Strategic Carbohydrate Management

This is how, because I get questions all the time, is how does muscle nerves have all these girls eating 400 or 500 grams of carbs a day and not getting fat? Well, it's not the carbs' fault. Like, carbs don't make you fat. Your body's fucked up. And when you fix that, they can crank the carbs. So we might have them on a high-protein, moderate-fat, low-carb diet at first. But within three or four weeks, when they've really started working on the mitochondria, they've really started working on the cardiovascular respiratory system, we can start adding more carbs. adding more carbs. We've got girls, I've got girls eating 750 grams of carbs a day, and they're fucking 54 kilos in weight, and they're just shredded to the bone. I've got guys that eat 1,200 grams of carbs a day. And, you know, my thing is to get them to the point where they can eat as much carbs as possible because within reason, without creating a negative aspect of that, that way they can fuel muscle growth. That way they can fuel their brain. That way they can fuel all the processes and they're not starving themselves so that when I get a girl on stage, she's still eating close to 3,000 calories when all the other girls in the back are eating fucking rice cakes and fucking almond butter and eating 600 calories a day. It doesn't have to be that way. Fascinating. And is the deficit that Tommy suggested, is that also part of the process to improve the mitochondrial function? Does that have to occur to some degree until things are working well? Yeah, absolutely. But then you have to find out where is that deficit, right? So we can do measurements for BMR, and then we can think about, okay, what else you've got to BMR? Then you've got keeping your NEAT up, you know, keeping your thermogenesis. You've got all these things that kind of go into that. And a lot of people, they're at a point where they're eating so little that they're only fueling that BMR or a little bit less, and now they're catabolic and their body's lowering BMR by getting rid of bone and getting rid of muscle and getting rid of lean body mass. So that BMR takes a little bit of a hit. But they've got about 40% to 45% calories that they can add back in without having to worry about gaining a lot of weight because all they're going to do is stimulate thermogenesis. Their NEAT's going to go up. Thermic effective food's going to go up. And then we can choose specific macros to enhance that, like extra protein and increase thermic effective food. if i have somebody eating a moderate fat and a high high protein diet low carb well now we can start parlaying some of that fat calories into carbohydrates so lower the fat add carbs lower the fat add carbs because now we're increasing thermic effect of food by 10 to 12 percent without even changing any calories yeah so when we build the calories up one of the some of the first modifications we may make is to get somebody ready for dieting i'm going to pump up the protein a little bit to manage hunger i'm to and also to elevate thermic effect of food so i might take calories out of fat and pump up the protein and then i may take calories out of fat and pump up the carbs without ever changing the calories so we're making a hypothetical uh caloric funnel so they're not eating any less and actually now they're eating more volume because you're eating things that have lower calories and higher food mass yes right which makes them happier so then they can create that caloric funnel they can they'll start losing and then when they stop losing or they're not in the range we want them to lose every week now we pull out you know 50 grams is this, 20 grams of that or whatever, and we start trickling down so we don't have to starve them at the end.