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THE CONCEPT: REDUCING CARBS/SUGARS AS PART OF THE INITIAL EFFORT IN FAST/SAFE FAT LOSS

The FLFL program focuses on health first, and always has.  Foods can affect us all in vastly different ways.  The good news is, the low-carb initial approach has wide application to a great number of people, tending to show results almost universally.  So we will cover details of this in this sub-chapter.  (Video below is entirely audio):

When I explained having the body use fat as an energy source in the video above, I was of course referring to having your body use its OWN fat reserves as an energy source…NOT dietary fats.  The idea being, the more our fat stores are used as an energy source, the more the fat melts off our bodies.  Taking in a lot less carbs can do this very effectively, especially and specifically when used with the exercise I utilize.

The remainder of the video focuses more on the health aspect of foods, important points I feel everyone needs to be aware of.

Since carbs become the focus as they’re reduced in the diet, we need to understand where they may be on our ingredient labels.  Keep in mind, I would always prefer to migrate to real whole foods, those found in the produce section, whenever possible as the first choice of food.  But being as it is that we are so used to processed foods as a way of life, if we must use boxed foods as our nutrition source, it’s important to know where hidden sugars may be in those foods.  As always, we look to the ingredient label, and usually as a rule, the shorter ingredient list, the better off we are, unless of course that ingredient list is just loaded with nothing but refined flour products and sugars, both of which will cause a huge sugar-dump into our bodies.

 SUGARS:

As I look at the labels and see these sugars in the ingredients, I am then looking to see if there are any grain or refined grains on that label. This will give us a “double-whammy” as we consume both sugars and grains or flours that are rendered down in the digestive process into sugars themselves. Hence this substantial sugar issue in the blood so many people contend with that if not utilized by the brain or the muscles….is usually going to be converted into body fat instead.

In my opinion, the “How many calories should I be eating” question is only applicable as it pertains to exactly what those calories are. 1800 calories in candy bars will impact the body far differently than 1800 calories of meat and vegetable protein.

So I focus on the amount of sugars I am consuming, and instead of taking us to a specific measurement.

Because I realize some people like to have specific measurements (and I resist ever giving them) the following is one example that can be applied to the carb-reading specifically, as a very general guideline:

Take your goal weight, say it’s 180lbs
Take off 60 as standard number, from whatever your goal weight is
In this example, this equals 120 (180 minus 60).

We would then consume 120 carbs for low carb day, such as an off-exercise day

And use minus 30, (180-30=150) instead of 60, for high carb day, such as a day we would be exercising intensely.

You’ll note this measurement applies to carbs.

What I like to do instead is to simply focus on the sugars. I have very loose guidelines I set for myself, whereby 6 grams of sugars per serving is on the low side, and anything getting up around 14 or so and higher, is high sugar content.

I will then base my intake entirely upon how I FEEL…if I feel weak or light-headed, I’ll take in additional sugars in some form (preferably a whole fruit, but will use other sources) to compensate, and in my Maintenance Phase, I’m always looking for a good sugar dump into my blood stream before a workout, (say 18 grams of sugars or so as an example) to help fuel it, since my body fat levels are low enough that my fat stores will be called upon perhaps secondarily to my body using the sugars I’ve just eaten.

If there are grains in the product that I am consuming, I am conscious of them, but place more importance on the amount of sugar I am consuming as my general guide. One example is a rice-based non-gluten cookie that has 5 or 6 grams of sugar per cookie…I will use this as a delish cheat food, eating 3 to 4 cookies, just before my leg workout, which is my longest and most intense workout of the week (lasting 30 to 40 minutes max, including rests).

From the fat loss standpoint, the above is my focus. I will have more info focusing on the health aspects of foods and sugars, as well as an alternative route with sugars entirely…a shocking departure in fact from what you’ve just learned…coming soon.

Love, Happiness, Health and Peace…………..Tim

COMING UP: The radical twist you’ve been waiting for is coming soon (remember this lesson above, as we do something like a 180 on what we’ve just learned…but with an explanation as to how/when/why), my comparison of the Style 1 and Style 2 I reference in my materials and why those approaches both need to be understood, exercise, and a daily focus I have in my weight/fat management and health efforts that I consider on a constant basis as I prepare to eat, and on…   🙂

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