The ebook was never a good idea. Nobody cares how someone loses weight over 1 year especially at a time when so many more well known peeps are recording far quicker weight loss with keto and IF. Celebrities do it at will now for different roles.
You seem all too reluctant to forego your eating habits which have led to your obesity. There simply is no other way. Now you act as though you can get into shape by simply lifting. You cannot turn fat into muscle, this is a well known scientific fact. You can build some muscle depending on how hard and effectively you work at it but nobody will see those muscles til you lose about 80 pounds of fat. And as quickly as you build the muscles you will lose them when you quickly give up as you did with your Aussie weight loss program.
It has become increasingly obvious that in order to lose weight and keep it off, you have to eat better during a smaller window. Avoiding excess carbs, late night snacks and grazing throughout the day is the way to do it. A recent article in the NY times titled
"When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical for Health" points to what I've been telling you all along about eating in a much smaller window being far more beneficial for both controlling weight and better health overall. It does this by pointing to 2 significant studies that not only show it's not just about calories, but restricting yourself to eating in a smaller 8 or even 6 hour time window.
In 2012, Dr. Panda and his colleagues at the Salk Institute took genetically identical mice and split them into two groups. One had round-the-clock access to high-fat, high-sugar foods. The other ate the same foods but in an eight-hour daily window. Despite both groups consuming the same amount of calories, the mice that ate whenever they wanted got fat and sick while the mice on the time-restricted regimen did not: They were protected from obesity, fatty liver and metabolic disease.
Then the study with pre-diabetic peeps:
Inspired by this research, Dr. Peterson conducted a tightly controlled experiment in a small group of prediabetic men. In one phase of the study, the subjects ate their meals in a 12-hour daily window for five weeks. In the other phase, they were fed the same meals in a six-hour window beginning each morning. The researchers had the subjects eat enough food to maintain their weight so they could assess whether the time-restricted regimen had any health benefits unrelated to weight loss.
It did. On the time-restricted regimen, the men had lower insulin, reduced levels of oxidative stress, less nighttime hunger and significantly lower blood pressure. Their systolic pressure, the top number, fell by roughly 11 points, and their diastolic pressure dropped by 10 points.
“It was a pretty large effect,” Dr. Peterson said. “It was exciting but also shocking.”
So, easy to see, your idea of grazing throughout the day like a farm animal was as bad as I said it was and those same bad eating habits will continue to hold you back even if you do start hitting the gym.
