CoorsLight126
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For years and years I did what everyone else did when I tried to cut up. I cut out my carbs. And every year the exact same ****ing result!! Loss of size, sort of leaner but still not as hard as I wanted to be, total lack of energy and overall felt like **** and run down. Finally I got smart and on a real diet. So here are the reasons I think keto diets SUCK!!
1- Your normally eating xyz amount of carbs/cals all year. why would you want to cut out almost all of your carbs right away? The body does not like sudden change, and it never seems to react favorably.
2-Lets be honest, your normally eating 3,4,5 cheat meals/wk during a normal eating regimine, how many cals and extra fat do you think that is? Wouldn't it make more sense to remove the fat from your diet first and let the carbs continue to transport nutrients to the muscles and keep them strong and full?
3- When the carbs remain in the diet they make the muscles fuller and they push against your skin more, making your muscles "pop out" more.
4- Usually just eating clean and average daily carbs, if you knock out the fat, your body still goes outside the realm of whats immediately available to it and burns stored bodyfat. You dont need to go into ketosis or drop your carbs insanely low!! This is a last resort thing when pulling that final 2-3% bodyfat off matters, like for a competition or something.
5-If you stop getting "a pump" in the gym your carbs are too ****ing low. What, you think your going to go 10-12 wks in this condition and hold the same level of size and condition? Nope. Drop the carbs into ketosis and its a great way to look emaciated
6-Your brain operates on glycogen stores, I'm guessing most of you have a job? Good luck thinking at work when your in ketosis, or driving your car w/out wrecking it because your too stupid acting to stop at a red light. Sounds healthy huh?
7- Ketosis is the bodies survival mechanism, its not meant to be the first means of fat loss done deliberately
8- "You need fat to burn fat" ****ing overrated!! Try knocking out almost all of your fats for a month, and keeping your carbs at 300 grams/day, with 1-2 grams protein/lb. Come tell me how fast you get shredded in just 4 wks time!!!
9-Ok, you got it all figured out dont ya? 400 grams/day protein, 50 grams/day carbs, 100 grams/day fats right? ok, so your at 2700 calories a day. Perfect!! Now if you could be at 2700 calories/day and keep your blood sugar more stable, feel better, and be stronger, which do you think you would benefit from more? Also, which do you think you could stick to longer without having cheat meals?
10- If your doing everything right there is no reason to carb cycle. All this bull**** about "tricking your body" is nonsense. It's smarter than you are, you aren't tricking ****, actually your doing an excellent job at jacking up cortisol levels and giving yourself a softer look and losing weight at the same time.
11- Ever notice how you get to a point where you actually stop getting hungry on a carb depletion? Geez, maybe the metabolism is actually slowing down!!
12- I could take 2 people, give 1 of them only 100 grams/day protein, and 400 grams/day carbs, and give the other guy 400 grams/day protein, and only 100 grams/day carbs, and in 90% of scenarios that guy with only 100 grams/day of protein who kept his carbs will look better in the end. I could do this with 90% of anybody I train!! So no, the answer isn't always "just keep the protein super high" and you'll hold all of your muscle!! Actually, it gets to a point it binds your digestive tract and is actually worse for you.
So there is my argument. Keto diets ****ing blow. I understand everybody is different, but not everybody is so different that we all need to totally deplete carbohydrate intake to get fantastic results and get shredded. do we need to lower caloric intake? yes. Do we need to lower our carbs to some degree? Sure. But ketosis, and checking ourselves with keto sticks and all this nonsense? Retarded approach for 90% of people!!
1- Your normally eating xyz amount of carbs/cals all year. why would you want to cut out almost all of your carbs right away? The body does not like sudden change, and it never seems to react favorably.
2-Lets be honest, your normally eating 3,4,5 cheat meals/wk during a normal eating regimine, how many cals and extra fat do you think that is? Wouldn't it make more sense to remove the fat from your diet first and let the carbs continue to transport nutrients to the muscles and keep them strong and full?
3- When the carbs remain in the diet they make the muscles fuller and they push against your skin more, making your muscles "pop out" more.
4- Usually just eating clean and average daily carbs, if you knock out the fat, your body still goes outside the realm of whats immediately available to it and burns stored bodyfat. You dont need to go into ketosis or drop your carbs insanely low!! This is a last resort thing when pulling that final 2-3% bodyfat off matters, like for a competition or something.
5-If you stop getting "a pump" in the gym your carbs are too ****ing low. What, you think your going to go 10-12 wks in this condition and hold the same level of size and condition? Nope. Drop the carbs into ketosis and its a great way to look emaciated
6-Your brain operates on glycogen stores, I'm guessing most of you have a job? Good luck thinking at work when your in ketosis, or driving your car w/out wrecking it because your too stupid acting to stop at a red light. Sounds healthy huh?
7- Ketosis is the bodies survival mechanism, its not meant to be the first means of fat loss done deliberately
8- "You need fat to burn fat" ****ing overrated!! Try knocking out almost all of your fats for a month, and keeping your carbs at 300 grams/day, with 1-2 grams protein/lb. Come tell me how fast you get shredded in just 4 wks time!!!
9-Ok, you got it all figured out dont ya? 400 grams/day protein, 50 grams/day carbs, 100 grams/day fats right? ok, so your at 2700 calories a day. Perfect!! Now if you could be at 2700 calories/day and keep your blood sugar more stable, feel better, and be stronger, which do you think you would benefit from more? Also, which do you think you could stick to longer without having cheat meals?
10- If your doing everything right there is no reason to carb cycle. All this bull**** about "tricking your body" is nonsense. It's smarter than you are, you aren't tricking ****, actually your doing an excellent job at jacking up cortisol levels and giving yourself a softer look and losing weight at the same time.
11- Ever notice how you get to a point where you actually stop getting hungry on a carb depletion? Geez, maybe the metabolism is actually slowing down!!
12- I could take 2 people, give 1 of them only 100 grams/day protein, and 400 grams/day carbs, and give the other guy 400 grams/day protein, and only 100 grams/day carbs, and in 90% of scenarios that guy with only 100 grams/day of protein who kept his carbs will look better in the end. I could do this with 90% of anybody I train!! So no, the answer isn't always "just keep the protein super high" and you'll hold all of your muscle!! Actually, it gets to a point it binds your digestive tract and is actually worse for you.
So there is my argument. Keto diets ****ing blow. I understand everybody is different, but not everybody is so different that we all need to totally deplete carbohydrate intake to get fantastic results and get shredded. do we need to lower caloric intake? yes. Do we need to lower our carbs to some degree? Sure. But ketosis, and checking ourselves with keto sticks and all this nonsense? Retarded approach for 90% of people!!