Weight Loss Thread

Dom, you got a link to where you go over your colon stuff? I'm just looking for more information about my colon stuff which is Ulcerative Colitis. I'm having a hell of a time with diet and weightloss right now.

Dom said:

I've been taking multivitamins on top of Dr prescribed vit d and I noticed drastic improvements in many areas, so I'll keep taking them, I'm just not sure how fasting might affect the timing or intake of them since the body has to process so much all in a short time, and I know that the body can only process a certain amount of some nutrients/vitamins etc... At once and just disposes of the rest.

Also, my entire GI process only takes 6 hours due to the colon stuff, so I likely absorb even less than the average person.

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In that case, I'd ask your doc what he thinks. Pills can break your fast, but given your conditions it is probably worth taking the small hit to fasting to keep feeling good in other areas.

You can also research online and see if anyone with similar vitamin needs has found good way to mitigate the issues.

Dom said:

If nothing else, I think fasting would help deal with the complications involved with having a reduced colon. Not needing to shit 6 times a day would be great.

What do you guys do for vitamins etc...?

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I never really notice anything from multi-vitamins, but i take a garden of life code men once a day or less. I buy them because I look at it as more like staving off dementia one more day, rather than providing any positive benefits now. Imagine hitting 80 and losing all control of your bowels and learning if only you had taken enough manganese and chromium in your 50's you would be fine... I tend to think of vitamins like that, not sure whether I'm enriching a lot of snake oil salesmen or not.

Also, I found this out very recently and I think it's so cool. When I was a kid and stayed up late, my Dad would make 1 sometimes 2 trips to the bathroom every night, my mom too, we have weak bladders or something. I started doing this too about 50% of the time in my mid 20's, but I found out how to sleep all the way through without depriving myself of water: Gatorade. For some reason electrolytes before bed let me sleep all night without moving. So the best 'vitamin' for me right now comes in sugar free gatorade powder packets.

Aren't leg cramps/pains often associated with a lack of potassium? I think the gatorade powders have all the major electrolytes, potassium included. So it makes sense it would help.

Well, the "daily recommended" levels are based on what is essentially junk science. Just look at the food pyramid. I think the problem would be not getting any potassium at all.

The gatorade powders do indeed have potassium though. So that should help him in theory.

The other problem people have is that drinking a shitload of water actually depletes your body of electrolytes, so if you aren't taking in salt and magnesium and potassium in larger amounts then you were before you started drinking lots of water then you're gonna feel like shit. You don't even need to make bone broth to get them, though, you can just heat up some beef stock or beef broth from a can or carton and drink it straight. I put more salt in it for taste, but it is super easy and a lot cheaper and healthier than gatorade.

I eat a fair amount of spinach and avocados, even when doing keto, which are both good sources of potassium. Avocados are a better source of potassium than bananas with way less carbs (especially sugar).

LiquidDeath said:

The other problem people have is that drinking a shitload of water actually depletes your body of electrolytes, so if you aren't taking in salt and magnesium and potassium in larger amounts then you were before you started drinking lots of water then you're gonna feel like shit. You don't even need to make bone broth to get them, though, you can just heat up some beef stock or beef broth from a can or carton and drink it straight. I put more salt in it for taste, but it is super easy and a lot cheaper and healthier than gatorade.

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Do you drink this daily? How much? My last blood panel last year, my potassium was on the lower side of normal but I bet it fluctuates.

Break said:

Do you drink this daily? How much? My last blood panel last year, my potassium was on the lower side of normal but I bet it fluctuates.

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Not daily. It is my go to when I start keto to ensure I don't get woozy, and it is what I do any time I get a headache that I know it's caffeine related.

Honestly, I would do it every day if I remembered to keep stocked on broth. My wife is not a fan of it, though, so it isn't a priority to ensure we're well stocked. In fact, this all makes me think I'm going to start drinking 8 oz a day again, even when I'm not doing keto. I drink so much water that it is bound to help out regardless.

Well 1 per day is half of the low end of the recommended dosage so... 4 sounds like it would probably still be fine just based on the fact that we live in a litigious country and I doubt they'd recommend a dosage that was even close to a toxic level.

Well I'm making myself get back into my good habits. Started losing weight about 5 years ago, started at 330+ got down to 165 at my lowest within the past two years and been just maintaining really, got back up to 174, but down a couple of pounds this week just doing what I did - no eating out and exercising every day. I'd like to get to about 160 but also tone up. Its annoying because I'm between a medium/large in my clothes, all my medium clothes was really starting to get a little too tight so thats what made me pump the brakes.

Anyone else have lower tolerance for sugar after losing weight? Lost 25 lbs / 6 months with the good ‘ol new-job-eat-less-bc -new-job-is-demandin? No specific diet. Just stress, less down time.

Like, fuck, do I need to exercise for real to get insulin resistance down / be able to eat candy like before? I like to read a lot. Not jog. Or lift weights. Fuck.

Beach vacation planned for summer. Time to get on the wagon and lose 20 lbs. Clean eating with a 750 cal/day deficit works like clockwork for me, but fuck if my life isn't worse off without beer and bread. Sigh.

Izo said:

Anyone else have lower tolerance for sugar after losing weight?

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No. I had "Hmm, you need to do something" insulin levels for a while when I was north of 220 lbs, but cleaned up immediately on getting sub-200. Likewise for lipid profile. I still have to watch sugar because I build fat instantly if I eat a lot of simple carbs.

Get near death ill will take the weight off. When it first happened 6 years ago I went from 195 to 175 pretty quickly. I gained most of it back pretty quickly as well. I'm down to just over 160 now pretty quickly again.