The most peeled gym goers at your local weights emporium are typically extremely dedicated individuals. They have often forgone many of life’s simple pleasures in pursuit of single digit body fat percentages.
Diet, cardio and intensive weight training protocols are the norm, all while heavily depleted and living on broccoli and steamed fish.
You have spent months in a calorie deficit, depleting glycogen, lowering dietary carbohydrates and dropping body fat like its hot!
You have arrived at your goal after a seemingly endless amount of cardio and steamed Basa, you have completed your perfect desired look, and are now looking to return to normality.
Ketogenic dieting has become an absolutely viral means of losing those unwanted pounds.
It has been touted as the quickest way to lose serious poundage and has been popularised by mainstream media in recent months to boot.
Dieting. Counting calories. Cardio. Weights. Meal prep. Boiled chicken and SOOO much broccoli!
We get it. It sucks.
The title of this article implies there is going to be a discussion around the ‘good’ or ‘bad’ types of fats that should, or shouldn’t be in your diet.
SORRY GUYS!
When you don't eat for a while, several things happen in your body.
The main benefits are found when the body initiates important cellular repair processes and changes hormone levels to make stored body fat more accessible during time when no calories are consumed.
Oxygen is undeniably necessary for all life.
It’s a no brainer.
Unfortunately, it is also a highly reactive element and somewhat of a double edged sword!
Muscle gain requires a caloric surplus to fuel muscle repair and the physical growth of new tissue.
The cellular processes of metabolising macro and micronutrients, and transcribing new proteins to physically create new muscle fibres is in itself, a monstrously inefficient process that requires significant fuel in the form of caloric intake to occur.
