Experience Off Anabolic Diet

Nutrition
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So heres my ratios for today… I’m stopping eating at 6 today because im not going to be able to later on.

Fat: 139g--------54%
Protein:225g-----39%
Carbs: 12.5g------7%

Calories: 2305 kcal

For some reason my appetite is rock bottom. I barely want to eat. And since today is an off day I decided not to force myself (it wasn’t supposed to be an offday but because my schedule changed suddenly [aka gayness happened at work] I was forced to postpone my workout until tomorrow.

Anyway, off to write another paper.

-Bizmark

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[quote]Bizmark wrote:
For some reason my appetite is rock bottom. I barely want to eat. And since today is an off day I decided not to force myself (it wasn’t supposed to be an offday but because my schedule changed suddenly [aka gayness happened at work] I was forced to postpone my workout until tomorrow.
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Biz, I’m really unclear as to your goals. You’re posting food logs and exercise logs, but what are you shooting for? If you’re trying to lose fat, which I thought you were trying to do, why are you complaining about a low appetite? Rejoice, your fat loss is easy.

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[quote]ovalpline wrote:
Bizmark wrote:
For some reason my appetite is rock bottom. I barely want to eat. And since today is an off day I decided not to force myself (it wasn’t supposed to be an offday but because my schedule changed suddenly [aka gayness happened at work] I was forced to postpone my workout until tomorrow.

Biz, I’m really unclear as to your goals. You’re posting food logs and exercise logs, but what are you shooting for? If you’re trying to lose fat, which I thought you were trying to do, why are you complaining about a low appetite? Rejoice, your fat loss is easy.[/quote]

Tru, I kinda get mixed up in my goals myself sometimes. Because I want more muscle and less fat… just like everybody else. But your right, this is a blessing.

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29NOV:

Diet:
coffee w/cream

triple whopper w/cheese - discarded the bun

3/4lb of porkloin
bag of pistachios
6oz cheese
bottle of red wine

I was hungry for dinner and this is a usual thing depending on my work output that day.

Training:
warm up w/squats, OH squats, front squats, and pull ups.

work:
power cleans x 5, 5, 5, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2. worked up to 205lb (mod heavy) for technique practice

front squat x 6x5. worked up to 225lb, same as above

OH press x 5x5. up to 205lb same as above.

METCON work:
100lb thrusters
pull ups
dips
x 21, 15, 9, 5

felt really good in both speed and power as well as the METCON work, but my pull ups were off due to the work from SUN.

I second the “shit factor” on a low carb diet. My thoughts are that the whole traditional push behind the idea of needing fiber is that it is needed only to push out the “crap” that wasn’t meant to be in our bodies at all - like processed starch.

Once you begin eating mostly meat, fish, eggs…, ect, your body is much better at pushing that stuff out without the assistance of fiber. In addition, by not combining carbs and protein, the body is better able to fully digest most of what is ingested leaving a nice little turd to easily drop the next day.

SK

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[quote]sifuinkorea wrote:

bottle of red wine

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Maybe I’m misinformed about this, so please correct me if I’m wrong. But doesn’t red wine have alot of sugar in it that would push you over your carb goal?

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Heres my ratios for today:

Fat: 229.6g---------66%
Protein: 258.8g-----33%
Carbs: 8.2g----------1%

Calories: 3152 kcal

My appetite came back a bit today (which is not good because of my goal). And I ate cheese! First time in like a month. Usually I’m against it because it makes me feel tired after eating it, but I was pretty hungry.

Didn’t train again today even though I had a good amount of time to. I’m takin it kinda easy cuz I have an almost guaranteed win with the bet that me and my friend have. Just because of how I’m eating compared to him. So I’ve been taking more rest days than workout days.

Don’t get me wrong I’ve still be doing little things. Like the ab roller (I LOVE IT) and some other calsenics, just haven’t done a full weightlifting workout since tuesday.

Well I’m off to work.

-Bizmark

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[quote]Bizmark wrote:
sifuinkorea wrote:

bottle of red wine

Maybe I’m misinformed about this, so please correct me if I’m wrong. But doesn’t red wine have alot of sugar in it that would push you over your carb goal?[/quote]

Negative…

Wine contains a negligible amount of sugar, or carbs, for that matter. The yeast feast on the sugar of the grapes and their waste product is alcohol. Unless sugar is added, like in the case of “wine coolers”, there is no sugar.

