(Male) Is there any advantage in refeeding over two weeks instead of one?

Hi.

I have been on Lipotrim now for eight weeks and intend to do another two or maybe three. I know I'm planning a little far ahead but I thinking about the best way to refeed.

I am both worried that I might gain during the refeed period and also hoping that I still continue to lose. As the refeed is the adjustment part of the diet I am wondering if doint this over a longer time would help ease the change in more gradually and help avoid any weight gain.

If this is in fact the case then how would I go about it? Would I do the usual Day one one the first two days then the usual day two on the following two days, etc? Would doing the first week as normal be better then just repeat the last couple of days for another week?

I can't really decide but I really want to start refeeding soon so that I can take up my running again. I've been running twice (only 2km each time) in the last week and have felt quite good for it, apart from my lungs, but I do think if I'm going to get back up to my 10km runs I'll need the extra energy from some real food.

I've been on Lipotrim for 8 weeks and have lost 3st 2lbs. I'm hoping that in the next three weeks I can find another half stone but then I really will be down to an optimum weight.

Thanks for any advice you can pass on. And any food ideas would be more than welcome although I will say 'I don't eat Quorn!'

- Richard

Well done on your losses to date.
Many people who have done TFR for a few months do a careful refeed of repeating each day thus taking two weeks to finish refeed sheet.
If you follow the refeed sheet to the LETTER then you will either lose a little more or certainly minimise any water gain.
After refeed don't return to any old habits that you know cause you to gain weight. Try and find new foods that excite your taste buds. On TFR you have cleansed your palate and broken bad habits, so now take the opportunity to form new healthy ones.
Try less processed foods, eat more veg that grows above ground as it contains less starch. Eat berries, pears, apples. Have 1/4 of your plate as protein, 1/4 as starch( rice, potato), 1/2 as leafy greens or salad.
Keep up your water intake. Much of the time we feel peckish it is actually water our bodies crave.
Good luck and keep planning!

Thanks. I really don't want to mess this up. My sense of smell is a lot more acute now - I swear I can smell every ingredient in my wife's food! I know I'll have a whole new adventure with taste once I eat again and I'm sure I can rustle up a lot more healthy, tasty food than I'd been having.

My new kitchen will be ready in 2 or 3 weeks time and I'll have no excuse not to cooke decent nosh - something I enjoy doing anyway.

Portion sizes will be key for me as I often eat different food to my wife and end up eating meals for 2-4 by myself. Stopping that will go a long way to keeping things in check.

It's just the refeed part that is a little off-putting but I'm sure I'll do it ok really. What I find odd is that the refeed part is identical for both men and wome when TFR is different. It just doesn't seem right to me.

I have (not am) a bit of a poser . . .

. . . because I'm now only a couple of weeks from my refeed and I do plan on taking that part slowly and stretching it out over a longer period of a couple of weeks I'm wondering what people's opinion would be on allowing myself the odd Diet Coke now?

I'm not fussed about losing weight nowparticularly, I've been 100% so far but any weight I lose from now on in I consider purely as a bonus. If drinking Diet Coke stopped that loss I could cope with that but I'd hate to put any on.

Would it be kind of like a pre-refeed, possibly helping to keep the weight off?

I can't quite decide and as much as I'd like a Coke I'm not desperate either. 99% does not sound as great as 100% and I like the fact that I've managed to stick to the diet so well.

Decisions, decisions.

Hi MrC I know the peps on Slim & Save are allowed coke zero so it might be ok. I've not had any and I used to be addicted to diet coke but I don't really fancy it anymore...amazing how your test buds change! As you said it sounds better that you've been 100% rather than 99%. When are you refeeding? If your not worried about losing anymore why not start refeed sooner, just look at me I lost refeeding (WOW)!! My only advice now would be portion size and listen to your tummy when it's telling you it's full, I'm now learning it's ok to leave some food on your plate!!

I'm not refeeding yet because I've gutted my kitchen and it'll be another week or two before I've fitted it out again. I'm now sticking to TFR mainly for the convenience. I've decided that I will stay 100% while I'm on it else I would feel like I let something slip and I don't want that.

I'm really impressed that you lost refeeding (I saw it in your refeed thread) and I had picked up on your portion advice, amongst other useful things.

My wife tends not to eat the food I do so I intend cooking things that are somewhere in-between our normal tastes. That way I won't be cooking a huge meal and eating it all myself. I also have to get used to the freezing of meals for later as that is something I could just never get into doing before - I'd eat it or bin it.

I'm not sure I could leave food (but I might , we'll see) so I think sensible sized portions would be the way to go for me.

Thanks.

Coke zero is ok for ketosis because it has no citric acid in it... The exante forum says avoid lactic acid too if you can...

But coke is BAAAAD - all those nasty chemicals. :|

I drank 3 litres of the stuff this weekend and i'm still in ketosis but I feel exhausted today - first caffine in over a month and I've not felt like this since I quit caffine.