I'm 40 and 6'2". I've got a lot of muscle hidden under my fat. !!! And a lot of big bones...comin outta my arse!
Yeah I don't look sooooo horrible. I'm proportional but with age has come a bigger belly and titties and the double chin which is what disgust me the most. I've got a ton of work to do but thankfully I'm not a total train wreck.
I do all that. Love salad and eating smart. Make my own balsamic dressing at home. Lots of water. I need to improve significantly on the exercise bit - whenever I move a lot I find my weight drops. Also I am doing what I can to avoid bread pasta potatoes rice and as many sweets as possible.
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I've come to terms, however grudgingly, that at age 65 I look better with my shirt on than off. I have this mental image of me at 40 that I just can't get too, and 20? That ain't happening. The joys of getting older, but it beats the alternative.
A carb is a carb. Complex carbs are composed of simple carbs. In the end, all carbs you digest are broken down into simple carbs, ultimately glucose or fructose. I strongly recommend a basic biochemistry course instead of reading a lot of convoluted studies on the web. Btw, there are plenty of hunter gatherer tribes out there who consume up to 90% carb all day and are at 13% bodyfat (yes, you can see their abs). For example, the Hazda in Tanzania fave food is honey.
Most any calorie-restricted diet will bring you down to these fat levels and almost any primitive life will force you on a calorie-restricred diet. Also, almost any primitive diet will be unbalanced either toward carbs (like your example) or towards fats (Eskimos, for example, consume 90% of their calories from fat *). However, "extreme" low cab diet allows you to lower your body fat while retaining most of the muscle mass (and muscle strength). For me, it's the difference between 143lbs at 12%-13% body fat vs 132lbs at 7-8% body fat. The difference is crucial, since I engage obsessively in a strength-to-weight sport. Most people, however, should avoid the negative impact of low carb diet and simply try to cut down on calories. * decided to look it up and apparently it's not true - most of their caloric input is from protein and, despite the assumptions, they are not in chronic ketosis