Low Fat or Low Carb

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  • monty619
    monty619 Posts: 1,308 Member
    MrM27 wrote: »
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    JimFsfitnesspal wrote: »
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    carbohydrates get you strong as hell.. that should say something

    Yes, you are a 22 year old bodybuilder. Of course.

    youre right nvm I get strong as hell eating anything lol

    He's just using his age as an excuse. And apparently we are all bodybuilders.

    well if you are losing weight without resistance training.. you are doing it wrong.
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  • monty619
    monty619 Posts: 1,308 Member
    MrM27 wrote: »
    monty619 wrote: »
    MrM27 wrote: »
    monty619 wrote: »
    JimFsfitnesspal wrote: »
    monty619 wrote: »
    carbohydrates get you strong as hell.. that should say something

    Yes, you are a 22 year old bodybuilder. Of course.

    youre right nvm I get strong as hell eating anything lol

    He's just using his age as an excuse. And apparently we are all bodybuilders.

    well if you are losing weight without resistance training.. you are doing it wrong.

    And lifting weights in progressive overload does not make me a bodybuilder.

    well do you train to build skeletal muscle as your main goal? that's bodybuilding.
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  • hachikomeggy
    hachikomeggy Posts: 14 Member
    Low carb although not keto. I've capped my daily carb consumption at 100 grams simply because it's more do-able for me, and is much less than what I normally consume. I've tried low fat before while calorie cutting for long periods, but low carb while eating at a deficit is the only thing that actually worked for me. And I think by doing low carb I'm being proactive in preserving my health - I have a family history of diabetes and my father died of complications two years ago. (note that this is only my personal experience.)
  • GoPerfectHealth
    GoPerfectHealth Posts: 254 Member
    edited February 2015
    Here is an interesting article on calorie cycling. The author's conclude the article with the following statement:
    In summary, this still nascent literature suggests that ADF may effectively modulate metabolic and functional risk factors, thereby preventing or delaying the future occurrence of common chronic diseases, at least in animal models. The effect of ADF on chronic disease risk in normal-weight human subjects remains unclear, however, as do the mechanisms of action. Much work remains to be done to understand this dietary strategy fully.

    Link to article: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/86/1/7.full

    So calorie cycling may or may not be effective in general, and may or may not be effective at improving metabolism, but could be a dietary strategy worth trying for some people.

    Here is another article that addresses calorie cycling:

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2951044/

    It does seem likely that the buzz around calorie cycling and/or intermittent fasting is not necessarily based on a large body of research.



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