Metabolic diet by Dr. Goglia- "nutritionist to the stars"

Has anyone heard of or tried the metabolic diet or the book Turn Up the Heat? It's premise lies in eating for your metabolic type, small frequent meals (7 per day), and enough water. Dr. Goglia says there are 3 types of metabolisms- carb- efficient (23% of population), fat-protien efficient (74%) and dual metabolism (3%). Using a lipid panel done through a blood test, your metabolic type can be determined and a diet and exercise regimen is recommended for you that changes each week.

Dr. Goglia says the idea of the diet is to "turn up the heat" of your metabolism to make it the most efficient it can be, even at rest. He calculates the amount of calories you should be eating by using your active BMR in order to fully activate your metabolism. He says by doing this, you will lose body fat and gain lean muscle.

So here is my question: Everything I have learned about weight loss before this book says ultimately CICO is the way to lose weight. Whether it's through restricting one food group or another, CICO is what is happening in the body. This nutrition plan doesn't rely on CICO. How could this work?

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Will cycling twice a day actually help me lose weight or should I find something else to do?

Hi everyone! Long time lurker, first time poster. I've been doing CICO on/off for the last 3 years or so and fell off the wagon last June after discovering cheesecake, which was a doubly-bad idea seeing as I'm lactose intolerant.

I'm ready to get back on the wagon and ride it all the way into health-ville, but I have a couple of questions first.

First up: me! I'm 5'4" and currently around 175lbs. I say 'around' because I don't own a scale, although I ordered a new one which is due to arrive soon, and that's what I weighed last time I checked.

In the last few months I've managed to make some changes such as completely cutting chocolate out of my diet and attempting to get at least 2,000 steps in a day. I lead a VERY sedentary life because my job involves me working from home and being on call 24/7. I'm currently eating around 1,500 calories/day.

I have an exercise bike. For the last week or so, I've been waking up, cycling 5km, going about my day, and cycling another 5km in the evening.

The question: Is this beneficial? Will it speed up my weight loss in any way? Even if it won't help with weight loss, should I keep doing it anyway because it makes my muscles feel nice and gives me endorphins? Should I lower my calories?

Thank you for any help you can give! ❤️

(I also accept vegetarian recipes. I'm pretty much living off hummus and tomatoes right now.)

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18 pounds down, but struggling recently.

I have a binge eating disorder and PCOS, so losing weight sucks ass. I've been working hard and have lost 18 pounds so far since the end of February. The past week or so I've been having a REALLY hard time making good food decisions.

Today I did notice the first visual change though. My body looks the same so far, but I put two pictures of my face side by side, and I think my face has slimmed a bit.

What's working for me: eating small, nutritious snacks every 2/3 hours, making little changes to move more on top of working out (parking further away, using the stairs, taking more walks), and treating my weight loss as a way to defeat PCOS instead of treating it as a way to change the appearance of my body. I'm not losing weight to get skinny. I'm just trying to get healthy (which is not synonymous with thin).

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How accurate are calorie counter on exercise equipment?

Hey guys, I'm currently about halfway through my weight loss journey. I started at 110kg on Jan 2nd and am currently at 94kg as of today. End goal for me is a max of 80kg, perhaps even high 70's. 25 y/o male 5'10.

I've been tracking my daily intake using LoseIt! Which has been going well, however I do have a question. My elliptical trainer has a calories burnt display on it to tell you how much you've done in a workout session. But if I put the time I spent on it into LoseIt it shows it to be different.

So my question is which one should I be paying attention to? Do i input what my elliptical says or go by LoseIt?

Thanks :)

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My simple tips for building up self-control and willpower while on your weight loss journey

1) Set "rules" on unhealthy foods. For example, suppose you LOVE ice cream and you know that you should be cutting back on the amount you eat. A "rule" you could set is that you can eat a serving of ice cream once a month. Always start small and once you master the first "rule", you can set it for longer periods of time.

2) Keep temptations out of sight as much as you can. What I do is when I buy muffins, cookies from the grocery store bakery, peanut butter cups or chocolate bars, I always put them in the freezer. Not only does it keep them fresh, it keeps them out of my line of sight so I'm not tempted to eat them. For sweets in my pantry, I try to put them near the back of the pantry so they aren't immediately in my line of sight.

3) PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE. It's hard. As I'm typing this up, I'm fighting the temptation to go into my pantry and snack on some Chips Ahoy cookies. Will you give into temptation sometimes? Yes. But just remember that everyone slips up. No one is born with perfect willpower and self-control. And also remember that one slip up won't make you magically gain all the weight you lost back in one day.

If anyone else has any more tips to add, feel free to share them.

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How should I deal with my boyfriend's help on fitness, weight loss and nutrition advices for me?

I'm trying to lose weight (fat) and I've been on the most successful (i.e longest) diet that I've ever had in my life since last year as I've started to read up on how weight/fat loss really works instead of blindly doing it. And my boyfriend's goal is to bulk/gain muscle but he does knows a substantial amount on how weight loss works as well and he's been giving me support and advice which I am thankful for. Since this year started, I hadn't really been making progresses from my constant relapses of going back into dieting and falling out of it with depression, lack of time and finance but a week ago, my boyfriend started to be really strict and repeatedly saying things like I shouldn't eat 'unhealthy' food at all when I've just started to escape from the mentality of being an extreme of eating 100% clean and healthy food and then binge eating unhealthy food because I had been too restrictive. I had just started to try to make myself comfortable with flexible eating, eating what I want that is not considered healthy but still in moderation (because come on, every (or most) people needs a cookie now and then). He also said that it's time that I stopped snacking, stop eating unhealthy food for the rest of my life since I've been doing it for the 20 past years now. And he wants me to make the change overnight like a thanos snap. When he kept saying those things, it made me feel really stressed and restricted and instead of controlling, I overate and I just couldn't stop now. I had told him before that I know myself pretty well and it takes time for me to make such big changes. I just had a discussion with him on whether he is really cool with me that I can practice flexible eating and he finally succumbed and said no he is not. And that I am not cool with because unlike him, he said he can stop snacking for life but I can't. And he don't understand that everyone is different and everyone has different ways of methods that works for them.

He also doesn't seem to really focus on calorie deficit being the only one true golden rule to weight loss. He does understands the concept and do admit it works but he seemed to suggest to me to eat healthy food is all there is to it. But no, I do understand eating healthy is a lifestyle not a temporary plan but honestly I can't force myself to eliminate food that he deems "unhealthy" for /life/, I find that very ridiculous and impossible. Can you guys please advice on what I should and approach him so that he can understand my view better and not get upset? And sorry for my messy writing.

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Small victories

So I have a history of comfort eating and having an all-or-nothing mentality, aka if I mess up a day and eat something I wasn't supposed to, I'll just eat everything in sight because "well this day is ruined anyway".

So I was sitting having finished eating for the day and maxed out my calorie budget and my mom bought my favourite milk chocolate. Fuck. I don't buy junk because I will ALWAYS eat it, no matter what. So obviously I ate it (yes, a whole chocolate, I'm a disgusting chocolate addict) but then something magical happened in my brain and I thought "well I'm around maintenance or slightly above now, it's not that bad" and I didn't go on eating other crap and I don't even feel that desperate to eat more? So I didn't really succeed in weight loss today but it was a mental breakthrough.

I still have no idea why that switch flipped today but never before. Just wanted to confide somewhere.

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