Metabolic Diet Set Point
The first thing I want you to understand about the Metabolic Diet is that it’s a living, breathing entity, and not a static diet like all the rest. In other words it takes into account the differences in the ability to use carbohydrates and fats that exist in people, and allows them to individualize the diet to suit their own unique metabolism. As such, at the heart of the Metabolic Diet is the notion of your Metabolic Diet Set Point.
YOUR METABOLIC DIET SET POINT IS THE LOWEST LEVEL OF CARBS THAT YOU NEED TO FUNCTION OPTIMALLY, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME MAXIMIZING BODY COMPOSITION.
The fact that you can figure out the best level of carbs that suits your metabolism while at the same time maxing out your ability to increase muscle mass and decrease bodyfat, makes the Metabolic Diet a “Holy Grail” of diets.
For some people, those that are efficient fat oxidizers and have little need for dietary carbohydrates, the Metabolic Diet Set Point will be less than 20 grams a day. For a small number of people, the Metabolic Diet Set Point may well be high enough that it ends up being a high carb diet. Most, however, fall somewhere in between, usually between the 30 to 100 grams of dietary carbs per day. Almost as important as the amount of carbs is the timing of the carb intake.
When you have to increase the level of carbs in your diet it will take a while before you discover what your carb set point is. I've found that it takes people an average of about two months to find their ideal dietary carb level. Once you discover your Metabolic Diet Set Point, you can fix your diet at that level for several months while you work on changing your body composition.
THE METABOLIC DIET WORKS BECAUSE…
Your body learns to burn fat instead of carbs.
Your body continues to prefer fats as you drop calories, mainly in dietary fat and, depending on your dietary carb intake, some carbs, always keeping protein high to spare muscle.
As calories drop, bodyfat becomes the main fuel even if you lower dietary fat dramatically.
ALSO…
Cycling from low carbs, high fat to high carbs/lower fat manipulates the anabolic and fat burning hormones and processes in the body to increase strength, and maintain or increase muscle mass while at the same time decreasing bodyfat.
REMEMBER…
You teach the body to burn mainly bodyfat in preference to carbs and protein.
By shifting from a low carb diet on weekdays to a higher carb diet on weekends, you manipulate the muscle building and fat burning processes and hormones.
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