Comments on: The Real Reason People Fail To Lose Weight

By: Mark McManus

Mark McManus — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:22:56 +0000

@Younes. Within reason, the skin can shrink back no problem. If there was moderate amount of fat loss (dozens of pounds), it will shrink back but often leave stretch marks. And if there was a lot of weight lost (over 100), then it oftentimes doesn’t shrink back well and there is loose skin. As far as I know the only thing that can be done about this is surgery to get it removed.
Hope that helps.

By: younes

younes — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 16:53:30 +0000

hi Mark, very helpful article.
i always wonder about a very interesting subject related to fat loss which is the skin condition after fat loss, it’s obvious that when people get fat and creates or expand their fat cells their skins get stretched to contain and surround the new volume, my question is what’s happening to that skin after a weight loss, and especially a fast one ( i think that’s why fat loss should be a “take the appropriate time” process like you mention in this post), is it really shrinks to suit the new size after weight loss, or the loose skin should be reformed by gaining muscles with resistance training to replace fat volume, and how much time it takes? all i know is that is possible cause we’ve seen it over and over again in transformations stories. i would like to know your thoughts about this. thanks.

By: Mark McManus

Mark McManus — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:21:17 +0000

@Muhammad. Thanks for sharing. So happy for you 😀

By: Muhammad Fawaz

Muhammad Fawaz — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 14:16:05 +0000

And once you’ve made permanent positive lifestyle and eating changes, get JnR and work that into your life.

After 8 weeks of insufficient food, no training and 4 weeks of fasting inclusive, I’m on week 2 of jnr and have gained back 4 out of the 8 kilos of lean mass that I’d lost.

Still sporting a six pack, regaining strength rapidly, and enjoying the process. I couldn’t be happier. Thanks and God bless 🙂

By: Mark McManus

Mark McManus — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 08:42:17 +0000

@Yash. Thanks for sharing 😀
@Nick. My thoughts on IF are not whether it works or not, because I’m sure it does to a degree, but is it necessary? Would it produce better results than a normal cut? I don’t think so, so at the moment I see it as making life hard unnecessarily. But diet doesn’t seem to be the issue with you, I would strongly advise you to start lifting and abandon whatever other form of exercise you are doing. You’ll build muscle, the protein you eat will go towards building muscle, some carbs will go to replacing lost glycogen out of the muscle. It’s just a much better way for you to reach your goals. So the TSPA diet in combo with the workout will produce the best results for you. Just make sure you are measuring results to include BF% as the scale weight may not change by a whole lot since you’ll be adding lean muscle.
And if you’ve been under-eating for a while, it would be best to do the 2 weeks at maintenance I mentioned in the article to reset your metabolism first.

By: abishek

abishek — Tue, 19 Aug 2014 02:24:36 +0000

thanx mark
by the way
you are the best 😉
keep up the good work bud

@yash
Thanx buddy
I m sure this will help
I will give it a go
Thnx 🙂

By: nick

nick — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 19:32:38 +0000

Mark – I have been living a hybrid carb cycling/IF existence for about 6 months now (moderate exercise – but no cardio and no weightlifting). I have done okay with this type of eating…. I will eat approx 2000 calories a day high protein/high fat and low carbs. Then I will switch to high carbs, high fat and moderate protein on the weekends. However every single day I skip breakfast and lunch and usually eat in an 8 hour window in the evenings…. Like I said, I did well for a while and now my body composition and weight essentially is the same week in and week out.

Initially I did this in preparation for tspa, but I never quite got around to the tspa part (which is about to change)…

Can I have your thoughts on IF before I start tspa please? Thanks.

Male 39 years BF ~ 16% no supplements.

By: Raj Sen

Raj Sen — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 19:31:07 +0000

Thanx Mark……

By: Yash

Yash — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:30:08 +0000

@abhishek. I did TSPA on a vegetarian diet over the summer. Diet was primarily eggs, various types of cheese, tofu, nuts, ‘soy chunks’, soy flour, soy etc., and lots of protein powder. Just use these ingredients to form the protein and fat portion of your macros (use lots of spices to make it enjoyable to eat), with rice, crackers, etc. making up the extra carbs (the soy flour and nuts might cover the carbs by themselves too!). Fat flush days are horrid though… basically just protein powder on the menu for that.

By: Mark McManus

Mark McManus — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 16:38:37 +0000

@Tony. Great! Glad to see you moving in the right direction.
@abishek. I think you’re talking about UHT milk as we call it.Yes it’s ok. I keep a few cartons on stand by myself for when I run out of fresh milk. It doesn’t lose any calories.
You don’t count any calories from any type of fiber.
I don’t have expertise in vegetarianism unfortunately. Maybe someone reading this who has done TSPA and is a vegetarian could help out?
Thanks.

By: abishek

abishek — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:52:49 +0000

hey mark,
i have been a fan of your work!
i am about to start tspa
and i was making the diet plan
i want to ask can i use pasturized or boiled milk??
does it lose its calories of boiling??
and do we count both soluble and insoluble fibre for calories?
and mark if you ever get time,could you do an aticle about sample menu for a octo-ovo vegetarian for tspa because as i have seen many people here too with tspa failed to hit their macros.
thanks man!
your work is highle appriciated!

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:31:44 +0000

WOW! Thanks for this article. Your articles always seem to come out exactly when I’m looking for answers. This is exactly what was stalling out my weight loss was an extremely stressful situation. Its nice to read the science behind it. I was doing everything right but going nowhere. It absolutely makes sense stress would slow the process. I also noticed once that situation had ended, weight loss came back.

Thanks again Mark.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 13:27:23 +0000

In reply to Mark McManus. Absolutely!!

By: Mark McManus

Mark McManus — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 13:18:17 +0000

@Shaun. It’s not just having a negative impact on you, but to others around you due to the irritability. Onwards and upwards from here on in!

By: Shaun

Shaun — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 13:09:51 +0000

Thanks for this Mark. I am in this very situation. I have read up on alot of your stuff and others and I have the knowledge of what I should be eating, but somehow I just get lazy and end up consuming far too few calories. I guess my mind set was that I was not eating badly, just not eating sufficiently, so cant be to bad. But I have just realised that my chronic fatigue, sleep deprivation, being sick all the time (weeks now), and short temper is due to this!!

I am going to have to step it up and get more disciplined about my eating habits!! Summer is around the corner for me, need to get my ass into gear!

By: Mark McManus

Mark McManus — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:05:26 +0000

In reply to Piotr. lol Enjoy your steak, Piotr!

By: Piotr

Piotr — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:03:32 +0000

Thanks for this Mark. My wife has been doing this. I knew it was wrong but couldn’t put it as well as this. I’ll pass it on for her to read. Then we can enjoy dinner together for a couple weeks LOL!