Quote: (03-18-2016 12:53 PM)Chowder Head Wrote:
Quote: (03-18-2016 12:00 PM)ScrapperTL Wrote:
Quote: (03-18-2016 10:22 AM)Requiem Wrote:
Quote: (03-15-2016 07:28 PM)RichieP Wrote:
Just did an IF day with "bulletproof coffee" for brekkie and brunch (Well. organic coffee with coconut oil + butter).
Look, do what works for you. If you feel like this method helps you lose fat, then do that. Objectively speaking, this bulletproof hustle is idiotic, for if you only have so many calories to eat on a given day and the things you eat are restricted anyways (you doing low-carb), then why would someone actually drink their calories? Bulletproof coffee is the fats-equivalent to drinking soda on a diet. It doesn't taste that great and you've just wasted a huge chunk of your daily calories on a drink instead of a good meal.
I won't claim to be right, but to me it seems like you're falling for all kinds of marketing hypes. "IF", "low-carb", "bulletproof" - those all sound so special and people who bought into it report all kinds of miracles on the web but it's actually not that impressive once you take a closer look.
Concerning the low-carb stuff: When it comes to strictly losing weight, a carb is a carb. From having tried it out and based on what I've seen many other people write about it, low-carb seems to just add extra difficulty and stress to your diet without bringing you much additional benefit. You still have to go below maintenance calories if you want to cut, so why not give your body more energy by keeping the carbs to also get an efficient workout? If you feel like the low carb intake doesn't drain you out but you lose good weight on that, then go for it. From what I've learned, the only people who really benefit from such a diet tend to be gear users as the drained energy is being compensated by the gear. The gear increases their fat-to-energy conversion rates and they don't feel down as much so they still have good energy for a workout.
I'll also add that carb-cycling with daily alternations doesn't really do much because the body fills and dissipates its stores and the metabolism always needs a little time to adapt.
Concerning your initial question: IF isn't the panacea lots of people make it out to be, but it is in fact a good method to keep your diet in check. It can really help with calorie-restriction and as such is a good tool.
But whether you do IF or not, if the question is whether to take a protein shake in the morning or not while cutting, I'd say don't drink the shake. The reason is simple: Certain amino acids trigger Insulin-secretion the same way carbs do it. The insulin will lower your blood sugar level but the shake won't have the needed carbs your body expects to replenish it with. The consequence is stronger/earlier hunger, making it harder for you (mentally) to keep your daily calorie-objective. Just get the proteins in after your first meal and throughout the rest of the day/throughout the rest of your eating window.
If you don't experience increased hunger from drinking the shake, then you can do it of course. It won't make a difference as long as your daily protein intake is at the required level.
Understanding sports-physiology can really save you a lot of unnecessary strain that certain diets put on people just to get a different method out there for marketing purposes.
I am a long time Science nerd and have been following the cutting edge studies from the greatest minds in the fitness community for over 15 years.
A lot of what the Universities teach is completely dated and obsolete.
A Calorie is not A Calorie when it comes to body composition (body fat %)
Dig into the research and stop reading mainstream media/science.
If I eat a diet of 50/40/10 Fat-Protein-Carbs per day, my body composition will look much different than if I eat a diet of 10/40/50 Fat-Protein Carbs per day, even if they are "healthy" carbs.
Now if my 50% carbs comes from highly processed sugary crap, my body composition will look drastically different.
goto http://www.PubMed.com look into the Animal studies they have done at Zoo's, feeding different species an all Grain diet or a Grain/Protein mixed diet or an all Protein diet.
You'll see a quick trend. The more the diet skews towards Proteins & Fat, the more calories the animal can eat, the more muscle they have and the less bodyfat they have.
I can vouch for this in my own body over 18 years of tweaking different diets.
When I eat a mostly Protein + Fat diet I can:
Eat more calories and maintain more muscle, at my lowest possible bodyfat %
My typical day of eating, 50 to 100 gram Carbs, 150 to 175 gram Protein, 225+ grams Fat per day.
With these ratios I eat between 2,800 and 3,200 calories per day and maintain very low bodyfat % (abomdinals, serratus, vascularity) @ 175lbs @ 5 foot 10 height (without anabolics or thermogenics, although I have used them in the past)
Other fascinating things of note:
Depending on circulating hormone levels and insulin resistance, carbohydrates can just as easily be stored into bodyfat than muscle glycogen.
Also, Science hasn't yet figured out why trained atheletes who have been on a ketogenic diet for 6+ months (low carb adapted) will have full glycogen stores prior to training. Pretty amazing huh?
Makes you wonder just how much carbs are being stored as bodyfat in trained atheletes if glycogen stores are easily re-filled in bodies consuming less than 50grams a day of carbohydrates after adapation.
My conclusion: Low Carbohydrate lifestyle is not a "fad" it is the superior way to live if you want to have low body fat % year-round
Scrapper, what are your typical breakfast, lunch, dinner meals? I hate talking about grams, I need specifics on what to eat.
Hey Chowder Head, I am an Intermittent Faster & a Low Carber (bout 50 to 100 per day)
Meal 1: Noon, I always eat a lot of nuts for my first meal.
Almonds, Cashews, Walnuts, Pecans, Peanuts, Brazil Nuts, Pistachios.
I add a lot of seasoning to my nuts - Crushed Red Pepper, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Sea Salt, etc...
Meal 2: Mid Afternoon (4pm'ish) Meat, Vegetables and Fruit.
Typical meal will be like, 3 Chicken Thighs (skin on, bone in), a huge pile of asparagus and a big bowl of red grapes/pineapple.
Snack: (anytime between noon and 8pm)
Canned Smoked Oysters are my favorite (super healthy), Canned Smoked Clams, Sardines, Canned Herring, Whole Avacados, Apples & Peanut Butter, Watermelon and tastiest snack of all - EGGS & BACON!
Meal 3 (7:30'ish): Usually this is just Leftovers from Meal 2 or sometimes I just eat more nuts.
8pm - Stop eating.
Basically the whole diet is Fatty Meats, Seafood, Vegetables, Nuts and Fruit.
Comes out to be Fat/Protein/Carbohydrate in that order.
Combination of IF + Low Carb (50g to 100g) is awesome for pure fat loss and muscle maintenance.
If you use Steroids, I recommend eating this same meal plan, just literally twice as much. You'll look amazing and won't ever feel bloated/fat, this is for maximum definition/vascularity.
If you go under 50g carbs a day though, I notice Vascularity kind of sucks, you need some carbs to keep those veins visible, which is why I eat lots of healthy testosterone boosting fruits.
Pineapple, Apple, Watermelon and Red Grapes are THE BEST!
Bromelain, Ursolic Acid, Arginine & Resveratrol.
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