The Abel Files http://forums.scottabel.com/ This is a discussion forum powered by vBulletin. To find out about vBulletin, go to http://www.vbulletin.com/ . en Fri, 18 May 2012 00:15:20 GMT vBulletin 60 http://forums.scottabel.com/images/misc/rss.png The Abel Files http://forums.scottabel.com/ One time Diet and Workout info http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4615&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 17:19:03 GMT Hi I am new to this forum. I have read a a lot of good things about Scott Abel, and I am seriously considering purchasing a one time diet and custom... Hi I am new to this forum. I have read a a lot of good things about Scott Abel, and I am seriously considering purchasing a one time diet and custom workout package. I would just like some feedback from people who are currently following these programs, and if they are successful. Is it Scott Abel himself that actually makes the programs for you or does he have people that work for him that do it? Any info would be greatly appreciated! ]]> Diet kare71 http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4615 Less lean Cycle Diet Questions http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4614&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 11:02:08 GMT This is my third week on the cycle diet I have a few questions. #1 my weight has returned to at or below my starting weight by Thursday. My cheat... This is my third week on the cycle diet I have a few questions. #1 my weight has returned to at or below my starting weight by Thursday. My cheat day Is Saturday. However, I am looking less lean than when I started the diet and I do not feel quite as strong. So my question is am I loosing muscle and adding fat?

# 2 would you suggest I add more calories to my daily intake? I am currently taking in 10 times my BMR. Should I up it to 12? Or would it be better to add a couple clean spike meals on Wednesday? Any thoughts or ideas are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jared ]]> Diet Jared3333 http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4614 Building muscle on high fat low carb http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4613&goto=newpost Thu, 17 May 2012 07:20:24 GMT Hi there,
I'm after some information on weather building mass on high protein high fat and low carb is worth while, or if it even works. Anyone had any experience with this? ]]> Diet Velocitynutrition http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4613 Metabolic Damage Blog http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4612&goto=newpost Tue, 15 May 2012 18:58:33 GMT Just recently, women seem to be getting more and more vocal on this topic. The source is interesting!! Finallly, maybe, things are shifting... ... Just recently, women seem to be getting more and more vocal on this topic. The source is interesting!! Finallly, maybe, things are shifting...

From competitor, athlete, and academic Natalie Dudina, who has done some research into this topic:

Negative Energy: Starvation Diet and Its Dangers
http://nataliedudina.com/blog/fitnes...et-its-dangers[/url

The vast majority of bodybuilding (BB) diets designed for women, along with many of our traditional diets are based on the concept of eating less than you burn to promote weight loss. At some point in the diet’s design, almost all of these diets drop below the dieter’s Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). While such a strategy is very effective in the short-term, the long-term consequences of severe caloric restriction are detrimental to good health. Very often individuals competing under the bodybuilding umbrella of competition categories (such as fitness, bikini, physique and figure), achieve a remarkable degree of leanness for a very short period of time surrounding the day of the competition, but are much heavier after in the “off season,” even when one takes into account the effects of dehydration in the days leading up to a contest. In fact, many competitors may take years of and claim they need to gain fat in order to put on more muscular mass; others never return into the competitive scene after one season. What causes this to happen?

Negative energy that results from the combination of extreme diet, exercise, and the severity of the resulting caloric deficit leads to immune dysfunctions, mental disorders, metabolic and endocrine abnormalities in in the long term. Many female athletes experience amenorrhea, more commonly known as loss of menses, while on these training and diet programs. In fact, I was amongst these women last year when I lost my cycle for almost a full year! Long-term adverse health consequences such as osteoporosis, infertility, digestive disorders, thyroid dysfunction, metabolic syndrome, yo-yoing and severe episodes of binges are the end-result of energy deprivation.

Many magazines reference the need to get more physical activity while dieting to ensure that the BMR will not slow down. However, there is no scientific basis supporting this claim, nor any anecdotal evidence or logic to substantiate the statement. Exercise does not provide the body with energy, but rather requires energy from the body to be sustained. If you supply your body with less nutritional energy, then it will have less energy to support workouts and existing every day activity. As a result, many competitors are all too familiar with using fat burners, energy enhancers, pre-workout supplements, coffee, and prescription medications with stimulatory effects to correct this energy deficit.

