Hello all. I’m looking for Dan Duchaine’s book Body Opus or Dr DiPasquale’s Metabolic diet.
If you’ve read either or both of these books, I’d like to hear your experiences and preferences.
If you know anyone that would like to sell a copy of either of these books you can send me a PM.
thanks
I betcha if you performed a search for “Body Opus” over there <----- in that thar search engine, you may find a few past forum threads based on this book.
Regarding, “Metabolic Diet” why not check out either the “Anabolic Diet” or “T-Dawg”? (both here in T-Mag).
I have read Bodyopus and have done it a few times. It is a very effective diet, but also the hardest one I have ever tried.
In a nutshell, you consume 75% fat, 25% protein for 5 days. Then for two days, you eat lots of carbs every two hours. That’s 12 meals a day!
The problem with it is it’s very hard to stay on it. It drops you into deep ketosis quickly, and you are screaming for carbs. However, it does work.
The are other less harsh diets you coul try. I’ll second the receommendation for the T-Dawg 2.0 diet. This year I took keto dieting advice from Vain - do a search for the “keto support group v.2” in the forums.
I’ve read DD’s Body Opus. It was very informative at the time it came out (several years ago).
Since then, we have made some serious progress and JB has been one of the formost authorities on this subject matter. Each and every article he has produced on this site are are golden nuggets. Read them all, apply, and you’ve struck it rich!
Seriously, Dans book is a good read (he was a man ahead of his time) but there is just so much more out there now.
I fotgot to put that in my reply. With all the new information that’s out there, I wonder what Dan would recommend today, if he were still here?
You’ll probably feel better on T-Dawg…
… but, all the new dietary information is basically outlined in Duchaine’s book, albeit a little more refined these days.
I have BodyOpus and read it from time to time. It amazes me the information in the book relative to when it was written; not bad stuff.
BodyOpus is very difficult to follow. The dietary guidelines are well laid out and very simple, however, the metabolic consequences to this diet happen every single week and it can take a huge amount of willpower to overcome at times, but it is effective.
Its basically a cyclical ketogenic diet. The main premise behind the diet involves a carbohydrate “refeed” that everyone has been reading about lately. Dan never mentions leptin, however, I think he’s on the spot through trial and error.
While you will want Duchaine’s book for the gobs of information and generally entertaining reading relative to nutrition, here is the basic idea:
Step #1: Get your Surge and fat burners (or something equivalent).
Step #2: Begin!
Sunday night (6pm) starts your low carb. Eat no carbs from Sunday night through the rest of the day.
Monday: Eat 85% of maintenance calories starting from Monday with no carbs. None, zilch. Monday is a training day. Train upper body on this day (yes, the whole thing), and train it hard while glycogen is still high.
Tues: 85% maint cals, no carbs (NONE). Train lower body (yes all of it)… maximum intensity.
Wed: diet, same, cardio if desired. no weights
Thur: diet, same, cardio if desired. no weights
Fri: Nuts day. 2 hours before workout consume about 100 cals of carbs (eat an apple). Go to train. Train EVERY BODY PART, high reps in a circuit, over and over. You’ll know when you are done because you’ll be nauseous and exhausted in a way not normal for training. 4 circuits usually does it for me, I think he says 4-6. this circuit stuff takes about 1.5-2 hours. immediately following the circuits, start hi-glycemic refeeds. Surge would be great for this. You want to have a serving of this about every 2-3 hours until the next day.
Sat: high-carb, low-fat, moderate protein all day. Eat eat eat.
Sun, same, except switch to lo-carb at 4-6pm and start the whole thing again.
You’ll have to buy the book to get all the metabolic trickery and “science” behind this. Its important to follow it to a “T”. The apple before the workout is important (100 cals of whatever). Training only 3 days a week is important. Try this for a month and see what happens.
Expect to feel like shit starting from Wednesday through Friday. Expect to feel like a God on the Monday following your refeed.
Go to google and type “McDonald BodyOpus” without the quotes and look for “BodyOpus pages”… there is a diary of someone that did this diet for like 6 months with lots of advice.
Hope this helps.
I have Mauro’s Metabolic Diet. Overall a good book with great descriptions on how, what, where, when, and why. Its based on the idea of using a high-fat/high protein diet for a number of days so your body makes a shift to utilizing fat for energy, since there are no carbs around. Once you make this shift, you reintroduce carbs back until you find the ideal number.
Not to put you off this BodyOpus stuff but on Wednesday and Thursday nights, I often found myself taking trips to the grocery store and walking up and down the cookie isle working my willpower to the very limit. It is no joke that the quick decent into ketosis every single week is very difficult. Everything in your head is telling you to consume sugar of some kind. If you can get through it the reward is on the weekend, however there is always another Wed and Thur on this diet.
Before you spend any money on either one of those books (and I’m not putting them down), scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on FAQ and scroll down for the links to the various diets.
Awesome stuff there, man.
I personally had very good luck with T-Dawg 2 and am a big fan of it. Easy to live with diet that definitely lets you drop fat and gain LBM.
(Shit, TC, when do I start getting commissions for pushing that damn diet every chance I get?)
mamann said “Shit, TC, when do I start getting commissions for pushing that damn diet every chance I get?”
I seem to recall you did get a “commission” for it, it’s your “after” pics in the hot rox contest thread…
Damn good point, AL, and for that I am eternally grateful!
Plus, I got a real cool Hot-Rox T-shirt as an added bonus!
Thanks for setting me straight.
Just to make sure, something I forgot to say… The initial refeeds need to be liquid. Surge is good. You do not want to choke down a gallon of orange juice, you do not want fructose. You want glucose. Maltodextrin is one source. Surge already has the proper protein/carb ratio and its convenient. You are going for hyper-hydration of the muscle here. Any recent advice on refeeds will harp on this whether they are a low-carb diet like BodyOpus or a moderate/lower carb diet like what you will generally read about here… Continue the liquid feedings for the duration of friday and perhaps add 1 or 2 the next morning. Then its all clean carb sources… brown rice, wheat pasta, etc. Moderate protein and LOW fat.
Wow! Thanks very much for all the info. I’ll check out that 2.0 diet first off and go from there.