Such_Umami
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I have noticed that a lot of people following RP seem to have difficulty shifting the fat and to them I would highly recommend focussing on lowing their visceral fat first because it's a tangible way to lower stress hormones in a very concrete way.
I initially had a lot of success with RP philosophy. People noticed the difference. However, after a few months it seemed progress seemed to stagnate. Though I put on a lot of muscle, I believe my fat reserves stayed mostly the same which is still very good progress from most strength trainers perspective as it seems the concensus is that it's really hard to put on muscle without at least some fat gain. Still, I wasn't happy with this as I believe I keep most of my fat viscerally in my abdominal area.
So I decided to go through a small caloric deficit and when I eat, do it according to rp principals. This seems to have brought me a lot of success. I am really into reading my dreams and since starting this I have noticed I've been having a lot of karmic based dreams which revolves around eating (especially pufas). I'd literally be eating a pufa loaded fried chicken and then something extremely grizzly or karmic would happen. This karma I know as things specific to me, not random at all. They are very meaningful dreams. After these dreams it seems like I've got an infusion of energy as the hold the karmic energy has been released.
I'm coming to the belief that we store visceral fat which causes estrogen production, inhibits the liver (hepatic insulin resistance) and is one of the primary causes of cortisol, inflammation and serotonin through the estrogen production it creates. It seems that herpatic insulin resistance (liver function) is correlated with visceral fat and that simply overloading it with carbs is not the correct way to go because the fat is getting in the way of it's energy production.
I've been on about a 500 calorie deficit but still getting about 400g of carbs. So I hopefully won't be stressing my body out too much through the deficit.
I initially had a lot of success with RP philosophy. People noticed the difference. However, after a few months it seemed progress seemed to stagnate. Though I put on a lot of muscle, I believe my fat reserves stayed mostly the same which is still very good progress from most strength trainers perspective as it seems the concensus is that it's really hard to put on muscle without at least some fat gain. Still, I wasn't happy with this as I believe I keep most of my fat viscerally in my abdominal area.
So I decided to go through a small caloric deficit and when I eat, do it according to rp principals. This seems to have brought me a lot of success. I am really into reading my dreams and since starting this I have noticed I've been having a lot of karmic based dreams which revolves around eating (especially pufas). I'd literally be eating a pufa loaded fried chicken and then something extremely grizzly or karmic would happen. This karma I know as things specific to me, not random at all. They are very meaningful dreams. After these dreams it seems like I've got an infusion of energy as the hold the karmic energy has been released.
I'm coming to the belief that we store visceral fat which causes estrogen production, inhibits the liver (hepatic insulin resistance) and is one of the primary causes of cortisol, inflammation and serotonin through the estrogen production it creates. It seems that herpatic insulin resistance (liver function) is correlated with visceral fat and that simply overloading it with carbs is not the correct way to go because the fat is getting in the way of it's energy production.
I've been on about a 500 calorie deficit but still getting about 400g of carbs. So I hopefully won't be stressing my body out too much through the deficit.