MV's Big FAT Diet: Low Carb and Lovin' It

[nooropathy]

After a suggestion by MV during last week's  THE SPEC SHEET podcast...Here It Is.

Adopting a  “Low Carb-High Fat” approach to nutrition has shown to be a very successful means of reducing body fat, improving blood glucose control (increased insulin sensitivity), optimizing blood lipid markers, plus increasing ones overall energy and focus.

Now my disclaimer: I am not a medical doctor.  Any action you take regarding a change in your dietary intake should be discussed with your own medical practitioner, particularly if you are at risk of aggravating or worsening a known medical condition that would be impacted by a change in what you shove in your pie-hole (the exact opposite end of the one you don't want to be called).


My Story:    In the first 3 months after starting "low carb" in early July 2011, I lost just over 30 pounds and 4” off my waist, by just being active and walking an hour or so a few times a week.  The major change in my eating lifestyle was made by increasing the calories from good fats and oils, eating only moderate amount of protein with lots of both cooked and raw vegetables that are naturally low in simple carbohydrates, and drastically reducing those from starches and sugar.  The majority of daily calories are consumed by eating just two large meals with a couple of small healthy snacks.

It’s been nearly 3 years, my weight is stable and I can now eat just about as much as I want of the right stuff.  However, food becomes much less important when you’re not hungry all the time.  The benefits go far beyond weight loss. I do not nap in the afternoon anymore, I don’t need to nap.  I have great energy and no more flatulence, inflammation, or constipation.  I feel great as a result of ditching much of the sugar, wheat, corn, oats, legumes (especially soy), potatoes, rice, and sweet fruits. They all cause the body to produce excessive amounts of insulin…the thing that makes you FAT.

Any one else, including MV  "want to take a ride"?

[nooropathy]

Here's a place to start,

My Big Fat Diet Parts 1,2 and 3 in order

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjTmdvFH3gQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZy8atek8dg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bnw-TjpkaI

[paladin1991]

My experience with this is losing 25 lbs in 3 months.  Have returned to the gym as well.  Weights over cardio.  Probably could lose more if I focused on cardio but I do want to rebuild the muscle mass that I had previously lost.

Maybe we should start a bellgab fitness sub section?  We all agree to lift until Art returns/

[Jackstar]

http://youtu.be/r1WoZpS5MpY

[McPhallus]

I recommend the McPhallus diet: one meal a day in the evening.  I know some people say this is bad, but I've had great results for the last decade.

[nooropathy]

My experience with this is losing 25 lbs in 3 months.  Have returned to the gym as well.  Weights over cardio.  Probably could lose more if I focused on cardio but I do want to rebuild the muscle mass that I had previously lost.

Maybe we should start a bellgab fitness sub section?  We all agree to lift until Art returns/

Congrats, loosing the extra weight is the perfect start.  And certainly loosing extra pounds is a lot more than just limiting the carbs.   I am not a fitness or nutrition geek, I like feeling like I can walk a few miles if I had to and won't starve to death if I don't eat in the next couple of hours.

However, I don't agree completely with heavy cardio.   I do a random 1 - 2 cardio workouts every couple of weeks max, and I do some very limited weight training during those workouts.  Doing interval training and moderate walking is so much better heavy running, i.e., slamming the joints and pounding the heart for hours on end many times per week.  its really about the activity level combined with the nutrition. 

I try to eat, lots of good veggies, balanced omega 3-omega 6  and protein around 1 gram/lb of body weight based on animal/fish sources with the remainder of the calories from fat being over 50% / day.  It's magic; your body burns any alcohol and excess carbs first then the fat.  It's not storing the excess carbs as fat as long as they are kept around 100 grams/day or less.  Being a fat burning machine is easily achieved when the carbs are controlled.

The entire "vegetable oil" market is a scam.  These are not healthy energy/body building sources for the body. 

"We have a health system that doesn't care about nutrition and a food industry that doesn't care about health"  Not my quote but I'm certain it's easily found, one of many ways to say the same thing.

[nooropathy]

I recommend the McPhallus diet: one meal a day in the evening.  I know some people say this is bad, but I've had great results for the last decade.

I need at least 2 proper sized meals and a snack to get enough macro and micro nutrients ~ 2000-2500 cal/day.   I don't have a lot left to loose.  I don't want to loose muscle or bone over storing a bit of extra fat.

but if eating once a day works for you, that's what it's all about.

[mombird3]

Get to Nutrition In Action web site. They have a very good idea OF diet and sodium and fats. The magazine is non profit. They are the food advocates for us. I get the magazine.

I have been having problems with my digestion since my hip surgery. We ate many a frozen food dinner. Well now, I feel real bad and I think it is due to food additives.This is what I have talked about for years and it is in print.

Good luck on the diet.