Weight loss and Diet Articles

Low Carb Food List Here is a list of low carbohydrate foods for keto type diets
General Rules for Fat Loss and Muscle Maintenance Here are a few things to consider when weight loss (fat) is your primary goal while retaining muscle.
The Fat Loss Kick-Start Renowned strength coach, Charles Poliquin, has a great system for helping his clients kick start their body fat losses in the beginning of a fat loss phase
Charles Poliquin fat loss seminar info Here are notes that someone posted that he took during a Charles Poliquin fat loss seminar. As most of you know, Charles is one of the most respected strength coaches extent.
A Review of Arnold Schwarzenegger's Diet A review of Arnold's diet shows that the fundamentals of eating really haven't changed much in the last 30 years, at least for those at the top
Clen/T3 Cutting Cycle How to run a clenbuterol and T3-Cytomel cycle for weight loss. Clen doses use as a guideline along with the T3 doses, everyone has different tolerances for both, but this is was very effective for me
DNP guide The 7-day DNP fat loss plan involves a moderate to high dosage of DNP for fat burning. The DNP fat loss plan involves a 7-day on, 7-day off approach with four distinct phases.
DNP DNP was on the market for 2 decades as a weight loss drug and was eventually taken off the market and banned for human consumption by the FDA because there was a report of cataract formation among female users of this drug which turned out to be false.
The Simplest Weight Loss Tips No One Follows it's rarely one single thing a person does that is sabotaging their efforts to lose fat and or gain muscle, but a bunch of little things that have an accumulated effect.

The Big Picture of Permanent Weight Loss You will be able to apply what you learn here to any diet you are considering and decide if it makes sense, once and for all
Clen/T3 Cutting Cycle How to run a clenbuterol and T3-Cytomel cycle for weight loss. Clen doses use as a guideline along with the T3 doses, everyone has different tolerances for both, but this is was very effective for me
5 Ways to Increase Fat Burning through Thermogenesis The simple equation that sets the foundation for fat loss is calories in versus calories out. Calories, the unit of measure used to describe "how much" energy foods produce is, for the most part, the bottom line in getting lean.
DNP guide The 7-day DNP fat loss plan involves a moderate to high dosage of DNP for fat burning. The DNP fat loss plan involves a 7-day on, 7-day off approach with four distinct phases.
DNP DNP was on the market for 2 decades as a weight loss drug and was eventually taken off the market and banned for human consumption by the FDA because there was a report of cataract formation among female users of this drug which turned out to be false.

Dieting Basics You will find a lot of "fad" diets out there that look good but have many flaws. I found the easiest way to diet is to design your own. Take these basic concepts I have put together and make up your own meal plan!

Cutting Diet A cutting diet isn't something everyone can do. Some will try and give up within a couple of weeks because they start feeling deprived of their bad (yummy) cheat foods. This diet is only a guide to follow to set you on your path.
10 Foods that will lower your Testosterone The estrogenic and progestogenic compounds in food may be of greater importance than direct effect of foods, herbs and spices effect on testosterone levels
Net impact on Carbs Most of these "low carb" products are sweetened with substances called "sugar alcohols." Maltitol, mannitol, and sorbitol are some of the names of these sweeteners. Despite the name, these are not sugars or alcohols.
Carbohydrates And Carb Cycling For Fat Loss When dieting for a bodybuilding contest, I use an arsenal of weapons to lose unsightly excess body fat. One of the dietary procedures I institute, is to cycle my carbs. Carbohydrates are used as energy by the body, they fuel our workouts, as well as providing ample fuel to be used throughout the course of the day
Carbohydrates Facts "All carbs make you fat!" That's the slander. I'm sure you've also heard "There's no such thing as an essential carbohydrate." More half-truths and according to many - myself included - such statements are akin to dietary treason. Make no mistake, the anti-carb crusade remains in full swing and I'm here to re-assure you that carbohydrates are indeed essential in both building mass and losing body fat. Let's take a closer look at the evidence and clarify what you really need to know about carbohydrates
Lean Eating - Part I With summer fast approaching, "beach-think" has set in and the current most-popular question is, "Oh wise and mighty JB who knoweth and loveth the alimentary arts while abhorring all that is adipose, how might I battle my corpulence?" Okay, okay, it's more like, "Hey jackass, how do I get rid of my gut?" but a guy can dream of eloquent questions from glib readers, can't he?
