Healthy Diet at Home

(This is part 6 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.) At one time or another, most dieters get caught up in the desire of wanting to lose weight fast. That actually worked to my advantage because Lyle McDonald originally created his Rapid Fat Loss Plan (a whole foods PSMF Diet) to deal with crash diets safely. While McDonald’s focus is on bodybuilding, muscle retention, and metabolism, maintaining muscle mass during dieting is to everyone’s benefit – quick weight loss or not. The Kimkins fiasco brought the protein content of a low carb diet into the limelight. Dr. Eades’ did have recommendations for low carbers to shoot for. He talked about large, medium, and small servings of protein (five, four or three ounces) at each meal depending upon how much you currently weigh, getting 35 grams of carbohy...

hey guys, sean nalewanyj here of bodytransformationtruth.com,and today i want to answer a very common question that i receive, which is how to structureyour diet on workout days vs. non workout days, and more specifically, whether you shouldconsume more calories on training days and less calories on non training days. so thebasic idea behind this does seem to make sense on the surface. your body requires a greateramount of energy on workout days in order to fuel your training sessions as well asto recover from them, and it requires less energy on non-workout days since you’llbe less active overall. so, cycling your daily calories is typically done under the assumptionthat it will increase workout quality, improve recovery, and decrease excess fat gains inthe long term. the problem with this approach is that it is a very short-sighted view ofmuscle building and fat burning nutrition. whether your goal is to bulk up and put onmuscle or to lean down and lose body fat, you need to keep i...

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...

the keto diet, another typical fad diet? actually,it's been around for a while now, and people are getting some pretty good results fromit. so what exactly is so different? well, most of these fad diets you find simply tellsyou to eat this certain type of food and avoid those certain type of food and voila, you'reon your way to losing a hundred pounds! of course, a lot of them don't really work andmakes very little sense. what's special about the keto diet, short for ketogenic, is thatit changes how your body feels, and most importantly, how your body uses energy by placing you intoa state known as ketosis. and this is where all the magic happens.in ketosis, your body starts utilizing substances known as ketone bodies, which are producedby the breakdown of your body fat triglycerides. quick science, first understand that yourbody loves glucose. if it has glucose on hand, it's going to use that first for energy. inaketo diet, the amount of carbohydrates you consume g...

ryan: hey, hey everybody out there. this isryan from gmb. today i have the one and only nate miyaki with me. not miyagi, not to beconfused with the karate kid sensei. but nate, you are an ultimate sensei, aren’t you? nate: that’s what they say man. that’swhat they say. my dad kind of looks like mr. miyagi. i won’t be offended if you get alittle confused there. ryan: yeah. well, i’m always confused butyou know that. i will just let everybody know nate is actually my nutrition coach. he hasbeen helping me to get – i don’t want to say back on track but really solidify mynutrition and it’s great. i love working with nate. he’s a good guy. we kind of havea mutual friend over in san francisco so we’ve known each other for quite a while now butwe haven’t really even met yet. so one of these days hopefully we can meetface to face but nate and i, pretty good friends and today we’re going to be talking allabout you. so let’s just keep going with this. is that...

ryan: hey, hey everybody out there. this isryan from gmb. today i have the one and only nate miyaki with me. not miyagi, not to beconfused with the karate kid sensei. but nate, you are an ultimate sensei, aren’t you? nate: that’s what they say man. that’swhat they say. my dad kind of looks like mr. miyagi. i won’t be offended if you get alittle confused there. ryan: yeah. well, i’m always confused butyou know that. i will just let everybody know nate is actually my nutrition coach. he hasbeen helping me to get – i don’t want to say back on track but really solidify mynutrition and it’s great. i love working with nate. he’s a good guy. we kind of havea mutual friend over in san francisco so we’ve known each other for quite a while now butwe haven’t really even met yet. so one of these days hopefully we can meetface to face but nate and i, pretty good friends and today we’re going to be talking allabout you. so let’s just keep going with this. is that cool man? ...