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Introducing The Intermittent Keto Protocol!

9/19/2014

I apologize I've been missing in action for so long on the blog, but it's been for a good reason! For the past 3-plus months, I've been putting all my fat-loss knowledge into a single 75-page manual called The Intermittent Keto Protocol! In it, you're going to learn about some amazing things!

EFFORTLESS FAT LOSS WITH THE CYCLICAL KETOGENIC DIET
The heart of the Intermittent Keto Protocol is centered around harnessing the power of the low-carb cyclical ketogenic diet. You will learn how eating things like bacon and butter on a daily basis turn your body into a fat burning machine whileLOWERING your risk of things such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. Forget everything you think you know about low-carb dieting. If you do it correctly, it is almost safe to call it a "cure-all" for nearly everything plaguing society today. Not only will I teach you how to become fat-adpated, I have also included numerous tools to help you on your journey:

Extensive low-carb food lists
Grocery shopping guide
30 meal and side-dish ideas + links to a whole world of amazing low-carb recipes

DISEASE PREVENTION AND FAT LOSS THROUGH INTERMITTENT FASTING
What if I told you that by skipping a few meals a week, you could dramatically improve your chances of preventing things such as cancer, Alzheimer's, and several autoimmune diseases? Well, it's not science-fiction, it's intermittent fasting. The Intermittent Keto Protocol will teach you how to easily perform a few short fasts per week to not only lose fat, but to ward off disease and enact anti-aging processes through the natural process of autophagy. There is no such thing as a detox diet, but the power of intermittent fasting delivers on what those diet systems promise to do... IT ACTUALLY DETOXES YOU!

OCCASIONALLY EATING JUNK FOOD OFFERS SUPERCHARGED FAT LOSS!
Every week or two, depending on your goals, you will be allowed a strategic window where you can indulge in all the delicious foods you've been missing such as pizza, pasta, and donuts, while ENHANCING your fat burning potential, making for better workouts during the week, and just generally making you a happier person. That's right. You don't need to feel guilty about eating the foods you were missing. In fact, eating them occasionally is fully encouraged on The Intermittent Keto Protocol!

BUT WAIT.. THERE'S MORE!
I know losing fat, preventing disease, and still getting to eat your favorite foods on occasion may sound too good to be true, but it isn't. Everything provided to you in The Intermittent Keto Protocol is backed by scientific research, and on top of the already amazing benefits provided, IKP will teach you:

How low-carb dieting is superior in preserving muscle compared to low-fat diets
The proper way to (optionally) exercise on a low-carb diet. No rehashed workouts like other books give you
The mental side of weight loss, complete with a pre-made goal sheet to help get you started
An extensive scientific explanation of almost every weight loss myth you've ever been told

A nutritional program like this would easily cost you hundreds if not thousands of dollars, assuming you were able to find a dietitian willing to prescribe you something that works this well. But I'm not going to charge you thousands of dollars. For the first few months of release, The Intermittent Keto Protocol will be available for the ridiculously low price of $25.00! This deal won't last forever, so be sure to jump at the opportunity to learn how to blast fat, prevent disease, and still eat donuts. I look forward to helping you on your journey to better health!

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FEAST OR (INTERMITTENTLY) FAST? FAQ

10/3/2013

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READ PART 1 HERE

Last time I posted, I gave you a rundown of intermittent fasting (IF). In a brief description, IF is essentially not eating for 16 hours and beyond to increase fat burn and overall better fitness. I'm aware this type of lifestyle spits in the face of almost everything you've had shoved down your throat by the media and "fitness experts" since you can probably remember. That being said, there are at least 2 huge questions that come up repeatedly when I tell people about IF. Let's cover those today.

Won't I be be incredibly hungry when I don't eat for such a long time?

This is the most logical question to ask, and the one I was most concerned about. The answer is, only for a few days at most. As I explained in this post, numerous studies have been conducted on whether eating a few large meals or several smaller meals a day had any effect on your metabolism. Aside from it turning out there isn't much difference at all, one of the major discoveries in these studies was that people who ate a few large meals as opposed to several smaller ones were hungry much less often.

Your body's hormones are trainable. If you eat several small meals a day, your body is literally going to expect you to feed it all the time. If you only eat a few large meals a day, your body's ghrelin (hunger hormone) will be much less likely to turn on you. Personally, I was only more than marginally hungry for the first few days while changing my eating habits around. The body is extremely adaptable to change, and changing your meal frequency on it isn't going to make much of a difference.

