I've been using the below diet for about 2 weeks and have lost a nice amount of fat and still stayed hard. This is the diet posted in the other Palumbo diet thread. This is unlike other low carb diets I've done in the past, where I have become flat as a pancake and had a hard time choking down all the food. I never feel hungry, nor do I have severe cravings. I think the peanut butter is perfect, because it allows me to eat something that I love. It's almost like a mini cheat meal every day.
I have been steadily cutting even with fairly little cardio. The low cardio is not by choice, but due to time constraints. I have been working out with weights about 4 times a week. If I was able to up my cardio, I would lose even more fat.
I have always thought Palumbo knew his shit, and this diet is proving it to me.
Meal 1 6 whole Omega-3 eggs
Meal 2 8oz chicken with 1/2 cup raw almonds
Meal 3 50g whey with 2 tablespoons all natural peanutbutter
Meal 4 8oz salmon with 1 cup asparagus with 1 tablespoon macadamia nut oil
Meal 5 50 g whey with 2 tablespoon PB
Meal 6 6 whole eggs
I have been eating a lot of fish on this diet, and replace the above chicken with more fish or red meat. Chicken is my least favorite meat, only because I've eaten so much of it over the years. I am truly tired of chicken, but I do still eat it every once and a while.
Lastly, I 100% agree with the fact that if you eliminate your carbs, you can eat as much as you want. I have proven this with my own body over and over. In past diets, when I wanted to cut as quickly as possible, I would eat just chicken breasts all day long, some of them with veggies. I found the more I could stuff down, the faster I would lose fat. My body's metabolism would ramp way up, and I would just sit and sweat, losing a ton of fat, all while sitting in an air conditioned office. Now while this sounds easy, it is about the hardest thing you can do. Eating a full size chicken brest every 1.5 to 3 hours is brutal, and after just a couple, you will quickly become sick of eating. I used to have to have a big glass of water handy so I could quickly chew and wash it down, sometimes gagging. If it was easy, everyone would do it.
People who "fail" on low carb diets like Atkins simply don't eat enough and allow their metabolisms to slow back down. This also causes serious lethargy and poor workouts. If you eat enough, you will feel fine, and have decent workouts. Not as good as a workouts on carbs, but still good enough. After 2 weeks on the above diet, my strength has returned to the state is was before the diet, but at first, I did suffer from some really shitty workouts.
