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It's cyclical keto, the point of ingesting a full carb load is to prompt an insulin response and fill glycogen stores which in turn releases IGF and raises muscle building hormones in blood serum. The full glycogen stores allow for more reps of lift to failure versus skd as well. Whereas a SKD approach is strict low carb, CKD is pretty complex but is definitively result producing for quite a lot of people. The complexity of CKD really susses out over time, especially when you have plenty of time in SKD which is highly recommendable for the best results on the basis that you learn your body, and how it's going to react to low carb and low carb strength gains so over time you'll be able to more specifically implement a carb cycle into keto without gaining non-lean mass.
If you want more info check out this particular book, that while dated (bout 20 years) is full of amazing and still relevant information, it really blazed a trail for a lot of regular guys to fine tune CKD.
Also I did check out the article and it seems like this particular author is recommending whole grain, brown rice ect from a pool of jumbled information, mixing random information from CKD and SKD- you see oatmeal and other super high glycemic index foods enter the realm of cycling a lot.
By trying to get ripped and researching Body Building diets.
I came upon the "Body Opus" and "The Anabolic Diet" books (both ketogenic diets in principle) and finally found out about Lyle McDonalds "The Ketogenic Diet" book.
buy the book off his website
here it is on amazon
and Lyle's website bodyrecomposition.com for further reading
Though I haven't read it myself, it seems like "The Ketogenic Diet" by Lyle McDonald is pretty comprehensive. Unfortunately, I noticed it's prohibitively expensive (and apparently rare?) on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/The-Ketogenic-Diet-Complete-Practitioner/dp/0967145600
Does anyone know if this is more easily obtained elsewhere?
https://www.amazon.com/Ketogenic-Diet-Complete-Dieter-Practitioner/dp/0967145600/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1466451674&sr=1-1&keywords=the+ketogenic+diet+lyle+mcdonald
Lyle McDonald has a great book and basically the only book on the ketogenic diet.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0967145600
Don't be fooled this book is the real deal. It reads like a textbook, he's not selling a fad diet he's just laying out the details and the science behind it. From his site (www.bodyrecomposition.com) he doesn't appear to be for a particular diet over another. He just likes to discuss the current understanding of nutrition and fitness. The book is definitely worth the read but only if your into this sort of thing, most others would find it too "sciencey".
Have you tried maintaining a keto diet for more than a week? Some people do get "foggy" during the transition from glucose to ketones but it goes away. Personally I've never had an issue. Like you said some react different than others.
Hi! Unfortunately, all all the material I've read on the subject have been in Norwegian, so unless you read the language I guess it won't be much help. siwu described the Dukan Diet and refered to a book about the diet in a previous comment, and as far as I can tell this is an updated version of the PSMF diet, so this might be worthwile to check out.
Other than that, I know Lyle McDonald have written a book about ketogenic diets, including PSMF, titled The Ketogenic Diet: A Complete Guide for the Dieter and Practitioner, but as I've yet to read it myself, I cannot vouch for the book.
Other than that I guess you could google a bit and see what articles you find :)
http://www.amazon.com/Ketogenic-Diet-Complete-Dieter-Practitioner/dp/0967145600
The ketogenic diet was actually developed as a treatment for epilepsy. What you want is the "cyclic ketogenic diet."
You should be able to find some good diet plans with a google search as well, but I would recommend getting the book if you want to seriously put it into practice.
I see. Do you lift weights? Any change in the weights you can push? I asked about muscle mass loss because on this book Lyle says that muscle loss is inevitable with a full keto diet - I did keto once and lost 40 pounds in 6 months but I was not lifting weights then, and I did seem to lose a lot of muscle (was very thin afterwards) but I couldn't tell if it was due to diet alone or diet + lack of lifting weights in the first place (since lifting weights is a way to avoid muscle loss).
So now I find myself wanting to try keto again to burn fat but not at the cost of muscle (which is much harder to gain than fat is to get burned) and wanted to see if keto + weights would be enough to keep most muscle mass without having to do a "regular bro" diet and fat burn split (in other words, fasted cardio and post-training cardio - with steroids to stave off muscle loss).
Thought I would ask since you seem to be in good shape in your "before" picture and you seem like you work out. I have read anecdotal tales on another subreddit about people using keto and trenbolone for dramatic muscle loss (with virtually no muscle loss) but would rather avoid steroids altogether.
Something else I thought of trying too is keto + weights + leucine since it seems leucine seems to be associated with muscle maintenance.
Thanks!
It's often used to treat certain cases of pediatric seizures.
It's also a better way to lose weight than traditional caloric deficits, as less lean body mass is catabolized.
There's really no evidence that a LC diet is any less healthy than a normal diet.
I would also recommend taking a look at Lyle McDonald's book on the subject.
This isn't for the average /r/keto or /r/xxketo'er, but I found it totally priceless, especially because it mentions a lot of different ways to keto. When I said I changed things up, a lot of my ideas came from this book (if it's a bit above your head in places let me know and I'll try to explain the science; I don't know your background). http://www.amazon.com/The-Ketogenic-Diet-Complete-Practitioner/dp/0967145600
I've seen a copy or two floating around for free online but I don't know if it's legal or not so I dont want to link. I can get a copy to you if you can't find it though.
Must-reads for people searching for in-depth material (that still remains 100% relevant) on nutrition.
Nutrient is a short and compact book discussing nutrient consumption and it's timing. It introduces the pre- peri- and postworkout nutrition info.
Ketogenic diet by Lyle McDonald, on the other hand is a more massive book (couple hundred pages. Half of the book discusses the ketogenic side of diet and nutrition and half of it consists of nutrition's effect on your body (consume X and Y happens in your body).
I read ketogenic diet couple years ago, even though I didn't even consider going on ketogenic diet. Along the Nutrient timing it's the best fitness/nutrition book I've ever read. Everything is backed up with scientific research but it's still written so non-academic/scientific people can still read it.
Still got Nutrient timing in the bookshelf and Ketogenic diet as pdf.
Wow! I hadn't really thought of that. I know people can occasionally come out of a stall by carb loading and hitting reset. But I tended to shy away as that was part of why it took so long for my from-start number to drop again. Plus, while I love that no-carb day when you're getting back into ketosis, I hate waking up and doing an hour or more of HIIT on an empty stomach.
How do you like Flexible Dieting over Complete Diet? I found that to be more of a technical manual I'd go to for additional info.
Why do you say that? BTW I also read http://www.amazon.com/Ketogenic-Diet-Complete-Dieter-Practitioner/dp/0967145600
and
http://www.amazon.com/Foodist-Science-Weight-Without-Dieting/dp/0062201263
I'm not anti-keto (i am ON A KETO DIET) but I'm also not stupid - what specifically from Eat to Live prohibits it from being unbiased?
Read The Ketogenic Diet - Lyle McDonald and every question you have will be answered. Well, except for the dormant and turnover related questions. I suppose it's possible to have fat molecules that remain unburned for decades or a lifetime. However, every seven years all of the cells in your body have died and been replaced, including fat cells. But, for fat people, the lifespan of fat cells is 10 years (https://www.llnl.gov/news/fat-turnover-obese-slower-average).
Jesus! I just went and tried to buy a copy. $175 for the paperback!
https://www.amazon.com.au/Ketogenic-Diet-Complete-Dieter-Practitioner/dp/0967145600