Caloric Restriction will not make you Fit as Fu*K

 

Calorie restriction vs Carbohydrate restriction.

•     Do you want to sit down each meal and count all the calories you put into your body, then figure out all the calories you burned in a day to see if you are negative or positive for that day?
•     Would you rather work out starving, or work out with enough energy to support the pain OneWorld is about to inflict.

read the conclusion

 

Lets's end this by asking the ladies, "Who would you rather look like?"

 


           

Camille, on the right is about to kill 7 rounds of three 135lb cleans and 4 handstand push ups. The girl who is in the right picture and positioned in the far left without a head, is the very beautiful Miranda Oldroyd, another savage meat eater who relies on the paleo for sustenance. Camille is cleaning 135 pounds, 21 times, something the girl on the left will never accomplish once. In fact, just holding herself up seems heavy for her legs. 

The girl on the left, definitely, relies on calorie counting, which, I imagine is minimal. If your goal is to look like her, than feel free to do so. I will laugh at you when the zombies attack and they use your weak, frail, body as an appetizer. The girl on the right is gorgeous, and so is the girl in the far back. In fact if you look in the stands, you will see hundreds of beautiful people who laugh at calorie counting and instead rely on the paleo or zone diet. I know because I was there to witness this breathtaking beauty called the 2010 Crossfit Games.

So what is your goal? 

That is the most important question to ask yourself. I understand you all don't want to compete in the Crossfit games next year, butI also know you step foot in our gym every chance you get because of the challenge it brings. Freddy always points out, how the craziest work outs always attract the biggest participants. You all want better times, better health, and better looking bodies. This feeling is shared amongst the newest of crossfitters to the heavy hitters. 

We avoid calorie counting because it has shown in research to fail, and it fails to produce what you are looking for. By increasing your protein intake, we are actually decreasing your appetite while increase your muscle regeneration after you give a hard effort at the gym. By increasing your good fat intake we are providing the energy that you think you get from "carbs" that will help get you through the OneWorld programming. By avoiding the "carbs" we are putting those who feel they need to lose weight in ketosis. 

Men who say they lost weight by eating fruit are not in our gym squatting 355 pounds and running 6 minute miles. Ladies that make these claims are not in our gym working on pull-ups and muscle ups, nor are they able to squat, press, and deadlift heavy ass weight on a caloric restricted diet. They are instead running on the treadmill or hitting the aerobic classes or the tricep extension rope with some fruit shake. I guess any form of activity is better than a sedentary lifestyle, but these are not our goals.

So please trust us our methodology and our rules in weight loss. Communicate with me. If you are not seeing any results, please contact me. DO NOT HESITATE to send me an e-mail and I will gladly meet you in the gym. All of the trainers want you to succeed, the only thing that will stop you is not implementing the plan. Fancy gyms will charge clients a lot of money for a diet plan, a personal trainer and a strength and conditioning program. You get us all for the same price, so take advantage of it.

Have a great weekend! Continue to make solid decisions this weekend, and take accountability. 

By the way! Fat does not weigh more than muscle! 5 pounds is 5 pounds. The reason 135 looks leaner is because it takes up less space, as you can see from above. Lean, strong women are hot, and I've been told that lean strong men are hot. Follow our rules on eating and we'll soon see what you look like.
 
 

Comments

[freddy c.]

Alex, you know you think lean strong men are hot and it's not something someone told you....lol.

But seriously, I agree with your post 99%. My only disagreement is that the Zone diet is not calorie counting. Technically of course, it is not, but you determine "blocks" to eat in a day based on lean body mass and then based on whether you want to lean out or maintain your current weight. (I don't know of anyone who is getting "jacked" on a true Zone diet plan). Once you determine your block count, you have to "count blocks" to achieve your target intake. It's not calories, but it is still counting, thus the long term success rate for most people is not good because counting anything is a pain in the ass.

I will say that after a few weeks of the Zone, you can get a feel for the right amount of blocks to eat just by eyeballing your food.

Overall though, I am very anti-Zone. I tried it and didn't notice near the success I have experienced just eating good foods and whenever I want. Sure I got super lean (so for the contest it would be good), but I assure you, I was fucking starving all the time.

Thoughts???

[Neil]

That's exactly what I was going to say about the HOT MAN COMMENT Freddy...and about the Zone diet thing. Who gives a rats ass...eat however much you want, just eat good stuff!

[alex]

haha I just got the green light to clown on the zone diet

[j-ro]

Again, great post Alex! Like the true nerd you are (and I appreciate), thanks for links to the studies.

I will say that there is some "counting" in Alex's proposed eating plan. It's not as strict as the zone, but it is important to be mindful of the carbs and such. Also, the "counting" isn't as taxing as the zone. Most people I know who were on the zone were hungry all the time. Also, I thought it was dangerous that some of these women were eating only 8-10 blocks a day, but were training hard in CrossFit. The zone just wasn't feeding them well. But that's my two cents.

Yes, it's a free country. You can clown on the zone all you want. Just note that free speech doesn't equal consequence free speech. (Just sayin'.)

[alex]

I'm not going to hate on the zone and I threw it in there because you can tweak it, ie paleo zone approach. Im not ready to get into the debate so I through the name zone in there to avoid hurt feelings, in the case that certain people are reading this.

In saying that, I do think you have to be very type A, to succeed on the zone. i'm more of a eat what ever you want when trying to lose weight as long as the carbs are under 50, and in some cases 30. I've held myself from saying paleo often because I first wanted people to detox from sugar. If it meant eating cheese and sausages to do so, then so be it. Once you start seeing a weight loss we start shifting the diet to a even cleaner approach.
Being the paleo.

Ill write about it soon. For now keep up the good work and yes, there is some counting to do in my plan. 30-50 isn't a lot of counting though. :)

Love you jro

[Will Blaker]

Hey Alex, great site. Sorry I wasnt checking it out earlier.

Let's trade ideas and train like we talked about, soon

email: wablaker@gmail.com

[Marian]

Great job Alex with leading the charge! I'm cheering everyone on. We traveled for most of September so had to sit this challenge out, but at least we've cut out carbs (for the most part). That's a big deal given I was born with a bowl of rice and grab a bowl of cereal or toast for breakfast. :)

Just wondering, do you have the fat and muscle replicas (pictured above) for show and tell? :)

I remember walking into a globo-gym 15 years ago around New Years Day and the first thing you saw when you walked by the front desk was 5 pounds of fake fat. Talk about motivation to sign on the dotted line. Prior to that, it had never clicked that the same fat that I had been cutting out of my thigh meat is what's in my body.