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Originally posted by DizzyRebel
I train 4 days a week, im not massive but im in better shape than most.

Steady state ketosis isnt really ketosis, as your eating plenty of dietary fats to compensate for the loss of carbs in your diet, and your eating some carbs but just not overloading on them at every meal instead your eating fats for your energy. If you can picture, protein as the building blocks of body tissue, carbs and fats are the workers who put it all together. Actual ketosis is dangerous if you dont know what your doing.

You dont need carbs as a main staple of your diet like most people insist upon. The only time your body will put carbs to good use is upto 2 hours after you train, this is due to low glycogen levels in your liver and your body is super sensetive to insulin. In dumb speak your body can use the extra carbs to fuel accelerated fat burning and shuttle protein and amino acids into broken muscle fibres to aid repair. Any other time and they will be stored as fat, theres no need for them. A Friend of mine won NABBA mr universe without eating carbs, so it works.

Carbs are useful in a diet, but they have a time and a place. At any other point in the day they will just be converted to sugar and stored as fat. Contrary to what lame diet 'experts' lead you to belive, you need to eat fat to loose weight, not carbs. IE a tuna salad and half a cup of almonds will be a perfect meal. tuna on a baked potato with cheese is a bad meal.

Also eatin fats and carbs together (chips and cheese as an example) causes an insulin spike, and both the fat and the carbs will be stored as bodyfat and very little will be put to good use.

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