Also, and I'm sure many of you have heard the term, but your body won't go into starvation mode by not eating for 16+ hours. You can go into a form of starvation mode due to metabolic damage from constant lack of calories due some stupid fad diet, yes, but not from simple fasting. It's going to take you somewhere around 60 hours of fasting to significantly lower your metabolic rate.

Won't not eating for such a long time cause me to lose muscle mass?

Counter question. Do you think I would be posting about intermittent fasting if it did?! The muscle loss question is born out of the notion that if we don't eat frequently, our muscles will shrink and our metabolism will slow. If you've been reading my blog, you'll realize that isn't the case whatsoever.

This is a basic rundown of how your body would waste muscle. As many people know, the body, and more specifically your brain really loves to run on glucose aka blood sugar. The most obvious way to keep a stream of glucose in your system is to eat carbohydrates regularly. This will pretty much ensure round the clock streams of the stuff running through your system.

But what happens when you don't eat for 16+ hours? Your last meal of carbs is long digested, and now your brain is hungry for some glucose! Your liver is the body's backup mechanism for glucose, as it stores glycogen which can quickly be converted into glucose for fuel purposes. An average 150 pound man can hold up to 120 grams of it, which roughly equates out to around 500 calories worth of energy. However, especially if you are keeping carbs low or in my case hardly having any at all, your liver will run out of glycogen.

After this happens, the body looks to start using free amino acids in the blood to convert to glucose. Luckily, your body fat is capable of breaking down into free fatty acids which can be used for fuel, as as well as glycerol, which can be turned into glucose. This can be responsible for a large portion of glucose management in your body, and yet another reason why fasting is so great for body fat loss.

Body fat isn't responsible for 100% of the glucose management, though, which leaves only one other issue. That is the amount of free amino acids in the blood stream from protein you've eaten. If you don't have any of those available to use, then and only then will your body start using up muscle for fuel purposes. Your muscle is largely made up of protein, which in turn is largely made up of amino acids, which is why it will be the next target for glucose making purposes.

However, there is a near 100% guaranteed way to make sure it never gets to this. If you're eating protein rich meals, especially slow burning proteins such as eggs, beef, and casein protein powder, you body will be supplied with a steady stream of amino acids up to and long after the 16+ hour mark. This is a huge reason why fitness professionals encourage most clients to eat at least 1 gram of protein for every pound of lean body mass (muscle) every day.

Bottom line. If you have body fat and eat protein rich meals as suggested, IF isn't going to cause any muscle loss. Period!

This certainly won't be the last I write on IF. Until then, if you have further questions or would like help writing up your own personal IF protocol, feel free to contact me at any time. I look forward to hearing from you, and I'll be back tomorrow with another blog post! Have a great day, friends. Go work out!

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FEAST OR (INTERMITTENTLY) FAST?

10/1/2013

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My last post was dedicated to telling you why breakfast as we know it pretty much sucks. I explained that the majority of your fat burning comes in the morning with or without exercise, and if we were smart, none of us would eat for at least a few hours after waking up. I'm going to take that subject just a bit further today by explaining the benefits of intermittent fasting (IF for short).

Just as not eating breakfast and not worrying about 6 meals a day are quickly becoming a popular school of thought amongst fitness professionals, IF could also be included in the list of very popular protocols to live by. In my "fitness infancy" as I like to call it, I used to harp on people for not eating anything until lunch time. Little did I know they had inadvertently stumbled upon what could be a huge step in total overall fitness, assuming what they ate the rest of the day wasn't garbage. In a way, a lot of people do IF every day and don't even realize it!

On average, many of us go somewhere in the neighborhood of 8-12 hours between our last meal of the day and the next meal we eat after we rise from bed. As I've explained in previous posts, the body awakens and is primed for fat burning. IF plays directly into the hands of that fat burning process, but instead of waiting just 2 hours to eat after you get up, IF may have you waiting far longer before indulging in your first meal of the day. Most trusted IF protocols recommend around a 16 hour fast to reach optimal results.

This is the reason why. As most of you are carb eating people, your body turns those carbs into glycogen for storage in the muscle and liver, as well as glucose in the blood. The time frame for your body to metabolize carbohydrates is around 8 hours. If you never give your body proper time to metabolize your previous days carbs before you start eating more, glycogen in your muscle/liver and glucose in your blood stream is always going to be the fuel your body uses, not fat. As I have explained before, this is a great way to make sure your body is always producing new fat cells instead emptying out the ones you have. However, if you don't give your body that carb-based fuel for 12-16 hours, or hardly ever in the case of low carb dieting, your fat burning potential is going to go through the roof. Sounds great, right? But wait, theres' more!

