I wanted a more recent photo to replace my old ab shot (also below) appearing on the Fat Loss Bible website..... wrote a follow-up article explaining how a calorie deficit – not the ratio of protein, fat or carbohydrate – was the key requirement to getting shredded. No calorie deficit, no fat-derived weight loss. Period.
LEFT - 2005 eating a ketogenic diet averaging 30 grams or less of carbs per day.
BELOW - October 2010, averaging around 450 grams of carbohydrates per day. As you can see, a high-carbohydrate diet has turned me into a fat, bloated monstrosity.
If only I could look like all those superstar athletes that spend so much time on low-carb forums and blogs…
......the dogma in question was the belief that carbohydrates and insulin – not calories – were the key determinants of weight loss.
In fact, so powerful were the alleged fat-gaining effects of carbs and insulin, career diet salesmen like the late Dr Robert Atkins claimed you could actually gain weight on a 2,000 calorie high-carb diet but lose weight on a 2,000 calorie low-carb diet.
Never mind this absurd claim had been repeatedly disproved in scores of tightly controlled ward studies dating back as far as the 1930s…
My long-time readers know the rest; after mountains of defamatory bullshit on the part of the online low-carb ”community”, several public challenges on my part, a popular ebook and free report alerting people all around the world to the fallacy of metabolic advantage dogma (MAD), and the public debunking and shaming of one especially duplicitous, arrogant and vengeful low-carb diet author, the low-carb whackopaths have yet to present anything resembling tightly controlled evidence of their beloved metabolic fat loss advantage in real live humans.
So I figured it was only fitting I celebrate the 5-year (give or take a few months) anniversary of the beginning of the MAD uproar with a new photo showing me every bit as lean as I was in 2005, but eating 1500% more carbohydrate.