Lean Eating - Part II A Carbohydrate Is Not A Carbohydrate
In this section, I'd like to demonstrate that not all carbohydrates were created equal. Specifically, I'll briefly discuss:
1. The insulin index vs. the glycemic index
2. The superiority of low-GI and II diets
3. The difference between liquid carbohydrates
Ephedrine Science Ephedrine is one of the most effective and controversial substances used for weight loss. It is a potent fat loss agent and CNS stimulant (especially when combined with caffeine) and also effective in the treatment of asthma. However, there are also many reports of adverse events that are possibly associated with ephedrine use that have prompted many people to call for further regulation of the compound.
TOP PROTEIN PICKS Flip through this magazine and you'll see plenty of advertisements for protein powders. Bodybuilding novices may dismiss these as they jump from article to article. Experienced bodybuilders, however, know better.
Bulking for dummiesThere are many reasons that bulking diets fail but here are a few of the most common reasons:
1) Calories are not high enough and putting on muscle mass fails
2) Calories are too high and macros percentages are not in check. This in turn leads to putting on sloppy weight (fat) as well as muscle.
3) You are BULKING, not CHEATING. Cheat days will be factored in, but your food choices should still be healthy. All diets, whether cutting or bulking, need to be monitored. This means that watching your insulin spikes and TYPE of carb intake is still important.
4) You are what you eat. It's just that simple. To simplify, you eat crap and you will look like crap.
Dieting and getting ready for Competition Competition dieting is rather an individual matter as far as success goes. Generally, if one is in a calorie deficit, while maintaining a very high protein content and taking anabolics, that person will lose minimal muscle if any at all while losing a great deal of bodyfat.
Add to that combo fat burning aids, and one can achieve stage shape very quickly.
Below is a standard formula that I used successfully on many people. It is designed to make one in competition shape in extreme time. The biggest change so far has been one person that went from 21% to 4% bodyfat in the 9 weeks of the preparation
More reasons to use Whey Lactoferrin: The Bioactive Peptide that Fights Disease
As regular readers of the Life Extension magazine are aware, whey protein appears to function as a natural food against cancer, HIV, overtraining syndrome in athletes and a host of pathologies. In particular, whey's effects on glutathione levels and
All About Diuretics Diuretics are used to treat the buildup of excess fluid in the body that occurs with some medical conditions such as congestive heart failure, liver disease, and kidney disease. Some diuretics are also prescribed to treat high blood pressure. These drugs act on the kidneys to increase urine output. This reduces the amount of fluid in the bloodstream, which in turn lowers blood pressure.
Chemically Assisted Fat loss In the quest to get ones body to a physical zenith, two factors must be considered. The first is maintaining as much lean body mass (LBM) as possible while trying to drop to single digit body fat levels. To accomplish this the bodybuilder will drop his calories to low levels while at the same time employing adequate amounts of aerobics.
Anabolic Aerobics - Part 1 Over the years, there are certain laws and rules of bodybuilding that have accumulated over the years. And they have amassed an un-written bible of bodybuilding. Bulking 3:16 says, "Lift big, Eat big, and Get big". Certain things like, eat more and grow; if you want to gain muscle, you are going to have to gain some fat; and of course, never do cardio. Well, things change. We get smarter and consequently we get bigger

Anabolic Aerobics - Part II The first is cortisol. Cortisol is a hormone secreted in response to stress (in our case exercise). Cortisol's main objective is to liberate energy from tissues for use during these periods of stress . It doesn't have a preference on what tissue it gets it from, but it does seem to favor muscle tissue rather heavily . The amount of cortisol released is directly related to the intensity or degree of the stress. It seems that after about 20 minutes of high intensity work, cortisol levels shoot through the roof. With that said, for high intensity (85-90% VO2 max) cardio to have the most benefit in its muscle building/fat burning properties, sessions should be kept under 20 min.
