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Thank you guys for your replies! From what I understand, reducing body fat percentage is related to the amount of carbs you eat. Being paleo (or keto) restricts carbs below the amount required for your body to continually use your own body fat for fuel, thereby reducing your body fat percentage. I can still gain weight with paleo, but most likely as a result of building muscle. My body fat percentage will still decrease. I've decided to not train for the half-marathon, it seems like it's just putting too much stress on my body. I've never been great at long distance running, so I'll just stick to running a couple times a week for cardio. I've also decided to go with the 3 day a week cycle for working out, just because it works better with my schedule. My first workout was last Friday and I've been successfully paleo now for almost a week.

I need help figuring out my plan to lose weight and lower my body fat percentage. Last July, I was 230 lbs at 5'11", I started doing keto and dropped to 195 lbs pretty quickly. At that point, I started running and doing strength training. (The strength training wasn't very extensive, just squats, deadlifts, military press, pull ups, lunges and bent over rows, all done to exhaustion w/ max weight in 1 set.) I hovered around 190-195 lbs through November. Recently, I've been hovering around 182-186 lbs. My birthday is coming up in May and I would like to, for the first time in my life, have a nice flat stomach to show off at the beach. My plan will be to switch from the keto diet (which I've fallen off of two times over the past few months) to paleo, and more seriously dedicate myself to strength training. I purchased a copy of the NerfFitness Rebel Strength Guide a long time ago and will be starting with the Barbell Battalion. I have a few questions: My friend wants me to train with him for a half-marathon, will I be able to do that and strength train without having to make any changes? There is a 3-day cycle or a 4-day cycle, from the perspective of losing weight/lowering body fat percentage, is it better to do the 4-day cycle? On days when I'm running and doing strength training, which one is it better to do first? Any responses to those answers would be welcome. Thanks for reading.

This is my first 28-Day Challenge, but from reading what others have posted I've come up with the following goals. Goal One: Stick with the Diet I started the paleo/primal/caveman diet last week, so hopefully I can stick with it through the next 28 days. Goal Two: Sleep More I stole this one from Steve, but it's a good one. I want to sleep at least 8 hours every night. Luckily, this will be easy to track thanks to my handy-dandy iPhone. Goal Three: Reach 180 lbs I'm currently hovering around 190, so I'm not sure if this goal is realistic. I'm going to stick with my current workout/running schedule (should I post this?), and of course continue with my diet, and see what results I come up with. At the very least, I hope it'll give me a baseline for how diet and sleep can influence weight lose. Bonus Goal: Reach 10 Pull-ups I have no idea how many pull-ups I can do, but I doubt I can do 10 unassisted, so this is a bonus goal. Here's to accountability!

This is for everyone who is doing a low-carb diet. (Paleo, Atkins, or otherwise.) What do eat as a treat/dessert? How do you reinforce your diet with something that is delicious but not counter-productive to your diet? The things I've found so far are bacon and blueberries, and I'm having trouble thinking of anything else.

Hello everyone! My name is Anthony. I love video games, reading sci-fi/fantasy, math and perusing the internet. About a year and a half ago, I escaped from a relationship to find I was about fifty pounds heavier than when it started at 225 lbs. To get more active and lose weight, I decided to take up karate. About five months into that, I realized I wasn't really losing the weight as quickly as I'd like between 215-220 lbs. I did some research, bought a few books, bought a membership at the Y and started working out three times a week. (The book I eventually decided to follow advocated doing one set of an exercise at about eight to twelve reps, but to do it to failure. I didn't include cardio in my workout because of karate.) At the same time, I adjusted my diet considerably: I started drinking water only and more of it (except the occasional alcohol beverage on the weekends), stopped eating at any fast-food restaurants (although Subway was an exception), started eating more fruits and vegetables and started eating every 2-3 hours, supplementing my food intake with apples, pears, carrots, celery and some Kashi granola bars. After four months of this regimen, I was hovering around 200-205 lbs. Then the holiday season started, my diet mostly stopped although I still ate every 2-3 hours and still drank only water. I still went to the gym but less frequently and was still continuing with karate. Surprisingly, when I started going back this January, my weight still hovered around 200 lbs. I'm guessing I lost a bit of muscle and regained some fat. I started going back to the gym and found that after two months I hadn't lost any weight. I've never been much of a runner, trying many times in the past and failing spectacularly at building up any endurance, and decided I would try again. To aid me, I purchased an application for my phone that gradually increased the time running and decreased the time walking. After nine weeks, I was running for thirty minutes at a stretch. I am now hovering at about 190 lbs and have been at this weight for about a month or so. While doing some searches, I came across this site and decided to look through the articles. I definitely liked what I read and plan on putting a few things into action as soon as possible. I'm going to try to start introducing the paleo diet into my everyday life, although that may be difficult for a couple of reasons and any help would be appreciated. An example of my current diet is... Breakfast: Either Honey Nut Cheerios or Shredded Wheat First Snack: Large Granny Smith apple or a pear or Kashi granola bar Lunch: Prepackaged Hormel meal (only 90 seconds to heat up!) or a bowl of Healthy Choice soup Second Snack: Carrots or celery or Kashi granola bar Dinner: Two PB&J sandwiches or Subway sub (Wheat with ham, cheese, lettuce, tomato, olives and oil.) Third Snack: Another bowl of cereal or one/two hard-boiled eggs I'm not sure if I'll be switching up my workout as well, but I would like some feedback on what I should be focusing on to lose weight, if anyone is willing to share their opinion? I look forward to being active in this community and, of course, losing the last 15 pounds to reach my goal. And after that, maybe more! Edit: I suppose some stats would be helpful? I'm 5'11" and 25 years old. I don't know any measurements or body fat percentage.