kamaboko said:
where have you read high carbs, reduced cals would work? that's counter to every fitness site i've visited. all of them agree that endomorphs have a terrible time with high carb diets (i.e., those comprising of more than 50% of daily caloric intake.) based on my previous experience i'd have to agree with that statement. PLORNIVE are you an endomorph and have you tried your own suggestion?
If you are gaining too much fat, you're simply eating too much. Protein can have a thermogenic effect, but that is not the issue here. I don't care if you're an "endomorph", "ectomorph", whatever. It's about energy balance.
When trying to gain strength or perform well, you need carbohydrate. You cannot use any fuel but glycogen when doing a set of a weight-training exercise. If you don't eat carbohydrate, your liver will manufacture it's own glucose using fat, amino acids from injested protein and amino acids from muscle tissue.
Blood glucose raises insulin and prevents gluconeogenesis (conversion of protein/fat to glucose, but mostly protein). Therefore, increasing your carb intake will decrease gluconeogenesis. It makes sense to ingest some carbohydrates to fulfill a large portion of your glucose needs.
If you don't ingest glucose and rely on gluconeogenesis all the time, your metabolism will not be as high. Although a high protein diet will cause thermogenesis, your metabolism will drop. In addition, muscle synthesis won't happen to the same degree.
I think it is a good idea to reduce carbohydrate when cutting, simply because high insulin levels inhibit fat metabolism and you need to eat good fats to upregulate fat burning. Then again, a loss of weight will occur no matter what macronutrient ratios you have if there is a caloric deficit. This last little fact cannot be denied.
If you follow the ABCDE diet, you will gain a large amount of fat in a short time, lose it, and repeat. Over time, the number of fat cells in your body will increase, and you will become even more of an endomorph.
When going for strength/lean-mass gains, I stick with a high carb, moderate protein, very low fat diet. 30% protein, 5-10% essential fatty acids, and the rest low GI carbs, with some moderate to high GI carbs after a good workout. When cutting, I like to decrease carbs gradually to about 30% at the lowest, with 50% of my diet coming from protein and 20% from fat. I don't consider myself an endomorph or an ectomorph. I can get very lean, and I stay that way, but not without major effort. I don't gain or lose weight too quickly, and I monitor my calories so that I don't gain too much fat while gaining weight.
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i've tried lowering the cals and easing up on the aerobics, but it catches up with me. bloody genetics! i'm going to have to give my parents some shit this weekend.
