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Old 05-08-2008, 08:48 AM   #69 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by LaraT View Post
I am curently doing NROL for Women but really need a jump start on some fat loss for a few events coming up. It is very low calorie. It has me at 1045 cals/day compared to 1650/1850 that NROL4W has me and I just don't know how I would be able to manage. The workouts look pretty tough--alternate days of weights and intervals with interval/steady state workouts. One day of rest (and no carbs).
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Originally Posted by kfisherx View Post
Holy shit really????!!!! You mean every day? What so fucking secret about that diet?? "The starve your body, exercise like crazy to lose 5lbs a week plan" Uh...

I hope this is a misprint or you are a very tiny person.
Your NROLW calories are the same as mine. I'm 5'2" and have at most 20# to lose (maybe less). I thought that starving was bad, that you can't build muscle (or even maintain it) at those levels...

Yeah, I get that it's a short-term "crash" diet... but I can't imagine eating that low and working out hard. And NROLW (I'm on stage 3 right now) isn't anywhere near as intense and extreme as what was described (6/week lifting and HIIT).

Aren't we supposed to, theoretically, be learning a way of life? A HEALTHY way of life? Isn't a big point of NROLW explaining why crash diets are so bad and how they hurt our metabolism, etc etc...?????

I guess I'm not the target audience for this, 'cuz I'm way too skeptical (not of the results, but of the health risks and longterm consequences), even if Allwyn has his name on it.
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