The 200 diet

Along time ago there was a diet called the 180 diet. The center premise of this diet was to cut your carbs down to 180 carbs per day. Then if you felt weak and under powered and weak you could tweak it a little higher. If you felt no change you would keep it the same until you felt such a change. So I got to thinking about it and wondered why would you want to be so deprived of carbs that you feel weak? Why not start out a little higher and follow some simple principles to keep the extra carbs from being stored as fat? So I suggest to my fellow training enthusiasts that you start at 200 grams of carbs a day and then work your way down if you absolutely have to. The only reason you would have to is if you are not losing any body fat and you are not getting any leaner. So another good rule of thumb to follow is not to consume any starchy carbs four to six hours before bed. This should prevent the sugar being stored as fat. Keep your protein up to a gram per pound of lean body mass. In order to determine your lean body mass just get a body fat percentage and deduct your fat from your total body weight. So as long as you keep your protein were it needs to be with your carbs you do not have to worry about losing any lean body mass. Just think of the whole concept as a simplified diet to keep you lean while training hard.