TNT Diet - Reviews/Opinions Wanted

[gobbla]

breakfast
egg\cheese\sausage\bacon cassarole

lunch
chili\soup
raw vegi's\ frozen vegi's

supper
some sort of meat
salad (green, cucumber, tomato, cabbage)\frozen vegi's

snack
cheese, meat, cheesecake, protein balls (PP+peanut butter rolled in coconut)

[Defiant1]

Bump

Just bought the book and should be getting it next week. What are some of the results that you guys have had?

[Jean-Paul]

Suffice it to say, I'm a fan of this diet. It works. 'Nuff said!

[Mich]

Originally Posted by Defiant1

Bump

Just bought the book and should be getting it next week. What are some of the results that you guys have had?

I like it. I'm on Plan A and expect to stay on Plan A until at least March 2008. It's easy to follow and easy to get back on track after a slip. Food variety is good and going back to real butter, real cheese and real cream in my coffee was a delight. Leaving out fruit for Plan A made me rediscover vegetables.
I blogged my first 20 days on it in detail. Most significant result has been a lack of cravings, and higher energy levels, even during the first week. I also found that not eating sugar re-sensitized my taste buds. When I did go off track and have an apple (day 21) it was astonishingly sweet. Eating out is very easy: think meat and veggies. I'm heading to a local bar for ufc watching tomorrow and it will be steak+veggies+unsweetened iced tea.
My favorite quote from the book is at the top of p.27: "if you aren't enjoying the diet, you aren't eating enough fat".

[Dhocott]

I am finishing up week 2 of Plan A and I love the diet. It is very simple to follow and I am seeing great results in only 2 weeks.

[onepack]

I've been on only for 5 days so I'm pretty much a TNT newb around here. One thing I really like is the food variety. I really haven't had any cravings that I can't find a TNT approved substitute for( so far). The one thing I've done differently so far is made my first week of workouts really light until my body adapts to low carbs. I wanted to get the diet down before I upped the exercise intensity. For example, instead of HIT this week, I'm just doing outdoor walks. Instead of DL's and Front Squats I've just been doing no weight prisoner squats and bulgarian split squats. I guess not everyone will have to do this but there is no way I can work out with heavy weights when I got a low carb headache /mental fog going on.

[ohammersmith]

I'm six days in on the diet, and I'm happy so far. I'm finding it much easier to stick to the low-carb thing than just about anything else I've tried. The lines are just too clearly drawn to be have any wiggle room.

[EricLikesLifting]

My review:
I'm doing plan E and its great. Its not difficult to follow at all. Some carbs after I work out and on Fridays and/or Saturdays I'll eat some carbs. I haven't lost a real lot of weight, maybe about 8-10 pounds so far, but for the first time I've had some weight loss and no signifitcant decreases in my lifts. I plan to continue to follow it until I creep down to 175-180 range, hopefully with the same numbers in my lifts I had when I was 200lbs. Even if you aren't a huge fan of low carb diets, the book is written really well and easy/fun to read. At first I didn't like the no fruit idea, and it took me some time to get all the kinks worked out in what is/isn't low carb. If, down the road someday, I were to follow it again I think it would be even easier. So its good knowledge to have.

[miket5567]

Hi all! I just stumbled upon this web site and think its great. I bought TNT diet last week and have read through it. I wanted to ask what you think I should do. Here’s my situation; I’m 29, 6 foot and weigh about 170 pounds. The main reason I got the book is to get stronger, be healthier, and turn some of my fat in my stomach into muscle (6 pack). My goal is not really lose weight.

Do you think I should start with plan E right away or follow the book and do plan A for the first 4 weeks. I just am afraid that I will lose too much weight. Hope that question makes sense. Thanks!

[Lost Dog]

Originally Posted by miket5567

Hi all! I just stumbled upon this web site and think its great. I bought TNT diet last week and have read through it. I wanted to ask what you think I should do. Here’s my situation; I’m 29, 6 foot and weigh about 170 pounds. The main reason I got the book is to get stronger, be healthier, and turn some of my fat in my stomach into muscle (6 pack). My goal is not really lose weight.

Do you think I should start with plan E right away or follow the book and do plan A for the first 4 weeks. I just am afraid that I will lose too much weight. Hope that question makes sense. Thanks!

