| I get this question all the time, "What workout or | | | | steak and eggs diet.", he would say. At the time |
| exercises should I do to get rid of fat?" | | | | Eddie was in his fifties, but he still had a ripped six-pack |
| Regarding the reduction of body fat, these problems | | | | that would make everyone envious. |
| are almost always diet, not workout, related. The "Iron | | | | There should be no doubt that dietary fat does not |
| Guru" Vince Gironda stated "body sculpting is 80% | | | | make people fat. It is the combination of fat and |
| diet...if you don't have your diet down first, the rest is | | | | carbohydrates (and excessive caloric consumption |
| moot. | | | | along with a sedentary lifestyle) that makes people fat. |
| I was told a story of a nineteen-year old named Pete | | | | Recently I decided to radically lower my carbohydrate |
| who was overweight and fat, his diet consisted of | | | | intake. I replaced all carbs with green vegetables and |
| mainly pasta and other carbohydrates. Pete’s goal | | | | limited my fruit to one serving per day. I got much |
| was to become a Mr. America winner. Under Vince | | | | leaner on a 65% fat diet than I ever was on 50% |
| Gironda’s wing, Pete got ripped and won the Mr. | | | | carbs. (I do try to balance my saturated fats with |
| California title. How did he do this? By taking Vince's | | | | omega 3 oils and try to consume more lean meats, but |
| advice, he gradually reducedhis carbs and increased | | | | fat is still fat calorically speaking. Dietary fat also has |
| his protein intake. | | | | little to do with cholesterol and heart disease. If you |
| Stone Age Eating | | | | want the truth, read |
| The vast majority of nutrient consumption for the past | | | | The Cholesterol Myths by Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD.) |
| 100,000 years or so has been in the form of saturated | | | | My calorie intake was higher, but my body fat has |
| animal fat and protein, with fat taking the larger | | | | decreased and my energy levels were way up and I |
| percentage. The balance was made up of things that | | | | didn't have the "blood sugar lows'' I had while on a higer |
| could be eaten in a raw state such as vegetables, | | | | carb diet. |
| berries, some fruits (in season) and nuts. That's | | | | Give Vince's Diet a test drive |
| basically it. It has only been fairly recently that mans | | | | First, gradually cut back on the amount of processed |
| diet has shifted to a diet of high carbs - breads, pastas, | | | | carbs you're consuming. Pastas, breads, sugars, etc., |
| candy bars, sodas, etc. And we grew fat and sicker | | | | are typically the biggest problems. Replace the calories |
| and weaker after that change was made. | | | | from these with protein foods and green vegetables. |
| Arnold and many of the bodybuilders of the 60's were | | | | Plan on eating five to six small meals throughout the |
| on the Vince Gironda's diet of steak, eggs, protein | | | | day will help. For example, if you're consuming 2,500 |
| powder mixed with half and half, etc. It was a | | | | calories, divide that by five and have 500 at breakfast, |
| healthy moderate fat, high protein, low carb diet with | | | | morning/afternoon snack, lunch and dinner. |
| plenty of green veggies. | | | | Drink lots of water. If you're not drinking at least a |
| A bodybuilder named Eddie Giuliani, who worked at | | | | gallon per day, you're setting yourself up for water |
| World's Gym in the 1980's, used to laugh at the "carb | | | | retention. Your kidneys won't have enough fluids to |
| freaks" who were trying to get lean on diets full of | | | | work with and you're going to have trouble losing body |
| pasta. "I can't wait until bodybuilders go back to the | | | | fat. |