However, wine and alcohol contain alcohol - a fuel used by your body prior to using any other, so drinking alcohol does upset fat-burning as well as temporarily mess with hormone levels, but it doesn’t bump you out of the low-carb zone. I have to justify it somehow - how can you not drink? Just take it in moderation.

SK

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So Biz is just submitting ratios. I wish I was disciplined enough to count and percentage my intake.

coffee /w cream
12oz tuna w mayo and EVOO (ha!)
5 pork sausages
can of spinach
handful of walnuts

Basically, my carbs stay well under 40g a day. As usual, I drank my share of diet coke, but no alcohol for me today so that’s good. I was also too busy at work to get a foot march in so I’ll get at it today. Those sausages were delicious!

Does anyone have any thoughts about diet coke or other substitute sugars? How do they make you guys feel?

SK

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[quote]sifuinkorea wrote:
So Biz is just submitting ratios. I wish I was disciplined enough to count and percentage my intake.

coffee /w cream
12oz tuna w mayo and EVOO (ha!)
5 pork sausages
can of spinach
handful of walnuts

Basically, my carbs stay well under 40g a day. As usual, I drank my share of diet coke, but no alcohol for me today so that’s good. I was also too busy at work to get a foot march in so I’ll get at it today. Those sausages were delicious!

Does anyone have any thoughts about diet coke or other substitute sugars? How do they make you guys feel?

SK[/quote]

actually SK I don’t take the time to do my ratios. I have this software called Calorie King Nutrition Manager that I put everything I eat into. And it tells me what the ratios are and whatnot. It has the most extensive list of foods I’ve ever seen. And it claims that it is the biggest database in the world.

So I use that manager to log what I eat, and then it tells me the grams, calories, and ratios. It’s kinda like fitday.com but I like Calorie King better (i’ve used both).

Oh and that’s interesting about wine, i never knew that. I just assumed that it had lotsa sugar cuz it was from grapes. Ill remember that next time i drink.

oh and about the substitute sugars, I generally stay away from the drinks that contain aspartame. Since alot of drinks use sucrulose (Splenda) now, I just drink those. For instance monster just came out with a zero carb energy drink, and it is soooooooooo good. 2nd best tasting energy drink I have ever had in my life, and it has sucrulose in it.

I just bought an entire case of 24 to keep myself satisfied for a while =).

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Check this out on nutritive supplements:

Basically, indepedent studies have shown a correlation between the use of nutritive supplements (aspartame, at the least) and WEIGHT GAIN. It appears to happen through a variety of mechanisms, including the body’s ability to sense calories, or, as in the case of nutritive supplements, sense that there SHOULD BE calories, and upon not finding them, inducing hunger.

Interesting read, and there many more that can be found with a simple search on google. I don’t know exactly whether or not this also applies to sucralose, but I would assume it does. Besides, I just figure that any man-made chemical designed to trick my body in to believing it’s receiving some form of nutrition probably isn’t worth being ingested.

With that said, I am guilty of putting a splenda packet or two on some oatmeal VERY irregularly. I just figure it’s best to limit the # of chemicals we ingest, at least those we have control over. Godspeed. I have to finish a a 20 page thesis on the rise and evolution of the Aztec state. I wish I could hit the gym…

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ovalpline…

thanks for the link, I had heard something of the same lines in the article.

biz…

it figures as much…

you two college lads have me thinking of my years writing papers - get at it, but dont take it too serious, you still have to enjoy life.

Today:

awesome day in the gym (so it comes first):

warm up:
squats x 50
OH squats x 3x5
front squats x 3x5
power cleans x 3x5

so then I’m thinking about what I’m going to do for work… deadlifts? bench press? of course, but then all of sudden I’m grabbing the bar with 135 to get some snatch grip deads and I classic clean it.

It may not seem like a feat, but I’ve always perfomed power cleans but wanted to work on the classic clean. So lately I’ve been watching videos of olympic meets and, more to the point, I’ve been visualizing myself getting under the bar. This is something I preach to my classes… “imagining yourself doing something will lead it to happening”. It is true today as when I first heard it years ago, but I haven’t proved it to myself in a long while.

