Hi everyone
I've just been reading around the forum for a day or two and am seriously considering starting to follow the Exante plan (Total Solution).
I'm just wondering if anyone could help me out with a few questions I have first please?
I am a 38yr old bloke, 4.5st overweight and pretty much inactive. I'm really not sure I can get by with only 600cals a day (maybe 800 if I have four packs I suppose). Once you get into Ketosis and your body starts using your fat reserves is it a lot easier to keep going than it sounds?? lol
I am going on holiday in approx 10 weeks. Is it maybe possible to lose say 3 stone in 10 weeks if adhering to the plan? 42lbs so I suppose that's 4lb a week on average!
if after a couple of weeks I add some exercise in I guess that would then make it more OK to add in some extra calories - say very very low carb things such as a portion of fish once a day (tea time perhaps). This would not take me out of ketosis and although it would increase overall calories the exercise would counteract this - would this slow down the fat loss by much??
Flavouring water - does anyone know of where to buy some sort of flavouring to make water more appealing. Are all squash drinks excluded? I know Pepsi etc is due to the citric acid, is this the same for squash? I'm not sure I can drink plain water all the time and don't like tea or coffee
Does staying on a very low calorie diet cause long term damage to your metabolism - does your body not instinctively slow down your metabolism as soon as it realises you are only eating 600cals per day. How long is it OK to stay on 600cals a day for?
My last question... (phew I hear you all say!!!) - when going away in 10 weeks time it's to an all you can eat resort. if I suddenly start eating carbs again on this week what would happen? If then reverting back to the 600cals a day when back at home would I be able to undo the damage caused by the week long lapse or would it be best to still try and avoid carbs during this week in order to stay in Ketosis?
I don't mind not going crazy and eating loads and I don't really drink alcohol so that's not going to be a problem.
I just need to sort myself out ASAP as I've got young kids and want to be able to go swimming with them etc without feeling so uncomfortable (well, I feel that bad that there's no way I'd go swimming at the moment).
I used to play a LOT of football and be super fit and I would never have imagined that I could end up like this - time to fix it now though
Many thanks in advance for any help/advice provided
Phil
I've just been reading around the forum for a day or two and am seriously considering starting to follow the Exante plan (Total Solution).
I'm just wondering if anyone could help me out with a few questions I have first please?
I am a 38yr old bloke, 4.5st overweight and pretty much inactive. I'm really not sure I can get by with only 600cals a day (maybe 800 if I have four packs I suppose). Once you get into Ketosis and your body starts using your fat reserves is it a lot easier to keep going than it sounds?? lol
I am going on holiday in approx 10 weeks. Is it maybe possible to lose say 3 stone in 10 weeks if adhering to the plan? 42lbs so I suppose that's 4lb a week on average!
if after a couple of weeks I add some exercise in I guess that would then make it more OK to add in some extra calories - say very very low carb things such as a portion of fish once a day (tea time perhaps). This would not take me out of ketosis and although it would increase overall calories the exercise would counteract this - would this slow down the fat loss by much??
Flavouring water - does anyone know of where to buy some sort of flavouring to make water more appealing. Are all squash drinks excluded? I know Pepsi etc is due to the citric acid, is this the same for squash? I'm not sure I can drink plain water all the time and don't like tea or coffee
Does staying on a very low calorie diet cause long term damage to your metabolism - does your body not instinctively slow down your metabolism as soon as it realises you are only eating 600cals per day. How long is it OK to stay on 600cals a day for?
My last question... (phew I hear you all say!!!) - when going away in 10 weeks time it's to an all you can eat resort. if I suddenly start eating carbs again on this week what would happen? If then reverting back to the 600cals a day when back at home would I be able to undo the damage caused by the week long lapse or would it be best to still try and avoid carbs during this week in order to stay in Ketosis?
I don't mind not going crazy and eating loads and I don't really drink alcohol so that's not going to be a problem.
I just need to sort myself out ASAP as I've got young kids and want to be able to go swimming with them etc without feeling so uncomfortable (well, I feel that bad that there's no way I'd go swimming at the moment).
I used to play a LOT of football and be super fit and I would never have imagined that I could end up like this - time to fix it now though
Many thanks in advance for any help/advice provided
Phil