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(il_dottore @ Apr. 02 2008,08:22)</div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">That's not my advise, is a general guide from Tom Venuto's book.
I think it's better than nothing....
Using it me and other beginners can adjust the diet in someway....I think it's better than go with no idea and make changes that have no sense
If you have more or better info on how to adjust the diet to have better and faster results, you're welcome...please share them with us</div>
I wanted to point out the flaws in the advice. It doesn't seem to be based on actual knowledge of diet or metabolism. It seems to be based on a hypothesis. The hypothesis it's based on is the Positive Caloric Balance hypothesis. It goes like this:
Eat more or do less to bulk
Eat less or do more to cut
The problem with this hypothesis is that is has never been proven. The human body is not a machine that simply puts away extra energy when there's a surplus and takes it out of storage when there's a deficit. Our fuel system is regulated by hormones which in turn is regulated by fuel quality and quantity. Further, the rate we spend fuel (BMR) is also regulated by hormones which in turn is regulated by fuel quality and quantity. BMR is also regulated by our activity level and by doing so our activity level also regulates our fuel intake to compensate.
The hypothesis considers output and intake independent variables. For instance, it's believed that if we eat less, we'll spend more energy and lose weight. The problem here is that as we eat less, BMR drops and we spend less energy too. The same is true when we just spend more energy. We spend more energy and supposedly we're going to lose weight. The problem here is that by spending more energy, hunger increases to compensate the extra fuel expenditure so we eat more.
What has been proven is how carbohydrate affect hormones which in turn affect fat accumulation. Specifically, insulin. Insulin is the primary regulator of adipose tissue. In turn, carbohydrate is the primary regulator of insulin. Insulin works to inhibit or allow fat to be released in the blood to be used by cells as fuel. It does so simply by how much insulin is in the blood. The more insulin in the blood, the more fat is trapped in adipose tissue. Conversely, the less insulin in the blood, the easier fat is released in the blood. As we eat carbs, insulin is secreted and released in the blood. You ask that I share info on this subject? Here it is:
Eat carbs to grow fat
Don't eat carbs to cut fat
It's more simple than the guidelines of your first post. It's so much easier to apply. But above all, it's based on how the human body actually works. Now apply this rule to any diet problem you can imagine. It doesn't take weeks to see the effect. It takes two days. It takes two days whether you're old, young, fat, lean, experienced, beginner, working out, sitting on your couch.
There's another thing that must be said about cutting fat. We need new fat to get rid of old fat. Just like we need new water to be able to piss the old water. Maybe it's a mechanism of conservation where if there's no new fat coming in, the old one will be retained as much as possible to avoid waste. I don't know but that's how it works for us.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed....VDocSum
(if you can find another study on that but with human subjects, it's be even better)
This last detail changes the rule to this
In order to cut fat:
1. Don't eat carbs
2. Eat fat
So, if anybody can't cut fat, it's either because they eat too much carbs or not enough fat. Incidentally, if anybody is growing fat it's also because they eat too much carbs or not enough fat. The problem is the same so the solution is the same.
