The ultimate cutting diet!

[PARooolller]

Some of you may have heard of this diet before... It has been advocated by bodybuilding professional, Dave Palumbo, who is (was) a big editor for Muscular Development Magazine....

The premise of the diet incorporates the science of ketogenesis, which is when the body uses energy derived from essential fatty acids as a result of a restricted carbohydrate intake...... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketogenic)

In this diet, you will consume no direct sources of carbs and may only have one cheat meal a week on the same day and time every week to help assist in glycogen loading.......

I've used the background for this diet before and it has done wonders, I'm currently on it right now to cut down my BF% after being incarcerated for the last 3 months... Here's what it looks like..remember that it takes the body about 72 hours to start using ketones for its initial energy source...

Meal 1- 4 whole eggs (Omega 3 enriched) & 4 egg whites

Meal 2- 50 gram protein shake with a tablespoon of natural PB

Meal 3- 10 oz. Chicken breast with handful of almonds, walnuts, cashews, etc.

Meal 4- 50 gram protein shake with tablespoon of natural PB

Meal 5- 10 oz. of fatty fish (swordfish, mackeral, etc) OR red meat with handful of nuts.

Meal 6- 50 gram protein shake with tablespoon of natural PB OR 2 whole eggs and 2 egg whites...



Cardio is done 30 minutes 2x a day at low intensity, keeping HR at 140bpm or under..This makes sure that the body is getting its energy from fats compared to high-intensity cardio which usually uses carbohydrate stores for energy...

This diet is relatively simple and doesn't leave you starving like most cutting diets...I'm a 180-190 lb male so you might need to lower the caloric intake if you weigh less....regardless, this diet has done wonders for me before!

 

[Binge Artist]

Whenever I tell people about my cutting diets, they look at me like I'm nuts.

Basically, what I do is, I go on macronutrients and total daily calories. I find foods where the sum of the nutrients and calories is what I want, then I put those foods into a blender. Then, throughout the day, I just take random bites of my homemade slurry.

Simplifies things a bit, I believe.

 

[sunyata]

^ lmao your slurry diet - that sounds like a nightmare

Para-roller, you can try that diet. Personally I don't think it would work too well for me. I don't like to think about protein as a stand-alone meal. Its not about how much protein you consume, but how much protein that you consumed can your body use. I believe that my body needs an amount of carbohydrate to utilize the protein (shuttle it to the peripheral muscles). Otherwise I am wasting the protein, its getting broken down into sugar (glucogenesis).

but you have to try I suppose to see whats up with your body. My brother for instance responds extremely well to an almost no carb diet. Its funny cause I would have thought our genetics are similar that we would be the same.

 

[sunyata]

also, how many calories is that total? Whats your maintenance?

This is also common sense but I also strongly recommend you drop the volume of your workouts down (especially if you do 8-12 rep work). I'm thinking on this diet you are aiming for 3-5 rep sets. I would probably cheat also and drink a dextrose/whey drink right before and during my lifting (like 40g dextrose and 40g protein).

good luck bro!!!!!!!

 

[PARooolller]

I also don't respond very well to no-carb diets...I forgot to add that I throw in 1/2 cup of grits (I know, I never had grits until I went to jail and now I love em!) which consists of 58 grams of carbs right before my workout.....I have ALWAYS needed some form of complex carbohydrates to give me energy before my workouts....

The layout for this diet is more of a backbone for my protein intake....out of all the diets, I find this one to be the easiest to follow and the most satisfying to consume...

 

[Binge Artist]

^ lmao your slurry diet - that sounds like a nightmare
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lol, yes, but...

in my experience, if you're gonna force yourself to live on tuna, chicken breast, spinach, oats, etc...then no matter how you cut, slice, group, or spice them, the bottom line is, you're still living on...tuna, chicken breast, spinach, oats, etc.

So, I say fuck it. Mix'em all together. No matter how "culinarily savy" you try to make your cutting diet, after about a month you'll rather beat off to an IHOP menu than a Playboy centerfold anyway. As far as I know, there is no way around this.

 

[p-mo]

I'll prolly try this when I start my cut in a couple of weeks. The top diet- not the slurry diet!

 

[Binge Artist]

^IMO, this diet is a little too low in carbs for a beginning cutting cycle. But maybe that's just me. As a non-contest bodybuilder, my idea of "cut to the bone" is 10% bf.