Well how fun is this??!
Good to see you around, DH!
I sure am glad that some things never change.
The AD really IS the best diet -for me anyway. I’ve been on AD auto-pilot since I stumbled on the original AD thread in 2005. Long live the AD!!
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Amen, Modok.
Still the best type of diet PERIOD.
DH
[quote]MODOK wrote:
[quote]ronald1919 wrote:
I used the AD for over 8 month continuously. I think the original book is obsolete simply due to the lack of vegetables and the absurd source of fats recommended ( sausages, fatty meat, beef jerky ect). In his second book he has a better&healthier list of foods and he also allows you to change your daily intake of carbs depending on your needs.
Here is how my diet looked like
Weekdays: 40% protein 55-60 fat and 50-100 grams of carbs a day with most of it coming post workout even tho the doc advise to take ur carbs before workout rather than after and take fatty whip cream along with your protein shake after!!!
weekends: carbs 60-70% fat 20-30 % protein lowwww
My main goals were body recomp, I did not want to cut. I started at 205 and ended up at a much leaner 200.
You will easily lose weight at first mostly because it is hard to eat the same amount of calories without carbs and also loss of water retention.
Pros:
_You can peak 2-3 days after your carb up. For me it was Wedneday and I destroyed a lot of PRs on that day.
_No muscle loss and maintained strength
Cons:
_The weekends were HELL. Lethargic feeling. Not good if you workout on weekends (in fact you are not supposed to). Hard to eat clean sources of carbs without protein. the weekends were supposed to be a relaxing everything goes days. But for the diet to work you need to ingest LARGE amounts of clean carbs.
_Almonds and nuts are prohibited because they contain carbs. You cannot eat fruits daily which is NOT healthy
Overall I feel it is an outdated diet. I feel if you start with Paleo diet and adjust carbs (cycling) as needed then you will be more pleased with both short and long terms results.
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Outdated? LOL You are obviously a trendy fellow.
You are the only human being I’ve ever heard say that the weekends were hell. You are just supposed to eat what you want, how is that hellish? Its just a mixed diet. Pizza and ice cream is very hard to do.
There is no reason to think that eating “fruits” is necessary to health. That completely silly. What do you get from fruit nutrient-wise that you cannot get from other sources? Nothing.
Nuts are not fucking prohibited. You can have 30 g of carbs…spend them any way you want. As a matter of a fact, in his sample diets he has almonds listed as a snack.
If you were so “lethargic” on the weekend, why didn’t you take a look at what you were eating and adjust to choices that DIDN’T make you lethargic? You are supposed to have a functional brain.
Whats absurd about the food choices? I migrated away from processed meats on the diet because of the nitrites which were making me feel bad. The saturated fats included in the diet arre certainly not absurd though.
There is also another mechanism at work, the science shows, that is responsible for you eating less caloric load on the low carb days versus the high carb days. It isn’t simply that you are “tired of meat.”
I take issue with you telling this fellow he’d be “better off” carb cycling and doing “paleo” than with the AD. How the hell do you know he’ll be better off? I have used the AD for the most part of 15 years, as have a lot of guys. I have been on the body-building stage using it. I have bulked up using it. You seem to jump to a whole lot of conclusions for folks.
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