I use a lot of low carb veggies as my «filler» in a meal, about a cup or more,
then moderate protein (a small palm - sized), and a reasonable amount of fat.
Not exact matches
Recommendations: Porridge and nut milks have
moderate amounts of
protein but if you really want a healthy
protein boost in the morning
then look no further than: nut butters, hemp seeds, spirulina, goji berries and
protein powders such hemp and pea.
Then there is the
moderate to high calorie diets which include High
Protein, Parillo, High fat [again — variation] high carb, etc.) diet theories.
And if you'd rather just have a nice balance of everything (this tends to be my default recommendation),
then just set
protein and fat in the middle of their respective ranges, and carbs will end up being in a
moderate (neither high nor low) range as a result.
And
then if you increase carbs, you can still get some of the benefits by having that first 20 hours of your meals relatively lower carb, higher fat,
moderate protein and those last four hours you pop up a little bit and so you can still get some of those benefits.
If intermittent fasting confers equal or better benefits for adding lean - body mass or if intermittent fasting confers equal or better benefits for stripping fat while preserving lean - body mass (when compared to the 4 - 6 meals of low -
moderate carb, high
protein, low -
moderate fat)
then we should see an onslaught of professional bodybuilders (not onesie twosie) also kneeling at the alter of and hailing intermittent fasting as king of the diets.
He
then goes to his sports med doctor and sports dietitian who tell him to eat a
moderate amount of
protein and swim three times a week plus do upper body weights three times a week.
I've been telling people forever that 1g per lbs is fine but it is so hard to convince folks when a) every mag pushes
protein for obvious reasons and b) every pro takes 2 - 3g to be safe, because if you are committed enough to be elite you probably do what you need to and
then some,
protein would be a silly place to start being
moderate.
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Back to Macros... when you boil it all down you want
Protein to be almost constant at a
moderate to high level — and
then Fat / Carbs inversely cycled depending on the day.
Although ketogenic diet is strongly tilted towards fat,
then your body still needs
protein, but only in
moderate amounts.
One question: if fat not release insulin, and carb release insulin unless
protein,
then the best diet, to health and weight, would not be a diet whitout
protein, but
moderate in carbs and fat?
If you did keto,
then you know it requires one to increase fat to 65 - 70 %,
protein low -
moderate @ 25 - 30 %, carbs @ 5 % which.
The solution
then, is obvious — Low Carb,
Moderate protein, High fat diets.
I am going back to the fat reducing diet that has always worked for me... boring but effective, its basically
moderate protein high fat — I basically drinking coffee with coconut oil in the AM —
then for dinner have a bunch of raw egg yolks (duck and chicken) and raw ground beef (yes, all pasture raised and crap)...
Also, to mention the Atkins diet, in the book I read, the diet begins with a two week very low carb diet [20 grams of carbo perday] in order to transition the body into a state of nutritional ketosis, using ketones not glucose / insulin for energy generation; however, it is not intended to be a permanent such state but rather for the dieter to gradually add in carbs; however, is one added in only up to the limit, which varies from person to person, of carbs to just below the lvel that would transition out of ketosis,
then Atkins would work with that in mind and requiring monitoring for blood or urine ketone levels and must needs be high fat,,
moderate protein, and low carbs
Well it is imperative too understand when we go low carb (and only
moderate protein)
then we want to increase our healthy fats to keep us fuller for longer.
Ketosis Diets — high in
protein, low in carbs,
moderate in fats — my experience is that this feels great at first — because you feel like you're doing the perfect «proper» diet plan — and you get excited to lose weight, but
then when your hormones shift mid cycle — it's impossible to fight your carb cravings and major falling off the wagon, binge carbing ensues.