I was wondering who has giving a iso-caloric diet a try and what their results where, it is my understanding (correct me if I am wrong) but it is Dan Duchaine method of divides your daily calorie intake equally 1/3 protein, 1/3 carbohydrate, and 1/3 fat (thanks for clarifying for me NG).
I was wondering if you divide all your meals in that fashion or if you could follow massive eating guidelines and end the day with 33 % for all the marcos? thanks
Hey Irontank - I’ll dig up my old BodyOpus book (by Duchaine) and give you some details. Just gotta find it first…
No you don’t have to divide all the meals equally. Just write down how many total calories you are going to eat during the day. Then work out carbs, fats and protein from that. e.g 3000cal based on an iso-caloric diet = 250gm carbs / 250gm protein / 110gm fat. I suggest using John Berardis taper down meal plan where you eat more carbs in the morining and less at night. You would combine high carbs/protein/low fat in some meals and low carbs/protein/high fat in other meals.
You want all of your meals to have those ratios IE: not just the total of everything at the end of the day.
The idea is the isocaloric meal helps regulate hormones for faster fat loss (insulin etc.) And it works very well.
To put this in perspective. Duchaine’s diet is built on a similar principle to the Zone, etc. And to follow the diet as prescribed, you have to have all the meals like that.
But there is no reason you can’t try the Massive Eating plan with those ratios. At least you know the daily ratio is sound.
I tried exactly that for a few weeks, actually, and it was more comfortable than the 40/30/30 I started with, as I had to eat a lot of carbs at each meal (like 120g).