What is your favorite diet and why

[ZeOne]

Just reading about the numerous diets on the intraweb is enough to confuse the heck out of most people and makes it really hard to separate the good ones from the hype.

So maybe a thread of that nature can de-mangle some of these diets and make them a bit more accessible to everyone.


My diet that doesn't really have a name (maybe it reassembles the Ketogenic diet?) and that worked for me in shedding a lot of weight is dropping my carbs by 50% 6 days of the week while maintaing the other food intact, and eating like a pig the 7th day. Also combined the 5 days with an ECA stack.

I lost more than 50 pounds on that diet in ~4 month, but unfortunately I did loose some muscle mass as I did not up my protein intake, which was my mistake. I also was feeling like crap from the ECA.

While it is not the perfect diet, it is my favorite because it is the only one I ever tried that did work.


So, what diet is your favorite one (if it doesn't have a name, just describe it) and why?

[gordi]

i LOVE the Trailing Edge Diet, and I've made huge changes following the basic principles of Dr. John Berardi's Precision Nutrition (5 meals a day, clean protein at every meal, fruit and/or veggies at every meal, lots of fish oil and flax and other healthy fats, no calorie-containing drinks...). I've lost almost 40 pounds so far!

http://www.canadabodybuilding.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1993

compare this pic (from about three months ago) with my avatar to see my progress following those principles:

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee179/gordiw/gordi%20p/gordi-recomp-av.gif

[bigdaddydrew123]

i like low carb med fat diet for contest,with cheat day once a week of cource

[gsxr750]

Wow Gordi, that's an amazing 3 month transformation... well done. You have peaked my interest.... :)

Edit: in the diet, no homo

[gordi]

Wow Gordi, that's an amazing 3 month transformation... well done. You have peaked my interest.... :)

Edit: in the diet, no homo

Thanks! To be fair, I've also been on TRT since May 15. 100 mg/week of prescription Test Cyp probably hasn't hurt my efforts, either.

[ZeOne]

i LOVE the Trailing Edge Diet, and I've made huge changes following the basic principles of Dr. John Berardi's Precision Nutrition (5 meals a day, clean protein at every meal, fruit and/or veggies at every meal, lots of fish oil and flax and other healthy fats, no calorie-containing drinks...). I've lost almost 40 pounds so far!

http://www.canadabodybuilding.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1993

compare this pic (from about three months ago) with my avatar to see my progress following those principles:

http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee179/gordiw/gordi%20p/gordi-recomp-av.gif

Thanks for sharing the diet with us. Great transformation!

[Freebsd1977]

Thanks! To be fair, I've also been on TRT since May 15. 100 mg/week of prescription Test Cyp probably hasn't hurt my efforts, either.

Gordi, great progress man, keep up the great work! :yeah

[O-Train]

I like eating food. Decrease calories a bit, lots of small meals with the same macro breakdown. Only protein and fibrous veggies before bed. High carb, med-high protein, fairly low fat. No stimulants.

[5151]

I found straight ketosis to be the best for fat loss. I am currently trying out CKD and am trying out different carb ups and it has been an interesting diet.

[gordi]

Berardi's advice is to limit starchy carbs to the morning meal and post-workout meal. That works well for me. I definitely can't tolerate too many carbs, and I'll bloat up if I eat starches when I'm not carb-depleted.

[SteveMan]

So how do you guys define cheat days. Is it eating 1 meal of whatever you want that day or cheating the entire day. My cheat days pretty much consist of me eating 12 donuts for breakfast lol.

And I always hear that if your body has been conditioned for a long time to burn more cals then taken in then when you do cheat every so often that your body will simply burn the excess cals due to its conditioning. You guys feel this is valid?? I think it makes sense to a limit.

[GTZ3]

I like eating food. Decrease calories a bit, lots of small meals with the same macro breakdown. Only protein and fibrous veggies before bed. High carb, med-high protein, fairly low fat. No stimulants.

Same here ... weights never really been an issue with me. Low carbs cuts me to ribbons, but I feel like dogshit.