Tue, Jul-20-04, 19:03
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Senior Member
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Plan: low glycemic
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Progress: 69%
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Here's the thing for a lot of people who go on Atkins for the first time - they start eating PROTEIN. Nutrient partitioning *alone* will often cause the body to add muscle even with no exercise or with light cardio. This is covered nicely in the BodyRX book. It's kind of like, if you put eggs ground beef and a few bread crumbs in the oven, you get meatloaf. If you but eggs, butter, flour and chocolate chips, you get cookies. The product (muscle) is often determined more by the ingredients than the activity. So, given that many here are going on the the diet for the first time (or they wouldn't be asking the standard week three question) AND they are exercising for the first time (so they are getitng the newbie bonus), that significantly changes the equation in favor of slightly unusual muscle gains.
As for this particular genetic freak, after putting on 12 lbs of lean in my first BFL Challenge, I'll keep you posted as to how the next one goes.
Cheers,
Friday
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