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Todays food is designed to make you crave and eat more then ever before.

I’m not a doctor so don’t just run off and do what you read because it sounds like a good idea. This kind of reprogramming may not be for everyone but it definitely worked for me.

Call it what you like, weight loss diet, fat loss diet, metabolic optimisation diet, metabolic flexability, reporgramming your metabolism. You get the picture there are a lot of names for the same thing. My take on it is changing the way your body works in order to burn fat for fuel rather then depending on sugar for energy.

This subject is close to my heart because I know from first hand expereince it is the fastest moset effective way to lose weight/fat and keep it off.

The combination of sugar, salt, and fat is a receipe for disaster for your waste line and even if you don’t think you eat much sugar try a week where you eat only protein and then tell me what you feel like eating about halfway through day 2 and into day 3 and 4, man, I just wanted to sit down with a block of chocolate and a bag of sugary lollies, I have never wanted sugar that bad in my life.

The diet I did removed the vast majority of carbs and the vast majority of fat for a whole 2 weeks. The idea of this was to place the body in a state of ketosis the wikipedia explanation for this is better then what I can write so I won’t re-invent the wheel:

“If the diet is changed from a highly glycemic diet to a diet that does not provide sufficient carbohydrate to replenish glycogen stores, the body goes through a set of stages to enter ketosis. During the initial stages of this process, blood glucose levels are maintained through gluconeogenesis, and the adult brain does not burn ketones. However, the brain makes immediate use of ketones for lipid synthesis in the brain. After about 48 hours of this process, the brain starts burning ketones in order to more directly use the energy from the fat stores that are being depended upon, and to reserve the glucose only for its absolute needs, thus avoiding the depletion of the body’s protein store in the muscles”

I love eggs and I love salmon, I definitely like steak and chicken so really this wasn’t too hard for me. but I have to say I was ready to punch soomeone on day 4 and day 5 I was still very tired and cranky.

Here is a brief rundown on the diet plan and a list of some of the foode you can and can;t eat

Week 1 and 2:

• Train 6 days per week – interval and bodyweight training including kettlebells of course.
• protein and low/no fat dairy only
• minimum 2 litres of water per day and one glass before each meal
• 5 meals a day at regular intervals
• no alcohol
• no sugar
• no grains bread or pasta
• no fruit
• no vegatables

and definitely no cheat meals

Sounds pretty full on doesn’t it?

well it was but it worked.

I dropped 3 kg in the first 2 weeks. when I trained I could feel the energy drain out of me, as I said day 4 and 5 of week 1 were probably the hardest but I could see results and was assured the energy would come.

Weeks 3 and 4:

• Train 6 days per week – interval and bodyweight training . I did a group bootcamp class 3 times per week, kettlebells or stair sessions on the off days and pull-ups every night
• for 1 meal only every second day you can now throw in some vegies, tomato, spinach and mushrooms were my main additions
• apart from the above the diet remains the same as above
• 1 cheat meal allowed, eat one meal of whatever you want I smashed this meal, it was amazing, I have pasta with slow cooked cherry tomato, prosciutto basil and lemon juice then I had home-made apple crumble with ice cream for dessert, it was gold!

Weeks 5 and 6:

• You are well and truly into the diet now, you are used to the food, you have heaps of energy, you are sleeping well and looking forward to training. if you have made it this far the nay sayers and knockers are just jealous they didn’t start on the same day as you because they can see the results but know they are 5 weeks behind you and because they were too weak to start when you did you know they never will
• Again not a huge change but every second day you can add the short list of vegies to each meal, I really enjoyed these days!
• One more cheat meal
• still no alcohol at all
• make sure you are still drinking lots of water!

Weeks 7 and 8:

• You have almost made it to the end, you can now add 1 or 2 meals a week of pasta or bread as well as one all out cheat meal for the fortnight.
• It feels as though the fat loss is really kicking in here, you are fitter and stronger then you were before and you have energy to burn.
• If you used to drink you realise that you really don’t miss it and you actually would never need to drink again – that’s how I felt anyway.
• You are still training 6 days a week and loving it!
• you are still eating protein only every second day

The end.

Not quite, to maintain you do one protein only day per week, 2 days if you have a high fat high sugar diet.

I got used to no grains and no bread and I have taken on the Paleo diet since finishing. I have and a few glasses of wine and some dark chocolate in the evenings but I have truly changed my eating habits forever.

If the average male in the USA lives to 75.81 years then you are investing 0.02% of your life which is a drop in the ocean when you realise the benefits, I think it’s worth it even if you only feel good for a few months afterwards.

to go with the 7kg of fat lost I also increased my max pull-ups from 7 to 14 and took 3 minutes off my PB half marathon time 1:40.08 with no long runs at all. I was pretty happy with the outcome overall.

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