[quote]Charles Atlas wrote:
3.Wow, gout? I didn’t know that was still around. I’d say scale back the coffee to 1 cup, and the alcohol to nothing until you get it under control. You really should see a doctor about it though. Are you eating a lot of organ meat?
-CA[/quote]
I’ve cut alcohol to nothing, gave up coffee starting today (we’ll see how that goes). When I get gout, I drink black cherry juice on my carb ups, which greatly helps. I don’t eat any organ meats, mostly steak & chicken.
[quote]reddog6376 wrote:
Charles Atlas wrote:
3.Wow, gout? I didn’t know that was still around. I’d say scale back the coffee to 1 cup, and the alcohol to nothing until you get it under control. You really should see a doctor about it though. Are you eating a lot of organ meat?
-CA
I’ve cut alcohol to nothing, gave up coffee starting today (we’ll see how that goes). When I get gout, I drink black cherry juice on my carb ups, which greatly helps. I don’t eat any organ meats, mostly steak & chicken.[/quote]
Are you eating much shellfish? Taking diuretics, cyclosporine, aspirin, levidopa, or niacin? Have you had much exposure to lead, or an organ transplant? How long have you had gout?
-CA
Atlas, how did you super carb load eating go, as per Disc’s advice?
I’d love to see what you put down on the load - I’m trying to gain, and I put down like 900carb over 36 hours. I wanted to die, so much foooood.
[quote]Charles Atlas wrote:
reddog6376 wrote:
Charles Atlas wrote:
3.Wow, gout? I didn’t know that was still around. I’d say scale back the coffee to 1 cup, and the alcohol to nothing until you get it under control. You really should see a doctor about it though. Are you eating a lot of organ meat?
-CA
I’ve cut alcohol to nothing, gave up coffee starting today (we’ll see how that goes). When I get gout, I drink black cherry juice on my carb ups, which greatly helps. I don’t eat any organ meats, mostly steak & chicken.
Are you eating much shellfish? Taking diuretics, cyclosporine, aspirin, levidopa, or niacin? Have you had much exposure to lead, or an organ transplant? How long have you had gout?
-CA[/quote]
Very little of any of that, other than coffee (diuretic) No lead exposure, or organ transplant. I first got gout about 6 years ago while doing Atkins. It comes and goes, never hangs around for more than 3-5 days.
[quote]bricked. wrote:
Atlas, how did you super carb load eating go, as per Disc’s advice?
I’d love to see what you put down on the load - I’m trying to gain, and I put down like 900carb over 36 hours. I wanted to die, so much foooood.
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Last weekend it went great, this weekend not so much, as I had to work consessions at the game with my team which = 0 time to eat for 8hrs!
So, last week it broke down to my consuming ~1450g CHO over 36hrs (not counting fiber and a few pieces of fruit as snacks). I also am trying out the midweek CHO spike on top of this, so last wednesday for my last meal at 8:00, I took down ~250g CHO. This is an entire box of WW pasta for anyone interested!
Weight is up, waist is the same. It seems to be working, the only question is can I keep it up? This is, needless to say, a ton of food for someone at 5’7’', 175lbs. It helps that I excercise and have a healthy appetite, but damn! I hope I keep gaining wieght on this, I don’t know if i can eat much more! (just joking here, I could eat more if I pushed it).
Question for DH or anyone else who would know: It was suggested that to maximize weight gain we should try to get in 25-30g of maltose or dextrose PW. Is this available in any common preparation, or do I need to go somewhere special. I noticed gatoraide contains sucrose and maltose as the first 2 ingredients. Would 2 servings (30g CHO) be okay PW?
Thanks!
-CA
Can you buy Weetbix where you live? Those little bricks are 10 quality carbs each. Crumble like 10 in a huge cup with milk, put in fridge for like 10 minutes, so it goes all muschy, and drink that shit down. Atleast 100+ carbs in one hit, and easy on the stomach. Sorta.
Also, Weeties - a whole 500g box contains 340 carbs. Go to your local health store and grab some digestive aids and you should be good to go.
If your not worried about the quality of the carbs so much, white bread, bagels, any cereal = huge carbs.
Cna i use this diet with intensity/power/speed/endurance training for football?
Ive been on it for 3 weeks with no real goal in mind. I thought i wanted to get ripped in the winter but orginally from the Caribbean… ooo cold. Now that im getting into football i need mass/power/speed/endurance. Wich i lack in all areas. I dont even know how to play yet. All i need is focus, a plan and lots of desire.
I too did the midweek spike with my last meal on Wed. I consumed a package of microwaveable brown rice-80 grams, about 5 pieces of whole wheat break, about 3/5 cup of oatmeal, and 1.5 grow bars ( was out of low carb grow, and wanted something with a little bit of caesin before bed.) I couldn’t do the whole bowl of oatmeal which would have put me right around 200.
