Comments on: How To Lose Fat https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/ free workouts to build muscle & lose fat fast Thu, 03 Oct 2013 17:36:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jeshua Pel https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73509 Tue, 02 Jul 2013 12:59:10 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73509 hey mark should lactose be limited during a carb up on MANS?

]]> By: Alex https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73501 Tue, 02 Jul 2013 06:19:17 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73501 Hi Mark.
Forgive me if I’m being dim but do you recommend limiting carbs to 100g a day or week?

]]> By: Jack https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73489 Tue, 02 Jul 2013 02:27:47 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73489 Thanks Mark… Great article. I can cut calories and carbs, (although, to be fair, I dont count carbs)… I can increase cardio, or decrease it while doing the same with weight training. Still, I gain weight very easily and lose it painfully slowly. Its pretty frustrating… Might this be an insulin issue? Are there medical tests for this?

]]> By: Ruben https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73482 Tue, 02 Jul 2013 00:06:12 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73482 Hi Mark,
After reading alot around the subject of insulin and its effects on fat cells. Alot of the websites I have looked at have said something along the lines of once the fat cells have expanded, they remain at that size (or grow bigger due to calorie excess) but they rarely shrini in size. This is generally used to then explain that when people stop dieting and exercising as regularly, they put on weight faster due to the fact that these fat cells remain expanded, making it easier to store fat.
I’m curious to know whether you came across this in your research at all?
Unfortunately my sources are all from memory of the sites, so I doubt if I can reference them to you.
By the way I love all your work, and this summer im hoping to make some large gains through tht, while using either mans or glad (any recommendation?).
Keep up great work
Regards

]]> By: Darshan https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73480 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 23:28:26 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73480 Simple and powerful…this is what we expect Mark!

]]> By: Mark McManus https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73477 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:51:17 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73477 Thanks, Adriana 😀

]]> By: Adriana https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73476 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 21:28:49 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73476 Great article! Sharing it now.

]]> By: Mark McManus https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73475 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 19:53:29 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73475 @Andrew. No there is no contradiction at all between the first law of thermodynamics and the role that insulin plays.
In the diagram the total water inside the tank is MORE in the carb-sensitive person i.e. less water is available to come back out. This means ‘calories out’ has decreased. This person may believe they are eating at a maintenance level but they’re actually getting fatter. Total ‘energy in’ is more than that of a person with good insulin sensitivity, and total calories out is less. Their cells then don’t get all the energy they need and they feel lazy and perpetually hungry.

]]> By: Andrew https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73471 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 18:04:12 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73471 Excellent article Mark – you should make it a showpiece one. You talk about the contradiction (for lack of a better term) in the piece between the cal in < cal required to loss weight (1st law thermo), and the issue with insulin. I'm still not clear on it. Why does insulin resistance increase your fat if you have more or less of it, "IF" you eat fewer calories than you need? In your diagram of the water tank, sure some of the water is shunted off to a separate tank (i.e., the insulin tank), but the total water is the same. It seems to me that if you eat fewer calories than you require, you'll lose fat, regardless how whether that insulin plays a role or not. You need the deficit calories from somewhere, regardless.

Unless I'm missing something about the energy required to convert a calorie into energy is different? Thanks!

]]> By: Anand https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73470 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 17:03:31 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73470 Excellent article.
Thanks a pile.

]]> By: Mark McManus https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73469 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 16:55:51 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73469 @Abhishek. Yes, this is a great place to start. If you are competitive and want to get shredded, Total Six Pack Abs is the program for you https://totalsixpackabs.com/

]]> By: Mark McManus https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73468 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 16:54:25 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73468 @stickupkid. If someone was very sensitive to carbs, I’d recommend the MANS diet with 1 or 2 carb-ups per week. Say Saturday and Wednesday.
https://musclehack.com/best-bodybuilding-diet-plan-revealed/
If there’s little or no carb-sensitivity, GLAD will do the trick as you avoid sugar but have other carbs. That’s sufficient for most people in my opinion.
https://musclehack.com/the-new-bodybuilding-diet-glad/

]]> By: Abhishek https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73467 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 16:29:47 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73467 Nice Post Mark. I was a bodybuilding competitor 2 years ago I but due to some reason I cannot able to continue body building from last 17 months, And I build too much fat, now I’m again back to the Gym but It’s really hard to lose those build up excess fat, and I’m now in age of 20, so is this formula work for me? or I have to do something else?

]]> By: stickupkid https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73465 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:21:54 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73465 Mark if you feel you are sensitive to carbohydrates what would the recommended amount of carbohydrates should you eat to on training days to build muscle and would it be better to replace certain carbs with fat on non-training days?

]]> By: Mark McManus https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73464 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:12:47 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73464 Dan. Thanks, pal.

]]> By: Dan https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73463 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:07:27 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73463 Definitely one of your best, well done Mark!

]]> By: Mark McManus https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73462 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:55:10 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73462 @James Thanks 😀
@JC. lmao

]]> By: Mark McManus https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73461 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:54:32 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73461 @Joseph. Hi. First, in the article I say you can factor cardio in later. But there are reasons not to bother at all:
(1) It increases hunger making it harder to stick to the program.
(2) You’ll risk burning muscle if you do too much
(3) It interrupts recovery and growth of muscle. A muscle stops recovering once it’s worked. Why put the brakes on your gains when you don’t need to?
(4) It burns a lot less calories than you think. Don’t believe the machines in the gym; they’re way off the mark.
(5) Weight training burns more calories overall as a single session keeps your metabolism raised for around 48 hrs. Cardio doesn’t do this.
But you did a great job with your own fat loss. However, most of your success was due to diet, weight training, and cardio in that order.

]]> By: JC https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73460 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:49:58 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73460 His belly = Peter Griffin’s chin!

]]> By: james https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73459 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:41:09 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73459 You have a really good writing style. Good info also, couldn’t have come at a better time for me really.. my plateau just ended….for now… but will use this on the next one when I’m <9%bf.

]]> By: Joseph Sheehan https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73458 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:10:41 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73458 Hi Mark, Love your sight man! I don’t understand the “Don’t do any cardio”. I lost 50 pounds due mostly to 30 minute power walks. I did do weight training and controlled what I ate as well. I lost the weight to prepare for quitting smoking. I quit smoking but due to a calf injury I couldn’t do any cardio and gained back 40 pounds. Now I’m back in the gym, on the treadmill and watching what I eat. I’ve dropped 3 pounds in the first week. I’m 51 and it’s not as easy as it used to be so I’ll do whatever it takes.
Joe

]]> By: Dan https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73457 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:50:56 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73457 OMG! That guy’s belly with the insulin shots. I never knew that could happen!

]]> By: Ethan https://musclehack.com/how-to-lose-fat/#comment-73456 Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:50:00 +0000 https://musclehack.com/?p=7985#comment-73456 Fantastic! Mark I’ll definitely share this one around!!

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