Toney Freeman and his Diet from Palumbo

[eando]

I read Toney Freeman's interview in last months MD mag. In the article he was talking about his diet that Dave Palumbo put together for him. The diet consisted of no more than 50g/carbs per day and if I read it correctly, 600-800g/protein per day. I was just curious what everyones thoughts were on this kind of "keto" diet. How would someone have the energy to function let alone workout taking in as many calories as he did with hardly an energy source.

 

[poysyn]

its dangerous to consume that much protein, imo

 

[eando]

That is my feeling as well - and only 50g/c per day? Freeman also stated that he lost 22lbs in the first three weeks of the diet. What kind of weight was this? Was he holding more water than he thought?

 

[jijipuku]

Lol...600-800 g/day it's NOT keto....

 

[Excidium28]

I cant even imagine consuming 600+grams of protein a day. .. Your regular diet should be 40-50% carbs, your body uses carbs as its main energy supply, so does your brain, its preferred energy source is carbs, sure it can operate on fat and protein but not really as efficiently.