(09-09-2013, 06:14 AM)timarie Wrote: I know this is really belated, but, in response to your most recent photos: WOW! Your controlled catabolism diet is really working on helping trim down your abdomen! Your hourglass shape is becoming even more noticeable than before, too. Your goals are in closer reach, and your doing a great job and reaping great progress! So proud of you!!! Keep it up, Abi!! You look great

Thanks! I'm actually going to go on a break from it for a little while and maintain maybe gain back slightly. I think it's time to think about starting building but I will need a barbell, dumbbells, and a set of weights. My targets for building will be entirely in that area. Tucking in the waist and toning and defining it slightly and building up the hips and butt. But especially the hips.

What I find amazing is that even seeing me and watching me succeed at this NO ONE in my family believes it can be done. STILL. I'm living breathing proof right before their eyes and they aren't seeing it happen. To them I just look like a dumb suicidal anorexic x.x

(09-09-2013, 06:14 AM)timarie Wrote: PS-- about the fiber, I read that somewhere too (about that you should have so much depending on how many calories you intake), but never actually sat down to do the math. I just became almost preoccupied with fiber as I am with protein. Doing the math now, I get AT LEAST 65 grams of fiber every day. That seems like a lot, but I think I need it because of all the protein I eat. So, I believe that more or less is needed depending on what foods make up those calories, of course. Learning from the past, protein can stop you up a bit!

Yeah. That actually does make a lot of sense. More sense than the official numbers.

We've gotta bear in mind that official numbers ARE based on the presumption that proteins are a minority not a majority of caloric intake. Which just seems ridiculous to me. If it's proteins and fats and fiber that we need, then we should be sticking to a quarter animal source and three quarters fatty plants with very high protein and fiber and folate. And when you follow those kinds of rules, everything else falls into place almost magically without much effort, including caloric needs, and very very little carbs, most of them fiber.

I don't know WHY the USDA and almost all nutritionists continue to push a high carb diet when even the USDA itself is forced to admit deep in their own documents that carbs serve no other purpose but as energy. And then with the problems carbs can cause in a diet, especially among certain genetic lines... It becomes quite damned obvious humans were never intended to be primarily grass eaters like the USDA would like us to think.