Nutrition: The Ketogenic Diet

First off I'm writing this from the perspective of someone who has not lifted heavy weight in almost three months. But the overall encompassing notion of this site is to achieve strength through experimentation with nutrition and heavy weight training without the use of anabolic drugs so I feel this post is relevant to that objective.

I'm on a ketogenic diet. My two references for implementing an endeavor as such are this video and this pdf download.

 Here's the video:









And here's the free download link to the pdf download of a book titled The Ketogenic Diet by Lyle McDonald.
I don't know how long this link will last so don't blame me if it doesn't work.


The main gist of these info sources is that the human body is a machine that when inputted with different energy sources, it will yield contrary results.

First off we have the insulin effect. That is where your body in response to an influx of carbs and to a lesser extent animal protein will convert those carbs into fat.

Secondly we have the glucagon effect. It is insulin's opposite. It triggers the burning of body fat.

Those two processes are started by what you eat. The ingestion of high amounts of carbohydrates will cause the insulin effect. The complete absence of carbs in your diet will stimulate the glucagon effect and hence shedding fat.

I've done the ketogenic diet before but failed due to my ignorance of the bodily functions involved in fat loss and fat gain but the two sources I listed above have educated me in nutrition and how the body responds to food.

Besides, they're free so what have you got to lose?