Indivuduals who are overweight are beneficiaries of such an energy deficit which is activates the body’s functions responsible for using fat stores to close the energy imbalance. Before this function is activated – and it takes time – the body progressively uses protein (and not only from the amino-acid pool in the blood, but according to Benjamin Miller PhD “skeletal muscles protein”), brain (per research published in The Telegraph) and circulating lipids in the bloodstream for its energy. This is how our hard-earned lean muscle mass can burn to sustain our state of deprivation as we athletes go to extremes in diet and exercise to reveal abs and muscular definition. But this article is not about people who are overweight, it is about athletes who are dieting for contests and photo-shoots and following nutritional plans designed by coaches (in many instances ones without any valied licensing or formal educational background in the field), female bodybuilding forums, health magazines and so on. These cutting diets, no matter who created them, have a few common themes: they are short-term, based on low calories, high protein and low carbohydrates intakes combined with high intensity training.
The starvation diet involves the sudden and severe restriction of food and onsets an imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure. According to Medical Dictionary, starvation diets provide the body with 300–700 kcal/day, are usually supplemented with high quality protein, and are limited in duration. These diet are no different from the cutting diets we get from our contest prep gurus, and are just as detrimental to our health. Even though competition diets provide for more than the aforementioned 300-700 kcal a day, the combined energy deficit from caloric restriction and intense training and cardio sessions, approaches the deficit achieved by a starvation diet. Cutting diets are normally short in duration with total caloric consumption declining and cardio sessions increasing with the advance of the show.

With the assumption the athlete is only 12-15 lbs away from competition shape, most cutting diets last about 12 weeks in duration and theoretically allow for safe fat loss at a rate of about a pound per week. However this theory does not translate into practice and most cutting diets give for a much greater deficit than 500 calories a day, and as such, are in fact “starvation diets.”
Voluntary starvation was first documented in The Biology of Human Starvation following an experiment involving a group of healthy adults in World War II. The experiment documents both physiological and physical effects experienced by the test subjects and suggests that severe energy deficits do not only alter personality and metabolic functions; but also effect basic body functions, blood pressure, cholesterol level, resting heart rate, among many others changes. The subjects in the study were fed 1800 kcal a day and were expected to burn 3000 kcal by walking or doing other activities. The energy expenditure was 1200 kcal above what subject ate and they were supposed to lose 2.5 lb per week. The amount of food given to the participant in the study depended on how close they were to reaching their weekly weight-loss goal. Does this not seem like déjà vu to the competitors amongst us? ]]> Diet Crystol88 http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4612 New Industry Blog: May.14.12: More Consequences of the “Diet-Mentality” ...... http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4610&goto=newpost Mon, 14 May 2012 15:19:57 GMT Here is another profound industry blog, and for me, couldn't come at a better time, as we approach summer and people get diet obsessed!!

http://scottabel.blogspot.ca/2012/05...mentality.html

WHAT YOU FOCUS ON EXPANDS!!!!!!!!!! ]]> Blog Discussions Shara http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4610 Diet Advice for non athletes? http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4609&goto=newpost Mon, 14 May 2012 15:14:41 GMT I am curious how diet recommendations would change for someone older who is mostly inactive. My mom is always asking me diet advice but she doesn't exercise and isn't all that committed. What would one generally advise to people in such a sitution (i.e. less carbohydrates, more animal, ???)? ]]> Diet Vinny_G http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4609 <![CDATA[Happy Mother's Day!!]]> http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4608&goto=newpost Sun, 13 May 2012 17:11:19 GMT I was touched and very moved by this picture I saw today.

I've worked very hard for a number of reasons (vanity included) to lose my "Mommy tummy," but to be honest there are some marks and lines that will never go away. And I wouldn't change that. It would be like erasing a part of me that has had a more profound and lasting effect on my life than anything I have ever experienced. I truly believe it was having my children that started me on my journey towards self-awareness, self-acceptance, and self-actualization.

To all you Mommas out there, whether you carry the physical marks of childbearing or not, God bless you!

