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UllrsIshtar -> RE: Healthy Submissives (9/28/2015 11:16:35 AM)
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ORIGINAL: OsideGirl
This is from the L A Fitness blog:
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For your diet, your intake should be somewhere in the range of 1500 to 2000 calories for the next several months. I’d advise to break that up into 25% fat, 25% protein, and 50% carbohydrate. Taking the midpoint of the suggested calorie range, or 1750 calories, these percentages equate to 49 grams fat, 109 grams protein and 218 grams carbohydrate from wholesome food.
Considering that carbohydrates are the primary cause of Insulin Resistance and Type II Diabetes - how can that be healthy?
And I can guarantee you that the OP doesn't follow that dietary advice either.
You cannot get washboard abs without routinely running on a deficiency... and running on a deficiency when you're at a healthy weight is structurally and fundamentally unhealthy.
You need fat storage to maintain normal energy exchange in your body. Most of what you eat gets at least temporarily stored in fat cells until needed. The issue when being overweight is that your fatcells then don't release that energy fast enough, but keep it stored instead, making you hungry again when you have fuel available.
His issue is that he keeps his fat storage low enough that he simple does not have fuel (or water storage for the matter) available, causing him to have to eat all day long to keep energy reserves up.
One bout of food poisoning where he's puking his gut out, and not able to eat and drink, and he's immediately in the danger zone and would require hospitalization to at least re-hydrate him (although his body will, in those circumstances, start rapidly cannibalizing all those nice muscles he worked so hard for).
He's maintaining a dangerous balance on the constant edge of starvation and dehydration, all just to show off his abs. Washboards abs aren't the sign of an athlete's body. Athletes have fat reserves on their abs to get them through their sport of choice. If you look at the guys who run the 4 deserts race (a 250km/155mile race in the harshest conditions imaginable) those guys are all in top shape (way better shape than the OP is in), and they all have fat storage. None of them have washboards abs, though you can tell that they have the muscle needed to have them.
Washboard abs are sign of a sorta kinda type of anorexia (as in, fat reserves in people with anorexia and washboard abs are often very similar) where, instead of being thin to the skeleton level, one aims to be thin to the muscular level and maintain muscle mass while getting ride of necessary fat and water deposits.
Both of those conditions cannot be maintained by anybody's idea of a healthy diet, be it the high carb crowd's idea of a healthy diet or ours.
He's fundamentally, structurally and chronically eating at a deficiency for what his body needs to maintain itself. I'll come bite him in the ass later on. If his diet is his gym's recommended 50% carb diet, he's setting himself up for diabetes as well... although I highly doubt that he's following that type of dietary advice. Getting washboard abs on 50% carbs isn't as easy as doing it on lower carb diets.
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