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Man, huge +1 that you reference Cheat Mode. If you are actually doing that, you are well on your way to a healthy lifestyle. I've been advocating some form of
by fingerprinter 14y ago
Man, huge +1 that you reference Cheat Mode. If you are actually doing that, you are well on your way to a healthy lifestyle.
I've been advocating some form of carb-cycling diet for years (Cheat Mode, Carb Back-Loading and Lean Gains are all styles of carb-cycling). It. Is. Awesome. And the science backs it up too. In all my fitness books I advise this style of eating as well. Huge success with it for both me and the readers.
One note: I don't know how quickly you want to lose weight, but it notes in your blog that you were at 133kg. If you want to accelerate that and save your muscle (muscle sparring) at the same time, I suggest you change up the carb-cycling like this: 6.5 days of VLC (very low carbs, less than 30grams) and then have a very big carb night. This is essentially Keto with carb refeeds and it is great for shedding fat. Accelerate it further by doing some steady state cardio (walking on a treadmill) for 30 minutes 3-5 days a week. Don't do HIIT training EXCEPT the day after your carb refeed. HIIT will help you clear the glucose from your system on that day, but on any other day it will start to eat your muscle.
Now, however, if you are comfortable at that weight and want to do a more steady recomposition, you are doing the right thing. I just suggested the above if you wanted to lose fat faster.
- radicalbyte 14y agoInteresting, I had lots of success with the Body4Life plan. That combines weight training, HIIT and the 6/1 split of protein/carb-overload. It works really well for fast weight loss: in 12 weeks, 22kg fat burnt and 7kg raw muscle mass added (if the measurement is to be believed). Sure, I've gained 15kg fat back since I stopped, but that's the Achilles heel of all diets..
- karolist 14y agoNo, you most certainly did not grow 7kg of raw muscle in 12 weeks. What method to measure body fat did you use?
- radicalbyte 14y agoThere's a reason that I qualified the statement. They used a factory-calibrated scales, which uses impedance to measure your body fat percentage. I don't trust the measurements: if you're using impedance to measure it then hydration and the salt balance in your body will dominate any small scale changes in body mass (7kg is < 9% of my body mass). The initial measurements look anomalous, the muscle % and fat % were well out of bounds with my girth/height when compared to the US military-sourced base lines.
- fingerprinter 14y agoI don't look at them as 'diets' per se. I think of them as lifestyles that fit my current goals. So, for instance, when I want to maintain weight, I eat moderate carbs after I workout. If I want to gain weight, I'll eat more carbs, and higher GI carbs, after I workout. If I want to lose fat, I'll do the 6.5 day refeed approach (this was nutshelling in its heaviest form....there are many nuances, but you should get the idea). You don't have to gain the weight back. Just realize what made you successful and start adapting that to how you live after you hit your goal, whatever that is.
- jacques_chester 14y agoLike I say in my blog post: we are are our own controller. Observe inputs and results. These days I have lost enough fat that I can, by eyeballing, see what I had for dinner the night before. Lots of carbs --> retain water --> some veins disappear. Few carbs --> less water retained --> veins more visible. At the moment I try to schedule particularly carby dinners for hypertrophy days, on the theory that this will work better for sarcoplasmic hypertrophy purposes. But at this point in the discussion I am well and truly majoring in the minors. The headline is still that I am losing fat through caloric deficit and that for me, the easiest way to do so is intermittent fasting.
- MDS100 14y agoLink to the books? Ebook or paperback?