I don't know. That's a good question. My fear would be that Plan A would have you lose weight. 170 is fairly light for 6' unless you have hardly any fat. How lean do you think you are?

[miket5567]

Originally Posted by Lost Dog

I don't know. That's a good question. My fear would be that Plan A would have you lose weight. 170 is fairly light for 6' unless you have hardly any fat. How lean do you think you are?

I would say Im pretty lean. Not sure what my body fat is. My whole goal is to get stronger. I'm not looking to get huge like a body builder, just a lot more toned. Thats the only reason why I think I might want to start on Plan E instead of the first 30 days on Plan A. Should I just try something else beside TNT? I really like what they have to say though. Thanks for your input.

[Lost Dog]

Plan E is a fine way to eat for health, that's for sure. I don't know how you eat now, so what changes you see could depend on the difference in your eating styles.

Plan A is like priming your body to process fat better and helping you develop a taste for non-starchy foods. But, it also leads to quick fat and weight loss for most people, since they cut out a lot of foods and don't replace most of those calories.

Try it.

[miket5567]

Originally Posted by Lost Dog

Plan E is a fine way to eat for health, that's for sure. I don't know how you eat now, so what changes you see could depend on the difference in your eating styles.

Plan A is like priming your body to process fat better and helping you develop a taste for non-starchy foods. But, it also leads to quick fat and weight loss for most people, since they cut out a lot of foods and don't replace most of those calories.

Try it.

I eat fairly healthy now, but I do eat a ton of carbs. So you would suggest just start on Plan E right away?

[Lost Dog]

You could go either way. Start with A and see how you do. If you're just losing fat, what's the big deal? Maybe that will quickly get you to abs and then you can transition to D and E to gain some muscle and strength. Or hit E right away, but you won't have the benefit of the "fat metabolism" yet. That can take a lot of time if you have lots of carbs here and there, which Plan E has.

If you're new to lifting (can't remember), then even Plan A people can gain muscle right off the bat. Lose fat/gain muscle/same time. A benefit of being new. ah. good times...

[EricLikesLifting]

at 6' and 170, I would say after a few weeks of plan A and you might be looking at 6' and only 160. You may look skinnier to yourself in the mirror, but most people probably won't be able to tell when you have a shirt on. Not trying to steer you either way I'm just giving you some 'low carb' food for thought (couldn't resist sorry).

The "fat metabolism" that Lost Dog is referring to can certainly help you look leaner, but if you take out all the carbs (esp. as somebody who eats a lot of carbs) you may also be restricting your total calorie intake a lot too, which will most probably lead to more weight loss. All I'm trying to say is if you go with plan A, which I think is the better place to start, just make sure you are still eating something and not going hungry because you cant eat carbs.

[BamaDave]

Originally Posted by Mich

Food variety is good and going back to real butter, real cheese and real cream in my coffee was a delight.

When I did go off track and have an apple (day 21) it was astonishingly sweet.

I'm not getting the concept of a diet where butter, cream, and cheese are legal and apples are a cheat??

Eating out is very easy: think meat and veggies.

That is a great rule of thumb for eating out (unless you are in the South where macaroni and cheese is classified as a vegetable ). Recently I was scanning some articles in a Men's Health magazine while waiting for an oil change on my car. There was an article about the calorie content of many chain restaurant entrees and desserts. One of those things where you know it's really bad, but it's even worse than you imagined... almost like somebody is back in the kitchen trying to cram as many calories into a serving of food as possible. Eating out can really sabotage a diet in a hurry!

[gobbla]

Originally Posted by BamaDave

Recently I was scanning some articles in a Men's Health magazine while waiting for an oil change on my car. There was an article about the calorie content of many chain restaurant entrees and desserts. One of those things where you know it's really bad, but it's even worse than you imagined... almost like somebody is back in the kitchen trying to cram as many calories into a serving of food as possible. Eating out can really sabotage a diet in a hurry!

It's pretty incredible. I did a paper a while back about cal dense foods and found out that the whopper (maybe double) stacks in a 1k calories! Never believed that a whopper was "good for you" but damn. They make such a big deal out of some things, but the old standby is a BOMB. You can drop the fry's and get a diet soda (or gasp...water) and it's still a BOMB. Holy calories!