I'm not on the diet you're claiming, I constructed something myself based on common sense, good science and a bit of gut feeling.
Essentially, I boosted my protein intake, cut out as many refined carbs as possible, limited myself to 1500-1800 calories per day and did a shitload of exercise, focusing particularly on muscle building. I ended up doing 'drop sets', whereby you go to the absolute limits of what you can press on each machine, do as many reps as possible, rest for 15 seconds, drop the weight by one notch, rinse and repeat until you just aren't straining anymore. The workouts for this are quite epically hard work, but I was losing about an inch every fortnight.
I fell off the wagon for 5 weeks but I'm back on it, but this time I'm cutting down to about 1200 - 1500 calories daily and I'm aiming to consume no more than 200 calories from fat daily. This time I'm going to do weights twice a week and fit in 3 sessions of cardio a week (not mixing cardio and weights into one session, bar the 5 minute warmup before hitting the weights i usually do).
Anyway, it worked for me, so I'm going to write a book /duck
Er, no
Essentially, I boosted my protein intake, cut out as many refined carbs as possible, limited myself to 1500-1800 calories per day and did a shitload of exercise, focusing particularly on muscle building. I ended up doing 'drop sets', whereby you go to the absolute limits of what you can press on each machine, do as many reps as possible, rest for 15 seconds, drop the weight by one notch, rinse and repeat until you just aren't straining anymore. The workouts for this are quite epically hard work, but I was losing about an inch every fortnight.
I fell off the wagon for 5 weeks but I'm back on it, but this time I'm cutting down to about 1200 - 1500 calories daily and I'm aiming to consume no more than 200 calories from fat daily. This time I'm going to do weights twice a week and fit in 3 sessions of cardio a week (not mixing cardio and weights into one session, bar the 5 minute warmup before hitting the weights i usually do).
Anyway, it worked for me, so I'm going to write a book /duck
-- elpenguin/james