Experts guide to low carb for fatloss....Today's post:  Thursday, 6-21-2018

Most people talk of diets to lose fat.  They refer to eating less until you weigh less and then thinking you can resume eating more and still weigh less.

Not only do people who do this keep their fat, they add to it if they do this.  Worse, they get even fatter a recent study found if they do it over and over again!

So such diets not only don’t work, they fatten you.

But permanent fatloss without excess hunger IS possible if you consistently do the things that cause it.

In our last series of posts we included doing the basics that produce permanent fat loss.

The summary of that is to:

Boost your ability to overcome challenges and achieve goals and discover your strongest reasons to want fatloss. Act to cause fatloss in ways that are rewarding or make you feel empowered.

Stop eating and drinking the most fattening and things and those most harmful to your health. 

Eat organic vegetables and fruit and health OK protein foods and fats and oils and spices. And, drink chilled water and tea and coffee.

Drink some red wine in light moderation before dinner. Drink other alcoholic drinks very infrequently or not at all.

Do the exercises each week that effectively add to or keep healthy bone and muscle AND also do some of those that time efficiently keep you fit and tend to burn fat also.

Solve problems specific to you that block fatloss.

Those can include too little exercise and slow recovery from exercise and too much sitting.

They also can include bacteria in your gut that promote fatloss.

Last week we posted on two ways to overcome those two specific blocks to fat loss.

This week’s post is about ways to do ongoing periodic cutbacks in calories and carbs that do remove fat that stays off because you find a version that keeps fat off you that you can keep doing.

People who eat a higher than average amount of health OK protein foods and other health OK foods --

-- AND eat fewer calories or carbs only part of the time lose as much fat as people who eat less every day. 

But because this is sustainable, studies show the fat tends to stay off. 

People who eat less every day and then resume eating more and don’t follow these basics get fatter instead!

Ben Pakulski is an expert in adding muscle and keeping excess body fat low.

Adding muscle to do so is my preference; and as I’ve been posting, I believe using the whole body vibration platform, the ”vibe”, from Bullet Proof besides my current strength training will do so besides burning more calories each week.

Earlier this week, Ben sent an email with his take on using low carb eating and periodic cutbacks to lose fat and stay lean.

I’ve decided to make some changes in what I eat several days a week and do two days a month of intermittent fasting to add to my use of the Vibe to see if I can get better results faster and can keep the fat off that I use.

Here’s is what Ben had to say:

“Here are your 6 tips to maximize fat burning at rest or while you sleep:

1) Do Not Eat carbs with every meal. 

Even if you’re really lean, eating carbs constantly will ensure your body is really good at using sugars and less effective at using fat at rest. 

Being metabolically flexible will allow your body to use body sources for fuel and ketones are an amazing energy source. 

2) Consume most of your carbs around your workout. 

There is no essential carb, and to be honest if you never ate one again you would be great and flourish. The problem is that it’s hard to avoid all forms of sugar in our society. 

[Whey and unhomogenized whole milk from grass fed cows provide protein and other growth factors to help your exercises build muscle and bone and keep them from becoming less.  But they do have some carbs as lactose.  That has been shown NOT to boost blood sugar by itself; and consuming this carb after effective exercise allows your muscles to use the protein to build and repair and not need to use the protein to replace the energy they used.]

3)"Train Low" 

Train on low carb, or even fasted. 

You will feel amazing once you get used to it and it will massively improve your ability to use fat for fuel. 

[Then after you exercise take in the protein and carbs to rebuild and repair.]

4) Your fat sources matter. 

People get lost in the numbers of macros. 

This is a huge mistake. 

Fats absolutely have different functions and impacts on the body.

Quality MATTERS. Type MATTERS. 

[DHA and eating wild caught fish high in omega 3 oil;  and avocados and extra virgin olive oil for monosaturated fat and their micronutrients; and butter, cheese, and ghee from cows fed only grass all have different benefits.  Grain oils with excessive omega 6 and bioconcentrated herbicides and pesticides; and hydrogenated oils are harmful enough to never eat at all if you can manage it. So, Ben is totally correct about this one!]

Don’t obsess over macros if you’re not obsessing over source. 

5) Consider Fasting. 

I know this goes against most muscle building advice, but the reality is that you won’t lose muscle unless fasting is prolonged. 

Try one day per week until noon and see how you feel. 

Here’s a tip: If you feel like crap, you NEED IT MOST. 

6) Use MCT oil 

MCT is incredible for mental and physical energy. 

I don’t train without it. 

The type of MCT oil does matter. For brain benefits you want C8 MCT. 

Which is not a brand, but an isolated portion of the MCT. 

Most MCT is C10 or C12. 

You want it to be organic and sourced from Coconuts.”

In practice C8 MCT is a brand today.  Bullet Proof’s Brain Octane supplies the MCT 8 Ben recommends.

They also say why Ben is correct that this is the MCT oil that will help fat loss:

"Caprylic Acid (C8): ~6% of coconut oil. C8 has potent anti-microbial properties (way more potent than lauric acid) to help you maintain a healthy gut, and it is the fastest to metabolize in the brain. (This is Brain Octane Oil.)Apr 7, 2015"

"What Is MCT Oil Really? MCT Oils vs. Coconut Oil Explained

https://blog.bulletproof.com/what-is-mct-oil-vs-coconut-oil "

It seems that Lauric acid is processed like other saturated fats in the liver and C8 is burned more directly by your nerves and muscles so it tends to use more calories and not be used for fat deposits.

Overdoing coconut oil as I have been for the lauric acid may no longer be needed now that I'm taking monolaurin again which has more antiviral effects.  And if C8 also has more antiviral effect, I'll be even better off using Brain Octane for that reason too.

Lauric acid does not have the fatloss effects the C8 in Brain Octane does AND it may be partly the cause of my boost in LDL cholesterol

It may be that going back to using coconut oil only as needed and once each week on Saturday and once Sunday will lower my LDL and help me lose 5 pounds.

It may be that using Brain Octane again for my daily chilled coffee with whole milk instead of coconut oil will not keep me from the 6 pound weight loss I'm likely to get by stopping that much coconut oil intake.

It may be that eating Braunschweiger or more Dubliner Cheese instead of grass fed yogurt for protein and using apple cider vinegar instead of yogurt to mix with powdered Parmesan Cheese may cut carbs enough to help.

And, two Mondays a month, I can skip kiwi fruit at breakfast and have no carbs from just after I have my whey and whole milk to that same time on Tuesday.  And, I can fast from my Monday breakfast and until dinner time.

If I find this sustainable and it causes fat loss and weight loss the first month I do it that I then increase the following month instead of gaining it back by repeating this and adding the VIBE that may put me on the way to losing my excess belly fat!