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endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
January 14 2014 16:55 GMT
#21
So from your description you drink a "moderate average" amount of 100mL of Baileys + 250mL of wine + 50mL of whisky a day and you wonder why "you feel bloated"? That's almost 500g of ethanol a week, which is WAY over the guidelines (~120g/week)
At least stop the Baileys, it's super processed, contains a lot of sugar and low quality fats.
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tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19188 Posts
January 14 2014 17:00 GMT
#22
On January 15 2014 01:27 Darkwhite wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2014 01:13 Slayer91 wrote:
On January 15 2014 00:35 Darkwhite wrote:
On January 15 2014 00:24 SixStrings wrote:
'Normal' diet doesn't do it for me anymore, I don't want to feel like a bloated piece of shit any longer.
So why wouldn't I try to pick one of the millions of diets out there?


Because a diet which says you can eat boar but not pig is just going to distract you from what you want to achieve instead of helping you.

Cutting back on sweets while drinking a bottle of Baileys, three bottles of red wine and a pint of whiskey every week is very backwards.

Coffee isn't paleo either, if you really need to know.


how is it backward? cutting back on sweet stuff is generally a good idea, cutting back on grain is generally a good idea, cutting back on alcohol is a good idea too but its better than nothing if you dont

i said you can eat boar but not pig as a joke, i think the origin of the diet isn;t important and just eating good food is
like i think keto involves not eating any fat? fat is pretty healthy actually as far as i know just in moderation (and not "saturated" fats right?)


Keto involves eating no carbohydrates and lots of fat and protein.

It is backwards because it takes focus away from what's important - avoiding tobacco and alcohol, calorie total, regular meals, hydration, regular and sufficient sleep, food allergies - and obsesses over irrelevant minutiae such as what sorts of nuts are yes-foods and no-foods.

Actually, you don't seem to understand keto at all. There are specific points about tobacco, notes about alcohol (won't knock you out of ketosis but it doesn't do any good), caloric totals are important, regular meals are important, hydration is super important (since the body will retain a lot less water than people are used to), and sleep isn't ignored either. And if you read something about ignoring food allergies then your information source sucks. And the diet isn't a single set of instructions. It accounts for up to 150g of carbs per day, or as strict as 20g per day. The "irrelevant minutiae" are generally irrelevant minutiae for someone on a 100g intake, but for someone who has decided to go with 20g it's neither irrelevant nor minutiae.

tl;dr I think you read a single article by someone who doesn't like keto and have assumed that the author knew what he was talking about
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Paraietta
Profile Joined April 2011
United Kingdom130 Posts
January 14 2014 17:02 GMT
#23
Wow I think you probably need to sort out your alcohol consumption before you bother with any other diet changes. A bottle of baileys a week in your morning coffee?
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Darkwhite
Profile Joined June 2007
Norway352 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-14 17:31:39
January 14 2014 17:16 GMT
#24
On January 15 2014 02:00 tofucake wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2014 01:27 Darkwhite wrote:
On January 15 2014 01:13 Slayer91 wrote:
On January 15 2014 00:35 Darkwhite wrote:
On January 15 2014 00:24 SixStrings wrote:
'Normal' diet doesn't do it for me anymore, I don't want to feel like a bloated piece of shit any longer.
So why wouldn't I try to pick one of the millions of diets out there?


Because a diet which says you can eat boar but not pig is just going to distract you from what you want to achieve instead of helping you.

Cutting back on sweets while drinking a bottle of Baileys, three bottles of red wine and a pint of whiskey every week is very backwards.

Coffee isn't paleo either, if you really need to know.


how is it backward? cutting back on sweet stuff is generally a good idea, cutting back on grain is generally a good idea, cutting back on alcohol is a good idea too but its better than nothing if you dont

i said you can eat boar but not pig as a joke, i think the origin of the diet isn;t important and just eating good food is
like i think keto involves not eating any fat? fat is pretty healthy actually as far as i know just in moderation (and not "saturated" fats right?)


Keto involves eating no carbohydrates and lots of fat and protein.

It is backwards because it takes focus away from what's important - avoiding tobacco and alcohol, calorie total, regular meals, hydration, regular and sufficient sleep, food allergies - and obsesses over irrelevant minutiae such as what sorts of nuts are yes-foods and no-foods.