Hardcore Bulking Part I - Diet Off-season; a bodybuilder's favorite time of year and the favorite words whispered after a recent contest. So the time is here, what are you going to do about it? First step is to determine what you want to do and set some goals. You cannot achieve anything without a plan. Those who fail to plan, plan to fail. So let's set some clear cut goals. You are going to need all the tools at your disposal before you begin. You are going to work on written goals, nutrition, training, and finally the hardcore cycle.
Hardcore Bulking Part II - Training In the first article of the series we attacked hardcore dieting and how to gain maximum mass without maximum fat gains. There are two more pieces to this puzzle, training and cycles. This article is going to focus on the aspects of hardcore training, the type of training that goes along with all those calories you have been eating. Off-season is the time we hit the heavy weights, a return to the basics, meaning no cable-curls, no chrome weights, and no listening to Backstreet Boys while training
Hardcore Bulking Part III - Cycles Off season cycling is very simple, in fact this is going to be a very short conclusion to my series�take test, lots of it and grow. Done. Well, alright there is more to it than that, but that really is the gist of it. Steroids are pass�, old news, something I rarely write about anymore simply because they are a means to an end, nothing new to be written, and nothing exciting about them. My attention and focus lately is on the plethora of peptides on the market, at least there is real science to still be explored in there. Anyway, I digress, back to this article
6 Bodybuilding Fat Loss Diet Tips Many people are surprised when they find out how small changes in their diet can lead to big results in fat loss... I know I was, but I learned it was true! I have listed a few common things in the diet that can be manipulated, added, or dropped, to attain desired results.
1. Eat less simple sugars. This was the biggest result getter for me. One easy way to do this is to drop sodas. They have a lot of empty calories up to 120...although diet sodas aren't necessarily healthy, they are minus sugar. I haven't been a soda drinker myself for about 4 years...but this isn't where I dropped sugar. I used to subscribe to the idea that products labeled as "fat free" and "low fat" were the way to go. What I didn't know was that those same products often times had added simple sugars. Many items labeled "lite" usually have less sugars. Don't be afraid to learn how to read nutritional information on the labels. Once I dropped extra sugar in my diet, I dropped about 6 pounds, with no extra cardio at all...just the sugar alone. It happened gradually, but has stayed off permanently.
6 Bodybuilding Fat Loss Diet Tips Many people are surprised when they find out how small changes in their diet can lead to big results in fat loss... I know I was, but I learned it was true! I have listed a few common things in the diet that can be manipulated, added, or dropped, to attain desired results
R-Alpha Lipoic Acid (R-ALA for short). Unless you've been hiding under a rock these last couple of years, you've probably heard something about R-Alpha Lipoic Acid (R-ALA for short). You've also probably heard some pretty outlandish tales which made you wonder whether or not the people making them had taken their medication lately.
T3 and the Modern Athlete So you've decided to use T3 to help you shed fat now that you've read up on it and gotten past the nay Sayers who expound the ills of shutting down your body's own production of natural thyroid. Wonderful, T3 when used correctly can be a great addition to any diet and cardio plan. Read that again boys and girls, IN ADDITION TO ANY DIET AND CARDIO PLAN!!!
Chemically Assisted Fatloss In the quest to get ones body to a physical zenith, two factors must be considered. The first is maintaining as much lean body mass (LBM) as possible while trying to drop to single digit body fat levels. To accomplish this the bodybuilder will drop his calories to low levels while at the same time employing adequate amounts of aerobics
A Review of Fat Loss Aids In this article, I intend to outline the common tools used for fat loss and dieting, as well as how and when they should be used.The compounds listed here should never be used until a good diet and training are in place, and are setup properly for fat loss.
