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High/low protein alternating Anonymous
I remember seeing a diet somewhere on the interwebs that involved alternate weeks of low and high protein foods.

The basic idea is to eat low protein foods for a week and then eat high protein foods for the next week. Supposedly, the body packs on muscle tissue during the second week in preparation for the next week of low protein.

Does anyone know anything about it?
>> Anonymous
muscle tissue will only grow due to 1. genetic blueprint and 2. stimulus. so it sounds like bullshit.
>> Anonymous
doesn't make sense..
>> Anonymous
The body doesn't know it won't be getting protein. It'll start to normalize on protein weeks and freak the fuck out and consume muscle on non-protein weeks.

Your body is built to anticipate times of famine, not times of plenty. If you alternate between the two, your body will err on the famine side of things.
>> Anonymous
>>34567
most useful relevant seeming response so far.
>> Anonymous
>>34567
any objections to this?
>> Anonymous
I heard that getting a lot of exercise contributes to sweating in general. Like, if you want from your car to a college class or something, your body will interpret the few minutes of activity as the beginning of a big workout and sweat profusely as a preemptive measure. Icky sweat.
>> Old Geezer !YI1jEQivlM
>>35657

None here. Sounds like one of those goofy fad diets like all-broccoli or eat-for-your-blood-type.
>> Anonymous
I don't know about the muscle crap, but Slimming World do a similar diet where you have a green day and a red day - low protein/protein days.

I have two friends who lost a lot of weight on it.