You are absolutely right, field of diet and nutrition are highly unregulated. Hence, I choose to believe someone who tried on themselves such as Fahad (Yes Fahad, i’ve done my home work and asked about how reliable you could be, and MASHALLAH! Enough said) rather than believing someone who just “read” some text books.

Having said that, you have all the right to question and ask rather than have a pointless long argument that gives a bad impression.

Again, my opinion, my choice. :)

I am sorry you are having a hard time understanding “some people”.

I don’t think anyone is attacking anyone. As to whether it is pointless or not;
Nobody is going to argue with advice like “eat healthily and exercise more” are they?
However the field of diet and nutrition are highly unregulated. Anybody can call themselves a nutritionist (someone registered his dead cat as a nutritionist, nobody checked) unlike a medical doctor or a lawyer (although ‘alternative’ medicine is equally unregulated).

For example Gillian Mckeith is a TV ‘nutritionist’ who was telling viewers to eat green vegetables.
Nothing wrong with that, good advice. The problem was she told viewers that the reason was because the chlorophyll helped oxygenate the blood. If you don’t know why that demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of biology you need to look at some text books.

So what’s the point?

Do you just take advice? Or do you try an understand the rational?

The choice is yours.

Secondly, Fahad, i would really like to congratulate you for this patience. It amazes me how you manage to stay calm. thats another WELL DONE.

Lastly, i’m embarrassed for “some people” who either have the worst communication skills ever or they’re just attacking for the sake of attacking and either way its pointless.

Keep up the great work!

You don’t have to ‘believe’ in small frequent meals to maintain muscle-mass and further boost fat-loss. You read the evidence.

My point was that you if are looking up GI on the internet why not look up II? You are not taking the measurements (blood glucose or insulin) so it doesn’t matter if the test is convenient or not.

You were joking when you said ‘fat exits the body through no. 1 & 2′?

I sincerely hope so.

2)The first part doesn’t make sense. The GI of a meal is determined by the sources in that meal, which you can find all over the internet. You can simply blunt a carbohydrate source’s insulin response by adding a source of fat for example.

3)It does work that way. I believe in small frequent meals to maintain muscle-mass and further boost fat-loss.

4)You obviously don’t know when someone’s joking.

In reference to what you said to Bodie, two meals per day timed correctly will make you lose “weight”. My methods are based on fat-loss and muscle maintainence; losing weight is easy, while losing fat and maintaining muscle isn’t.

1. You still don’t make sense.
2. You didn’t say that you measure blood glucose, so how do you know what the GI of a meal is!
3. If metabolic boosting worked this way then the more you ate the more weight you would loose.
Bellisle F et. al. Meal frequency and energy balance. Br J Nutr. (1997) 77 (Suppl 1):S57-70.
4. Have your lollipops etc, but you are missing out on the good stuff AND SO ARE YOUR CLIENTS!

Bodie,

Weight is lost when you burn more energy than you consume.
Simple.
Not easy.
It doesn’t matter if you eat 6 small meals or 2 large meals, whichever you find easier to stick, so as long as you maintain an energy deficit.

(see. Bellisle F et. al. Meal frequency and energy balance. Br J Nutr. (1997) 77 (Suppl 1):S57-70.)

Louka,
Looking forward for your updates buddy :)
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cajie,
Your welcome :)
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Dana,
1)A carb is a carb: I wasn’t implying that low-gi and high-gi carbs have the same effect on blood glucose levels; I meant that all carbs turn into glucose once they have been consumed and digested. The reason Amgad has no complex carbs in the evening is because I want him to go into a state of ketosis (don’t crucify me) at night; he’ll burn fat during cardio, after cardio and while sleeping.
2)20% carb intake is drastic, but after analyzing Amgad’s food intake that got him up to 107kg at the young age of 15, the majority of calories ingested were from high-gi carbohydrate sources.
3)Amgad will not go into full ketosis, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with short-term ketosis.
4)Amgad’s protein intake was half of what it is now. I’ll be increasing his intake accordingly.
Lastly, nothing is written in stone. The diet above is simply a draft in order for me to properly learn how his body metabolizes nutrients.
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melicieuse,
You are not alone ;)
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Reno H.,
Trust me, 3 eggs per day will do all good and no harm. 2 are a great start.
Glad you enjoy my posts :)
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Ahmad,
Appreciate your great comments :).
Restaurants do provide healthy options, but they tend to lack any value; low-fat, low-carb, low-sugar and fat-free do not mean that a certain product or entree is healthy. Moreover, they have no social obligation to provide Kuwait’s society with healthy food in appropriate portions.

Thanks for the useful post. I hate the fact that most restaurants lack healthy food options, or have healthy food options that aren’t really healthy at all! Why does the gastronomy industry in Kuwait lack a sense of responsibility when it comes to providing their customers with healthy food in appropriate portions?