Healthy Diet at Home

(This is part 7 of a multi-part series on How to Tweak a Low Carb Diet . It explains the path I have traveled in my weight loss journey so far. If you didn’t read part 1, you can do so by clicking on the how-to link. Part 1 also includes links to the rest of the series.) My diet break obviously refilled my glycogen stores, since I was eating more carbohydrates, but that wasn’t a surprise. I was okay with the eight-pound weight regain because everything happened exactly as Lyle McDonald said it would. Although each of us have the potential to hold different amounts of glycogen in our liver and muscles, there was no reason to believe those eight pounds were fat. I was used to inputting everything I ate into Fitday, and that didn’t stop during my break, so it was easy to keep tabs on my daily calorie count. That helped to keep me zeroed into maintenance. Overall, my complete diet break went well, except that I took my husband’s suggestion and enjoyed a full month off from dieting that Dec...

(This is part 5 of a multi-part series on How to Tweak a Low Carb Diet . It discusses my weight loss journey so far. If you didn't read part 1, you can do so by clicking on the how-to link. Part 1 also includes links to the rest of this series.) After leaving the Kimkins’ weight loss diet behind, I began reading through Lyle McDonald’s website and body building forum because of a comment I received to one of my blog posts. This commenter had gotten stuck when she was almost to goal weight and had broken her stall by incorporating Lyle’s technique of using refeeds to reset her Leptin and other hormone levels back to normal. She warned me that the forum participants were not always nice to each other, especially newbies, and that they could be a bit over-the-top, but she believed the information I would find there would help me decide what to do next. That piqued my interest. Not only because I trusted the source of that information, but because I knew there had to be a valid reason ...

what's up, guys? jeff cavaliere, athleanx.com. let's continue this day-in-the-life-of-jeff.you guys have asked for it. i figured you found it helpful, the tip i use first thingin the morning. well, it continues here at breakfast. i'mgoing to show you today how to get 61 grams of protein in a meal where people sometimes feel theystruggle to find ways to get protein in, if they're not eating steak and eggs, of howto get 61 grams of protein in within 3 minutes. the very first thing i do is, again, firstof all guys, if you follow the athlean xfactor meal plan, you know this is a guy-friendlymeal plan. i say it all the time. simple. if a guy likeme can't follow it, i'm not going to do it, and i realize that's one of the biggest obstacles. people feel like they have to be chefs inorder to eat healthily. that's not true. so, we have a microwave safe bowl here. and yes, i do use the microwave, guys. i knowthere's some people out there that believe you probab...

what's up, guys? jeff cavaliere, athlean-x.com. today i'm going to help you to determine whetheror not supplements are a right fit for you. supplements are not the right fit for everybody,but you can ask yourself a series of questions and determine whether or not you are a candidate. it starts right here in our "yes" or "no"with where you are at in terms of your program. are you just starting out? are you a beginner?are you a really skinny guy who's never really lifted a weight before in your life? guesswho knows somebody that's like that? i do! that's exactly what i was. as a matter offact, this is my actual, very first dumbbell that i ever used. you can see it right there;that's my five pounder. this five pounder went on to allow me to start lifting a lotheavier weight, but i started with that. as a matter of fact, my brother told me growingup "you have to earn the right, earn the privilege, to be able to start taking supplements....

♪♪♪ all right, we're here ataxiom fitness in boise, idaho, for the workout overview video. now, today we're gonna be doingworkout one, which is chest, tri's, and abs. you're gonna be doing workout1 each week of the program. however, the rep ranges aregonna change each week in the microcycles. so we're in week 1. this is gonna be the9 to 11 rep range. if you don't know what i'mtalking about, make sure you check out the training overviewvideo, where i break down the microcycles in the rep ranges. with each workout, we're gonnabe doing cardio acceleration, which basically means we'regonna be doing about a minute of cardio in betweenevery single set. so with the bench press, i'mgonna do a set of bench press, about a minute of cardio. so here's the breakdown ofall the exercises that i'll be performing today. now let's get into thefirst one, flat bench press. all right, now we'regonna be doing four sets on the bench press. remembe...

