Fade-- thank you, just fried up some eggs in my bacon with the steam thing and they were delicious
Tams-- I feel pretty good, I have been just doing 1 days, Saturdays as well. I actually had somewhat of a free for all this weekend, kinda because of cravings, at the same time I want to know how it affects me as well. I don’t feel any different from the extremely clean carbup from last weekend. I probably had almost 1000g of CHO. I tracked everything except the gorge at the local tex-mex restaurant. I did stay very active though, my car has been in the shop so I had to run/jog to the gym, so I clocked about 7 miles of walking/jogging as well as my very intense WO, luckfully I get a bunch of energy from carbloads!
Pro-pro-- yeah, everything about this diet is anabolic, including the post-carbup toilet visit (lack of a better term) lol… I usually add 8-10 on the carbup, and about 4-5 of it I leave behind in the morning following my carbload. I was shocked a few weeks ago but now it’s like clockwork, I expect it.
You ever try ‘basted’ eggs? It basically cooks everything except the yolk, and gets rid of the “runny” whites. The way I do it is not true basting, but a lot easier. What you do is crack the eggs into the pan sunny-side up style, let 'em cook for just a bit, then add a little water to the fat you’re cooking with and put a sauce-pan cover over the eggs (it should be pretty water-tight). The steam cooks the top, don’t flip the eggs. When the white film forms over the yolk, they’re done.
The top of the eggs are firmed-up but the yolks are still liquid, like poached-fried. Plus you get the taste of the fat on the whole egg. Delicious…
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What kind of steaks are everyone eating? I’m looking for a decent steak without the bone that is somewhat consistent with fat content and is less expensive than filet mignon.
[quote]DJS wrote:
What kind of steaks are everyone eating? I’m looking for a decent steak without the bone that is somewhat consistent with fat content and is less expensive than filet mignon. [/quote]
I’m curious to this answer myself, I shop at only 2 places really, Dillons and Walmart.
IMO Walmart has terrible meat, so if I get anything from there it is usually just a discounted “Round Steak”. At Dillons I usually still go to the discount meat section and buy cheap meat, its usually strip steak or something thick. I have always wondered are these ok? or what cuts of meat should I be aiming to buy?
[quote]DJS wrote:
What kind of steaks are everyone eating? I’m looking for a decent steak without the bone that is somewhat consistent with fat content and is less expensive than filet mignon. [/quote]
I’m curious to this answer myself, I shop at only 2 places really, Dillons and Walmart.
IMO Walmart has terrible meat, so if I get anything from there it is usually just a discounted “Round Steak”. At Dillons I usually still go to the discount meat section and buy cheap meat, its usually strip steak or something thick. I have always wondered are these ok? or what cuts of meat should I be aiming to buy?
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They are ok if they dont make you sick! I usually buy discounted meat if it looks alright, you can really get some good deals that way.
I eat ribeyes. In fact, just grilled some last night. They are a good mixture of fat/protein. Plus, the marblization of the ribeye is what makes it taste so good (the fat distributed throughout the meat). I also get my from Walmart, they are not the best, but they are pretty good and well priced.
The first time on the AD i just went with ground beef. It was easy but figured it would be a nice switch and healthier to go steaks this time. But i know anything about steaks.
[quote]DJS wrote:
What kind of steaks are everyone eating? I’m looking for a decent steak without the bone that is somewhat consistent with fat content and is less expensive than filet mignon. [/quote]
I usually go with the 7 bone. Its between $3-$4lb and has nice marbling (marbling = flavor)
[quote]DJS wrote:
What kind of steaks are everyone eating? I’m looking for a decent steak without the bone that is somewhat consistent with fat content and is less expensive than filet mignon. [/quote]
I usually go with the 7 bone. Its between $3-$4lb and has nice marbling (marbling = flavor)
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yum.lol. all i eat is organic minced beef/lamb/ and salmon. is it okif its organic, i know you dont neccessarily know which part your eating???
[quote]DJS wrote:
What kind of steaks are everyone eating? I’m looking for a decent steak without the bone that is somewhat consistent with fat content and is less expensive than filet mignon. [/quote]
I usually go with the 7 bone. Its between $3-$4lb and has nice marbling (marbling = flavor)
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yum.lol. all i eat is organic minced beef/lamb/ and salmon. is it okif its organic, i know you dont neccessarily know which part your eating???[/quote]
If you’re referring to grass fed, you may have to look a little harder/pay a little more. But all cows have the 7 bone, so you should be good.
[quote]DJS wrote:
What kind of steaks are everyone eating? I’m looking for a decent steak without the bone that is somewhat consistent with fat content and is less expensive than filet mignon. [/quote]
I usually go with the 7 bone. Its between $3-$4lb and has nice marbling (marbling = flavor)
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yum.lol. all i eat is organic minced beef/lamb/ and salmon. is it okif its organic, i know you dont neccessarily know which part your eating???[/quote]
If you’re referring to grass fed, you may have to look a little harder/pay a little more. But all cows have the 7 bone, so you should be good.
