I started my carb reload last night and ate nowhere near what I should have, I just wasn’t hungry at all!! How big a deal is it to not get all the carbs in the carb up? Is it an opportunity missed which will have dire consequences on the diet? Or if I get a bit hungrier today could I just cram the carbs I should have consumed last night to ensure that ultimately over the thirty six hours I have reached my target? I mean they may all come in one or two huge meals at the end but will that be OK if not entirely optimum? I will make a better fist of it next week.
Any of the vets recommend using glutamine on the diet, is it ok and in what dose?
MA.
[quote]steven alex wrote:
I started my carb reload last night and ate nowhere near what I should have, I just wasn’t hungry at all!! How big a deal is it to not get all the carbs in the carb up? Is it an opportunity missed which will have dire consequences on the diet? Or if I get a bit hungrier today could I just cram the carbs I should have consumed last night to ensure that ultimately over the thirty six hours I have reached my target? I mean they may all come in one or two huge meals at the end but will that be OK if not entirely optimum? I will make a better fist of it next week.[/quote]
I’ve stopped counting carbs on the weekends and just eating big and often. I’ve had weekends where I didn’t get enough carbs in and I had some not so good workouts during the week. I also work on Sunday from 9AM to 1PM and the only food I can get is an apple or something small.
So on Sundays I cram in most in about 7 hours. It’s not optimal, but whatever. I’d say to just make sure to eat enough next weekend. If you had a bad weekend, learn from it to fine tune. It’s all about fine-tuning on this diet.
I just got a Health o Meter scale that measures BF%. According to the scale, my BF% can fluctuate between about 43% and about 50%. Is that normal between different levels of hydration and carb loading? Or is it the scale messing up?
I’m interested in the glutamine questions. Will using glutamine PWO negatively affect our carb-ups? Making them useless or making less glycogen go to our muscles?
Doc D recommends glutamine in the supplements section of the Anabolic Diet book. However, i am not sure if it is ok to take glutamine while on the break-in phase. I am kind of doubt, because while on this phase, we teach our bodies to use fat instead. I asked this question a few times here, but no one answered.
Anyone have any thoughts on my last couple posts?
I choose to begin my carb up on a Friday evening is there any modifications needed to my low carb eating throughout Friday until the onset of the carb up? If I ingest a load of fat throughout the whole day and then in the evening get through a load of carbs does this put me at a disadvantage over those that start their carb ups in the morning?
I do my carb ups on Friday @ 12 AM and noticed no change in anything
Hey guys,
Been on this for almost 2 months now and have been consistently losing weight every week… was just wondering though… what kind of vegetables do you all eat? any fruits?
I’ve just been living off meat, vegetables, eggs, cheese and oil… vegetables pretty much take up 20-25g of carbs a day so i was wondering if people fit in fruits.
As for vegetables, I usually eat combinations of these within a day: spinach, broccoli, asparagus, green peppers, celery, onions (not so much of this), carrots
My vegetables list:
Spinach, Chinese Cabbage, Broccoli, Lettuce (Romaine, Iceberg, regular), Cucumbers. I eat some eggs as well as some cheese and there is no room for the fruit.
Today is my last day on the transition phase, so i am planning to devour some fruits on the carb up.
hencha, do you discount fiber? Even though i eat 150-200g of veggies per each meal, i still have lots of room for the eggs and cheese. You can have 200g of spinach per each meal, it will make 1200 total of it and will make only 10 grams of digestible carbs. You can fit 400g of strawberry, which makes 19g of digestible carbs.
Yea i discount fiber… I am currently in class but if i remember correctly… according to the bag of spinaches i get from stop & shop… 85g of spinach has about 5g digestible carbs =(
[quote]hencha wrote:
Yea i discount fiber… I am currently in class but if i remember correctly… according to the bag of spinaches i get from stop & shop… 85g of spinach has about 5g digestible carbs =([/quote]
The bags of spinach I get have about 5 digestible carbs for every 200g of spinach. Maybe check out different brands?
For awhile I used to get blocks of frozen spinach that said 5g carbs, 5g sugar, and 5g fiber. I don’t know what the fuck, because in Canada the total carbs listed isn’t usually the net carbs, it’s the total carbs, and 5 + 5 does not equal… 5.
hmm i’ll look around… but just as a reference for you guys… the stuff i buy is packages as fresh triple washed spinach and one serving (with 5 grams digestable carbs) is 85g (shredded) or 1.5 cups.
Also… any preference to the type of oil everyone cooks with? I used to use olive oil but then decided to try out coconut oil
[quote]hencha wrote:
hmm i’ll look around… but just as a reference for you guys… the stuff i buy is packages as fresh triple washed spinach and one serving (with 5 grams digestable carbs) is 85g (shredded) or 1.5 cups.
Also… any preference to the type of oil everyone cooks with? I used to use olive oil but then decided to try out coconut oil[/quote]
coconut oil, just fyi, has been mentioned a few times as not the best type of oil to use…the chains of fatty acids arent absorbed efficiently enough for purposes of the AD…EVOO IS KING! but if your going to cook with it id recommend blending it in with what your cooking…sautee with steaks or burger…or mix in with eggs or ground beef, before putting it the pan…what happens is if you let the oil sit on the hot pan it starts to denature…no bueno
Hi there! I have read through this entire thread over the past few weeks and gleaned lots of information so thanks to all who conrtibute 
I am 43, female, 5’6, around 132 pounds and c 18/19%BF. doing heavy lifitng x 3 per week and running (MISS and HIIT) x 3 per week. Have been on the AD to the letter for six weeks but am not really seeing progress. No scale weight change and no change in measurements since the end of the induction phase…
I am eating 1700 on six days and 24 hour carb up clean weekends. I am looking to drop to around 122 pounds and c 15%BF (I feel great at this level and my running is better)
The strange thing is i saw some great success on a hybrid of the AD I did last summer… the differences being I was getting around 50% fats instead of 60% and I was getting 50-60gr net carbs per day and a more low key carb up… exercise was more or less the same tho maybe a tad less intense last summer but my cals were 1550…
I hate dropping calories too low as I workout intensely and this is negtaively affected by low cals…
Any advice…?
would you give it longer to see if it works at this level of calories as I only dropped them two weeks ago having done a month at maintenance 2000+ cals?
Woudld you just drop calories to 1550?
or would you try macro ratios like I had last summer?
thanks for any insights
Spinach is one of the vegetables i have the most on the AD because of its water and fibre content. the carbs in spinach are negligable. i buy bags of frozen spinach and have it with nearly every meal. both fitday and the nutrition label shows that 100g of spinach has less than 1g CHO. The best veg imo sharing top spot with brocolli
Ad B,
yeah, i agree completely.
For the fiber, i also use ground flax seeds. It is almost just fat and fiber. 6 net carbs per 100g of seeds.
[quote]Jedi06 wrote:
Any advice…?
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If you’re only concern is your physique, I would do what you did last summer. If it worked, it worked.
If you’re doing the AD because you want to enjoy carb loads more, maybe try shortening the carb up. Dropping cals just a wee bit during the week, or something? Small changes, I think, until you see the results you want.
The best thing to do, I think, is keep track of things so you know exactly how things effect you. What do your carb ups look like right now? You said “clean,” but you can often optimize things even if they are technically “clean,” especially on carb ups. For example, lean chicken breast is a wonderful clean food, but probably not the best for a carb up.
One the carb up days, since we should get about 30-40% of our calories from fat, do you guys eat Carbs+Fat meals all day long?