Are you Too Fat or just Too Weak? 

Study Mike Mentzer high intensity weight training for increased muscle.

I don't think the conclusion was to eat less carbs, rather that people with low muscle can't deal with carbs. You certainly need carbs to support your metabolism and thyroid.

​@@loot6nonsense

@@shogunofharlem8240 Powerful counter argument with so many citations, how can I possibly respond lol. Also I was literally quoting what was said in the video so I guess you disagree with this whole channel too.

@@loot6 "Citations" LOL 😅🤡 Not his "whole channel", just a few things here and there, like "you need carbs", which is then regurgitated by the masses. You dont need carbs for anything. You'd know that if you tried abstaining from them. But no, you need "citations" before you act 🤡💩🤡

I will remember your advice Dr.

I'm a Muslim and Islam does not allow people to consume alcohol due to its negative effects.

@@lightfulcoreSame. Islam is amazing and a lifesaver-literally

Can you elaborate? How do you know it didn't repair? I am in a similar situation but I'm much younger

Yeah please could you explain what hasn’t repaired? I feel like I drink too much sometimes but don’t feel like there are many/any long term consequences

Oof that’s me. So tired all the time. 😭

I feel attacked

Me too Hun, me too

Increasing follistatin with protein and vitamin D is an easy first step. Second step is start taking walks, just 5-10 minutes a day works wonders. Third step is just doing short and simple body weight workouts. Like start your day with doing one set of as many pushups you can, or as many squats you can. The amount of work required to see progress is vastly overstated, and nutrition is vastly understated. Get a gram of protein per pound of body weight (2.2 grams per kilo for Euros). Get 4000 IUs of vitamin D3 from supplements. Changes the game and makes progress easy.

Eat more meat and less junk.

yep, great channel

Guess who hates this channel - vegans😂

@@rahulrahul_awsjunkieHe gave the vegans a bone by throwing in the Layne Norton bit where he explained vegans can also benefit from eating a high protein diet, they just might need to eat more total protein to get enough leucine and EAAs.

@@danielbrown001 He was pandering, glossing over, and probably doesn't even know the details of it.

Negative. No mention of glycation here. The single greatest reason that no one who wants to be healthy should ever eat glucose, fructose, nor fibrous foods.

12kgs of lean muscle is amazing! Well done!

@@thetruthshallsetyoufree2040 Apparently as a beginner, I was bound to gain that much. Those numbers are very hard for veterans, without steroids. But that book changed my life, I can’t stop recommending it.

Can you explain what the basics were in that book? I take it the video pretty much covered it?

Can you please give us the details of the plan? It would be very helpful. Thank you.

How much do you weigh? I can barely stuff down 120g of protein in a day, usually more like 100 but im only 125 lbs so that's enough for now, but I can't imagine eating another 30g if I were like 160

@@Brometheus420 95kg, about 210lbs.

Check out Team 3D Alpha, he has some videos on myostatin and follistatin

@@Brometheus420You're eating more than enough. 85-100 grams is perfect for you unless you're doing some type of hard labor

​@@salj.54591.2g-1.6g/kg minimum from the research WIL was pointing to

Strength training and protein baby

Keep going George! I'm cheering for you🤍

You need to eat less than you burn. This is the only way to lose weight. Don't listen to anything else.

@@bobvance- That's the receipt to lose weight, not the one to lose fat.

Actually he talks about how you don't have to "keep carbs to a min" if you have enough muscle.

Eat only as much carbs as you're prepared to burn or store in the muscle. Get bigger muscles if you want to eat more carbs.

Fun fact, I went to see a dietician several months ago due to stomach pain and unpleasant reactions to food. Basically she recommended to reduce protein and fat intake and increase carbs as well as vegetables. I did reduce fats cause I was eating way to much bacon, but besides that, I didn't find her recommendations adequate enough. Pills only made it worse. I still don't eat bread, pasta or veggies often.

Protein to energy ratio

Bodybuilding is not healthy.

When I started lifting and working out, building muscle in my shoulders and arm, the tension in my shoulders and neck completely went away! I love that working out doesn’t just make you look better but makes you feel better over all, and that’s so worth it

Keep up the amazing work! The fat loss is far more transformative than the number on the scale. My weight has been nearly unchanged since Jan 2023 but i lost a lot of fat and gained muscle. Focus on the fat loss more than the weight loss and you'll feel and look fabulous!

Keep going dawg! Currently on a similar journey, went down from 115kg -> 109kg in roughly 2 months as well.

Agreed💯

Agree as well!

