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Incredible motivational video
Amazing.
gretchenlin nailed it. Brazilian steakhouses are an SCD wonderland. The salad bar to start usually has some awesome veggies and salad. And then...
Re: Any Tips for Only a Small Gain on Treat Day?
You will gain weight because eating carbs replenishes the glycogen that has been running low all week due to eating SCD. If you fast the day before, you will deplete them even further and you mig...
Re: Changing cheat day for 1 week
No problem. Enjoy your holiday and don't give it a second thought. Going to 5 days only becomes a problem if you are constantly doing a 5 day interval. That would mean you have an extra cheat d...
A nice video that explains why everyone responds differently to SCD
I really liked this. Really hits home on how we are all different when it comes to weight loss or muscle building and the importance of tracking your data so you can figure out what works for you...
Re: SCD versus IF
I vote for you to be our official 5:2 tester and report back. I tried 16/8 and didn't see any changes in weight loss but I kindof liked the skipping breakfast part and kindof didn't like stuffing...
SCD is not very good for bulking unless you eat a LOT. It is tough to build muscle while in a caloric deficit. You can make some small gains as...
I'll ask a question and then maybe change my answer: Why are you lifting? Are you lifting to build strength, muscle or both? Are you skinny and...
Good protein shakes have less sugar and carbs than a cup of broccoli.
Re: Occam's protocol + swimming consecutively?
Occom's is meant to put serious stress on your muscles and they react by growing. But if you are truely doing Occams, you should not be able to swim afterwards. 7 reps at a 5x5 cadence to comple...
Your data show no changes. At least as far as I can tell. You weigh 2 lbs less, but there isn't a body fat measuring device in the world that co...
Nothing in that chart would get me worried. All of those numbers are well within the error probability associated with bioimpedance measuring dev...
Re: Help! Losing muscle mass, body fat keeps increasing
How long have you been tracking your BF% on the scale? I track mine almost every day via multiple methods and I can gain or lose 2-3 lbs of muscle day to day. That clearly is not really the case...
Why we gain weight on cheat day
Saw this on another forum and thought it might help folks not freak out so much on cheat day when they gain a lot of lbs. It's normal, and good for you. [BEGIN QUOTE] The reason most people th...
Re: Hitting a plateau
One week is not a plateau. It's a data point. Stick to SCD for another month and see what happens. I have had myriad one week pauses and many two weeks pauses, especially if I had a period of n...
Re: How long to to 4HB before break?
Congrats on your progress so far. You are doing great. SCD for life, right? I would keep doing what you are doing and only change when you hit a stall. And a stall is staying at the same wei...
Re: 4 week check in
Congrats! It looks like you are doing everything right and are set up for success. If you stall on weight, keep track of those inches. I would much rather lose inches than pounds.
Re: Cheat day! :D
Happy anniversary! Enjoy your day.
Richard, I am tomcornhole on MFP. Send me a friend request if you would like. Always nice to have SCD friends on there. It isn't very SCD frien...
I don't they are going to answer because the post was from last Nov. But it is a great topic.
Re: Science behind 30in30 rule
You already know what Tim says in the book with anecdotes and some limited sciency stuff. The only other studies I have seen on the topic relate only to eating breakfast vs. not eating breakfast....
There are a lot of thoughts on cheat day and different approaches. I have always cheated like crazy. The only thing I do now is make sure my lif...
Follow the program and we an help you. Follow it 4 days a week and that is a different program.
I added magnesium to my to get list.
Re: 20 grams of protein per meal?
The 20g is the weight of the protein inside something else. Not sure where you could find 20g of pure protein. I think they sell it at the GNC shops, but protein in a 3oz filet mignon is about 2...
Re: Losing regularity
Have you changed anything else besides food? Supplements really got me all buggered up from the exhaust standpoint. I was a 3x a day kinda guy before SCD. That went down to 2x a day when I firs...
Re: Week One Complete!
I was a sweetaholic. When I started SCD, I was going crazy. I was weak and almost failed completely. I immediately bought some Quest protein bars and scarfed those down (4 a day) to tackle the ...
Re: Giving up artificial sweeteners
I think it's a great experiment. I wish I had some data to help you out, but I don't. I started SCD drinking a LOT of diet coke (1.5L a day). I slowly weened myself off of it by week 12. I got...
Re: Getting made fun of because of your diet?
Don't get a lot of people making fun of my diet because they are mostly on it, too. But I did get a nice compliment from the neighbor gal yesterday. She said she was driving by and had to slow ...
That last part is probably the most important. Knowing an absolute accurate value for bf% is interesting in so far as you now have the number. B...
You can't eat too much. You'll find lots of articles on how too much will cause kidney failure. You'll find 10x articles on how it doesn't. For...
Any protein. It all counts.
I have taken every supplement Tim has recommended at one point or another. Never found any of them to have an effect on my weight loss. Even PAG...
Re: Why no exercise for the first 8-12 weeks?
That's a great question. Tim explains it in the book but all over the book. The biggest point I just pulled out after re-reading the sections that talk about this: exercising can lead to reward...
Re: Digestive enzymes: is it really must?
I had the same thought a couple of weeks ago and even went so far as to order some probiotics off Amazon. They showed up last week and I haven't taken them. I really don't have any digestive is...
Re: Had 4 glasses of wine last night
wombat is correct. SCD is not meant to drive you nuts. Don't adjust anything to compensate. Just continue on and forget about it. This is a very important aspect of SCD and why it differs from...
Re: A newbie's numbers after Week 1!
Excellent! Glad to here more good news from the 4HP crowd.
Re: Safest way to increase calories?
You are not getting enough calories and that is why you are not losing weight. Period, dot, end of story. People and doctors love Very Low Calorie (VLC) diets because they produce instant and us...
Thanks Akane. Definitely exciting times. I forgot to mention that my actual weight this morning was 184.7. My home scale is.9 lbs heavy but I h...
Re: Success Story
Outstanding! I was hoping others would post success stories. More, more, more! We tend to get on technical runs on this forum sometimes and it's nice to get some feel good stuff popping up. So...
Re: help with measurements
The best way to find your actual waist is to bend to the side. The place that bends is your waist. This varies for everyone. And if you had a belly flap like I did, it will hang over your actua...