Actually, you don't seem to understand keto at all. There are specific points about tobacco, notes about alcohol (won't knock you out of ketosis but it doesn't do any good), caloric totals are important, regular meals are important, hydration is super important (since the body will retain a lot less water than people are used to), and sleep isn't ignored either. And if you read something about ignoring food allergies then your information source sucks. And the diet isn't a single set of instructions. It accounts for up to 150g of carbs per day, or as strict as 20g per day. The "irrelevant minutiae" are generally irrelevant minutiae for someone on a 100g intake, but for someone who has decided to go with 20g it's neither irrelevant nor minutiae.

tl;dr I think you read a single article by someone who doesn't like keto and have assumed that the author knew what he was talking about

My second paragraph isn't about keto, it is about paleo (specifically the blogger's interpretation of it), which is what the topic is about as well.

tl:dr I think you didn't read my post in context of the post I replied to and made a fool of yourself.
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SixStrings
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
Germany2046 Posts
January 14 2014 17:18 GMT
#25
I feel like you guys focus quite a bit on the drinking part.

I also drink about two liters of water each day.
Jh
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Finland151 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-14 17:29:05
January 14 2014 17:27 GMT
#26
Well ok then lets not talk about the drinking.

On January 14 2014 23:03 SixStrings wrote:
How do you get enough protein to go to the gym regularly when doing Paleo?
I know that I usually feel the need to stuff my tummy with tons of pasta the day after.


This pasta binging is due to you using up all your glycogen (stored carbs in muscle and liver) during your (insane and stupid) 2+2+4hr workouts. Not because of a lack of protein.

This brings us to your gym program, which appears to be shit because no one "goes hard" for that long except Arnold. And you're not Arnold. Get a program that focuses on squats, deads, bench press and chins. You can add in dips, OHP and maybe a set of abs if you want, but keep it simple. You should be in and out of the gym in an hour. Good luck
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farvacola
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States18845 Posts
January 14 2014 17:30 GMT
#27
While it is certainly healthier to keep water intake up alongside an alcohol habit, the rate at which you are drinking is, given what you've provided, a huge obstacle in the path of any diets success. You ought to think of the body as complex system with a general capacity for "activity"; this activity can take the form of digestion, muscle breakdown/growth, respiration, metabolism, etc. A diet is a "push" that encourages the body to change its processes, usually towards some sort of goal like fat loss. Alcohol consumption as you've described it, the most noteworthy thing being that you consume it throughout the day, is a huge stressor and limiting factor insofar as your body's capacity for process change is concerned. What I'm getting at is that you are telling your body to focus on alcohol metabolism with the things you drink when what you'd want, presumably, is to tell your body to start shedding some of that pesky stomach/leg fat. No amount of keto is going to overcome this daily reliance on alcohol, not in a healthy way at least, and in fact may worsen your overall condition in that keto leaves the body somewhat more vulnerable to particular types of exogenous stress (alcohol metabolism). Figure out your priorities (some people just want to drink) then try a regular diet first; only after you find success with something more conventional should you consider a keto diet.
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Grumbels
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Netherlands7031 Posts
January 14 2014 17:35 GMT
#28
My parents go through over a bottle of wine a day, I guess that's bad? My mother's apparent alcoholism is one of the reasons I rarely drink myself.
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SixStrings
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
Germany2046 Posts
January 14 2014 17:36 GMT
#29
On January 15 2014 02:27 Jh wrote:
Well ok then lets not talk about the drinking.

Show nested quote +
On January 14 2014 23:03 SixStrings wrote:
How do you get enough protein to go to the gym regularly when doing Paleo?
I know that I usually feel the need to stuff my tummy with tons of pasta the day after.


This pasta binging is due to you using up all your glycogen (stored carbs in muscle and liver) during your (insane and stupid) 2+2+4hr workouts. Not because of a lack of protein.

This brings us to your gym program, which appears to be shit because no one "goes hard" for that long except Arnold. And you're not Arnold. Get a program that focuses on squats, deads, bench press and chins. You can add in dips, OHP and maybe a set of abs if you want, but keep it simple. You should be in and out of the gym in an hour. Good luck


That's a misunderstanding, I do 10 hours, not 30 hours a week. Two on one Tuesdays, two on Thursdays and four on Saturdays.
tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19188 Posts
January 14 2014 17:41 GMT
#30
On January 15 2014 02:16 Darkwhite wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2014 02:00 tofucake wrote:
On January 15 2014 01:27 Darkwhite wrote:
On January 15 2014 01:13 Slayer91 wrote:
On January 15 2014 00:35 Darkwhite wrote:
On January 15 2014 00:24 SixStrings wrote:
'Normal' diet doesn't do it for me anymore, I don't want to feel like a bloated piece of shit any longer.
So why wouldn't I try to pick one of the millions of diets out there?


