Opinions On This? Low Carbing It?

[Big N]

Some solid legit 411 on dieting in here.

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[stuntmovie]

YEA, BIG N! I agree! It's great reading positive posts like this.

WES, Best of luck to ya next week. Keep us advised.

[wes]

YEA, BIG N! I agree! It's great reading positive posts like this.

WES, Best of luck to ya next week. Keep us advised.

Thanks Stunt........I`ll keep you guys posted as to how I do.

[Krankenstein]

i agree with this except for the last part. just eat a little fruit and some high glucose containing foods to replenish your muscle and liver glycogen stores. you generally get the carb cravings from having low liver glycogen levels, fructose from fruits/veggies will refill these so eating an apple will make you feel better, though still weak when it comes to lifts if you dont replenish your muscle glycogen stores, which fructose will not do

no carb has the benefit of increasing insulin sensitivity to astronomical levels which in turn increases anabolism to a severe degree as muscle cells soak up nutrients like a sponge but there is a dilemma with this as you have no insulin secretion without carbs and reintroducing carbs will lower your insulin sensitivity, so its like taking 2 steps forward to take 1 step backwards. however, there are ways to get insulin into your blood stream without eating carbs in order to take advantage of the increased nutrient partitioning in this state and it is something a lot of bodybuilders have done, though it is an extremely easy way to kill yourself and i'm sure most people can imagine what i'm talking about

Nice cut/paste with slight modifications.

[First Blood]

Yes!

I'm doing my best to eat zero carbs through the week.  I imagine I'm probably actually consuming around 8 or 10g's a day.  I eat till I'm satisfied, 6 whole eggs every morning, two pieces of bacon.  Lots of chicken, turkey burgers, hamburgers, etc.

Completely satisfying.  For the last two weekends I've got absolutely crazy. Last Saturday I ate two family sized casserole dishes of Chicken Parmesan (the frozen kind you bake).  They each had about 1250 calories, and around 600g carbs.

I don't cheat at all through the week, and don't eat any carbs until Saturday morning, I go zero carb again starting monday morning.

  

This seems to be something that really varies from person to person. Some people feel greet on super lower carbs while others such as me feel like absolute crap and the workouts go to hell  .

Good to hear that things are working well for you.

How many days per week are you training? Are you training on any of the carb up days?

[Roger Bacon]

This seems to be something that really varies from person to person. Some people feel greet on super lower carbs while others such as me feel like absolute crap and the workouts go to hell  .

Good to hear that things are working well for you.

How many days per week are you training? Are you training on any of the carb up days?

Thanks, I tried the keto diet (To a T) about two years ago, and it drove me crazy within three days.  I'm not sure what the difference is now.

I train one body part per day, Monday thru Friday. 6 to 8 reps generally.  No training on the weekend, eating like a monster. 

I wouldn't generally even post shit like this, but I wanted to share the awesome results with anyone that might find it useful. 

[Roger Bacon]

i do 6 low carb ( almost zero), pig out on sundays..works good for me

So cool, wish I'd tried this sooner.

I've been trying forever to get lean.  Been a little successful, but I think this is going to be the key to getting good abs and stuff.

[First Blood]

Thanks, I tried the keto diet (To a T) about two years ago, and it drove me crazy within three days.  I'm not sure what the difference is now.

I train one body part per day, Monday thru Friday. 6 to 8 reps generally.  No training on the weekend, eating like a monster.  

I wouldn't generally even post shit like this, but I wanted to share the awesome results with anyone that might find it useful.  

Have you thought about training on one of your carb up days? I think that could be beneficial as you would be stronger from the carbs and be able drive calories into the muscles you have trained.

[L.L]

if i go lower than 200 g i feel l lose muscle fullness and size. Ive gotten ripped to the bone on 300g of carbs daily  i just up my cardio,..250 per day is the lower i would go

[First Blood]

if i go lower than 200 g i feel l lose muscle fullness and size. Ive gotten ripped to the bone on 300g of carbs daily  i just up my cardio,..250 per day is the lower i would go

Yeah, many different diets seem to work. You need to find they diet you can stick to.

[aesthetics]

Nice cut/paste with slight modifications.

cut and paste from where? what are you talking about

[The Grim Lifter]

Coming in late here but make sure you have carb up days and don't eat too many carbs on them. Basically what JNN said, but i don't think you should only have them once a week or something, i would go once every 3rd or 4th day. You will lose the weight easy doing this.

[wavelength]

I started dieting on April 11th. for 3 contests this year.........ate whatever I wanted for a few days after each show, and now my last one is looming close (Nov. 12th.).

I had let my body go over the last 3-4 years..............train ed half heartedly 3 X a week, and did no cardio.

Worst thing was I ate tons of crap,subs,desserts,pizza,lots of burgers,chips,and just plain old junk..............and no cadio at all.

As a result,my waist went from 32 to36 inches,then my doctor changed my anti-depressant meds and my waist went to a fucking whopping 39 inches.

Win,lose,draw,or last place I could care less,I look like my old self again........high protein,low carbs,low fat,training balls to the wall.

Adam is my friend,as is Wave.................muc h respect for both guys as well as their physiques but they can keep their fancy a "calorie is a calorie: fucking diets!!  

Is this the crap you're talking about?





just checking

[wes]

I hate you Wave!!   

[wavelength]

I hate you Wave!!   

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