The concept of the Reverse Taper Diets is still one of my favorite ideas.Without getting too technical, the concept was that you should be in your largest calorie deficit (eating the least amount of food) at the beginning of your diet, when you have the most fat to lose and thus the most fat available to be used as a fuel. Then, as you slowly lose fat you also slowly up your calories, ideally ending at a spot where you are eating maintenance level calories when you are at your leanest.The benefit of dieting in this manner is two fold: Firstly, you have much less risk of rebound weight gain. At the end of the diet, you would be eating exactly the amount you need to eat to maintain your new ideal body. Secondly, you would always have available energy so you could workout and so your energy levels didn’t diminish the further into the diet you lasted (lots of people complain about not having enough energy to workout by the end weeks of a traditional diet).The only problem that seems to come up with this  approach is that people don’t like to fiddle with their calories, and they also have a very hard time increasing their calories if they’re seeing really good  fat loss progress with the lower Calorie amounts.

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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to The Primal Blueprint Podcast RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Topic timestamps:Mark’s dietary practices: 00.33Post workout options: 02:54 and 16:10Cutting back carbs: 05:25Intermittent fasting: 06:37Finding a balance point: 09:26Enjoyment of food: 13:11Fasting and intense exercise: 15:27Carb paradigm: 16:39Get the Primal Blueprint PodcastDownload Episode #3 here (right click to “Save As”) Download a transcript of this episode here View and subscribe to The Primal Blueprint Podcast on iTunes here and on Stitcher here Subscribe to the RSS feed here Escape the Winter – Join Mark on the Mayan Riviera! Get Your Tickets for PrimalCon Vacation Tulum (March 1-6) Today! Posted By: Mark Sisson

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Here’s what you need to know…• Intermittent fasting (IF) has limited uses in limited populations, but for many people it leads to less muscle, more body fat, and even disordered eating in the long term.• Fasted weight training, often part of intermittent fasting plans, is misguided and counterproductive.• If you follow many intermittent fasting diets to a T, you border on having or developing two different eating disorders.• To break the destructive habits created by failed IF plans, always eat breakfast, use workout nutrition, select quality foods, and learn to listen to your body.Let’s say I was approached by Kim Jong-un, the murderous North Korean dictator, and asked for dietary advice. Being a patriotic all-American girl, I’d of course give him the worst advice I could think of. My plan would be to provide a diet that fooled him into thinking it was working, but ultimately wrecked his health, made him miserable, and maybe even gave him an eating disorder as a bonus.Now, how would I do that? I’d probably tell him to starve all day, exercise in a fasted state, then eat a ton in the evening.

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Many people are quick to chalk up their metabolism to genetics, claiming that no matter what they do, it cannot be changed. This gives a seemingly acceptable excuse for weight loss struggles, food intake, and energy levels. What exactly is the body’s metabolism and can it be altered?

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Ed Yourdon  / CC BY-NC-SA Ladies, listen up! No matter how you take it, losing weight is down to calorie intake. How much food you eat is the direct result of weight gain. Using a form of intermittent fasting for women is the best way to lose weight and become slim and trim.You can count calories, but a better way is to use intermittent fasting for women. It’s a complete change in your eating habits, but it has worked for many women and it will work for you, if you apply it to your lifestyle.The amount of calories in anything will cause weight gain

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By the strictest of definitions a calorie deficit means ‘any amount of calories that falls short of the amount of calories needed to fuel the energy needs of your body’. Or, put another way: A calorie deficit is any amount of calories that is unable to maintain a persons body mass.A calorie deficit is ANY amount of food that results in loss of body mass.By this definition you cannot be in a deficit if you are not losing body mass. You can be eating less, a little, not much, and not lose body mass since these are all subjective descriptions of an amount of food, but if you are eating less food than is required to provide the energy you need to power your daily activities then a loss of mass must occur. The loss may be small, barely noticeable except by the most advanced of scientific equipment, but it needs to be there.. and if it is there, then you were eating less calories than you needed.It does not matter if you were eating 700 calories or 7,00 Calories of some special super-scientific diet… If a loss of body mass occurred you were in a deficit, if it didn’t then you were not in a deficit.This is where experts and gurus prey on people – by playing with the meanings of words.  A deficit is NOT a number less than what a calculator told you to eat

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Intermittent fasting or “scheduled eating” is a powerful strategy for shedding excess weight and reducing your risk of chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer Three major mechanisms by which fasting benefits your body include increased insulin sensitivity and mitochondrial energy efficiency; reduced oxidative stress; and increased capacity to resist stress, disease, and aging A recent human study confirmed that intermittent fasting was actually more effective for weight loss and improving insulin resistance than daily calorie restriction Intermittent fasting can also dramatically boost human growth hormone production, reduce inflammation, and lessen free radical damage—all of which have beneficial effects on your health To get started, consider skipping breakfast, and avoid eating at least three hours before you go to sleep. This should effectively restrict your eating to an 8-hour window or less each day http://fitness.mercola.com/sites/fitness/archive/2013/12/20/intermittent-fasting-weight-loss.aspxI have been doing IF to some degree or another for 3 years, and have found it is powerful for many reasons. One is it just breaks the habit of eating all the time. Two, it proved I don’t have to eat all the time to “get enough food” to perform well in workouts

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CrossFit Fire of the Gods: Intermittent Fasting Beats Traditional Diets

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Is it just a flash in the pan or is it here to stay? Intermittent fasting seems to have come out of nowhere in the past few months. It has been popularised by the likes of Brad Pilon, Dr. John Berardi, the Hodge Twins and Martin Berkhan but in actual fact, intermittent fasting has been around a lot longer than that

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There are a wide range of workouts out there, but not all of them are the best choice when it comes to enhancing the weight loss process. While some exercise regimens increase your muscular mass and strength, others boost the weight loss process and transform your body into a fat burning furnace. One of these exercises specially designed for burning fat is Tabata Training.A Unique Type of Training ExerciseCardiovascular exercises (or cardio) are a very popular type of workout specially designed to stimulate the fat loss process and to provide your body with more endurance.

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