Mark > all.

After I saw the first few sentences, I was like, “Oh god… Let me guess he’s going to champion low carb again.” I hate hearing people talk about carbs like they are bad for them. I like how you EXPLICITLY state that excess carbs are the problem such as when you mentioned glycogen stores. I didn’t know that a diet like MANS would work for gaining muscle too but I suppose it would work if you are hitting the weights hard and eating enough carbs to power through the workouts? I don’t have a lot of experience with bulking, but I do have experience with losing fat and gaining strength and I’ve found cycling (sim to MANS) to be effective. I’ve had good results with Tom Venuto’s advice of eating 50% carbs, 30% protein, and 20% fat with starchy or sugary carbs only for breakfast + first few meals or post workout.

As one of the posters above said, you can exercise all day and night, but if hormones/insulin are out of whack, well, it’s a steeper hill to climb. And your diet needs to be fine tuned to YOUR needs, one size never fits all!
Regards to all!
Debbie

I’m new to your articles and find them very easy to read, enjoyable and very informative. As mum of two and now 1 year since the birth of my second child, I’ve made huge healthy changes forever to alter my thinking on food and nutrition. I’ve successfully lost all the baby weight and am now pre-marriage weight! It was done quite quickly through intelligent eating and lots cardio, short but intense training, resistence training, weight training,pilates,yoga, turbulance training, kettlebells-you name it I’m doing it at home early mornng before my boys wake up and duty calls! My biggest problem is tummy pouch plus the saggy mummy tummy! I’m on this personal quest to prove you don’t need to go under the knife to get not only your waist back into shape,but also a six pack too! The tops of my abs are coming along, but its those elusive bottom abs tucked under either fat or loose skin, maybe both that I’m having problems with! What do you recommend?

FACT:Insulin Is Only Elevated During the Time After a Meal In Healthy Individuals
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Jason

Another mistake many people make is to fall into the trap of believing that “lots of exercise” = “lots of weight loss”.

The media has unfortunately fed into a lot of these myths. Exercise (including weight lifting) has many benefits. Huge amounts of weight loss, however, cannot come from exercise alone! You must change your diet! Weight Lifting does help weight loss more than many other forms of exercise though as more muscle means your body is able to absorb more sugar and therefore produces a smaller insulin spike.

However, you could spend every waking moment of your life working hard to lose weight and still never succeed if you are sabotaging yourself via a poor diet. Elimination of refined carbohydrates (preferably for good) is the best step to take for permanent weight loss. Removal of coca cola, pepsi, and all other soft drinks from your diet along with fruit juices are a good first step. The second best step to permanent weight loss and optimum health is the removal of other refined carbohydrates such as most pastries and breads (at least limiting bread in take and eating only whole grain breads early in the day if possible) cookies, pizza, french fries, and hamburgers from your diet.

Of course, you may indulge in any or all of the above if you are able to control your cravings for them and eat them only on rare occasion. If you are diabetic then you should immediately and permanently remove all of the above foods form your diet forever! Whole grain bread early in the am would be the only exception and if diabetic should eat limited quantities.

Once a person has removed the above from their diet, they should try to determine their nutritional type and stick to a diet that fits their nutritional type. For example, if you feel better on only meats then you should eat a diet consisting mostly of meat. if you feel better on a complex carb diet, then you should eat a diet consisting mostly of complex carbs. If you feel better on a mixed diet of meats and carbs then thats what you should eat.

One thing that isnt mentioned in the video though is the type of carb you eat! All carbs are not created equal! I have tested this out on myself and I know that if my diet does not consist of any substance that converts immediately to sugar I do not gain fat. I could eat 5 apples or 10 oranges and have very little change in my weight or fat stores. The reason is that complex carbohydrates have tons of fiber usually and fiber slows sugar metabolism whereas modern processed garbage we call food has little to no fiber and is packed with refined sugar and flour.

So a good way to tell if a food will put on fat is to ask how much sugar the food contains or how much white flour it contains. If the food is packed with either substance you will get fat. Fatty foods do not put fat on your body that is a bunch of garbage! Sugar puts on fat by raising insulin levels telling your body to store fat