[quote]Bizmark wrote:
CaliforniaLaw wrote:
I have experimented with carb-ups (one and two days “clean,” 12 hours, and one and two “cheat” carbs). Bar none, 12-24 hours of “cheat” carbs work best for me. If I go 48 (or even 36) hours of “clean” foods, I feel bloated and disgusting.
Hmm, thats interesting CLaw. Thats good that you can do that without gaining weight.
But for those of you who aren’t gifted with mixing macronutrients (like myself), heres what I do. I only eat carbs by themselves, literally nothing else with them. The reasons why are if I mix carbs with fats, I look bloated and puffy almost immediately, and if I mix carbs with protein, I feel more sluggish than usual and my muscles don’t fill up at all. For myself I keep any carbups I do to oatmeal and fruit. Plus there are other modifications that I’ve made, like I do not do full day carbups anymore.
I absolutely HATE a full day of carbs. I seriously cannot stand it. It completely ruins my day. I feel sluggish in the morning, then the cravings come in the afternoon, and then by nightfall I pretty much want to end my own life because of the amount of discipline required to keep myself from binging because of the cravings. Those cravings are what made me try mixing my carbs with protein, which didn’t fill up my muscles; and then fats, which seemed to just make me fat immediately. Plus the cravings didn’t seem to go away much by mixing my macronutrients (by mixing protein with carbs it did blunt the cravings somewhat though.) By the way, it took literally since December to figure all this out about myself.
So I actually follow Vince Gironda’s (and Rob Faigin’s) recommendations rather than DiPasquale’s in regards to carb timing, works much better for myself. Plus I never get tired at the end of the week now and I have energy EVERY day rather than ever day but the carbup. But it’s all pretty much the same diet, I guess you could call Vince and Rob’s diet a “modified” AD. Either way just do what works for you, that’s always been the main point that DiPasquale has wanted to get across.
And for you guys who have trouble with mixing macronutrients, first try meals with nothing but carbs, and then adding to them to see how you react. This will probably take a while to figure it all out but its worth it.[/quote]
that’s interesting but basically you are just doing a clean refeed. when you were mixing carbs with fats and protein, was it clean foods or stuff like pizza, etc?
i too can’t take a full day of carbs when i get to the 500-600-650gram range it’s pretty much when the tank is full for the day. i guess it just depends on how sensitive you are to carbs. ill tell you this though, im trying to drop weight with this diet and i’m almost done with my first two week session with no carbs and i feel absolutley fine, maybe better then normal.
however, i will enjoy pigging out at the resturant my mom wants to go to for mother’s day 
I think this weekend will be back to a higher bulk…I want more muscle!!!