Dietary Fat is Not the Enemy
Even though views are beginning to change with many people, it’s still the same story. In fact you’ve heard it all before. Everybody from the American Medical Association to the media trendsetters to that so-called "expert" at your neighborhood gym has been saying the same thing for the last three decades. Fat is bad; carbohydrates are good. If you want to get the body you've been working so hard for, you've got to focus on those carbohydrates and keep fat to an absolute minimum.
So you dedicate yourself to living by the percentages the “lowfat experts” give you. 55 percent carbs, no more than 15 percent fat, you load up on turkey and chicken, you separate the egg whites, you surgically remove all visible fat from any piece of meat, you always broil—never fry.
But you've been living a lie.
The fact is, the high carbohydrate diet favored by so many powerlifters can actually work against them. They bulk up on all those carbs and end up packing on a tremendous amount of bodyfat. Then, when it's time to cut, too much muscle ends up being left in the gym along with the bodyfat.
Strength levels and personal motivation drops. You can become irritable, maybe even depressed. By the time that contest you've been working so hard for comes around, you often look no better than you did for the last contest. You may even look worse.
And that diet, to say it's inconvenient and strict would be a drastic understatement. In a world where eating makes up a great part of our social life, the regimen of a high carb, low fat diet can quickly make you a social outcast.
That’s not to say that you can't make progress toward your goals with a high carb diet. You can, somewhat. But you can also find yourself plateauing or even losing lean body mass. And if you try and get as lean as you can, you can suffer a dramatic loss in muscle mass. It’s even worse if you’re trying to get contest ready. As you count down toward contest time, panic can set in. You take drastic measures to compensate for the state you're in and end up losing weeks of training.
So, why are you torturing yourself? Especially when there is an alternative that can pack on muscle while keeping bodyfat at a minimum. It's called the Metabolic Diet and, while it flies in the face of what most powerlifters have been led to believe, it could be the answer to your prayers.
To read more about the Metabolic Diet, please visit www.metabolicdiet.com
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