Effective fat burning diet that lets you eat fat
I started a fat burning diet two months ago which is much like the Atkins Diet except it has less variation and it has one day in a week that lets you eat a lot more than normal. This Bulk Day boosts your metabolism and increases your sports performance for a few days. This diet will get your body in a state of Ketosis.
Here’s a tool that lets you estimate how much kilocalories you can eat every day. Take that figure and deduct 500 kcal from it to get the figure that you’re going to use on this diet. Also increase it by 50% to get the Bulk Day figure.
No exercises are required when on this diet. If you do any kind of sports on a day, you should eat more that day.
In this diet you eat only 20 grams (0.044 pounds) of carbohydrates every day and 500 kilocalories of energy less than what your body uses daily. So you’ll be eating more than in the average fat burning diet. You’ll be avoiding eating anything that has carbohydrates and eating a lot of things like eggs, cheese, peanuts, bacon, cream, fish, butter, sausages, meat but none of things like rice, bread, spaghetti, pizza, hamburger, candy, chocolate etc except on Bulk Days.
Your daily energy intake should consist of about 35% or more of protein and 65% of fat minus 20 grams of carbohydrates. Do keep in mind that one gram of fat has as much energy as two grams of protein.
One day of every week after the first 2 weeks of being on this diet should be a Bulk Day. On the bulk day you should eat roughly 50% more of energy than you spend that day. In the Bulk Day you should restrict fat intake instead of carbohydrates. So you’ll be eating just protein and carbs with as little fat as possible. This will take you out of the ketosis state for a day or two but it will be something to look forward to and it will keep your metabolism high. I’ve read that weight loss results are about the same with or without the Bulk Day. During the Bulk Day you can eat candy, low fat chips, bread etc. but not pizza, chocolate or hamburgers for example.
This diet loses its effectiveness after about 6 months and I recommend you to be on this diet a maximum of five months.
This diet was supposed to be a good one for those who want to keep as much of their muscles as possible on a fat burning diet and while I might have kept my muscles, my strength in the gym decreased too much and it didn’t quickly get back to my before diet level after the diet. So I don’t recommend this to anyone who takes his gym training seriously but I do recommend this to everyone else who have a lot of self-discipline or like eating fatty foods and want to lose weight. Both women and men should find this diet to be effective.
If you’re going to start this diet, I suggest you to read more about it first elsewhere. You’ll be needing some dietary supplements like vitamins and I can’t instruct you in English about that properly.
The results
- 14.July.2007 I weighted 88.7 kilos in the morning. This was the day I started this diet.
- 23.July.2007 I weighted 86.6 kilos in the morning. This was the day I lowered my daily calorie intake to the proper amount. I first though that I should eat as much energy as I use on this diet, but no. Silly mistake.
- 25.July.2007 I weighted 86.2 kilos, right before my first Bulk Day, which was that day.
- 27.July.2007 I weighted 86.1 kilos, so the extra weight gained from Bulk Day disappears quickly.
- 29.July.2007 I weighted 85.5 kilos
- 30.July.2007 I weighted 85.1 kilos
- 3.August.2007 I weighted 85.7 kilos - I started using Creatine Pyruvate on 1st of August 2007. One guy reported that this dietary supplement meant for body builders and alike increased his weight by 2 kilos on this diet within 7 days after first use.
- 4.August.2007 I weighted 85.1 kg - Even though I took Creatine Pyruvate on 3rd of August.
- 8.August.2007 I weighted 84.4 kg aamulla - Some time after this I started eating over 30 grams of carbohydrates, which is too much as you can see in the results.
- 13.August.2007 I weighted 84.6 kg
- 14.August.2007 I weighted 84.3 kg
- 19.August.2007 I weighted 84.4 kg - After this I stopped eating over 30 grams of carbohydrates.
- 21.August.2007 I weighted 83.7 kg
- 22.August.2007 I weighted 83.1 kg
- 24.August.2007 I weighted 83.7 kg
- 27.August.2007 I weighted 83.3 kg
- 29.August.2007 I weighted 82.5 kg
- 2.September.2007 I weighted 83 kg
- 5.September.2007 I weighted 82.1 kg
- 8.September.2007 I weighted 82.7 kg
- 12.September.2007 I weighted 81.2 kg
Exactly one week after the diet, today, I weigh 82.4 kilos / 181.6 pounds, so the weight increase after diet because of an increase of fluids in the body was not huge and I expected it to be exactly what it is.