Are you eating carbs still? Or is your protein satiating you?

@@durorege I eat like 100 - 150 grams of noodles with my meals. And that tends to be enough. Veggies and snacks exculed of course. I say, if you're transitioning out of a very shitty diet, don't abruptly take all the carbs away but slowly transition with healither options. IE. making your own cacao and adding sugar by yourself, so you know how many carbs it has, instead of eating a snickers.

Is that protein number in total mass of food stuffs WITH protein or the amount of protein the food stuff contains? Because I was doing some googling and 1lb of ground beef is apparently only 70ish grams of protein

It's the total amount of protein of all the foods.

@SyndraOmCani with the mood vitamin D3 with K2-mk7 helps to regulate that.

As someone on the other end - getting enough calories to keep my weight from dropping is inconvenient. Like I can't be hungry or I miss my caloric goal and start dropping. I eat slightly over 200g of animal protein a day, weighing 95kg (~210lbs). Fairly fit, barely work out currently. The periods I do work out I kind of blow up with newbie gains. Generally, if it's not working you aren't eating enough protein IMO. Vitamin D3 is more impactful than you would think as well. I eat 4000 IUs a day. Forgot to add: Godspeed. Diet is way more impactful of a lifestyle change than exercise, so stick with it.

How does one only get 30g of protein a day? Just eating junky carbs all day? Hardcore vegan?

@@yeetdeets for me the hard part about diet is restriction long term. I did keto for 6 months and lost 45 lbs (I'm a 6' 290 lbs man, 40 bmi) but just couldn't maintain the diet and rebounded hard, gaining back all the weight. 2 things. I love delicious food (I HATE unappetizing food), and I hate feeling hunger. I've gotten into home cooking through covid and have some amazing recipes now (my understanding of flavor is also way better - balancing sweet, salty, acidity, bitter, umami, and spice in a wide range of ways), as well as control over texture, so I think I have tasty food covered. The thing I'm curious about is basically what you brought up. If I raise my protein levels (my plan is to have a ~80g daily boost, 2 scoops of whey power for 50g, 1 cup egg white) then up regular meal protein a bit. If I can like the flavors and can struggle to eat to my food requirements, that is a perfect situation to lose weight, because that way I can still eat some 'junkier' foods with the high protein satiety coming in to help me not binge eat. And at the end of the day, conceptually this is literally the simplest diet plan I can imagine, as the only goal is to eat high enough protein. If it fails, I simply can't imagine ending up in a worse place than food takes me right now

@@Infoseek777 literally that yes, junk carbs. My tracking isn't great so perhaps there's more proteins from sources I'm not counting, but here's a bunch of what I ate one day: A bowl of kraft dinner (canadian mac and cheese), alfredo noodles, 2 kielbasa sandwiches, some sweet empty carb foods like ice cream or cookies. I'd say this is like the worst protein day I'd theoretically have though. Generally I eat at least one protein source in a day, such as a piece of chicken breast or chicken nuggets. Compared to that I imagine focusing on upping protein would be straight up better. Goal's 150g/day right now and it feels more attainable than ever

@@Stuugie. I'm not quite clear on what your question is. Is there a question? Try to find high protein snacks with low sugar. Like beef jerky. If your binge is two bags of beef jerky, you will be broke but definitely not fat.

Cool. Also I’m gay.

@@sahilarora558 me too, but not as gay as gay Adam

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just like the regurgitated articles I read in muscle and fitness in the 80s... so nothing new

It's been my concern for awhile now, artificial sweeteners, read it might alter gut microbiom, but nothing too conclusive seems like, so the safest option is cut sugar out, or at the very least try to lower it and consume more fiber with it.

Same! I used to make keto peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies using stevia, but I stopped because I'm worried about the long term effects of artificial sweeteners. I'd love for WIL to do a break down!

​​@@Raphanne probably better to ask a doctor and get a full blood test and urine panel rather than wait on this guy.

Dr Sten Ekberg has a sweetener video that might be what you're looking for.

@@supersaiyanzero386 Right, because MD's know so much about nutrition and artificial/non-sugar sweeteners, especially stevia and xylitol.

That's if you work out to increase muscle mass. Cause you can work out to increase strength but not muscle mass, or focus on endurance.

@@chachacamel I'm an endurance athlete and I can eat as much as I want without gaining excess fat

@@runl6117 yes you, but a beginner, or someone only getting into fitness doesn’t have the aerobic fitness to do the stuff you do to burn the amount of calories you do during the exercise.

