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Weight loss question - Plateau

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Old 19-03.-2004, 11:21 PM   #16
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My plateaus have varied from 2 weeks to as long as 3 1/2 weeks. Also L-Carnitine is a proven supplement to help lose fat.

Research was done on 20 dogs. These dogs were split into 2 teams, one team was given a low fat, mod carb and mod protein diet with some other fat burning supplement. team 2 was given same diet but with L-Carnitine, after 6 weeks studies showed that the team of dogs generally lost a 6.25 % more body fat versus the other dog team with only 2.65% body fat loss in the same time frame.

On the human side I currently take L-Carnitine at 2g serving per day 1g in the morning and 1g in the afternoon and is doing well for me. A few years ago I tried to reach a 155lb weight for bet I was doing with a friend that said I couldn't do it in 4 weeks coming down from 175lbs. I won the bet on the stuff but with some additional help that happens to be illegal now in the US not roids but Ephedren. Great stuff but bad on the nerves.

How is L-Carnitine helping now, well I am a little more free on my diet and noticed that I don't gain the weight back but in addition I still have some weight loss although quite minimal at this time because of the bad diet in the last 2 weeks.


Well throw me a bone and call me DOG !

As I said I have no proof that L-C works for me... Damn plateau... It's cool when you hit a plateau while going up a mountain... Time to recover and catch your breath... But when it happens on a died it's really frustrating. I'll stick to it though. Counting calories and taking 250 mg of L-C before the effort.

I found a website that's pretty cool (and free) http://www.trackyourdiet.com/
to help. I also re-evaluated my workouts... results should be coming early next week. I'll post an update then.

Cheerio mates and thx for all the replies.
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Thanks for the thread all, very interesting reading. Good luck to all us flab fighters...

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Lischoux, try upping the L-C to 500 to 1000mg per day. See if that works for a couple of weeks.
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Lischoux, try upping the L-C to 500 to 1000mg per day. See if that works for a couple of weeks.


I updated this post here : http://www.cyclingforums.com/t103883.html

1000 mg... I dunno but would that not be pushing it ?

I have no medical evidence of the negative effects of L-carnitine over-use but I could imagine that there are some.

Well...Maybe not... As I was writing this I performed a search and found this site: http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocent...nuts/carnitine/
Seems that there are no real side effects... Unless you don't want to smell "fishy" ha ha ha...

Okay... I will up the dose a little bit. (However this stuff is expensive.... I'll need to find a dealer that lets me have it in mass quantities for dirt cheap )
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I buy the 16oz bottles for only $17.00 U.S. they can be a little expensive but its worth it. Also the reason for upping it is that I was told by a sports nutrionist that its o.k. and like you said no side effects.
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