Note: This is an excerpt from The Ultimate Diet 2.0 that acts as a guide to the topic of calorie partitioning. First I’ll describe what calorie partitioning refers to along with examining the P-ratio.
This leads into a discussion of the hormonal changes that occur in response to both dieting and overfeeding.
Finally I’ll look at how the seemingly contradictory goals that we have in terms of changing body composition can be addressed via cyclical dieting.
Calorie Partitioning
At a very fundamental level, the problem that natural bodybuilders and athletes have is one of partitioning; that is, where the calories go when you eat more of them or come from when you eat less of them.
In an ideal universe, every calorie you ate would go to muscle tissue, with none going into fat cells; you’d gain 100% muscle and no fat. In that same ideal universe, every calorie used during dieting would come from fat stores; you’d lose 100% fat and no muscle.… Keep Reading