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Just a thought.
 
How did people lose weight and train for figure/body building competitions 10 years ago?
 
They didn’t have all these studies about carb loading, carb cycling, low fat, low carb  diets…
 
People usually ate balanced meals and restricted calories (burned more then they consumed) to lose weight and lean up. 
 
Maybe all this meal timing and carb cycling is nonsense…
 
Maybe it helps break plateaus (changing things up a bit), but i am really starting to question all these “lifestyle” diet plans… I find that i lose weight fasted when i don’t consume myself with all these rules.
 
 
What are your thoughts… i am starting to think these experts are digging a little to deep, there has to be a happy medium and i think it is eating bellow maintance…

Personally I think the answer is getting your squat up.  Past that, you can eat more protein at breakfast, concentrate your carbs after your workout, and a couple of other things, but mostly its eat less if you dont want to be fat, eat more if you do.

really? ,more protein in the morning?? i neve heard that before.. I also heard you should eat more carbs in the morning to replenish glycogen.
 
what is your reasoning

protein keeps you fuller longer sicne it triggers more satiety hormone and obviously protein is essential for a lot of proceses in the body such as repairing cells, creating hormones, etc. your body can even make glucose from protein so you don’t even really need to eat carbs.

you don’t need to “replenish glycogen stores” in the morning unless you stayed up all night working out. the time to replenish your glycogen stores comes right after you have depleted them by working out.

as i said there are so many different studies.. What makes your reasoning correct??
 
There are other experts that suggest you should eat starchy carb early in the day, only after you workout, before your workout, or no carbs at all..
 
What makes your thoery correct??

i wasn’t reasoning, i stated facts as an argument.
protein can be converted to glucose via a process called
gluconeogenesis. techincally you don’t have to ever ingest a single
starchy carbohydrate source. every single person on the Paleo Diet
subscribes to this simple. principle.

and unless you thrash around like a fish out of water in your sleep, you
probably aren’t moving a whole lot. since your muscles aren’t firing
they aren’t burning through your glycogen stores, therefore they don’t
need replenishing. now if you didn’t eat any time during the day after
your workout before you went to sleep, which would be stupid, then yes
you’ll stil have depleted glycogen stores and need to replenish them.

so what is your theory… what do you think works best.. or is it all BS..
 
How did people diet and train 15 years ago?

well if you want to know how people trained and dieted 15 years ago it is a very different story from what you see today, just as it was different 15 years before that and 15 years prior to that time period. things change constantly, more for the sake of change than for progress necessarily. advances in technology and science have resulted in new protocols, new products/supplements and new tools, but i wouldn’t say that any of it has really improved anything beyond what it was back in the day, outside the realm of elite professional athletes. then again drugs cloud that conversation too so who knows.

i personally agree with Glenn that you can’t beat the big basic movements for training. our bodies evolved doing these movements and they are the most efficient way to get results.

in terms of eating, i prescribe a diet somewhere between the Paleo and carb cycling approaches, but preach limiting carb (especially refined sugar) and processed food intake.

 
this recent study from NPI Center backs up the whole “protein at breakfast” stance…bring on the beef!

http://www.muscledog.com/blog/view/332/BEEF_ITS_WHATS_FOR_BREAKFAST

Charles Poliqun style!! He is all about the beef nuts and berries for breakfast..