Does Intermittent Fasting KILL MUSCLE? (Diet Confusion)

Stop being confused by how to eat to lose fat and build muscle

are you doing everything right in the gym but still finding yourself struggling to get rid of that body fat well maybe it’s time that you start focusing and putting those crosshairs on how you’re eating and who you’re believing I’ll talk to you all about it today what’s up guys jeff cavaliere athleanx. com ever since I released my video last week showing you guys how to get a 6-pack regardless of what body fat level you were starting at that step-by-step plan we had a lot of questions I figured they’d be coming followed up specifically on nutrition because nutrition seems to be the topic that still gets you you know it’s still the part you’re killing in your workouts but for some reason you’re not looking the way you want to and I would I would say that your actor and blaming nutrition as the culprit most of the time we’ve already talked about overtraining and that being a major culprit from the training side but when it comes to the way you look a lot of times nutrition is what is going to get you now the problem is there’s a lot of different ways to eat just today someone sent in an article a guy from team athlean wanted me to look at an article that just came out where someone basically said that intermittent fasting kills muscle that was the title intermittent fasting is killing muscle and they went on to support their claims with a study that showed that intermittent fasting while it can be any short-term effective you got method to lose some body fat is not certainly not an effective method for putting on muscle and they’re actually saying that actually cost you some muscle along the way it got me in thinking here the different things right here squirrely in the cross hairs and I’ve been fasting is there now I’ve done a video on it before I feel that all of these methods of eating deserve to be right here in the center of the cross hairs okay no fad diets right restrictive things elimination type diets juice diets the Atkins diet our low carb diet approaches if it fits your macros intermittent fasting guys these are all fads and I know there your supporters out there that are basically going to sit here and argue what I’m saying I’m not saying that these don’t work okay what I’m saying is for a long term a long term approach I’m lifestyle approach because that’s what I’m interested in life style approach to eating these guys are all they belong to be called diets because remember I always say if you are on a diet that means you’re going to be off of the diet at some point that’s why we call them and say that we’re on diets because we know we can’t sustain them for long term but I think that’s the wrong way to approach your nutrition if you took the time to actually start following a healthy eating plan right we don’t even call it a diet you can understand that there are definitely options that you can have that would taste great to you that would qualify as healthy eating options and I think that’s where guys get tripped up they think that in order to get lower body fat or look a certain way that they have to eat in a really painful uncomfortable way right they have to sit there and suck on you know the steamed carrots and broccoli and they could you know egg whites and that’s not the truth guys well there’s so many good tasting healthy options it just you need it you need to have that respect for good nutrition so in looking at these options here again I would I would counter and say what is the long-term practicality of it and if you can answer me that you can stay on an immune fasting plan from now if you talk to me thirty years from now you’re still doing it and rim fasting then I would give you a lot of credit because I don’t think that there’s a single guy that can stay on a six hour eating window from now until thirty years from now but I will show you many many guys who eat well and eat properly for twenty thirty forty years without having issues and I can tell you that I am one of them guys I started off as the worst junk food eater you would ever ever meet a lot of guys aren’t surprised when they hear that but I used to eat I used to make daily trips to the candy store I used to eat enamines every morning the crumb doughnuts right cheese-filled crumb cake another thing they had the cinnamon doughnuts they had I used to eat there enamines cookies the little chocolate chip I craved all that bad food I started to realize I didn’t feel so good and I started to realize that as an athlete a guy was participating in sports that my energy levels were nowhere near what they needed to be especially for a young kid okay so I started to make changes to my my nutrition approach way back then it wasn’t easy no it wasn’t easy because I was going from having some foods that tasted great bad foods the foods that didn’t taste as great but what I did was identify certain things that I could live with certain things that I actually enjoyed not you know I enjoyed oatmeal in the morning so I had some cinnamon and I had a little brown sugar I made it taste good a little bit of nuts right and I started to find things that actually would fit into a healthful diet plan nutrition plan and I stuck with and I continue to make refine and refine it over time I’ve been eating that way guys now and that’s what I prescribed to you guys in athlean-x for 20 years and the fact of the matter is it is not difficult for me to eat and I eat healthy now here’s the thing it’s the level that you want to dedicate yourself to I follow my athlean-x meal plan to a tee okay I never stray I don’t have cravings for other foods all right things that you might deem as cheat foods I don’t have cravings for them that allows me to keep around a 4 to 5 percent body fat year-round 365 days out of the year you don’t have to be that rigid okay you can you can have some occasional splurges it could be more of a human than I am okay and you can have that and wind up into eight to nine percent body fat range but that’s not where guys are as I went over on that that video last week most guys are sitting in the 15 to 20 percent range and most guys are continuing to look for these types of things to lose that fat they’re continuing to look because these things don’t sustain an effective approach for them long term so diets guys again I’m not here to pick on intermittent fasting because if you’ve done it it’s worked for you then that’s great okay that’s great I would just challenge the long-term sustainability of that or the long-term health benefits of restricting or following a no fad diet that’s not good not when you consider that the makeup of every cell in our body is coated surrounded by fat lipids okay you need fats carbohydrates are the same thing guys juice diets we all know how healthy juices are but not as an only constituent where’s the protein I don’t know when diets got so complicated when nutrition got so complicated it’s definitely not easy because we all have cravings it’s not easy but it doesn’t have to be complicated and I think unnecessarily guys start getting comp things start becoming complicated because we try to market different programs and try to market different ways to make money for the guys that tend to fail on these things right I bet you one guy has dropped in money on some sort of diet like this and dropped his money on a diet like this and drop the same guy so whatever the diet industry is or the guys that continue to create these gimmick diets or basically you know providing this guy you know an opportunity to continue to waste his money here’s my point guys again let’s not bash anyone way because things that get people to lose weight it’s a it’s a it’s a good first step okay and if it’s helping you to realize that you can achieve a more helpful way of living just because you found some success with one method then that’s that is great okay th