I'll stick with Michael Pollon's advice: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly Vegetables.
Judah On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dana wrote: >> First question, what is leptin and why whould I care? What is so >> wonderful about Body for Life? >> > > All of these hormones control your appetite, your metabolism (energy > levels and calorie burn), and your fat storage. > > The #1 enemy is blood sugar spikes. It causes fat storage, diabetes, > acne, amongst a zillion other things. From what I read it's literally > a killer. Anyway. > > You body uses the 'macronutrients' in food for energy. It's most > efficient at burning carbs, then fat, then protein. > > Since most people want to burn fat, you want to create an environment > in your body that a.) doesn't store fat, and b.) encourages it to burn > your body fat for energy. > > That means your body has to think it's well fed OR doesn't need the fat. > > Many people that cut calories too much end up gaining fat (but not > weight) because their body thinks they're starving so it stores fat > but eats their muscle for energy. At the same time their metabolism > drops into the gutter to save energy. Not a good recipe! > > By training your body to use fat for energy - by getting a > proportionally large amount of it - you encourage it to burn your fat > if there's an energy deficit. > > To keep your metabolism up, you try to eat small meals 6 times per day > and you have a weekly chow down. This also controls your leptin and > thus your appetite. If your meals contain fiber you'll stay full. > > To lose fat you drop down into a calorie deficit while using your muscles. > > Result: body that burns fat, builds or keeps muscle, keeps your > metabolism up, and has few sugar spikes. > > My staples are: > > * Flax, fresh ground in a coffee grinder put into a shake (good fat, > fiber, some carbs, some protein) > > * Green tea > > * Protein powders (whey, casein, soy) - Casein in the absolute key. > It trickles protein into your system for up to 7 hours. 90% of my > protein is casein. > > * 2% cottage cheese - lots of Casein! > > * almond milk > > * high protein cereals like Kashi > > * Costco Stagg Chili. Hey, it's really good and it's got great stuff > in it AND it's high protein low carb > > * Meat > > * Pom juice (after w/o), pistachios, Almonds, walnuts, canned pumpkin, > some fruit. > > As for supplements: > > * Fish oil! I take 3 kinds: krill oil, nature made, & flameout > > * BCAAs - I take a LOT of these, 20g/day > > * Superfood / Greens Plus > > * Benefiber > > * Creatine > > * Vitamins (optimen) > > YOU asked. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:274632 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
