Carb Back Loading

Ok.  Brace yourself.  I'm about to go 360 degrees compared to everything we've ever learned about nutrition.  Don't worry, I haven't lost all my sanity.....I think.  I've started a 'diet' that includes pizza, beer, milkshakes, wings, bleu cheese ,etc.....  It's called the 'Carb Back Loading' diet, and I'm excited.

 Since my days in grad school I've tried to stick to a paleo-ish type diet.  Lean meats, fruits, veggies nuts.....no added sugar, oils, no grains, no flour, etc....  I've tried to eat that way for a long time and I've gotten good results.  I'm thinner than I used to be before grad school and feel like I have a good hold on my nutrition.

BUT....I'm just going to be completely honest.  I wish I had like 10 more pounds of muscle, and 10 less pounds of fat.  AND....I want to be able to eat what I want.  I'm from Buffalo, NY originally...if I don't get some beer, some pizza and some wings in my body every now and then it makes me feel like I'm dying a little bit inside.  I want to be able to eat what I want and have the body I haven't been able to achieve.

Enter Carb Back Loading.  This was designed and described in a book by DH Kiefer, a physicist that grew up a chubby kid and wanted to solve the human puzzle of looking the way you want to.  It's promised to have you gaining muscle and losing fat at levels previously unattained.

Here's the principles:

1) Skip Breakfast - this goes against everything we've ever learned....what happened to starting up the metabolism fire as soon as you wake up?
2) No carbs or sugars before working out, in the afternoon - as opposed to 'eat your fruit and carbs early in the day so you can burn them over the course of the day'
3) Workout without carbs in your system - as opposed to 'added fuel for working out hard' which has always been the case
4) After you workout, consume as much high sugar, high fat, crappy food as you want! - as opposed to ...well no one has ever said that one......
5) Continue eating as much as you want until bedtime - as opposed to fasting for the last few hours before bed because your metabolism is at an all time low.

I'm using my body as a laboratory in experimenting this diet for a few reasons.

1) I've lost all professional objectivity....I really want it to work.   I want to eat whatever I want and still achieve the body composition that I want.....don't judge me.
2) I think it's important to seriously questions everything you think you know from time to time.  This is definitely going in the face of mostly everything I've ever known.

Next week I'm going to post my updates and the explanations to these new principles on losing weight and gaining muscle. (they actually make a lot of sense).  Bottom line, I'm not promising anything and I'm not recommending anyone try this themselves.  Personally, I am trying the carb back loading approach and will fill you in on the details as I go along.

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