| I would recommend keeping your carb intake to under 100 grams per day. And Cycle the intake of the carbs around the busy times of your day i.e. your workout! And combine your carbs with protein to slow the release of the sugars into the blood. At other times, i.e. dinner, or not around your workout - eat higher protein and fat meals. Think meats, olive oils, nuts, seeds, eggs, and fibrous green veg. If you eat this way, you will miss out on 90% of your local supermarkets stock when you go shopping.<br><br><br><br><br><br>So, after learning this, I decided to lower my carbohydrates dramatically and add more fat! I started eating more bacon, red meat, peanut butter, cheese, coconut oil, butter and heavy cream. Remember, if your body has no carbohydrates to use as an energy source, it will use fat.<br><br>An excellent low carb ketogenic diet is called the cyclical ketogenic diet. The diet breaks down the amount of protein, carbs and fat into what is called macros. These macros help you distribute how much of each source of calories so you eat the right amount for each meal. The best breakdown for calories from protein, carbs and fat is a 65% fat, 30% protein, 5% carbohydrates ratio. The reason the diet is called a cyclical ketogenic diet is because we spend 5 days of the week doing a low carb phase and then the next two days is a high carb, or carb up, phase.<br><br>Pros: with all these different focuses, a common thread is on the quality of the foods you're putting in your body. Many of these diets focus on whole foods more than processed artificial foods. While some Quality focused diets, like Atkins in particular, should not be done as a lifestyle, a lot of them, like Paleo and Vegan, can be. What's more, choosing one of these diets as a lifestyle can lead to long term health benefits and slow aging.<br><br>Even though the diet is high in fat and salt, Greeks and Italians who live this way have far fewer cardiovascular problems than those who have switched to a Western diet. But there is more to it than that. Portions are smaller in these countries, and the people are in general more active.<br><br>The problem with diets is that though they do assist in losing weight, hair luster, skin glow and energy is also lost simultaneously. Indeed one seems to be caught in the vicious circle; diet, if you want to lose weight and look good, but this very dieting makes you look drained and wrinkled.<br><br>1) Did you lose any muscle tissue? If yes, then you need to add more carbs to your diet at breakfast and after your workout. If this was the case you most likely can tolerate carbs better in your diet.
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