Metabolic Diet
7 days to ultimate leanness You can already see striations on your chest, a six pack now replaces the keg that was once there, and your legs look like tree trunks. All the hard work you've done leading up to this moment has paid off and you're happy. But ask yourself, is there anything you can do this last week that'll make you stand out just a bit more than anyone else there? Maybe even stand out a lot more? You bet there is! It's called "7 Days To Ultimate Leanness" and it puts the finishing touches on your physique.
Calorie Calculator Tool for determining your Calories
Everything about Ketosis Ketones are a normal and efficient source of fuel and energy for the human body. They are produced by the liver from fatty acids, which result from the breakdown of body fat in response to the absence of glucose/sugar. In a ketogenic diet, such as Atkins ... or diets used for treating epilepsy in children, the tiny amounts of glucose required for some select functions can be met by consuming a minimum amount of carbs - or can be manufactured in the liver from PROTEIN. When your body is producing ketones, and using them for fuel, this is called "ketosis".
5 ways of burning fat The simple equation that sets the foundation for fat loss is calories in versus calories out. Calories, the unit of measure used to describe "how much" energy foods produce is, for the most part, the bottom line in getting lean. If you over-eat and take in more calories than you need, the body stores any excess calories as body fat. On the other hand, if you cut back on your intake of food, the body begins to burn up its stores of body fat.
BODY FAT: HARD FACTS ABOUT SOFT TISSUE Fat is an amazing tissue. It has ensured survival of our species through two ice ages and never ending drought and famine. A mere pound of fat stores an astounding 3,500 Calories for delayed use at any time in the future. As dormant tissue, there is almost no metabolic cost for keeping it on the body. As a member of the human species we all owe our existence to fat. Even more amazing than fat's capabilities are the number of misconceptions surrounding this specialized body tissue
Losing BodyFat Until you set a goal of how much body fat you want to lose, you are just dreaming. It needs to be specific and written down. If losing body fat is what you want to do, you must be willing to achieve it at all costs. If you do not want to lose body fat enough, you will continue to give yourself reasons not to work out. Get real and tell yourself that you are going to do this, no matter what. Before any other step, this is the most important one.
Anabolic Catabolic Diet In this article, I would like to expand on the revolutionary ACD diet and it's rivalry diets, which are not sufficiently identified as the best for mass and leanness. First, lets look at the ABCDE diet. Originally ABCDE Diet (Anabolic Burst Cycling of Diet and Exercise) was proposed by Torbjorn Akerfeldt in an old issue of Muscle Media 2000, back when it was a REAL bodybuilding magazine. Basically, you ate your heart out for two weeks, which would elicit all sorts of different anabolic responses and cause you to add muscle like 'anabolic'.
Baseline diet the primary aspects of the baseline diet: meal frequency, caloric intake and water intake. To recap briefly, at a bare minimum bodybuilders (and probably everybody else for that matter) should be eating 4 times per day. Six time per day is probably closer to ideal, although this depends on caloric intake to a degree (i.e. a female bodybuilder who only consumes 1500 calories per day will find dividing those calories into 6 meals results in very small meals).
Baseline diet part 2 In regards to mass gains, many lifters who classify themselves as hardgainers simply don't eat enough. A good starting point for calories, is 16-18 cal/lb. (for fat loss, a good rule of thumb is 12 cal/lb.). Some may need less, others more so consider those values starting points only. Finally, water is intimately involved in just about every reaction in the body, and water intake should be kept high. In the second part of this article, we will discuss the macronutrients: protein, carbohydrates, and fat in regards to setting up the baseline diet.
Carbing up on a keto diet Although ketogenic diets are useful for fat loss, while simultaneously sparing muscle loss, they have one significant drawback: they cannot sustain high intensity exercise. Activities like weight training can only use carbohydrates as an energy source, ketones and free fatty acids (FFA) cannot be used. Therefore the lack of carbohydrates on a ketogenic diet will eventually lead to decreased performance in the weight room, which may result in muscle loss, and carbohydrates must be introduced into a ketogenic diet without affecting ketosis.
