Hi, Ella,
I'd be a bit nervous about a ketogenic diet during nbe.
It's meant to burn fat, and breasts have lots of fat tissue. I wanted to do the same... I decided it wasn't worth the limitations.
Having said that, do a search over at t-nation.com.
https://www.t-nation.com/diet-fat-loss/ugly-truth-about-ketogenic-diets
https://www.t-nation.com/diet-fat-loss/whats-the-best-diet-for-losing-fat
From the first:
Here's what you need to know...
Ketosis occurs when carbs are in such low quantities that your body relies almost exclusively on fatty acid oxidation and ketone metabolism.
Ketogenic diets have about 70-75% of your daily caloric intake coming from fat and about 5% from carbohydrates.
Ingesting protein above approximately .8 grams per pound is enough to kick you out of ketosis.
Ketogenic diets improve body comp, but so does any diet that reduces calories from any source.
There is no literature to support that a ketogenic diet is beneficial for promoting increases in muscle mass.
Ketogenic diets affect performance negatively.
The part about more than 0.8 g protein per pound of body weight was new to me.
How much exercise do you want in your routine? I want to be a beast... Female beast, ok, but still a beast. ?
The more feminine you want to be, the more you can manage the diet. Since I want to put up numbers, I'm fighting myself. If you are willing to be skinny-feminine, this would work well. I'd still suggest squats, sprints, butt work for hypertrophy (hack squats, slow on the squat down or eccentric, pause at the bottom, fast on the up or concentric). That will build the butt. So will sprints, which you can do as HIIT to liberate fat, followed by some long, slow distance normal cardio to burn the fat liberated to the bloodstream.
And yoga on off days. Keep moving, keep burning.
Biggest problem I found was food during the day. Fats are hard to come by out in the world... ?
Packing food is best resolution... And avocado, IIRC, is a phyto progesterone.
I have to think about going keto, too, even with the loss to performance.... I like my alcohol too much, and it's all sugars... (Like we didn't know, you girls told me that a while back...)
Make sure to keep your strength up, try to be active during the day, and you should be able to achieve it. Post status updates, please? ?
-Dianna
I'd be a bit nervous about a ketogenic diet during nbe.
It's meant to burn fat, and breasts have lots of fat tissue. I wanted to do the same... I decided it wasn't worth the limitations.
Having said that, do a search over at t-nation.com.
https://www.t-nation.com/diet-fat-loss/ugly-truth-about-ketogenic-diets
https://www.t-nation.com/diet-fat-loss/whats-the-best-diet-for-losing-fat
From the first:
Here's what you need to know...
Ketosis occurs when carbs are in such low quantities that your body relies almost exclusively on fatty acid oxidation and ketone metabolism.
Ketogenic diets have about 70-75% of your daily caloric intake coming from fat and about 5% from carbohydrates.
Ingesting protein above approximately .8 grams per pound is enough to kick you out of ketosis.
Ketogenic diets improve body comp, but so does any diet that reduces calories from any source.
There is no literature to support that a ketogenic diet is beneficial for promoting increases in muscle mass.
Ketogenic diets affect performance negatively.
The part about more than 0.8 g protein per pound of body weight was new to me.
How much exercise do you want in your routine? I want to be a beast... Female beast, ok, but still a beast. ?
The more feminine you want to be, the more you can manage the diet. Since I want to put up numbers, I'm fighting myself. If you are willing to be skinny-feminine, this would work well. I'd still suggest squats, sprints, butt work for hypertrophy (hack squats, slow on the squat down or eccentric, pause at the bottom, fast on the up or concentric). That will build the butt. So will sprints, which you can do as HIIT to liberate fat, followed by some long, slow distance normal cardio to burn the fat liberated to the bloodstream.
And yoga on off days. Keep moving, keep burning.
Biggest problem I found was food during the day. Fats are hard to come by out in the world... ?
Packing food is best resolution... And avocado, IIRC, is a phyto progesterone.
I have to think about going keto, too, even with the loss to performance.... I like my alcohol too much, and it's all sugars... (Like we didn't know, you girls told me that a while back...)
Make sure to keep your strength up, try to be active during the day, and you should be able to achieve it. Post status updates, please? ?
-Dianna
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