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Originally Posted by Amorphous  If you're trying to diet, fruit is arguably one of the most retarded things you can eat. Fructose is a sugar that cannot be used to refill muscle glycogen so unless it's burned for energy it turns to fat most of the time, unless it refilled liver glycogen but the odds are you aren't glycogen depleted enough for this to occur. And if you eat alot of fructose you also get higher cholesterol. Not to mention fruit has little, if any, protein and no fat which means you will get hungry very quickly after you eat some fruit.
Fructose has a HUGE set of problems that occur with it and IMO fruit is dangerously marketed as a health food. I agree eating fruit is probably better than 95% of people's diets but to say it's simply something amazing to eat is a lie. Vegetables such as kale, spinach, broccoli, tomatoes, green and red peppers are all just as packed with antioxidants, fiber and nutrients as fruit but do not cause insulin spikes or increase cholesterol.
Gatorade is also terrible unless pre/post workout, and that means a lifting workout or a sprint workout, not steady state cardio. If you drink it before a 45 minute elliptical session you will be seriously stunting your progress.
If you wanna burn fat there are lots of snacks to eat. One of my favorites as I am on a ketogenic diet is melted mozzarella cheese on top of pepperoni. I microwave it for 60 seconds and it's f'ing delicious, has zero carbs and will satisfy your hunger for awhile.
In general, if you are chubby, you'd be best off, in my opinion, if you began to restrict carbs drastically and increase fat intake to 60% of your calories, making sure to eat mostly Omega-3 fats as they can really help increase your insulin sensitivity.
I say go for a hardcore ketogenic diet, coupled with low intensity cardio 4-5 days a week, should have you looking pretty shredded within 10-12 weeks. |
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great post, literally everything I was gonna say. A couple more things to try:
get a good CASEIN (not whey) protein powder to use as a meal replacement shake or snack. Make sure it's casein because whey is digested too quickly by the body and will leave you hungry in like an hour. Casein digests slowly over 3-7 hours. I like biotest's low carb metabolic drive myself.
As for workouts, do some low intensity cardio sure, but add some high intensity intervals in there too: sprint for 20 seconds, walk for 40, repeat 10 times. Or try the tabata method: pick a compound exercise (pushups, bodyweight squats, sprinting, kettlebell swings, or thrusters) and do it intensely for 20 seconds. Take 10 seconds rest, and do it again 7 more times. Each 'round' is 30 seconds, for a total of 4 minutes on each exercise. I'll usually do 3 exercises- a leg, push, and pull- for 12 minutes and call it a day. killer fat burn.
I'm also a fan of cyclical ketogenic diets- eat as few carbs as possible all week then have a 'carb up' day on the weekend or every 5 days or so to keep your body from adapting to the low carb diet.
Finally- ditch all calorie drinks, yes the gatorade too. Unless you run marathons you really don't need the extra calories. Veggies like broccoli, lettuce, and celery are your friends: they fill you up, have high fiber, and are virtually calorie free.
good luck man, have a blast at college!
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