Fitness Results Food List A healthy food list that breaks down protein, fats and carbs.
Adding Eggs to your Diet How many of you body builders out there enjoy your eggs? Good, as a matter of fact that's great, keep it up and continue to read on because you may very well be on the road to increasing your egg intake and thus increasing your muscle mass. But what about all you muscle heads out there that are neglecting eggs because of the taste or simple because you're lazy and couldn't be bothered cooking, so you ultimately opt for a tasty whey shake instead. Well after reading this article, I'm confident that eggs will be the first thing on your mind when you wake up in the morning.

Carbohydrate Timing Muscle glycogen is the athlete's storage form of carbohydrate and the primary fuel that powers intense exercise.[1] A number of studies have demonstrated that intense resistance training can significantly decrease muscle glycogen stores, much more severely than previously suspected. [4-7] If you restrict your carbohydrate intake (as most bodybuilders do), you run a real risk of training constantly on carb-depleted muscles.
How to measure Liquidthy - T3
Eat Well. Stay Lean. Feel Great. This is a very moderate cutting diet that will stress keeping muscle mass and reducing the stresses of restrictive dieting. I'm not saying this is the most efficient diet out there but it is doable. I got very lean eating this way last year and felt great, I am re-embarking on this plan now. Hopefully it may help someone out, and act as a resource for myself. I am also assuming this diet is going to be used in tandem with a weight training split and at least 30-60 minutes of cardio per week.
Ketotifen Ketotifen is very safe antihistamine used extensively in Europe to treat bronchial asthma and allergies. It is also being studied as a treatment for colitis. When used for asthma, weight gain and an increase in appetite are among the most frequent side effects. Ketotifen also protects the cells in the stomach, small intestine and perhaps the rest of the gut from a number of toxins. A number of case studies suggest that it may be helpful treating skin problems such as acne. Ketotifen also reduces edema (swelling and puffiness caused by water retention) around sores.
CLENBUTEROL By Andy13 Clenbuterol is a beta-2 agonist and is used in many countries as a broncodilator for the treatment of asthma. Because of it's long half life, Clenbuterol is not FDA approved for medical use. It is a central nervous system stimulant and acts like adrenaline. It shares many of the same side effects as other CNS stimulants like ephedrine. Contrary to popular belief, Clenbuterol has a half life of 35 hours and not 48 hours.
CLENBUTEROL FAQ 1.0 by Nick Bockwinkle Simply put, Clenbuterol hydrochloride (the full chemical name for Clenbuterol) is a beta-2-adrenergic agonist, and was initially used to treat asthma in humans. Other such drugs in this class are albuterol (I believe this is brand named as Ventolin, the blue inhaler commonly seen), pirbuterol, terbutaline and salmeterol
T-3 by BigAndy69 Part 1 and 2 It may shock many people to know that T3 is NOT catabolic per se. Cortical steroids are catabolic drugs that attack muscle tissue directly regardless of caloric intake; T3 does not. It is a very potent calorie burner and it does not discriminate between carbohydrates, protein and fat. Unlike DNP, it has no protein sparing properties. T3 is also more likely to burn muscle than fat in lean users (10-12% BF), but this can be said for any extreme drop in caloric intake and uptake such as starvation diets
Contest Prep by Skip The first few months aren't very detailed simply because there wasn't much going on. By this I mean that I am lucky in that when I need to drop bodyfat, it comes off quite easily as I make subtle changes by simply dropping my carbs. I rarely plateau until I get deeper into precontest as you will see.
Hidden Carbohydrates For a long time, veteran low carbers were noticing that for some people, sometimes, food containing these ingredients seemed to be stalling weight loss. And they sometimes brought back the old carb cravings. Could the labels be lying? Maybe there were carbs hidden in these foods somewhere?