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Don’t rely on a scale alone. Use it in conjunction with a soft tape measure, and skin fold calipers.
The A diet is great if ones grotesquely overweight (300-400 lbs). Otherwise, although working (up to a point) for reasons that are widely known, and some that are only recently becoming apparent (elevated levels of cortisol- a major pro-oxidant); it just not necessary- there are other ways.
Keep the body in an anabolic vs. catabolic state.
If you don’t exercise, start. If you already do the goal is hopefully to lower your fat % vs. to “losing weight”. If you manage to lower your weight, but you’re catabolically in a high fat percentage vs. optimal lean mass it could back fire on. (i.e. – someone can be skinny and still be “flabby”.
Both cardio and weight training are optimal. Doing weight training doesn’t mean your going to “get big and muscular” which seems to be a fear of some. That depends on how your weight training program is structured.
Do cardio first thing in the am BEFORE you have breakfast and it will lower the amount of time needed to utilize fat for energy; immediately after weight training when other subtracted have been used for the weights leaving the target fat to boost through the cardio.
The easiest diet to stick to is one where you have the most control in preparing the thing you like. An eating schedule that you can literally do for the rest of your life, and never second guess whether it’s healthy or not.
1. First establish you target caloric intake
2. Split that into 5 meals
3. Get a book that give the substrate breakdown of ever food you can imagine (these are easy to find.
4. With foods YOU like and choose break down each of those 5 meals into a 40/30/30 approach. Protein-COMPLEX (not simple) carbs-FRIENDLY fats. The general three are easy to maintain: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It’s the other 2 that may present a schedule or convenience problem for some. That’s why a think meal replacement powders are great. They take the guess work out and within seconds you have a balanced meal that gets those 2 out of the way regardless of where you’re at. You will consume one last meal, #6 right before bad, but that will be straight protein. Generally such the calories produced are nominal, and for reason of nitrogen levels in your body make this an important addition.
5. be consistent – it doesn’t matter what diet you do if your deviate after a month, week, every other day- the results will speak for themselves
The point of eating in this direction is it will tap into your body’s strongest anabolic hormone by keeping it regulated- insulin. You will train your body to use fat for energy, while avoiding starving your brain of the nutrients it needs. The only thing you may not like with your metabolism speeding up is having 2 to 4 bowel movements a day.
There’s no controversy behind this approach because it’s extremely healthy, and you’re also assessing your progress with other parameters than just lbs gained or lost. Not to mention it’s extremely effective.
Due to technology getting better in age related hormone level testing: estriol, estradiol, estrone, testosterone, progesterone, DHEA, melatonin, and IGF-1 it will be interesting to see what extended ketosis does on the body. As well as oxidation. It’s my opinion that if someone does choose to do the A diet that they hopefully donate some of there time to enroll in a study to chart the progress and findings. It’s a good thing there are plenty of volunteers that are willing to eat like that so the most accurate effects can be undeniably established for future generations.
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To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.- Stephen Hawking
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