less ability to burn fat and higher potential for fat storage.

You may also be thinking that because the body can only absorb so much food at one time you will store fat with big meals. True, but if you don't eat often this newly stored fat will just be metabolized and used as energy later on. No harm done.

Less meals also means more hGH, which is a fat burning hormone...better yet.

And the reason I choose to eat more frequently is appetite and craving control, along with less cortisol release and more ease of eating more food. Basically, because it's easier to stick to. If you were to find it easier to stick to 2 meals per day, than 2 meals per day are superior.



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TheSupremeBeing

BTW Prince, yes I've dieted for fat loss a couple times. The first time I went from 15% to 10% in 6 weeks, and the second time (still going at it now) I've gone from 16% to currently 7% and planning on hitting 6% by the end of next week...it's been 9 weeks.

The plan I was going to recommend to him is basically the plan I followed this time, to go from 16% to 7% without any muscle loss as far as I can tell, and my piece of shit calipers concur.

For the first 6 weeks of dieting you use a 50/35/15 ratio of protein/carbs/fat, and you progressively lower calories by 200/week for 6 weeks.

After this, you take a week of "off" dieting to give yourself a break, don't gorge but don't supress either, this week is optional but it does help a lot.

Then, you go into a ketogenic diet for 4 weeks (maybe less or more, depending on how well it works), personally I started with a CKD, and am now going into a TKD for a few reasons.

With the CKD you eat protein and fat during the week with a 25-30% : 70-75% ratio, with 3 hours between meals and supplment with calcium, magnesium, multivitamin/mineral, and optionally fiber, creatine and glutamine.

On the weekends you carb load, the purpose of this is to saturate glycogen sotres with enough glucose to fuel your monday and teusday workouts, but prevent fat re-gain. So, lots 'o carbs (about 8-10g per kb of bodyweight), 1g of protein per pound, and little fat. Personally, I use a 36 hour carb load.

Before the carb load you perform a "depletion workout", this is high rep low rest period circuit training type workout, and you stop short of failure, very short, like 3-5 reps. Have about 25g of carbs before this workout, the purpose is to deplete muscle glyocgen as fully as possible, so they will take up as much glucose as possible during the carb load.

On a TKD you don't change your training at all, just follow the keto ratio's of 25-30% protein, 70-75% fat, and eat 25-50g of glucose based carbs (not fructose/fruit of dairy) before or after your workouts...whichever you prefer. I'm doing before.

After this you take a week of "off dieting" again, this should get glucose back in ya without much fat storage, as to prepare you for gaining again (if that's what you wanna do). Then, to come out of the diet, it is recommended that you use an isocaloric diet (33/33/33) and slowely go into this by slowly adding carbs and dropping fat.

A good place to reas about a CKD is here:
http://www.solid.net/lowcarb/lylemcd/

I could never find a similar reference for a TKD.

Additional optional supplements would be an ECA stack (I like dymetadrine xtreme), and green tea...both taken 2-3 times a day, I take both 3x a day and green tea whenever else I want some. Also some 5-HTP may be of use, as it's a carb suppresant, I use it 2x a day...50mg each dose.

That it, extremely effective, and keto is surprisingly easy to stick to and tastes damn great...for me anyhow.

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Maki Riddington

A better way of wording it instaed of using "healthy foods" would be to use the term "functional foods".

As for less frequent eatings, I have yet to see someone lose weight effectively and keep it off with 1-2 meals a day.

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cytrix

to The Supreme Being: i just read your reply regarding the TKD. i have been doing a high protein, low-fat, low-carb diet for two weeks, and i am tired of this low cal diet. i wanna switch to a TKD, and my question is, how many calories total do you consume then? some say regular maintenance (BW in lbsx15), some say 500 or 1000 below. which is quicker, does it really make a difference, because it would be easier to be able to eat more calories (of course only as protein and fat).

TheSupremeBeing

Well I pretty much knew my metabolic rate before starting the diet, so I went from there...but if I turned it into a formula it would be about bodyweight in pounds X 14.

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w8lifter

I always wanted to do a ckd but I'm too chicken shit I think. I just did a carb deplete and it was hard. Of course, I had to stay away from sodium at the time too. I'm guessing if that's not a problem there would be more food choices. Cheese and different meats and stuff.

The green tea...is that just regular old green tea from the grocery store? How do you drink it?

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TheSupremeBeing

I found the carb depletion and stuff to be very easy...the carb suppresant will help, so will diet coke and sugar free snacks.

I documented the whole thing over at wannabebig if you wanna see what I did.

Yeah, I just buy the green tea, nuke it, and drink it w/o anything in it, pretty good actually.

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cytrix

hi The Supreme Being (and everybody else too ), i'll try that bw in lbsx14. i will have 50g dextrose 30 min. before my training, do you suggest to add any protein powder and creatine to that? what about glutamine? how do you do it? when i'm not dieting i ususally have glutamine first, then 10min later dextrose with whey protein and creatine, everything right after my training. or should you just stick with the dextrose alone? thanx for your help!!