Because a diet which says you can eat boar but not pig is just going to distract you from what you want to achieve instead of helping you.

Cutting back on sweets while drinking a bottle of Baileys, three bottles of red wine and a pint of whiskey every week is very backwards.

Coffee isn't paleo either, if you really need to know.


how is it backward? cutting back on sweet stuff is generally a good idea, cutting back on grain is generally a good idea, cutting back on alcohol is a good idea too but its better than nothing if you dont

i said you can eat boar but not pig as a joke, i think the origin of the diet isn;t important and just eating good food is
like i think keto involves not eating any fat? fat is pretty healthy actually as far as i know just in moderation (and not "saturated" fats right?)


Keto involves eating no carbohydrates and lots of fat and protein.

It is backwards because it takes focus away from what's important - avoiding tobacco and alcohol, calorie total, regular meals, hydration, regular and sufficient sleep, food allergies - and obsesses over irrelevant minutiae such as what sorts of nuts are yes-foods and no-foods.

Actually, you don't seem to understand keto at all. There are specific points about tobacco, notes about alcohol (won't knock you out of ketosis but it doesn't do any good), caloric totals are important, regular meals are important, hydration is super important (since the body will retain a lot less water than people are used to), and sleep isn't ignored either. And if you read something about ignoring food allergies then your information source sucks. And the diet isn't a single set of instructions. It accounts for up to 150g of carbs per day, or as strict as 20g per day. The "irrelevant minutiae" are generally irrelevant minutiae for someone on a 100g intake, but for someone who has decided to go with 20g it's neither irrelevant nor minutiae.

tl;dr I think you read a single article by someone who doesn't like keto and have assumed that the author knew what he was talking about

My second paragraph isn't about keto, it is about paleo (specifically the blogger's interpretation of it), which is what the topic is about as well.

tl:dr I think you didn't read my post in context of the post I replied to and made a fool of yourself.

The way it's worded led me to believe you were still talking about keto

Regardless, paleo is similar in that there are different levels of strictness, and "irrelevenat minutiae" aren't always that. Water intake is also not as unimportant as you make it seem. Paleo does favor "eat until full" rather than counting calories though.
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Jh
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Finland151 Posts
January 14 2014 17:42 GMT
#31
On January 15 2014 02:36 SixStrings wrote:
That's a misunderstanding, I do 10 hours, not 30 hours a week. Two on one Tuesdays, two on Thursdays and four on Saturdays.


I understood you. But four hours at the gym in one go? Lifting heavy? Mad. I spend 3 hours/week at the gym. It's plenty for making strength gains. And I'm on a cut at the moment!
what
Darkwhite
Profile Joined June 2007
Norway352 Posts
January 14 2014 17:45 GMT
#32
On January 15 2014 02:41 tofucake wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2014 02:16 Darkwhite wrote:
On January 15 2014 02:00 tofucake wrote:
On January 15 2014 01:27 Darkwhite wrote:
On January 15 2014 01:13 Slayer91 wrote:
On January 15 2014 00:35 Darkwhite wrote:
On January 15 2014 00:24 SixStrings wrote:
'Normal' diet doesn't do it for me anymore, I don't want to feel like a bloated piece of shit any longer.
So why wouldn't I try to pick one of the millions of diets out there?


Because a diet which says you can eat boar but not pig is just going to distract you from what you want to achieve instead of helping you.

Cutting back on sweets while drinking a bottle of Baileys, three bottles of red wine and a pint of whiskey every week is very backwards.

Coffee isn't paleo either, if you really need to know.


how is it backward? cutting back on sweet stuff is generally a good idea, cutting back on grain is generally a good idea, cutting back on alcohol is a good idea too but its better than nothing if you dont

i said you can eat boar but not pig as a joke, i think the origin of the diet isn;t important and just eating good food is
like i think keto involves not eating any fat? fat is pretty healthy actually as far as i know just in moderation (and not "saturated" fats right?)


Keto involves eating no carbohydrates and lots of fat and protein.