Let's celebrate every little mark we carry, the ones on our bodies as well as our hearts!!
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]]> Abel Happenings runrgirl5 http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4607 Raw foods vs Cooked Foods and Vitamin Megadosing http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4606&goto=newpost Wed, 09 May 2012 22:22:09 GMT I watched a DVD called FoodMatters and there are a lot of naturopaths, a therapeutic nutrition specialist, the author of Raw Foods and Charlotte... I watched a DVD called FoodMatters and there are a lot of naturopaths, a therapeutic nutrition specialist, the author of Raw Foods and Charlotte Gerson (from Gerson Institute). They suggest that foods cooked raw provide way more nutrients than cooked and meat loses its protein when cooked (a lot of this doesn't really hold up when you look into it). They also suggest that you can't overdose on vitiamins and a lot of vitamin supplements are good due to deficient soils that plants grow in.

What is the deal with this Raw food movement and vitiamin supplementation and megadoses? ]]> Diet Vinny_G http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4606 Prolotherapy http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4605&goto=newpost Wed, 09 May 2012 12:51:31 GMT About two years ago, I had arthroscopic surgery on my knee, for a torn meniscus. Now, I'm starting to feel pain in the same area, once again. I'd definitely like to avoid another surgery (as the first one obviously wasn't that successful.) I've been researching Prolotherapy, and would like to hear if anyone on this forum has any experience with it, either for the knee or anywhere else. Anyone?

Thanks ]]> Training moishe http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4605 Happy Birthday, David! http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4604&goto=newpost Tue, 08 May 2012 14:39:53 GMT It's my honey's b-day today. :) He's a former client and a beneficiary of so much of the good that has come out of my personal growth through working with Scott.

Many happy returns, baby! ]]> General Discussion and Off Topic Crystol88 http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4604 NEW LIFE COACHING BLOG MAY 7, 2012:Traffic Signals Ahead - Traffic Signs in your Head http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4603&goto=newpost Mon, 07 May 2012 11:33:13 GMT http://scottabellifecoaching.blogspot.ca/ Awesome blog Scott. This may sound funny to some but as I train the wind and I are friends off as you... http://scottabellifecoaching.blogspot.ca/

Awesome blog Scott. This may sound funny to some but as I train the wind and I are friends off as you have heard in my biofeedback. It can get the better of me when it is really gusting and I am riding. All through my ride I remind myself that this wind maybe annoying and making my training harder but it is for a reason and it is meant to be. By the time I get to the "destination" or start line I will be so mentally, emotionally and physically prepared it will be a breeze. I do believe everything that happens in life is for a reason and it makes you a better person for it. You just have to turn the light switch on in your day and pay attention. Accept each moment as a teaching moment, don't take things so seriously.

Paula ]]> Blog Discussions runrgirl5 http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4603 Oils and smoke point? http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4601&goto=newpost Mon, 07 May 2012 01:04:32 GMT hi friends, i recently read an article indicating heating oils at high heat can be dangerous for your health. i often stir fry veggies with... hi friends,

i recently read an article indicating heating oils at high heat can be dangerous for your health.

i often stir fry veggies with olive oil spray or small amount of balsamic vinaigrette.

is this true that "oil is heated past its smoke point, cancer inducing free radicals will form and render the food unhealthy to eat"???

i hope not. i love my veggies this way!

thanks for the info! ]]> Diet cassohio http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4601 <![CDATA[New INDUSTRY Blog: Apr.30.12: "The Diet-Mentality and Disordered Eating Part 3"]]> http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4593&goto=newpost Thu, 03 May 2012 14:16:12 GMT Hey Everyone, sorry for the delay, but here is the 3rd part to the blog about diet mentality......... ... Hey Everyone, sorry for the delay, but here is the 3rd part to the blog about diet mentality.........

http://scottabel.blogspot.ca/2012/04...ss-part-3.html

I remember being Cathy the Competitor........thank goodness I got rid of her....... ]]> Blog Discussions Shara http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4593 New addition to the family... http://forums.scottabel.com/showthread.php?t=4592&goto=newpost Thu, 03 May 2012 03:56:19 GMT Welcome Sophia Alexandria to life. She was born Wed May 2 at 12:55 am, with a fighting weight of 8lbs 13 oz at 21 3/4 inches long.

I'm a grand mere.

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She was a bit cranky at being booted out of her perfectly comfortable accommodations.

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1 day old

Jess
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