Higher Protein diet, Not High Protein diet !

A lot of people think I am against high protein diets. I am when they exclude other nutrients your body needs. However I am not saying its not the way. Increasing protein does help but only if you do it right.

This is why I have my clients do the 'Higher Protein Diet'. On this diet 50% of your total calories comes from protein, 35% from carbs and the rest fat. You need those carbs folks. Setting up your diet like this will get you what you need without excess.

You need to cut out simple carbs like candy and cookies. You need to intake complex carbs like rice and pasta. Cutting carbs helps a little in weight loss because you lose a lot of water weight which makes you look leaner but does very little for body fat.

Protein will store like fat just like carbs. If you aren't in the gym working those muscles hard you will not use up all that excess protein from high protein diets. Balance is the key. Losing weight takes hard work and dedication. There are no shortcuts. Leave the low carb stuff to those bodybuilders getting ready for competition. They do it to look good on stage (cause that's there job). If you are just trying to get in shape then balance your eating with physical activity. The weight loss may go a little slower but it will last longer.

Pastas made from enriched flours doesn't strike me as being complex carbohydrates.

You need to intake

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Do you think, for some reason, that a lot of people care about what you're for or against? One thing's for sure: you're _not_ against high protein diets.

A 50/35/15 diet is a very high protein, very low fat diet. For a 180 lb person on a maintenance intake of 2340 calories/day, you're advocating 292 gms of protein/day. That's about 1.6x the 1 gm/lb protein intake that most weight trainers suggest. With such a high protein intake, your body will burn a lot of that protein like carbs, so it's effectively a very expensive high carb diet.

All pastas and all grain products are complex carbohydrates. The only simple carbohydrates are the simple sugars like glucose, etc. Nothing to do with the nutritional value, only the molecular structure.

JAK

fat.

15% fat may be sub-optimal for general health or for strength sports.

No, you don't.

Rice and pasta may be 'complex' in structure, but functionally, they are very high GI foods.

Wrong again.

Why does a high protein diet necessarily have excess calories?

Most competitive bodybuilders do not do low-carb.

You actually charge people for this advice? And sleep well at night?

Dude.

Most people don't think of you at all. Most people just dismiss you.

OK.

That's one of the HIGHEST protein diets I think I've seen.

You realize that this meets the definition of an ultra low fat diet AND a low carb diet?

Do you realize that this is about the same amount of carbs that most people suggest? You've just got too little fat in there.

You realize of course that simple and complex carbs is an out-moded nutritional paradigm that has been shown to be totally wrong?

Are you really this dumn? ($1 to Kevin)

BWAHAHAHAH!! DUDE, your diet is lower carb than what most bodybuilders would use! Have you done any research into this stuff at all?

Watson (1/2 ton) Davis

No, we just think you are stupid.

And ignorant.

And also stupid.

We give no thought to your opinions on diet and such.

ParDeus www.AvantLabs.com