Aside from the fat burning potential that goes along with IF, growth hormone production shot up between 1000-2000% depending on the subject. This means muscle growth and fat burning, which most experts will tell you is almost impossible to do at the same time. Other benefits include normalizing ghrelin (the hunger hormone) levels, lower triglyceride levels, and in some cases even improving memory and learning capabilities. Basically, IF has very few downfalls and a large number of benefits when compared with the standard "eat every 2-3 hours" diet.

I'm going to explain some general rules of thumb for IF, but first, a warning. IF isn't for everyone. For most people, doing the things I explained in my breakfast posts would be ideal. Get up, have your Bulletproof Coffee and eat an hour or 2 later. Also, if you have issues with blood sugar regulation, such a diabetes, IF is probably not the route you should be going.

That being said, if you're a healthy individual who is very dedicated to your personal fitness and have big goals in mind as it pertains to fat loss, muscle gain and better performance, IF could very well be the thing you're looking for. It's definitely something I have been enjoying for quite some time now. In fact, as I'm typing this, I've just entered my 16th hour without food, and I feel great. I couldn't even tell you the last time I ate breakfast first thing in the morning.

I recommend starting out with IF by just doing it a few times a week to see how you feel. I personally find the best days to try it is after your heaviest carb days. So if you did legs at the gym yesterday and had a lot more carbs than usual, the next day would most likely be optimal for skipping breakfast and possibly lunch. When you're ready to give it a go, here are some basic rules for beginners:

As with all diet protocols, you must first determine your Basal Metabolic Rate, then adjust your calories based on activity level and goals. Just because you're going to only be eating 6-8 hours a day doesn't mean you will be eating less. You will need to fit all your required calories and macronutrients (fat/protein/carbs) into this window. I can't stress enough how much decreasing some of your carb intake and upping your healthy fat (omega 3s, coconut oil, avocado, etc) intake can help in the process of your body learning to use fat for fuel. However, it is not fully required to see success on IF.
The night before your first fast, cut off your food intake around 8pm or so. The only thing permitted from here on out is water. Some black coffee with a bit of coconut oil and a multivitamin in the morning is fine for most people, but under no circumstances will you be eating anything solid until your first meal of the day.
If you're a first time IF'er, shoot for an 8 hour eating window the first few times. So if your first meal is at noon, you will be done eating by 8pm. If this is your off-day from the gym, make the first meal your largest of the day (some people will make it up to 50% of their daily caloric intake in one meal). Otherwise, make your largest meal of the day after your workout. If your workout is still in the morning fasting window, that's okay. The noon meal will be your largest.
Consume all your calories in 2-3 meals a day. If you're doing an 8 hour window, there's no need to try to eat 6 times. In fact, as I've previously said, there's never a need to eat that many times a day. If you're doing 2 meals, have one at noon and one before your cut off time at 8pm. Split the calories around 50/50. If you're doing 3 meals, split them accordingly, just make one meal is larger than the other 2 (either the noon meal or post workout meal, as explained above).
Final rule: Lose fat, spare muscle tissue, and build muscle in some cases while taking the hassle out of all day eating!

That's simply just one way to do IF. There are many methods used by many different people. Some use the 16/8 method used above and do it daily. Others go 24 hours and beyond without food and just do it once a week. It's literally a trial and error thing, and ultimately it boils down to what works for you as an individual. I've personally been on an IF-type eating schedule for a long time and I have no idea how I would ever go back to "regular" eating.

IF isn't what I would call a "diet." It's a lifestyle, and a very sustainable one for most people. I will be writing more posts on this subject in the future, including an FAQ tomorrow to explain a few things a bit more in depth. My goal is to give all my readers an incite into the very large amount of ways to achieve better performance and overall health, and I believe IF to be one of the most effective, least talked about methods out there. I hope everyone has an awesome day, and if you haven't already, go work out!

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Introducing The Intermittent Keto Protocol!

FEAST OR (INTERMITTENTLY) FAST? FAQ

READ PART 1 HERE

Won't I be be incredibly hungry when I don't eat for such a long time?

Won't not eating for such a long time cause me to lose muscle mass?

FEAST OR (INTERMITTENTLY) FAST?

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