Ok...once and for all?!?!?!?

[SonnyBlack]

hey wats up bros....i had a question...Does it really matter what kind of diet you follow for weightloss as long as you have a caloric deficit(burn more calories than u take in) or isthere a certain advantage to certain kind of diets ...such as the ckd diet?? Also...if I choose to follow a regular diet such as a 40, 30, 300 or a high protein, moderate to low carb, low fat diet (not a CKD) is it still wise to have a carb up day to keep your metabolism in check and raise lepitin levels...or will it just work against you and make u gain fat. If so, why and how would u go about the carb up day???

 

[Onenameleft]

If you're eating enough carbs to stay out of ketosis, then you aren't using up your liver glycogen stores, and I don't believe you would need a carb up day per say. I would still say you should eat more carbs on workout days than rest days, though. I don't think leptin levels are a problem as long as you stay out of ketosis, and don't deplete your liver of glycogen. Mr. X is probably more equipped to answer this than I am though. To answer your other question, there is no reason at all that you have to do a ketogenic diet to lose weight. For some people, it helps make a higher percentage of what you lose fat, but any diet with caloric deficit will cause you to lose weight. If you cut the calories too much you run the risk of slowing your metabolism and going into starvation mode where your body sacrifices muscle to preserve its fat stores. If you are eating a balanced diet with healthy fats, and enough carbs to give you the energy you need along with the protein you need to repair, you'll be fine. Keep the calorie deficit around 500 calories a day, and you should be ok.

 

[SonnyBlack]

so Mr X wat do u think about this bro???

 

[cozmokramer]

i think it does matter.... depending upon your diet and
such... you may change what you use for energy...

 

[Hoffmeister]

From what I've read, leptin levels are lowered on all types of calorie restricted diets.

I think Elzi Volk stated something about insulin having a transient effect on leptin, so probably leptin levels become even lower on keto diets.

But a refeed/carb-up should be beneficial on virtually any type of diet