I only drink water and the junk food has been cut to a small drizzle. Should i go high protein low carb ? I have lost 20 pounds since the beginning of the year but I am at a plateau. I have 5 pounds left to go before I reach my golden age weight I had in college. Any help would be appreciated.

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Fruit
Veggies
Nuts
Fish
Eggs

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Can I opt out of buying lean meats in the chicken category ? Say just go for the drumsticks and thighs rather than buying chicken breasts all the time. I feel like I don't eat junk food or sugary drinks anyway so why not get a little zing out of my main meals to curb my appetite for tasty foods..

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At some point you're going to plateau with a low cal diet for the simple reason that your body is now adapting to consume less cals.

Ofcourse I'm talking about having a plateau at around 1300-1400 cals, if you eat less you're still going to lose weight probably but it's going to be very slow (and you're gonna lose tons of muscles).

I went from 80kgs to 73 quite fast (its less than you) with simple diet but at that point it started to be painfully slow.

So what I did is some research and the result was that the best way to keep losing FAT (and not just weight) was:

-resistance and high intensity training, but avoid too much pure cardio

-high protein low carb diet. If you lose too much muscles while losing weight it's going to be slower and slower all the time

Basically if you go for this program you're gonna lose only 10% of muscles (meaning out of all the KGs you lose only 100 grams are going to be muscles, compared to 20 %+ if you don't lift).

Keep lifting, squat is always great for hormone production.

As for diet I am barely above 1000 cals I think:

-banana + coffee for breakfast (90ish calories)

-milk flakes 200 grams around 11 am (200 ish calories, 26 grams proteins)

-salad with 100 gr bresaola (it's like ham, italian) and 20 grams grana padano and tomatoes (40ish grams of proteins, 400ish calories)

-a fruit (like peach) in the afternoon or an apple (50ish calories)

-some meat (200 grams) and veggies for dinner (chicken breast and potatoes or something), gives me 50ish grams of proteins, its 400ish calories.

So all in all you're looking at 1150 calories, I add maybe some fruits more to feel less hungry (I'm rarely hungry by the way eating this).

You could add some eggs and a bit of carbs here and there and aim for 1500 calories if you work out.

Mind you this diet is not perfect, but it's healthy enough and fills your stomach enough (hate diets that end up with me starving).

On a side note I train at home for like 30 minutes 4 days a week (each time different muscles with weights or just body weight), it's not perfect, but it's working for me, take everything with a grain of salt.

Damn dude, you're starving. I did cardio and some weight training for the 20 pounds and I think it's time to reverse it and do less cardio and lift heavier. I'll try to keep the calories at 1500 though. I kind of want to reach my personal record of at least 200 in squats, deadlift, and bench press.

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This is the ticket right here. Add some carbs here and there. When I want to cut. it's Skinless Chicken and broccoli x3.

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Starving as feeling hunger? Not at all. As I told you I hate diets where I feel hunger.

An apple is almost as big as a sandwich but it contains 30 calories but fills me for a couple of hours.

I'm telling you, that works for me, by no means I'm saying this is the healtiest diet ever or it will fit your needs perfectly.

But sub 1500 cals low carb is giving me great results while high intake of proteins and work out is keeping my muscles. I should also add that honestly speaking, dieting makes me look bigger rather than smaller (as less fat covering my muscles shows much more, similar to this effect):

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Well, if your current diet did not work for you, let's check some following suggestive tips:
(I used to use them as crucial ingredients in losing my weight)
There have some foods extremely good to push your losing process such as: Zucchini, Raspberries Apple cider vinegar, Black pepper, Avocados, Kimchi, Corn Eggs, Olives, Orange juice, Brown rice, Eggplants, Apple, Mushroom, Banana, Guava, China Seeds, Pears, Papaya, especially Dragon Fruits. It is because low calorie in dragon fruit might make us think of these dragon fruit health benefits immediately. With its abundance of fiber, dragon fruit can improve your fullness without a lot of calories. This is important for those who want to lose weight healthily. Moreover, dragon fruit will have great effects on the metabolization of proteins from foods inside the body, which is vital for building muscles. See more at: https://wikihomenutrition.com/dragon-fr ... -benefits/. Let's add them to your diet everyday to see how amazing they bring about.
Besides, you should drink more water if you want to receive the worth result. Some studies conclude that 0.5 liter of water could result in up-to-30-percent increase in the metabolic rate during a period of one and a half hours which definitely helps you lose weight successfully.

Good luck!