I believe in low carb, high protein diet with moderate fats.

I don't understand why people are so afraid of ingesting fat! Fat is an essential part of your diet and gm for gm contains more energy than either protein or carbs.

Carbohydrates screw with your insulin levels which has the effect of slowing your metabolism down and making you prone to store all nutrients as fat.

Over the past thirty years, people have been preached and forced to accept a hig carb, moderate protein low fat diet. What do we have after thirty years + of this bullshit? We have the most obese population on this planet.

If you do not ingest fat (none, to little) your body is not going to know how to use the fat you do eat, and definitely will not know how to use it from within the body stores.

Your body burns itself up in a particular order when it needs energy. It looks to carbohydrate stores first, then it looks to protein stores next (muscle) then to fat. Nature has done this to us to protect us in times of famine. Fat is also a great insulator. That is why when you look at fat people 90% of their fat is around their waist, male or female. The body is trying to protect the vital organs necessary for life. Now, while most people aren't in danger of freezing to death or starving to death, they have tricked their bodies into this mode, by eating a high carb diet low in fats and protein. This tells the body that times are good and I need to store up fat for the harsh times that are coming. Which in our case almost never comes.

Plain and simple, people said "I like a balanced diet" What is that? Well, the best I have seen, is 40-30-30 diet, based on calories not gms. Yes, I said a 40-30-30 diet for off season. During contest prep a (70-80)-5-(10-20). Keep the gycemic index down, down, down on that 5% carbs and all before noon. This diet will work great even after 12 weeks. You, certainly won't be as strong or have as much endurance, but it does retrain your body into a new way of burning its energy stores. The fat loss is more permanent as well.

Now if you go back to eating whoppers and such after any diet Atkins included you will pork right back up and quickly.

Try the diet, most people I know do not have the stamina or the drive for that kind of dedication. It is grueling diet for the first 2 weeks and then it gets easier, but it is still very tuff and if you want to win this is how you do it.

chesty

Not only are they two months after, it had been a month of no lifting and two months of eating whatever I wanted.

During the diet my bodyfat was continually going down, but my muscle weight was going up and or remaining constant. I stayed roughly around 207, but bodyfat kept going down. Here are the pics before and after:
http://www.seriphos.net/CHESTYS/chesty.htm

go to the photo section. The diet works guys and gals.