what's up, guys? jeff cavaliere, athleanx.com. let's continue this day-in-the-life-of-jeff.you guys have asked for it. i figured you found it helpful, the tip i use first thingin the morning. well, it continues here at breakfast. i'mgoing to show you today how to get 61 grams of protein in a meal where people sometimes feel theystruggle to find ways to get protein in, if they're not eating steak and eggs, of howto get 61 grams of protein in within 3 minutes. the very first thing i do is, again, firstof all guys, if you follow the athlean xfactor meal plan, you know this is a guy-friendlymeal plan. i say it all the time. simple. if a guy likeme can't follow it, i'm not going to do it, and i realize that's one of the biggest obstacles. people feel like they have to be chefs inorder to eat healthily. that's not true. so, we have a microwave safe bowl here. and yes, i do use the microwave, guys. i knowthere's some people out there that believe you probab...

[music] so you got 4 workoutscovering the whole body over a 6-day period. having said that,you gotta be flexible. if you need an extra day forrecovery, then take an extra day so that'll become 4 days over 7. some people may need even more,you gotta listen to your body. if you need more days to recoverthen, you know, just extend that cycle into 7 days or 8days or whatever you need. extra negatives are atool that you can use to increase the intensity. basically, you gotthree phases of strength. the weakest phaseis the positive or the lifting of the weight. that's the weakest phase. the second phase ofstrength is the static. you're stronger on the static. and then the thirdphase is the negative. unfortunately, a lot of peoplethink in terms of just lifting weight so for instance,a bench press, they lifted theweight to the top. all right, job done andjust drop it back down and do another one. they're missing half of the repand possibly the most important half of the rep beca...

hey guys, sean nalewanyj here of seannal.comand bodytransformationtruth.com and in this video lesson i want to outline 6 common bodybuildingnutrition myths that you should definitely be aware of. now balancing your fitness programwith your career and your friends, and your family and all of your other hobbies and pursuitsis hard enough work as it is and the last thing you need on top of this is to wastevaluable energy and time on useless, ineffective nutritional techniques that really do nothingbut make your life more complicated. proper bodybuilding nutrition is actually prettystraightforward, and you really don't need to employ anything anything overly fancy orcomplicated in order for your results to be maximized. so avoiding these 6 myths is goingto make your life a heck of a lot easier, it's going to make your diet far easier tofollow and it will still yield the same muscle building and fat burning results that you'reafter. so, bodybuilding nutrition myth #1 is that you...

hey guys, sean nalewanyj here of seannal.comand bodytransformationtruth.com and in this video lesson i want to outline 6 common bodybuildingnutrition myths that you should definitely be aware of. now balancing your fitness programwith your career and your friends, and your family and all of your other hobbies and pursuitsis hard enough work as it is and the last thing you need on top of this is to wastevaluable energy and time on useless, ineffective nutritional techniques that really do nothingbut make your life more complicated. proper bodybuilding nutrition is actually prettystraightforward, and you really don't need to employ anything anything overly fancy orcomplicated in order for your results to be maximized. so avoiding these 6 myths is goingto make your life a heck of a lot easier, it's going to make your diet far easier tofollow and it will still yield the same muscle building and fat burning results that you'reafter. so, bodybuilding nutrition myth #1 is that you...

hey guys, sean nalewanyj here of seannal.comand bodytransformationtruth.com and in this video lesson i want to outline 6 common bodybuildingnutrition myths that you should definitely be aware of. now balancing your fitness programwith your career and your friends, and your family and all of your other hobbies and pursuitsis hard enough work as it is and the last thing you need on top of this is to wastevaluable energy and time on useless, ineffective nutritional techniques that really do nothingbut make your life more complicated. proper bodybuilding nutrition is actually prettystraightforward, and you really don't need to employ anything anything overly fancy orcomplicated in order for your results to be maximized. so avoiding these 6 myths is goingto make your life a heck of a lot easier, it's going to make your diet far easier tofollow and it will still yield the same muscle building and fat burning results that you'reafter. so, bodybuilding nutrition myth #1 is that you...