It has been years since I have gotten to the point where I physically couldn’t eat any more, but that was the case the other night, will try more brown rice or ww pasta next time so I don’t get as full.
Also, I’m trying to figure out how to handle Thanksgiving this week, possibly thinking of using thursday as a 12 hour carb up, and doing another 12 hour on Sat/Sun. I’ve got a friend coming into town either fri. or sat. night and will prob. consume a couple of drinks over the course of the evening.
I recall reading an article the author of the anabolic diet wrote and mentioned that if any drinking is done, it is best suited for carb ups as the alcohol interferes with the whole fat burning process. I know this is the case with alcohol regardless of one’s diet, however, does it seem to make sense that the few odd drinks would be least detrimental during carb ups?
[quote]bricked. wrote:
Can you buy Weetbix where you live? Those little bricks are 10 quality carbs each. Crumble like 10 in a huge cup with milk, put in fridge for like 10 minutes, so it goes all muschy, and drink that shit down. Atleast 100+ carbs in one hit, and easy on the stomach. Sorta. [/quote]
Yeah, I’ve had them before. I try to minimize cereal because of all the stuff added to 'em, but I’ll look them up, thanks!
-CA
[quote]speedy5323 wrote:
Also, I’m trying to figure out how to handle Thanksgiving this week, possibly thinking of using thursday as a 12 hour carb up, and doing another 12 hour on Sat/Sun. I’ve got a friend coming into town either fri. or sat. night and will prob. consume a couple of drinks over the course of the evening.
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That’s basically what I was planning to do. I’m actually gonna hit a hard workout on the morning of Thanksgiving, then carb load for the following 8-10 hours. Then I’ll probably hit another 10-12 hour carb load on Sunday.
On another note, I’m closing in on five months on the AD and I’m 20 pounds lighter, bodyfat is lower (per mirror and the fit of my clothes) my strength and endurance are both up. So far its been great. How’s everyone else doing results wise? Never let this thread die!
I love it man. The food is awesome - I can’t get enough of eggs, fatty steak, butter, cream, nuts.
My energy is supurb, I’m rarely hungry, and I’m never ‘stuffed’ after a meal, but quite satisfied.
I only wish I actually looked good at any one time, lol. Week = Soft and Flat. Weekend = bloated and watery. lol. Oh, well, with the good (read as: awesome) comes the bad.
Also, I wish Disc Hoss had more time to post, he’s an absolute veteran on the AD. We need more people like him on this board.
DH has already posted about a good Thanksgiving strategy for anyone interested. It was awhile ago, you may want to search for it.
-CA
Hey, y’all. We can’t be letting this thread hit the second page like that. Hope everyone has a good Thanksgiving, and here’s to one helluva carb load!
You are right ace, we can’t.
I was thinking about what I am going to do diet-wise this thanksgiving, and i think I came up with a pretty good plan. What I’m going to do is just split my normal 2 day carb-up to thursday and sunday. That way, I can return to normal next week quite easily. I’ll keep protien quite low on thursday at all meals other than the big one, so I can take down some turkey, stuffing etc. Yep, sounds like a plan.
See y’all, have a happy T-day!
-CA
Us non-american’s don’t have thanksgiving 
Anyway, I’m carbing up tommorrow for 36 hours, and these are my macros. Anyone to comment? DH, IC, CA?
Over 36~ hours:
Cals = 6399
Carb = 911 (57%)
Pro = 294 (19%)
Fat = 171 (24%)
[quote]bricked. wrote:
Us non-american’s don’t have thanksgiving
Anyway, I’m carbing up tommorrow for 36 hours, and these are my macros. Anyone to comment? DH, IC, CA?
Over 36~ hours:
Cals = 6399
Carb = 911 (57%)
Pro = 294 (19%)
Fat = 171 (24%)
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Looks just about perfect to me. Maybe a bit too perfect… 
You should take thanksgiving off anyway. Its the best holiday ever, huge amounts of food and football, and its your patriotic DUTY to eat it/watch it all!
-CA
Thanks, CA, I’m an anal mofo when it comes to diet/training.
Man, I love in Australia. We literally DON’T have thanksgiving. But, Christmas day, I am gonna have the biggest goddamn carb load ever. Thinking like the before posted 36~ hr load in the space of like 18~ hours. Goddamn.
[quote]brickt. wrote:
Thanks, CA, I’m an anal mofo when it comes to diet/training.
Man, I love in Australia. We literally DON’T have thanksgiving. But, Christmas day, I am gonna have the biggest goddamn carb load ever. Thinking like the before posted 36~ hr load in the space of like 18~ hours. Goddamn. [/quote]
Ha Ha Ha, no I understand you guys don’t have it over there, I was just saying you should take the day off anyway.
-CA
LOL. I can picture it now.
“Hey boss, I won’t be coming in today, it’s thanksgiving.”
“WTF? Lay off the crack. (carbs) Your not taking the day off, dude.”
“But, CA said I could!”