on this diet does your cholesterol sky rocket?
what about clogged arteries?
Blood lipid profiles vary greatly per individual. Go to a doctor and get a complete work-up for a baseline. Then, maybe every three months, get another work-up. You will begin to understand how your body works and handles the AD.
In my experience, and I get blood work done every month, my overall profile is very good:
Total cholesterol = 123 (0-199)
Triglycerides = 33 (0-149)
HDL cholesterol = 63 (40-65)
VLDL cholesterol cal = 10 (5-40)
LDL cholesterol = 61 (0-99)
[quote]david.civil wrote:
on this diet does your cholesterol sky rocket?
what about clogged arteries?[/quote]
Yes, we all have sky high cholesterol thats why we stay on for years. I mean, after 100 pages, is this what it’s come to?
Again…do you get high levels of the bad chol. does it clog arteries?
if not why has the media always claimed lots of meat and cheese and fats are bad…i do not have 100.00$ to buy the book ,someone please clarify…thanks…and is this a good diet for the over 35 lifter who needs to drop 20 fat boy pounds and try to maintain or gain muscle at the same time???
[quote]david.civil wrote:
Again…do you get high levels of the bad chol. does it clog arteries?
if not why has the media always claimed lots of meat and cheese and fats are bad…i do not have 100.00$ to buy the book ,someone please clarify…thanks…and is this a good diet for the over 35 lifter who needs to drop 20 fat boy pounds and try to maintain or gain muscle at the same time???[/quote]
How about you take some TIME to read the FUCKING THREAD- the same TIME that so many people have spent to BUILD IT. In fact, why not explore all of this website to discover that its not simply an “Ask and ye shall receive” forum but a tomb of actual information. Maybe someone else will spoonfeed you.
[quote]david.civil wrote:
Again…do you get high levels of the bad chol. does it clog arteries?
if not why has the media always claimed lots of meat and cheese and fats are bad…i do not have 100.00$ to buy the book ,someone please clarify…thanks…and is this a good diet for the over 35 lifter who needs to drop 20 fat boy pounds and try to maintain or gain muscle at the same time???[/quote]
david,
This topic actually has been covered quite extensively in this thread and as you read through it, you’ll see the research that backs up the fact that a diet rich in a balance of poly, mono and sat. fats actually improve cholesterol levels.
Also, the ebook is loaded with citations about the research that supports the AD. I did a quick eBay search and found it for $2.99:
Hopefully that work’s with the budget.
Give it a read and once having done so maybe then any unanswered questions can then be addressed.
Cheers.
Sasha
Just got done reading the thread. It took a few days?.but well worth it!!!
HUGE thanks to everyone that has contributed to this.
I noticed that a few people that posted were using this diet to help them loose weight for athletics like BJJ.
How was your sports performance on this diet?
My Stats:
31 years old
6feet tall / 190 lbs
Activity level:
BJJ/Muay Thai:
2 hours Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday night.
Weights:
5 times a week in the morning for about 30 min per session (Day 1- Chest/Bis, Day 2- Legs, Day 3- Back/Tris). I do about 5 sets per muscle mixing my set/reps every few workouts.
Cardio
2-3x per week 15-20 min cardio session with sprinting intervals mixed in.
My goal is to bring my body weight up to 200lbs while cutting a little body fat.
I plan to start this diet on Saturday. I will be out of town next week for work and then on vacation through the 4th. I figure this will give my body a time to adapt to the fat without having to worry about performance in bjj/muay-thai at night.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
[quote]oc_tiger wrote:
Just got done reading the thread. It took a few days?.but well worth it!!!
HUGE thanks to everyone that has contributed to this.
I noticed that a few people that posted were using this diet to help them loose weight for athletics like BJJ.
How was your sports performance on this diet?
My Stats:
31 years old
6feet tall / 190 lbs
Activity level:
BJJ/Muay Thai:
2 hours Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday night.
Weights:
5 times a week in the morning for about 30 min per session (Day 1- Chest/Bis, Day 2- Legs, Day 3- Back/Tris). I do about 5 sets per muscle mixing my set/reps every few workouts.
Cardio
2-3x per week 15-20 min cardio session with sprinting intervals mixed in.
My goal is to bring my body weight up to 200lbs while cutting a little body fat.
I plan to start this diet on Saturday. I will be out of town next week for work and then on vacation through the 4th. I figure this will give my body a time to adapt to the fat without having to worry about performance in bjj/muay-thai at night.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
[/quote]
oc_tiger,
The only piece of advice I would offer is based on looking at how much training/weights you do in a given week and your goal to up your LBM I could forsee you needing to keep your k/cals quite high.
Start with Dr.D’s mathematics for total caloric intake for the induction phase but once you’ve been through that I would gradually up the calories. His bulking phase parametres seem perfect for you.
Good luck and keep us posted.
Sasha
Thank You very much Sasha,
I should be ok with the break-in phase as my activity level will be much lower with my travel.
Tomorrow I will take pic?s and stats.
I have decided to totally commit myself to this lifestyle for the next 10 weeks (in 10 weeks, I will be taking a 2-week vacation with my fianc? in China). I will provide this group with regular updates as to my progress.
