Healthy Diet at Home

what's up, guys? jeff cavaliere, athleanx.com. today i'm going to break out the smart boardto discuss a dumb mistake that a lot of people make when it comes to dieting for a 6 pack. you see, if you rely on calorie restrictionas your main and sole method of getting to a lower body fat level, you're going to runinto a brick wall a lot harder and faster than the one behind me. here's the problem: we know that in orderto create a body fat loss you have to create a caloric deficit. we talked about that alot of times before. there's a thermodynamic law that states that we need to do that. that's a given. it doesn't mean it has tocome from calorie restriction because the biggest mistake people make – let's saythey're arbitrarily going to pick a 2000 calorie daily maintenance level; that's what yoursis. you want to create a 500 calorie deficit becauseyou know you need to do that in order to lose some weight and lose body fat. a lot of peoplewill do thi...

(This is part 2 of a multi-part series on How to Tweak a Low Carb Diet . If you didn’t read part 1, you can do so by clicking on the how-to link.) When I started low carbing in January 2007, the 2002 version of Atkins was considered the bible of low carb dieting. However, even among those who proclaimed you HAD to follow that version by the book, they were using the latest Atkins Nutritionals’ (ANA) recommendations to override the book’s instructions. So if you were not eating a minimum of 20 net carbs per day on Induction and getting the greater majority of those carbs from vegetables (12 to 15 net carbs per day), you were either blasted for not doing Atkins, or you were written off as someone who was playing an I-am-on-a-diet game. You were also counseled to spend the majority of your calories on consuming tremendous amounts of fat. Those calories had to be a minimum of ten times your current weight in order to avoid starvation mode. You had to drink a minimum of eight glasses of pur...