Low carb diets for beginners?

[Needhelp]

Would a low carb, high protein, high good fat diet be good for a beginner?

A lot of the carbs coming from vegetables...

I've heard good things about eating low carbs for about 25-30 days, after that have a carb up meal/day every 4 days...

How many carbs would be in that carb meal, or on that day?

I think I might try this....

I've heard about people losing bodyfat, and gaining a good amount of muscle while on these types of diet......

 

[Rajeev]

I have been asked on the following diet by a qualified professional for 15 days I think this diet could also apply to you. It is a low card high protein diet .

B'Fast : 5 egg whites and 1 whole egg, 1 bread toast, 1 serving of whey protein.

Mid Morning : 1 serving of MRS (eg : Myoplex, Lean boady)

Lunch : 1 bread with some vegetable and 1 serving of whey

Mid A'noon : 1 serving of whey

Pre workout (i wout in the eve) : 1 banana.

Post Workout : 1 serving of myoplex, One bowl of sprout salad.

Since I'am from India wherever I have mentioned bread except for the toasted one it meant some wheat based product out here we would typically have a Chapati which is more like a very very thin pizza base (i dunno if a pizza base is wheat).

I have just started on this diet and hope this works coz my prev diet just gave me only 20 pathetic grams of protein hence the protein flooding.

 

[Manu]

Would a low carb, high protein, high good fat diet be good for a beginner?

If you ask if the diet would be effective for a beguiner the answer is yes, i would sugest you read the crum post on that subject.
(The Ultimate Diet to Get Ripped while Maintaing Muscle)

http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=124559

If the question is if the diet is the best for a beguinner the answer is probably diverges, usually this type of diet is used by already thin people who are trying to achive very low bf %, i would say it isn't the best. But it still works for others with higher BF%. I can tell you it is not an easy diet to do and that also results may be different for different persons. Give it a try.
The advice i would give is that you gradually take out carbs from your current diet, to give time for the body to adapt to low carbs.
I would sugest you read this post by vageta: "The "Not so low" low-carb diet."

http://boards.elitefitness.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=135467&highlight=better+preworkout+meal

It has very good info and it is still a low carb diet, you could start from there and then go to a lower carb diet if you feel like.

How many carbs would be in that carb meal, or on that day?

the time and amount of carbs to eat depends of some factors like your body weight, when you train, the way you react to them (read vageta post on that matter).
I don't know enough about reffeding in low carb diets to give you a good answer, i sugest you take a look at Par Deus articles about leptin.

I've heard about people losing bodyfat, and gaining a good amount of muscle while on these types of diet......

I'm not so sure about that, usually dieting time is not the time you will gain a lot of muscle, people try to lose the less muscle they can on diets. But it isn't impossible and i would say that the quicker you want to lose weight the more probability you have of losing some muscle. Anyway and mostly for a beguiner and talking on my own experience when i started dieting i started to eat better, at better times and eating a lot more protein than i use too, so this as a positive efect in gaining muscle.
Everyone is different, give it a try and see how you react to it.

Good luck.

 

[Manu]

I forgot to mention,
On the crum post you have also a modified version of the original diet, wich includes more carbs it is on page two.
I would say it is probably better (if you choose to do the diet) to start with the modified version and then go to the original.

 

[therookie]

Crums diet will be ideal for a beginner i think.

 

[Needhelp]

What does his modified diet look like? I didnt see it.....

 

[proxy]

Low carb diet will lead to to OVERTRAINING

 

[MrMakaveli]

I think if low-carb is good depends on the person. If you have a high bf% then a high-carb, low fat diet would be much easier to follow and yeild the same results. If your already lean, then you could do low-carbs but remember in the long run every diet, assuming the same caloric deficit will create very similar fat-loss.

I dont think crum's diet would be good for a beginner. It is very strict, and there are much easier ways to lower bf% without being that strict.

Peace

 

[MS]

Hmmm, I would say that low carb is better for obese people than thinner people, mainly because most obese folks have reduced insulin sensitivity and will respond better initially to low carb diets. As you get leaner or more into intense weight training (and presumably your insulin sensitivity has improved) then it's time to add good quality carbs back into your diet. So are you obese or insulin resistant????? Are you into heavy weight training?? Either way the crum original (if you're obese) or modified (if you're not obese and into weight training) is a good starting point

 

[Needhelp]

I'm not obese...

I'm 160, probably 11% BF.. want to drop it a little, maybe down to 6-8... and add some muscle, too..

My goal is to be ~180-190 @ 6%BF..

I think I might do the T-Dawg, which is a low carb, high fat, high protein diet... lots of carbs (60%) on the weekends..

It's the anabolic diet: http://www.testosterone.net/html/69eat.html

but with post and preworkout nutrition...

 

[luto199]

well thing i hear about the low carb diet, is that the second you go off you loose everything you worked for. So unless you intend to stick with it for a long period of time whats really the point?

 

[plornive]

Some people say they can't handle carbs after a keto diet. That just doesn't make that much sense...

If you introduce carbs slowly (say over 2 weeks) you should be fine.

The biggest problem post-keto is that your metabolism will be slow. Its the quantity of food more than anything that will lead to fat gain. You should increase calories over perhaps 2 weeks to a month and continue to train to avoid significant fat gain.