It is backwards because it takes focus away from what's important - avoiding tobacco and alcohol, calorie total, regular meals, hydration, regular and sufficient sleep, food allergies - and obsesses over irrelevant minutiae such as what sorts of nuts are yes-foods and no-foods.

Actually, you don't seem to understand keto at all. There are specific points about tobacco, notes about alcohol (won't knock you out of ketosis but it doesn't do any good), caloric totals are important, regular meals are important, hydration is super important (since the body will retain a lot less water than people are used to), and sleep isn't ignored either. And if you read something about ignoring food allergies then your information source sucks. And the diet isn't a single set of instructions. It accounts for up to 150g of carbs per day, or as strict as 20g per day. The "irrelevant minutiae" are generally irrelevant minutiae for someone on a 100g intake, but for someone who has decided to go with 20g it's neither irrelevant nor minutiae.

tl;dr I think you read a single article by someone who doesn't like keto and have assumed that the author knew what he was talking about

My second paragraph isn't about keto, it is about paleo (specifically the blogger's interpretation of it), which is what the topic is about as well.

tl:dr I think you didn't read my post in context of the post I replied to and made a fool of yourself.

The way it's worded led me to believe you were still talking about keto

Regardless, paleo is similar in that there are different levels of strictness, and "irrelevenat minutiae" aren't always that. Water intake is also not as unimportant as you make it seem. Paleo does favor "eat until full" rather than counting calories though.

The way it was worded misled you, there was no fault in your reading of it.

Just like how listing hydration under what's important misled you to think I made it seem unimportant.
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opisska
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Poland8852 Posts
January 14 2014 17:55 GMT
#33
Why does anyone think that picking a list of dietary requirements based on some mix of observation, dietary knowledge and vague handvawing about stone age is going to do him any good? The whole approach "this is allowed and this not" is absurd beyond comprehension. You should get familier with the diet and try to understand whether it has positive effects on people and which parts of the approach are the core of these effects and then pick those and think how you could naturally incorporate them into your existing habits. Turning your whole eating habits upside down overnight according to a list somebody slapped together using questionable assuptions will almost certainly not lead to a long-term positive effect, because you will probably never come back to it even if you endure your planned 8-week period.
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SixStrings
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
Germany2046 Posts
January 14 2014 18:00 GMT
#34
What appealed to me was the intuitive sense the diet makes and the simple distinction between things you're supposed to eat and things you're not.

There's so much (mis)information about that one would have to spend ages to make informed decisions about nutrition, so I yearned for some simplicity.
SixStrings
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
Germany2046 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-14 18:04:44
January 14 2014 18:04 GMT
#35
On January 15 2014 02:42 Jh wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2014 02:36 SixStrings wrote:
That's a misunderstanding, I do 10 hours, not 30 hours a week. Two on one Tuesdays, two on Thursdays and four on Saturdays.


I understood you. But four hours at the gym in one go? Lifting heavy? Mad. I spend 3 hours/week at the gym. It's plenty for making strength gains. And I'm on a cut at the moment!


I may just be taking longer breaks than you do. I take 90 seconds between body weight sets, 120 seconds between weight lifting ones and 60 seconds between exercises, so I really have more breaks than actual workout.
d00p
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
711 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-14 18:19:06
January 14 2014 18:17 GMT
#36
On January 15 2014 03:04 SixStrings wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2014 02:42 Jh wrote:
On January 15 2014 02:36 SixStrings wrote:
That's a misunderstanding, I do 10 hours, not 30 hours a week. Two on one Tuesdays, two on Thursdays and four on Saturdays.


I understood you. But four hours at the gym in one go? Lifting heavy? Mad. I spend 3 hours/week at the gym. It's plenty for making strength gains. And I'm on a cut at the moment!


I may just be taking longer breaks than you do. I take 90 seconds between body weight sets, 120 seconds between weight lifting ones and 60 seconds between exercises, so I really have more breaks than actual workout.


It's still way too much no matter what your goal is. Have you come up with your gym program yourself or have you looked it up online or something? Maybe consider consulting a trainer for a couple of sessions? I don't mean to sound condescending but I'm astounded at your 10 h a week. Especially the 4 h session.

Your breaks are pretty standard afaik.
Grumbels
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Netherlands7031 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-14 18:25:42
January 14 2014 18:19 GMT
#37
On January 15 2014 03:00 SixStrings wrote:
What appealed to me was the intuitive sense the diet makes and the simple distinction between things you're supposed to eat and things you're not.

