Episode 5: Much ado about Taubes
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News:
No news is good news?
Questions:
Are Eggs going to Kill You?
Social Dieting
Leigh hates Taubes?
Why should I buy your book eh?
Links:
Alan Aragon Research Review
Gift to self:
Though not talked about in the episode, a reader sent me this and I thought it was pretty cool.
Surf Shelf
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Great episode – haven’t heard one in a while.
FYI – the egg issue is June 2008 AARR. I can’t believe it was a full year ago!
Also – very well explained re: the Taubes fallacies… good science, LP. There was a point there where you sounded like you had to hold yourself back… you know, like you’ve had to explain the same thing MANY times over.
That was a great episode! I especially liked the social dieting part, it really helped put things in perspective for me. Sometime’s it’s nice to just break things down into the very simplest terms.
Great episode. Nice to hear your voice.
Sheila
Great podcast, Leigh. I loved the example w/ the cupcakes. It really puts things into perspective. Nice pun on the cake, too.
I found the social dieting a little limited in info. I’ve gone from 30+% bf to 20% and I find it harder to restrict myself. Some of this is my body and psychology is tired, some of it is that I don’t have any of the “look in the mirror and ask how I let myself get here” because I look good (but not great) and I’m trying to tease out what’s going on. At what point would it be my body saying “we need carbs and nutrients and a break”, at what point is it my brain saying “you deserve to eat junk food”. Yesterday I had a chocolate muffin (free, that’s my excuse) and pepperoni pizza, both stuff I know is empty calories, both stuff I haven’t had in 6 months. I usually make pizza on eggplant slices with small amounts of cheese, and have chocolate protein. I usually eat 1.5 pounds of vegetables every day. But I’m starting to think “not another salad” and I think I miss variety. I’ve been ploughing through cherry tomatos – cut in half, salt, “roasted” in the microwave, so yummy, and even that didn’t appeal to me. I still ate at maintenance, but my brain is still frustrated that I ate that junk.
Am I sabotaging myself so I don’t have to stop dieting? Is my body frustrated with my newest sport and is demanding calories? Am I falling back into a trap of using food as entertainment? Is my body demanding carbs or fats? I don’t know what’s “really” going on, if that question makes sense. How do you feel the difference between not pushing hard enough and having pushed too hard? That was my initial reaction to the cupcake issue, that she’d be better off adding small amounts of fun food every day around workouts, which is not an option you mentioned at all.
RG-
I will say that I too have been in a deficit for about 8 weeks. That being said I make sure that EVERYDAY I fit into my plan something with peanutbutter and or chocolate. I can NOT do this if I dont fit that in. It helps me not feel like Im dieting but more just eating with a healthy balance. I am losing with this too. I am not eating junk, but I just fit in at least one thing each day that is ” NOT” a ” health” food.
Does that make sense? I dont know for me its working. I still eat lean meants, veggies and fruits each day, but I just make sure at the end of each day I have some small “cheat-food” that helps me get thru this.
Examples are greek yogurt with 15 grams natural peanut butter
Or 1 oz dark chocoalte
ETC……..
Thanks Shari, and I agree with you about including non-healthy foods, which is why I mentioned my usual choc/pizza. I also think that p.b. and choc are healthy in limited quantities (though I veer towards cocoa without the fat or at least a very dark choc) and I’ve been eating nuts and nut butters. What’s confusing to me is where this sudden craving is coming from since I was managing to maintain a deficit 6 days out of 7 until now. Some of the craving is bread, which I’d limited greatly, and some of it just feels like boredom. My body is almost revolting at the idea of eating salad. I like salad! It’s summer and the vegetables are good! I had a pint of blueberries, so I’m getting fiber.
Mike- Thanks for the heads up on the AARR issue. I can’t believe that was a year ago either. I also may have had to talk about this for a while now. Perhaps. Maybe.
Kyle-I do like to keep it simple. I hope to make it more of an art in this field.
Sheila-Flattery will get you everywhere.
Stephanie-It takes a certain kind of person to appreciate a good “have you cake and eat it too” pun.
RG-Fat loss is about a deficit. Optimum muscle maintenance and health is about training and the intake of nutrition you have. If you can fit in a cupcake in your day, great. If not, then that is the sacrifice you make for your health.
You can eat crap all the time but you aren’t going to feel good and it will likely catch up with you at a point.
I discuss in other podcast why you may want to cheat, binge, etc. And what your body is crying out for. Check out this podcast from the previous FLT Speaks series.
http://avidityfitness.net/2009/05/05/what-to-do-after-the-binge/
It covers some of what you are discussing. Some directly, some indirectly.
Thanks Leigh, I don’t think we’re talking about the same issues At All. I don’t think I talked about “a cupcake a day” or “eating crap all the time”. Yes, I understand that fat loss is about a deficit, but the question is when is it time to stop the fat loss or risk becoming crazy figure competitor anorexic-bulimic? Maybe it’s obvious to you that it’s not at 20% bf. But when I’m walking by a couple on an outdoor patio and think “they’re about to leave and there’s bread left in their bread basket, maybe they’d give it to you” I’m thinking there’s something wrong here. Maintaining a deficit was easy, effortless. Now it’s… not.
Imagine a Leigh’s Reality Land ride at Disney World! Love the podcast, especially the social eating part!
This is probably the best episode to date, I loved how you sqeezed as many questions as possible yet still answered each one with great details. can’t wait for the next podcasts.