[quote]InTheZone wrote:
nycsoccax wrote:
InTheZone wrote:
natural59 wrote:
Ad B wrote:
After reading the links natural59 posted got me thinking. Im wanting to put lean mass on with the diet and wondering when increasing calories would it be better to keep the macro % at the same e.g 60% fat 35% pro 5% CHO or just increase fat kcals
Hmmm…I guess, at some point, that would pose a dilemma, since .8 or 1.0 g. per pound of lbm won’t change radically/quickly. So if your protein is FIXED, and your CHO are FIXED, you would have no choice but to raise fat intake, in that scenario. Perhaps, you’ve unwittingly stumbled on an optimal intake level, IF the ratios are to be kept in tact.
As a side note, that’s exactly what I’ve been doing, I just never thought of it that way. I count my Protein and carb intake, and keep my total FAT calories at 60% of my total caloric intake. At least, that’s been my simple formula for the AD.
as it seems that fat tissue is burned better when protein is at a baseline amount.
anyone got any ideas on this?
I don’t think that this is what is being implied by the above. My understanding is that during the 12-day break-in, and subsequent 5-day carb depletion periods, the fat you INGEST is being burned for energy, not adipose tissue. So if you were to lose fat, you’d have to actually CUT fat intake at some point, which is what I had planned on doing, ESPECIALLY on carb-loading days, and if necessary, during the 5-day, low-carb maintenance periods as well, say, dropping from 60% of total caloric intake to 50%, etc.
However, it may be advisable to allow for, what, up to 12 weeks b4 doing this, to ensure that your body is fully fat adapted…?
-james
Hey guys, my experience, which has been in accordance to the good Dr.'s guidelines has worked great when cutting, to drop my fat cals to 40-48% or so during the week…I waited about one and a half months before doing it to that extent, but it went really nice, and as far as I know didn’t effect my fat adaption at all…You just have to stay above the 40% mark, or you will then have some problems with switching back to burning carbs possibly…
and always cut fat on carb ups as per the guidelines in his book.
just my opinion.
Tonebone
I’m defintely going to drop the fat cals to somewhere 40%<x<50%, something i never really tried. But that also juxtaposes what that other guy was saying about lowering protein to cut, doesn’t it? You must leave carbs constant, and if you lower fat cal %, doesn’t protein cal % HAVE to raise? Let me know what you guys think!
No that defeats the purpose bro, you have to drop calories right? So the point is, take them from your fat intake, that signals your body to go grab it’s own fat to use, since it’s fat adapted…and voila, you’re on operation “meltdown”… if you increase your protein, then you haven’t dropped any calories…you see? So. there ya go. best ,TB[/quote]
My .02 and this has worked for me up until current:
Keep fat at about 55% each day and up the pro to about 40%. Keep carbs about 5%. Reduce total cals, but keep these percentages (we don’t want to switch to protein-burning mode).
Again, my .02.
AD