[quote]XanderBuilt wrote:
[quote]its_just_me wrote:
[quote]XanderBuilt wrote:
[quote]its_just_me wrote:
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
You got squats
add milk
stir[/quote]
Don’t forget the cream 
Honestly, people think I’m mad when I say that, but it works…and no, my cholesterol levels are perfectly fine (had them monitored over 4 years since my “crazy” diet lol).[/quote]
Not sure if the cream comment is a joke but I’ll take it seriously. I’ve been using full cream and berries in my diet as fat source I assume. My diet is principally low carbs (paleo/anabolic without the cycling). Is that something like your “crazy” diet? Thanks.[/quote]
Yep that’s similar to my diet except with 2x bananas, no joke. Mine’s low carb, although I take a banana before workouts (now workout 6x/week).
I’ve done experiments on myself several times and the outcome is always the same:
Cut out saturated fat from the diet (keep fat intake the same but no more than 30% of my dietary fat intake was sat.fat)…and without fail I find it very difficult to gain mass, my sex drive plummets, and my intensity in the gym sucks.
Translation = testosterone levels go down.
As soon as saturated fat is increased to at least over 50%, gains come easier, and sex becomes aggressive again (sorry for T.M.I. there lol).
In my opinion the reasons why certain foods are more anabolic than others is because of saturated fat (e.g. beef, milk products…and in smaller amounts, nuts and eggs etc).[/quote]
Cool. Bananas have a higher GI which I’m trying to avoid. I’ll look into it regardless.
My sex drive went up after switching to anabolic but I thought it was the zinc supplementation I was taking. Good to know.[/quote]
I used to be worried about stuff like GI, and it’s still good to be concerned especially if your diet is predominantly carb based, and the fact that most medium to low GI foods are nutrient packed…but on a high fat diet, you can’t go by GI anymore because fat lowers it alot.
As long as carbs aren’t too high, you shouldn’t have to worry about GI on a high fat diet. This is the reasons why milk has such a low GI value (27), it’s because of the fat in it. If you want a meal to last longer, and lower the GI value, simply add fat.
As for the zinc and sex drive thing, yeah zinc definitely helps (get stronger morning wood lol), but I’ve taken zinc throughout all the experiments (with low sat. fat, and with high sat. fat…low carb, and high carb)…so at least for me, that was a variable that kept the same (therefore it was definitely the diet that caused the change).