Unfortunately, you need to lift hard as in heavy, in order to engage your fast twitch muscle fibers for that stored ATP utilization, otherwise your own body will begin to loose those said fast twitch muscle fibers, and that's still sarcopenia.

Same, entirely changed my grades in uni too, body works much better when walk or cycle a few hours a day

High fibre? Yeah no.

@@s2korpionic Don't underestimate the power of oats. As long as you're not allergic I guess. Keeps me full all day long. High fibre isn't for everyone. Works for me.

@@s2korpionic combine high fibers vegetables as natural prebiotics, and traditionally fermented cultural foods as natural probiotics, that's how we humans historical obtained a healthy gut microbiome diversity for optimal immunometabolism.

What about protein that doesn't come from drinks? Like chicken or meat, they don't go through the kidney, i'd guess, would it be harmfull? Idk i'm just a high schooler

Master diet before exercise or the exercise will make you feel worse.

Yeah it's crazy to me that you don't have to be big on the outside to get diabetes type 2. I have a fit friend who is diabetic type 2. It's so weird. Like no stomach, works out regularly but type 2.

@@logans3365 my diet is pretty high in protein and I don't eat seed oils so I feel I'm on the right track. Exercise is generally a big part of my life any way so just upping the protein and strength training to build more muscle.

@@pennyproud1621 yeah it's really odd and completely challenges the preconceived ideas about diabetes. Would be interesting to look at those people who get type 2 with very few lifestyle risk factors and see why

Yeah… 100g of protein coming from a few cups of yogurt is goddamn filling.

are you consuming soy? coz it have high protein

​@@covernyarai1867Soy is unhealthy but anyway you won't be getting anywhere 200 grams of protein a day with that

START LIFTING HEAVY OR YOU WILL DISINTEGRATE

They need to watch David Goggins

​@@RealMTBAddict David Goggins does too much cardio though

@@frog6054 Not when he does 1000 pullups

@@frog6054 They need to watch somebody to give them motivation. That's all I'm saying.

are they? maybe because they actually start taking extra insultin to build more muscle...ruining their own production.

This video didn't say anything about bodybuilders

@@RealMTBAddictit mentioned them at 10:08, and used them for imagery around 1:30. i was just clarifying that. muscle is healthy when obtained drug free, but that doesn't mean that the massive bodybuilders are healthy. diabetes can also be an issue for these people.

@@blakecarterpiano But having muscles doesn't make you a bodybuilder.

@@RealMTBAddict i am well aware

Yep I was one of em and I was fat on the inside...super sick

You have to use common sense too, you can't not exercise and think a number is an indicator of health. You know deep down if you're in shape or not. And so does your family.

@@RealMTBAddict the majority of people think weight is all that matters

Uh, yeah, and the actual muscular and solid boned people that are told that they are too fat due to a ridiculously flawed BMI metric, when they actually have low bodyfat.

@@vanillaghetto There is no such thing as "big boned" people. All bones are the same size. And just because somebody is a bodybuilder doesn't mean they are healthy. They are still overweight with no mobility. In construction we call those guys "big for nothing."

Youre not healthy at 300 bud

Just take walks everyday😊😊😊

Protein and carbs are synergistic, to support and preserve each other. If you're interested in reducing your calories try bringing your fats down to 0.25g per pound of body weight per day. Dropping your carbs will reduce your glycogen you will simply be worse at training and building muscle

@@l.p.7585 Oh with carbs I mean more like noodles, bread, sweets and other junk/processed food with carbs. No ice cream anymore. I still eat tons of vegetables, fruits and oatmeal.

1 teaspoon of salt and 2 tablespoons of sugar for 1 liter of water and you have an ORS drink

Same. I'm woman and apparently my muscle in back and arms are so weak that I am prohibited to do certain movement in yoga to prevent injury. 😅 Definitely need to train my back and arm muscle. I used to be so weak that I can't open water bottle!

every cell in the body is also made of fat (for the membrane) and water.

@@jeanmartin963 yeah, just ad salt and there's your diet

well, protein and sterols, usually cholesterol

And glucose is what your brain runs on so carbs are still as important

@@513regichan the brain can happily run on ketones, some parts of the brain prefers glucose, but your body makes all you need this is evidenced by an old study that artificially lowered people's blood glucose to what is considered dangerously low, the subjects' brains worked fine as long as they had ketones

Ya with 2.18 mill subs he can def afford some help with the vids. But props to him if he’s rocking these out solo.

@@mtbin2 well I've watched him for many years it seems like he's doing it all solo which is why the content has always remained high quality