Isn’t the concept of G-flux the combination of consuming MORE calories and expending MORE calories during the day? Not what the OP is talking about?
[quote]tw0scoops2 wrote:
Isn’t the concept of G-flux the combination of consuming MORE calories and expending MORE calories during the day? Not what the OP is talking about?[/quote]
yes. it works by not fucking up your metabolism, like a low calorie diet would.
[quote]McG78 wrote:
To answer some of the questions above (and trying to avoid typos):
Exercise:
I lift weights three times a week for about 55 minutes each time. I focus on “compound” and traditional exercises: squats, deadlifts, weighted pull-ups, weighted dips, standing overhead presses, etc.
I do Yoga for about 1:30 once a week.
I play pick-up, full-court basketball once a week for about 2 hours.
I do 25 minutes of HIIT once per week.
I stretch for about 20 minutes each day and have one day a week were I have a 50 minute stretching regime.
Diet:
Besides my cheat meal once a week and the occassional oatmeal with my breakfast, I don’t eat any processed carbs (e.g., bread, pasta, etc.).
I eat a lot of fruit (typical day includes three or four bananas, three or four apples, an orange, and a large serving of watermelon) mostly before 1:00 in the afternoon.
I’m not afraid of red meat, but I stick mostly with chicken and fish.
I do eat cheese.
I eat about 6 meals a day. Decreasing in calories throughout.
ucallthatbass,
That is exactly what I’m talking about. When I eat what I want when I want (I don’t like processed carbs per se), I lean down considerably faster. For instance, a typical dinner is two chicken breasts and four cups of broccoli, and after week or two of this (and similarly sized meals) I will actually be leaner.
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I know that this may seem too simple to work - but why don’t you just do what works? Seriously?
Do this:
Drop the fruits and add broccoli/asparagus - fibrous veg. Eat lean red and white meats. Cut off fats. Make all meals fibrous carbs and meats.
Eat a small portion of complex carbs PWO - and use a decently constructed workout drink (1litre water, 25g CHO, 15g PRO/BCAA, 5g Creatine… etc.)
Keep calories just below maintenance and see how that fares, you will reduce by 10-15% as needed - weekly, maybe more maybe less.
The point is - when you eat ‘normally’ you eat clean and low carbs.
When you diet you eat alot of fruit and you also seem to eat fats too… kinda counter productive.
So do more of what works - but add calorie control to it - and make sure protein is higher than 1g/lb.
[quote]Therizza wrote:
are you eating enough protein?
are you lifting heavy?
try no carbs except with breakfast and around workout time for 4 weeks, from sources such as oats/fruit. fill up on vegetables. 5 smaller meals a day. If you want to lose fat as fast as possible, do not cheat, you haven’t earned it.[/quote]
kinda like what I posted, eh?
Skinfold measurement is not as accurate as you are assuming.
All it would take is a 1% error in derived bodyfat percentage and there is your 1.5 or 2 lb right there.
And all that would take is happening to be 0.5% low in the first reading and 0.5% high in the later reading.
On the caloric deficit: You must be incorrect that in practice this is the case. If you were running a 2800 cal/week caloric deficit (average of 400 cal/day) then you would not be the same weight (or 0.5 lb lighter) four weeks later.
Lose 3 of the bananas, keep the apples, cut your oatmeal intake in half, stop all dairy and replace with whole eggs and tuna. Your weekly cheat meal will be on Sunday and will only be the 3 bananas and 1/2 the oatmeal you dropped during the week (you still don’t get dairy). Report back in 4 weeks.
[quote]Level 0 wrote:
Lose 3 of the bananas, keep the apples, cut your oatmeal intake in half, stop all dairy and replace with whole eggs and tuna. Your weekly cheat meal will be on Sunday and will only be the 3 bananas and 1/2 the oatmeal you dropped during the week (you still don’t get dairy). Report back in 4 weeks.[/quote]
and you base these recommendations on what, exactly?
bananas make you fat now? but not apples, right? dairy makes you fat too I take it?
also switching the days you eat certain foods (bananas = OK on Sunday, but teh evilz the rest of the week?)
gtfo
yeah, not too much logic in that statement, lol. has ANYBODY read Cy Wilson’s article on fruit? If you haven’t, please do, then proceed to give advice.
[quote]dratner wrote:
yeah, not too much logic in that statement, lol. has ANYBODY read Cy Wilson’s article on fruit? If you haven’t, please do, then proceed to give advice. [/quote]
Is that all one needs to do to give advice? wow…