So I just grabbed the bar and flew under it, bad knees and all. After that I began to work the classic clean:

135x3
135x3
135x3
155x3
155x3
185x2
185x2
205x2
205x2
135x5

I went off.

then:

deadlift x 225x5, 275x5 315x5, 315x5, 315x5, 315x5
supersetted with:
bench press x 135x10, 185 x 8, 225x5, 225x5, 275x3, 275x3

great day!

food:
coffee w/cream
1lb pork chops
3/4lb hamburger
1/2 tomato
1/2lb pork back
lettuce
soju (gotta love the soju)

SK

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SAT:

coffee w/cream
4 fried eggs
spinach
1/2lb hamburger
swiss cheese
large cesars salad (no crutons)
cashews

warm up and practice:
BW squats x 50
OH squats x 4x10
front squats x 4x5
snatch grip deadlifts x 5x5
classic cleans x 5, 5, 3, 3, 2, 2

work:
back squats 10x10
I worked up to 275lbs with the weight range between 225 and 275lbs. Trying to work on my O-lifts, I went as ass to the ground and just dropped to get there, instead of slowly lowering. I also rode the bar very high on my traps trying to maintain as verticle as possible with my torso. I’m still sore today.

SK

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SUN:

Today had me resting. Food:

coffee w/cream
1/2lb pork
romaine lettuce
12oz tuna w/lots of mayo

MON:

Tabata intervals:
squat, push up, pull up, sit up, sprints for 20 sec of work followed by 10 sec of rest for 8 iterations.

Food:
coffee w/cream
12oz tuna w/ mayo
5 sausage links
handful of walnuts

TUE:
50 burpees
50 box jumps
50 walking lunges
50 four count mountain climbers
50 squats
50 pull ups
50 35lb DB swings
50 40lb DB presses
50 knees to elbows
50 dips
storm through for time (i was fucking smoked!)

Food:
coffee w/cream
12oz tuna w/mayo
6 fried eggs
1/2 hamburger

SK

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Well guys. I kinda screwed up. I did a carbload on saturday. Soooo what that means is that I put on about 1% of fat. That also means I’m gonna have to do my one carb meal thing this weekend. It was just a minor set back. No biggie. But anyway. Ill be posting my ratios for today later on.

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Well I didn’t do my ratios today. Haven’t for the last few days. But I did put the vegetables and their quantities I ate today into the ole computer and it came out to about 20g carbs excluding fiber. So thats my report on food for today.

Also, I’ve been reading “The Wild Physique” by Vince Gironda. It’s a great book. The article done here a while back pretty much summed it up. But it has alot of other info thats not in there. Gironda was definently one of a kind.

Tomorrow I’m doing some HIIT and then its back to lifting thurs and fri. I lifted the last 2 days and that went well. Got some huge pumps after saturday. Today is an off day. And that about sums up my week where exercise and nutrition is concerned.

-Bizmark

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[quote]Bizmark wrote:
Well guys. I kinda screwed up. I did a carbload on saturday. Soooo what that means is that I put on about 1% of fat. That also means I’m gonna have to do my one carb meal thing this weekend. It was just a minor set back. No biggie. But anyway. Ill be posting my ratios for today later on.[/quote]

I HIGHLY doubt you gained a whole percentage of bodyfat… if you are 205 pounds, that means you gained about 2 pounds of pure fat. Remember, a pound of fat is 3500 calories. Don’t sweat it so much. Definitely read on in “The Wild Physique”… I’ve checked it out a couple times from my buddy. Post some of his interesting nutritional habits if you can. I loved some of his exercises, particularly for shoulders.

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Today I took in about 30g carbs. Didn’t put in the ratios again because I didn’t have time. But I think I need to up my veggie intake. Cuz I ate some veggies earlier today and man I felt great for the rest of the day.

Usually I eat only spinach for my veggies, but I think I’m gonna start having broccoli, green beans, carrots, and cauliflower regularly in the mornings now to make up my carbs.

Also, this diet was so hard when I first started it, but now it feels more natural than anything I’ve every done. Even the thought of going back to a normal, every day diet urks me because of all the energy ups and downs I would have. This is the greatest.

-Bizmark

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WED:

so are we just posting carb numbers? I eat pretty much the same during the week anyway. Sometimes more calories but always under 30g of carbs.

Work:

I worked on cleans today. Did the usual warm up and worked up to 255x1. I also hit a triple in the front squat with 240.

Then one of my instructors came in late so we hit a smoker:
135lb power clean and press x 50
100lb thruster x 50
135lb back squat x 50
stormed through for time.

SK

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[quote]sifuinkorea wrote:
WED:

so are we just posting carb numbers? I eat pretty much the same during the week anyway. Sometimes more calories but always under 30g of carbs.

SK[/quote]

I’m just doing that for right now. Go head and keep posting whatever u want.

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How is everyone progressing in terms of their training? Are you seeing increases in strength, or is the goal at this point to maintain existing levels of strength?