There's so much (mis)information about that one would have to spend ages to make informed decisions about nutrition, so I yearned for some simplicity.

What misinformation?

If you want to eat in healthy fashion, just follow these rules:

avoid sugary, salty, fatty processed foods
eat lots of vegetables, including raw&green vegetables (especially leaf&cabbage-type)
don't eat too much in one go
eat foods that are hard to digest such as dairy, grains, legumes in moderation
(and otherwise just follow common advice)
Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views--amen, so be it.
Rimstalker
Profile Joined May 2011
Germany734 Posts
January 14 2014 18:46 GMT
#38
On January 14 2014 23:03 SixStrings wrote:

- sweet potatoes (good luck finding those in Germany, btw.)



Rewe has them here from time to time
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SixStrings
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
Germany2046 Posts
January 14 2014 19:16 GMT
#39
On January 15 2014 03:17 d00p wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2014 03:04 SixStrings wrote:
On January 15 2014 02:42 Jh wrote:
On January 15 2014 02:36 SixStrings wrote:
That's a misunderstanding, I do 10 hours, not 30 hours a week. Two on one Tuesdays, two on Thursdays and four on Saturdays.


I understood you. But four hours at the gym in one go? Lifting heavy? Mad. I spend 3 hours/week at the gym. It's plenty for making strength gains. And I'm on a cut at the moment!


I may just be taking longer breaks than you do. I take 90 seconds between body weight sets, 120 seconds between weight lifting ones and 60 seconds between exercises, so I really have more breaks than actual workout.


It's still way too much no matter what your goal is. Have you come up with your gym program yourself or have you looked it up online or something? Maybe consider consulting a trainer for a couple of sessions? I don't mean to sound condescending but I'm astounded at your 10 h a week. Especially the 4 h session.

Your breaks are pretty standard afaik.


Way too much?

I'm surprised by this, I really thought that I'm on the lower side of working out hours.
Don't lean guys do that as a half-time job?

Even after doing two hours at the gym I don't feel like I have done all the stuff I should have done...
Birdie
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
New Zealand4438 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-01-14 20:24:03
January 14 2014 20:15 GMT
#40
On January 15 2014 04:16 SixStrings wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2014 03:17 d00p wrote:
On January 15 2014 03:04 SixStrings wrote:
On January 15 2014 02:42 Jh wrote:
On January 15 2014 02:36 SixStrings wrote:
That's a misunderstanding, I do 10 hours, not 30 hours a week. Two on one Tuesdays, two on Thursdays and four on Saturdays.


I understood you. But four hours at the gym in one go? Lifting heavy? Mad. I spend 3 hours/week at the gym. It's plenty for making strength gains. And I'm on a cut at the moment!


I may just be taking longer breaks than you do. I take 90 seconds between body weight sets, 120 seconds between weight lifting ones and 60 seconds between exercises, so I really have more breaks than actual workout.


It's still way too much no matter what your goal is. Have you come up with your gym program yourself or have you looked it up online or something? Maybe consider consulting a trainer for a couple of sessions? I don't mean to sound condescending but I'm astounded at your 10 h a week. Especially the 4 h session.

Your breaks are pretty standard afaik.


Way too much?

I'm surprised by this, I really thought that I'm on the lower side of working out hours.
Don't lean guys do that as a half-time job?

Even after doing two hours at the gym I don't feel like I have done all the stuff I should have done...

If you're doing full body workouts, via compound movement free weights, then you will have your entire body worked out in an hour, often less when you start off.

If you're doing isolation movements you have to spend far longer in the gym because it takes longer to hit the same amount of muscles that compound movements hit, and you have to work out more days a week usually.

Have a look at something like Stronglifts 5x5 or similar for a workout program (website is turrible though, just turrible, but the information is generally correct). Basically you want to be doing compound movement free weights (e.g. bench press, squats, deadlift, overhead press, pullup/chinups, some form of rows (bent over rows or w/e), any big compound movements that target numerous muscle groups at once.

For example, in squats you're focusing all of your upper leg muscles but you use a lot of stabilizing muscles to do a squat, which means that pretty much every muscle in your body is seeing some action. Bench press does arms and chest but uses upper back and core for stabilizing, deadlift does your back and legs but uses your arms and core as well, and so on.

EDIT
Also as far as consulting trainers go, it's very hit and miss. Some don't know what they're doing.
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