How To Lose Body Fat Without Losing Strength
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3 Diet Tips To Maintain Strength While Losing Body Fat
On today’s episode of Live Lean TV, I’m sharing 3 diet tips on how to lose body fat without losing strength.
Is it possible to reduce body fat, and get beach ready lean, without losing strength?
I say yes.
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Here are my 3 golden tips on how to manipulate your diet to lose body fat while maintaining your strength.
How To Lose Body Fat Without Losing Strength
Tip #1. Reduce your carbohydrate intake to 40% or less
It’s important to reduce your carbohydrate intake to no more than 40% of your overall total calories.
This shouldn’t be a shock to most of you since I follow and recommend no more than 20% of total calories from carbohydrates.
If you currently eat a lot of carbohydrates, but really want to get leaner faster, start by dropping your carbohydrate intake to 40% of total calories.
Then week by week, if your body doesn’t tolerant carbohydrates very well, bring your consumption down to 20% of total calories.
For some reason, our population, including the government and the health and fitness industry, is absolutely obsessed with carbohydrate consumption.
According to the USDA food pyramid, we should be consuming mostly bread and cereal!
Really?
* proceeds to bang head against the fridge
In my opinion, this is completely backwards.
Think about it, our ancestors, who have 99% the same genetic makeup that we have, may have eaten less than approximately 50g of carbohydrates a day.
They didn’t suffer from the many cancers and diseases, like diabetes and heart disease, that we are stricken with today.
It is not impossible to drop your starting carbohydrate consumption down to 40% of your total calories.
After a few weeks, hopefully you will lower your carbohydrate consumption down to 20% of total calories.
NOTE: in the first couple days after lowering your carbohydrate consumption, you may feel tired and lethargic.
However, after your body adapts, usually within 4-7 days, get excited because the body fat will fall off, without losing strength.
Tip #2. Increase your consumption of fat
Since you’re decreasing calories from carbohydrates, I want you to increase calories from healthy sources of fats.
Not only is fat great for your hormones and keeps you feeling full, it also has been shown to moderate insulin in your body.
Remember, when we manage insulin properly, our body turns into a fat burning machine baby.
Yee-haw.
I love fat.
A great source of fat that I use, that’s high in omega 3 fatty acids is fish oil and krill oil.
Here is the krill oil that I recommend.
Pumpkin seed oil and flax oil are also other decent sources of healthy fats, but you can’t beat the health benefits of omega 3’s from fish oil and krill oil.
Now let’s move on to the third and final thing to help you lose body fat while maintaining strength.
Tip #3. Take 5g of glutamine in the morning and before bed
Take 5g of glutamine on an empty stomach in the morning and before going to bed.
I’ve been doing this for a few weeks now after I read it can help induce growth hormone release in your body.
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dude u move ur head alot, stay straight and talk
You possibly can lose 10 lbs naturally in two weeks, without
fighting against food craving
Two key options for fast weight loss are only and only dieting and exercise… never go for supplements. 30 minutes exercise and proper dieting will helps you to achieve you weight loss goal quickly…
so HATE the opening music for brkg bad. warps my ears. always have to mute
it when it comes on.
To lose fat safely and effectively, you need the customized fat burning
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I’ve extremely cut the processed carbs off my diet and didn’t feel a
thing… good fats, a lot of meat, vegetables and fruit is all I need! 😉
MCT Oil or Coconut Oil is a good fat source when cutting.
If you reduce the carbs you’re consuming your inevitably going to reduce
the amount of glycogen in your muscles. Less glycogen = less fuel for your
muscles. You may lean out but you’re not going to be hitting any personal
records in the gym at the same time. Just a thought
If you reduce the carbs you’re consuming your inevitably going to reduce
the amount of glycogen in your muscles. Less glycogen = less fuel for your
muscles. You may lean out but you’re not going to be hitting any personal
records in the gym at the same time. Just a thought
Everyone, Brad is talking about going on a Ketogenic diet. It is actually
pretty good.
Look up CKD (cyclical ketogenic diet) on bodybuidling forums, you will get
an outline on how to do the diet.
its great to burn fat fast and add muscle.
im not sure about keeping strength while on the diet, and im not sure how
it is after the diet, but it seems like it might work.
1 hour version requested
This was so much fun to watch!! ^_^
Of the fats in hemp, about 60% are omega-6 and 22% are omega-3. The o-3 is ALA, which must be converted to EPA and DHA in humans. The problem is this conversion occurs at poor efficiency. O-6:o-3 must be in a balanced ratio, and considering the standard western diet is high in o-6 from industrial seed oils, hemp oil may do little to balance your o-6:o-3. Fish/krill oil is naturally high in DHA/EPA so they require no conversion in the body.
I had a nutritionist tell me that I should take glutamine before working out to supply nutrients to mitochondia. Do you think it makes a difference whether I take it before a workout compared to when I wake and when I go to bed? It seems like it’s best to take it on an empty stomach, but of course I have a pre-workout snack about and hour before working out so I can’t really take pre-workout glutamine on an empty stomach. What are your thoughts?