Provided all goes well (body comp, energy level, strength, etc) this will become a lifestyle.
Thanks again for the input.
does anyone else have massive heartburn on carb-up days?
[quote]allNatural wrote:
does anyone else have massive heartburn on carb-up days?[/quote]
Not that I can remember. If I did have it at one time or another, it wasn’t that bad to remember.
i guess the heartburn is from all the cholesterol and fat clogging up my heart? j/k. I’ve never had heartburn before and only know what it is from tums commercials or something. but yea, on carb-up days, actually nights, my esophagus feels like its on the end of a triple drop set. I get most of my carbs from fruit and healthnut bread if that has anything to do w/ it
[quote]allNatural wrote:
i guess the heartburn is from all the cholesterol and fat clogging up my heart? j/k. I’ve never had heartburn before and only know what it is from tums commercials or something. but yea, on carb-up days, actually nights, my esophagus feels like its on the end of a triple drop set. I get most of my carbs from fruit and healthnut bread if that has anything to do w/ it[/quote]
If I eat bread plain and eat it too fast, it seems like it can dry up my throat and cause an “uncomfortable” feeling. Of course, I think this is totally different than heartburn.
[quote]allNatural wrote:
i guess the heartburn is from all the cholesterol and fat clogging up my heart? j/k. I’ve never had heartburn before and only know what it is from tums commercials or something. but yea, on carb-up days, actually nights, my esophagus feels like its on the end of a triple drop set. I get most of my carbs from fruit and healthnut bread if that has anything to do w/ it[/quote]
It may just be from the sheer volume of food you’re putting away in such a short period of time; initiating an increased production of digestive acids.
…or it may be a particular food that, when coupled with a full belly, creates the problem.
I’m a big peanut butter fan…but if I would eat peanut butter on a carb-up -particularly near the end of the day -It would cause me to experience heartburn.
$0.02
[quote]Kliplemet wrote:
i can’t stand the limited food options of this diet anymore, especially since i’m bulking
is this diet designed for bulking anyway? [/quote]
‘Anabolic’.
[quote]Kliplemet wrote:
i can’t stand the limited food options of this diet anymore, especially since i’m bulking
is this diet designed for bulking anyway? [/quote]
I can down 4,000 calories easy on this diet. I plan on eating 5,000 when I start my bulk in a month or so.
Also, the food choices aren’t really limited. I mean, its only for 5 days (12 if its the initiation part of the diet) where your choices are very limited (nothing with lots of carbs), then on the weekend you can have your carbs, etc.
[quote]Kliplemet wrote:
i can’t stand the limited food options of this diet anymore, especially since i’m bulking
is this diet designed for bulking anyway? [/quote]
How do you feel limited? Perhaps you should “think outside the box” a bit.
You may eat any meat you choose -in any quantity (you are “bulking,” right?)
You may eat darn near any cheese you choose.
You may eat all sorts of vegetables (watch the carbs -less the fiber).
You may eat eggs, eggs and more eggs…egg salad, tuna salad, ham salad, deviled eggs (all w/mayo).
You may eat walnuts by the bag-full (carb grams = fiber grams = Go-to-town!)
I understand filberts/brazil nuts are similar.
If you have a craving for something sweet and chocolaty…buy a tub of Ricotta cheese, in a bowl mix the Ricotta with Hersheys cocoa powder, a tbsp or two of Vanilla extract and Splenda (or Nutrasweet) to taste.
Put into smaller (1/2 cup ea.) bowls and refrigerate for a choclaty snack anytime…(I sound like a commercial).
If chocolate isn’t your fav…use any flavor of Sugar-free Jello -or Sugar-free Pudding.
You have a TON of choices…you’re only limited by your budget and/or imagination.
If you can do ANYTHING on the AD…it’s BULK!
[quote]Kliplemet wrote:
i guess mauro was right about it being difficult to eat enough because the lack of insulin etc
[/quote]
I feel it is difficult to get enough food in my stomach. When I first started this diet, I was close to 4,000 calories, but still felt hungry. If I had a little more flax seed oil and more peanut butter or more cheese, I could easily get up to a higher calorie count.
On this diet, it should be easier to get in calories than a high carb diet, IMO. Fat has a little more than twice the calories as a carb does, plus eating 2000 calories from good fats is easier than eating 2000 calories from “good” carbs.
2,500 haha
100+ pages…we’ve seen jackoffs and weirdos and idiots come and go, but the thread remains on page one. Dated diet, my ass.
[quote]Kliplemet wrote:
i can’t stand the limited food options of this diet anymore, especially since i’m bulking
is this diet designed for bulking anyway? [/quote]
Having just drank a tall glass of egg nog from a couple eggs and some vanilla protein powder… I’m not sure where the lack of food options is. 
But if you don’t enjoy it, don’t make yourself hate your life.
I’m not a gourmet chef or anything, but if you do a quick search, you can find 1000s of recipes using 1000s of foods.
Try http://forum.lowcarber.org/ for tonnes of low carb recipes, for instance.