high protein, minimal carb/fat diet?

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i haven't completely understood what the problem w/ this kind of diet is yet. say you wanted to go on a diet of 2000 cals and made it up with a high amount of protein and a minimal amount of carbs and fats (im not talking about going really low but to a minimal amount)

example
2000 cals
300g protein
100g carbs
45g fat
 
2000kcal for hte majority of people would be hypocaloric, so you would lose weight (ie its just a high protien, moderately keto diet.

Now if you ate 3000kcal with just hte protein alone increased in calories, and your maintenance was 500kcal, you would gain weight :)
maybe not perfectly matched with calories (but not far off it)

Not thru protien conversion to fat. But your getting energy from the protien that is deaiminated and oxidised :) which is approximately ~50% of protein digested.

But then again they havent done research on this particiular example.
 
fats primary function is to be stored as fat, carbs as glycogen, and protein in muscle tissue. i realize there is some crossing over like fat can be burned for energy and carbs can be stored as fat and protein can be used for energy.

so why not make a diet where you add sufficient fats to maintain hormone levels (20-25%) then add in a sufficient amount of carbs to keep glycogen reasonably high for energy during your workouts (~100g) and make up the rest of your calories with protein.

wouldn't this be optimal diet if your main concern was either losing fat or keeping fat gain to a minimum?
 
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Quote[/b] (ejones @ Oct. 29 2003,9:55)]i haven't completely understood what the problem w/ this kind of diet is yet. say you wanted to go on a diet of 2000 cals and made it up with a high amount of protein and a minimal amount of carbs and fats (im not talking about going really low but to a minimal amount)
example
2000 cals
300g protein
100g carbs
45g fat
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Well that is exactly what a lot of bodybuilders eat like, especially those who are using androgens. This type of diet (with a little higher protein) does keep you lean and works great for guys using testosterone who want to stay really lean year round.

For natural guys it tends to make them flat after a while. granted 100grams of carbs per day isn't exactly low carb, nor is 45 grams of fat. In fact, that is pretty close to the way I eat most of the time. :)

In short, it's good for dieting or staying lean, but it isn't good for growing.
 
thanks for the reply bryan. i'd just never seen anyone talk warmly about a diet like this for any purpose and was wondering what the reason was. i know you can't gain as much mass this way but i guess it would be good to stay lean
 
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