Yeah it is grass fed i eat. How does rotation on this diet fare though concerning proteins as its only two or three i cycle through. thanks
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I’ve been on this diet before but I stopped due to fear of my body becoming worse than before if I introduced carbs to my diet again. Some people have said that their stomach’s literally started getting bigger the first week they started eating carbs again.
[quote]vcjha wrote:
I’ve been on this diet before but I stopped due to fear of my body becoming worse than before if I introduced carbs to my diet again. Some people have said that their stomach’s literally started getting bigger the first week they started eating carbs again.[/quote]
I’m living the Anabolic Lifestyle so I’m not worried
Plus, there are ways of reintroducing carbs in your diet that will put fat gains to a minimum if done correctly. Of course you’ll gain fat if you just go straight back to a typical mod-high carb diet.
[quote]vcjha wrote:
I’ve been on this diet before but I stopped due to fear of my body becoming worse than before if I introduced carbs to my diet again. Some people have said that their stomach’s literally started getting bigger the first week they started eating carbs again.[/quote]
From all I’ve been reading lately, that contradicts the science IF you do the AD long enough to become reasonably “fat-adapted” and also lower your BF%. If you’ve done both you most likely have decreased your insulin resistance (IR). IR seems to be a major contributor to obesity (IR generally comes first, not the other way around) but usually once you’ve packed on a bunch of fat, you have to lose it to become significantly ‘sensitive’ to insulin again. The more sensitive you are to insulin, generally the less of it is secreted for a given amount of CHO consumed, so less fat is stored.
That’s a good read for anyone, but especially those on the AD as it helps to understand the science behind the AD (I know, the author strongly recommends against hardly any carbs in the diet, but generally his audience is people who’ve been abusing CHO for a long time and have health problems because of it, and not athletes).
OK, i seriously thing about quitting the AD
So far, i lost or gained absolutely nothing!!! I was realy intent to get ripped to shredds with tihs baby,but it doesnt seem to work!
First 6 week, i ate maintainance level appr. 3000 cal.
Then I cut 400 cals for 2 weeks, nothing changed.
I dropped another 300 for 2 weeks, NOTHING
Including the carb-up my weight has not changed much. My BF% is still the same,
I feel fine, i look a bit better, but I want to get to single diggit in june, and i start getting worried it will not happen this way!!
give it 1 more week, and nothing changes, i quit, have no choice…
Macro’s are good, carbs <30, refeeds nothing extreme… I dont get it, anyone???
[quote]protein-pro wrote:
OK, i seriously thing about quitting the AD
So far, i lost or gained absolutely nothing!!! I was realy intent to get ripped to shredds with tihs baby,but it doesnt seem to work!
First 6 week, i ate maintainance level appr. 3000 cal.
Then I cut 400 cals for 2 weeks, nothing changed.
I dropped another 300 for 2 weeks, NOTHING
Including the carb-up my weight has not changed much. My BF% is still the same,
I feel fine, i look a bit better, but I want to get to single diggit in june, and i start getting worried it will not happen this way!!
give it 1 more week, and nothing changes, i quit, have no choice…
Macro’s are good, carbs <30, refeeds nothing extreme… I dont get it, anyone???[/quote]
How long are your CHO loads and what’s the calorie count on them? Are you training balls to the wall? lol, being serious cause I see a lot of guys in the gym just going through the motions and it pisses me off.
I’ve been leaning out while staying at the same scale weight, I load one day from when I wake up to bedtime.
I feel you on that. I just got my BF checked with a BodPod, and I was not happy with the number. I am going back in 4 weeks to check again, with the same person, with the same machine, on the same weekday (Tuesday) to limit deviation. I feel that I havent made a lot of progress on this diet and I have been strict as hell, tracking everything and training my ass off (getting awesome workouts). However, I feel that the weeks worth of work is being blown by the weekend carb up.
I think I am going to not carb up at all, maybe once every 14 days, and even then keep it limited. If you read anything from people that are actually competing in BB, like Stu, it seems that the weekly deficit is really what matters. I feel that with this diet, people are blowing everything by carbing up so much. However, it may work over extended periods of time.
Adam,
Do you have any evidence that you are getting leaner? Not to be a jerk, but I thought I was really getting leaner, then I got my BF checked, and holy cow, I am not nearly as lean as I thought. However, I am obviously getting leaner in places like my face, legs, and my upper back.
I have a few pounds, while my strength is increasing, so I believe this type of dieting is good for fat loss. However, the carb ups are too much.
Smithers- Don’t worry about the stupid bodpod bud. When I was in undergrad our exercise phys class all did bod pod and underwater weighing the very same morning. Everyone tested about 5% higher than what the underwater method…and trust me, the underwater method is way more accurate.
Also, who cares what some number says. It is how you look that is important. I thought you said you were happy with your progress judging by the mirror, and thats the important thing.
