Interesting. I've found the most effective wieght loss to come from eating a low-carbhoydrate diet, because your body usually will send you "false" hunger pangs after eating too many carbohydrates, resulting in a very bad cycle of eat crap, feel hungry, eat more crap, gain weight!
I also have in the last 6 months achieved an excellent level of fitness from 2-3 sessions of 1 1/2 hours per week of high intensity cardio workout, and I'm pretty sure I've been mostly eating more, but not putting on extra weight in that time. While you say that anaerobic exercise reduces your metabolic rate for hours afterward, I was always udner the impression that regular higher-intensity workouts raised you BMR overall. Yes or no?
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I also have in the last 6 months achieved an excellent level of fitness from 2-3 sessions of 1 1/2 hours per week of high intensity cardio workout, and I'm pretty sure I've been mostly eating more, but not putting on extra weight in that time. While you say that anaerobic exercise reduces your metabolic rate for hours afterward, I was always udner the impression that regular higher-intensity workouts raised you BMR overall. Yes or no?