Flipping The Fat Burning Switch by Paul Nobles When you buy our book, “Metabolic Flexibility for Fat Loss”, you gain access to weekly webinars as well as a private support forum – the Science Lab. All of this comes together to help you become the most capable athlete you can be. ---> Click this link to learn more about how to buy the book and become a member: bit.ly/11Fbpnm Compared to most people that write about nutrition, I easily have the best folks to work with. CrossFit athletes who eat correctly basically make it extremely easy to cover what I talk about. Although I have worked with some smart bodybuilders, powerlifters and models in the past, most of those populations are trying to force a round peg into a square hole. The wealth of scientific data available to your average person has led to a much more informed population, but old habits die hard. Consider a bodybuilder trying to pack on size without getting “fat”. Imagine a powerlifter trying to pull triple their bodyweight while dropping a weight class. Models are legendary for eating disorder type-behavior and many flinch at gaining even a lb. In contrast, our focus is simple: to get better! Performance is king and as a bonus, we see from the many folks around us each that are all “ab’ed” up that it can get you shredded…But it’s not working for everyone. For every #SOGO warrior out there, there is someone in the back of the gym kind of pissed off that they are killing themselves every workout while the mirror indicates only marginal gains. Why Ketogenic Diets work… In a nutshell, to flip the metabolic switch and shed a ton of fat when you are an inactive individual, the key is strategic carb depletion and replenishment over the course of a week or so. However, active individuals need a performance-oriented style of eating. In 2007, I began to take my health seriously. I wasn’t exercising yet but I was seeing results by adhering to a ketogenic diet with a cheat day. That cheat day often left me sick; I would obsessively make lists of all the foods I really wanted to eat and just pound them on the cheat day. Gradually, I was able to manage things a bit better; I fought through all of the headaches and the sleepless nights and got to the other side. By the end of it all, I had lost nearly 40 pounds. Although I was probably healthier, the result was a “skinny fat” version of my former self. I looked like the walking dead and there is no way in hell I could have done what I do now. Of course, looking back, all of the pieces of the puzzle were there…I just hadn’t put them all together yet. Instinctively, I reduced the window of cheat days from about every 7th day to about every 4th day. Otherwise the scale wouldn’t move. …And When They Become a Metabolic Disaster At the time, I didn’t understand why what I was doing worked; I just knew that it worked and stayed the course. I didn’t know that I could get sick in the process and develop a metabolic disorder. After all, eating this way was healthy, right? Apparently not; in the end, it all came crashing down and I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism. I was a disaster. Based on my experience, I will never recommend a ketogenic diet to anyone ever again, because when the scale isn’t moving, I think it’s only natural to push the panic button, eat less and that’s when things get real bad. I have found through much trial and error that ketogenic diets are unnecessary, and can lead to harm in the wrong hands. There has to be a better way. I Was Just Too Smart To Be Fat If you’d like to hear a synopsis of my life, it’s pretty simple: I don’t follow the crowd, and I walk into most situations with a skeptic’s eye. People achieve varying degrees of success with these “eat less, do less” diets, but they don’t end up building a lot of character. They’re not becoming “the best version of themselves” and learning to live an active, healthy lifestyle; they’re adopting a reckless, all-or-nothing approach to satisfy some part of their ego that hungers for instant gratification. This is the same part of their psyche that probably got them into this mess in the first place, and the result of extreme under eating is equally as bad as extreme overeating. Those results can be shown on paper, through bloods tests and/or body fat analysis, as well as in the mirror. There’s no way to hide from it, but you can sure as hell bet that we try. Eating To Perform Excuses and rationalizations for continuing down this path abound, even when the truth is staring you in the face. If you aren’t eating any starches or fruit for the sake of weight loss, I am going to say that you’re probably hurting yourself. No amount of “rah rah” cheerleading bullshit is going to make that better. None of the “sugar addicted” proponents can truly explain to you why their approach isn’t working for you. After all, maybe you are just being a baby...But does it not stand to reason that with few energy dense food options available, craving sugar represents craving more energy? This isn’t rocket science folks. “But it’s working for everyone else!” Is it though? I mean really? Because I hear a lot of people talking about progress, but it doesn’t really show. Not in the mirror and not really in the gym. “But I am faster and I am stronger!” This does happen, and I can explain it easily. From a cardio perspective, if you pull all of the water out of your body (that’s part of what ketogenic diets do) you are going to weigh less. Do you think that would be favorable as it relates to your cardio abilities? Seems obvious right? What about strength gains? “I see people PR while eating low carb!” I am just going to lay it on the line; they weren’t all that strong to begin with. As someone that knows a fair amount of powerlifters, I can tell you that they hone in on their areas of weakness and then hammer those spots. After all that hammering, they find different ways to keep hammering. In some ways, powerlifters are the perfect example of what I am talking about, even though many of them are thought to be on the heavy side. To lift real big, you have to maximize the contractile potential of your available muscle. By keeping carbs high, they gain muscle but many of them also get fat in the process and they become reluctant to lose weight because they think it might compromise their strength. They are probably right. Even with proper guidance there are no guarantees. Again, it doesn’t have to be this way and there is a middle ground. ---> CLICK HERE FOR OUR FREE COURSES: bit.ly/182YiDN Carbs for Fat Loss and Muscle Gain eattoperform/2013/03/21/carbohydrates-whole-foods-and-supplementation/ Extreme Fat Loss: Skinny Fat Edition eattoperform/2013/05/05/extreme-fat-loss-skinny-fat-edition/
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