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Change a handful of nuts in place of a sugary snack. Research from the City of Hope National Medical Center found that fat people who ate a moderate-fat diet containing nuts dropped more weight over a control group that didn’t eat almonds.
For more weight loss tactics, look into:
diet9.info/fat-loss-plan
avocados, all sources of nuts like peanuts, cashews, almonds. olive oil.
i follow a paleo style diet. ketosis would be similar
Hey brad are most if not all of your recipes low carb recipes and also what do you think of the ketosis diet
Avocados and olive oil
my third tip would have been drinking a lot of water
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i love fruit but limit it to about 3 servings a day to manage the sugar. if you’re creating the energy demand via exercise, enjoy!
Hey Brad, what about carbs from fruit? Durian Rider eats tons of bananas a day and he is lean as you. Please explain.
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How do you calculate the carb to calorie ratio?? 40 and 20 %??
thanks
great vids. keep up the great work & health. cheers
To drop fat completely, never replace meals by using water.
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🙂 thx Brad, you should subscribe hahah
Nice first vid. Great physique. Keep it going!
Hey Brad, can you check out my channel pls, and tell me your opinion?! Thanks a lot. I am your loyal follower…:)
How much is your 40% depends on how much is your 100%. It is slightly less than half of what you eat throughout the day.
Do you take the Glutamine before or after the lemon water in the morning? Or mix it all together?
Ha! I just watched the lemon water one and was wondering the same thing!
Brad, What about HEMP OIL instead of Fish Oil..
Give a detailed explanation please!
hey brad, you say that you’re lean all year round, do you eat your maintenance calories?
Hey Brad love the videos! How much Omega-3 is necessary to efficiently burn fat? Thanks in advanced!
watched your “how many clories” vids and it helped a lot. Finally, someone who knows what they’re talking about, willing to discuss it others who just need that last puzzle piece. Where are you based out of? Keep up the great work boss!
@BethThick green veggies are freebies…no need to count toward your goals. EAT UP!
Brad, should green veggies count in your carb %? I know they are carbs, but at one point didn’t you say the were “free-bees”?
Awesome video Brad as always. About the fat source, has it to be just the fish oil? or also the omega 3 fish oil pills will be fine as well?
yes you can also build strength when adding more fats. still anabolic.
Great videos Brad. You say maintain strength but are you also talking about maintaining and gaining muscle mass while losing fat? Also, try to keep a little more space between the top of your head and the top of the frame on your videos. That’s the proper placement for the shot you’re using.
WHERE DO YOU GET THE 5 GMS OF GLUTIMINE ? IS IT PILL FORM OR LIQUID FORM ??? THANKS
WHY WHY WHY DO YOU HAVE TO USE PROFANITY! I WOULD LIKE JUST 1 VIDEO WHERE YOU CAN KEEP YOUR CUSSING AT HOME AND OFF THE VIDEOS, MAN, YOU ARE GOING TO LOSE ALOT OF VIEWERS THAT HERE THAT FILTH AND ARE CHRISTIANS OK, MILLIONS OF VIEWERS DON’T WANT TO HEAR PROFANIT, WHY IS IT SO HARD FOR YOU TO DO ??? PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, STOP CUSSIING !! I REALLY LIKE YOU BUT THAT IS SO UNPROFESSIONAL AND YOU CAN’T DO IT AT A JOB, THEN WHY DO IT ON YOUR VIDEOS THAT HOW YOU MAKE MONEY AND IF YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT PEOPLE THEN STOP OK, LAST TIME, I AM DONE ASKING !
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Yeah fruits count as carbs even though they are complex carbs
When you say carbs…
Are you counting things like fruits, sweet potatoes and such? I’m confused now!:(
how about those 20% of carbs when building muscle mass? would i catch less fat when i’m on calories surplus?
Hey Brad, when you say limit carbs, do you count fruits and vegetables as carbs? I’d like if you could actually show us examples too, thanks for the video, great body
that second pyramid is waaaaay better!!!
I love my coconut oil!!!! But yeah gotta work on reducing carbs for sure. BTW my 4-yr-old daughter thinks you’re hilarious and was mimicking you the whole time I was watching lol
Hi Brad – I love salmon, nuts and nut butters like macadamia nut butter (with apple – yum!)
@markurlaub ya i also like BCAAs… nice work at 6-7%!
@TheMyiii any unsweetened brand (no artificial sweeteners).
@ohyummyitspauly any brand that has unflavored (no artificial sweeteners)
I LOVE avocados, coconut oil, fish oil and almonds!
great information. I Love watching you be silly. 😀
hey brad love the videos man!! I work out first thing in the am fasted… just black coffee… do you recommend BCAAS? currently at 6-7% and trying to build muscle n stay lean! thanks
back on the 40/40/20**
I tried the 40/20/40 and gained weight…back on the 40/20/40 and leaning back out