TL Health and Fitness Initiative 2011 - Page 131

On March 23 2011 14:53 decafchicken wrote:
I'm a fan of "chug three glasses of milk and eat a pound of chicken so fast your body doesnt know its full"

The Metabolic Diet controls the major muscle building and fat burning hormones in
the body to maximize muscle mass and minimize bodyfat.

These hormones include testosterone, growth hormone, IGF-I, insulin, thyroid, and
cortisol.

On March 23 2011 22:44 Warrior Madness wrote:
kekeke, done "researching" and I've decided to try out the anabolic diet. It's pretty much a very low carb paleo diet with two days of carb loading on the weekends. The author of the diet is a worldclass powerlifter turned doctor of sports medicine and has won the world title in the past and has also won the Canadian title 8 times. The thing is, I've felt most energetic and alert on a low carb paleo diet. I don't see how a paleo diet in anyway will restrict mass gain or strength gain as long as your eating 250-300g of protein a day and eating a total of 3000+ calories a day. Mark Ripptoe states that you're not doing the program (YNDTP) if you're not consuming 6000 calories OR 3500 on a PALEO diet.



The diet itself goes something like this. For the first two weeks on weekdays you eat about 30g of carbs while eating a high fat, high protein diet. And on weekends you "carb load" and eat 150+ grams of carbs with protein making up something like 10% of your diet. The reasons for why are dealt with in his book "The Anabolic Solution for power lifters."

Anyway, after this you sort of follow a cool troubleshooting guide, or a flow chart. You're trying to determine what your optimal minimal amount of carbs are. You pretty much do follow a flow chart i.e. After two week assessment, are you feeling tired or energetic? --> tired --> Mild or Moderate? Moderate. --> Variations in diet: Lack energy during all week or during training? All week. Increase carbs 30g a day ....etc.

Gonna see how it goes. I still remember some of my numbers too when I did SS on a "normal" diet. So I can compare them.

Typical diet (at least for me) would probably consist of something like this:



And on the weekend, eating unlimited sushi and sweet potato french fries.

On March 24 2011 06:02 Cambium wrote:
Does anyone do yoga here? I recently started (since Monday) doing hot yoga to help with core strengths and flexibility. I feel fucking great. It's like an hour of stretching and you get to stare at hot girls --> WIN + WIN

On March 24 2011 08:39 Dalguno wrote:
Found this with the link by nataziel, thanks to him!

Some goals for myself is to get down to 180 from 190ish by this time next month for prom.
I'm gonna do that by eating a "primal" diet, which I'll bet a lot of people know about.

-No grains
-Under 100g carbs/ day
-Around 1800 cals/day
-Another thing that helps me is not eating past 5pm, so I'll try that too.
-Gonna try to get in some basketball every day.

On March 24 2011 08:39 Dalguno wrote:
Found this with the link by nataziel, thanks to him!

Some goals for myself is to get down to 180 from 190ish by this time next month for prom.
I'm gonna do that by eating a "primal" diet, which I'll bet a lot of people know about.

-No grains
-Under 100g carbs/ day
-Around 1800 cals/day
-Another thing that helps me is not eating past 5pm, so I'll try that too.
-Gonna try to get in some basketball every day.

On March 24 2011 08:20 Advocado wrote:
Feel ya sjarl. Got a cold/flu hitting me pretty hard, funny thing is that i'm wondering wether it's just plain stupid on my behalf. Just found out after sleeping a few hours, that my window was not properly closed. Sigh.

Gonna go train tomorrow (thurs) and then friday. Can my body benefit from this? I don't usually train on weekends, because it's full of pumped up people.

On March 24 2011 06:02 Cambium wrote:
Does anyone do yoga here? I recently started (since Monday) doing hot yoga to help with core strengths and flexibility. I feel fucking great. It's like an hour of stretching and you get to stare at hot girls --> WIN + WIN

1800 cals is nothing, especially if you're doing any sort of exercise. I'd add at least 500 more calories and you could really benefit from a nice compound barbell program (see: starting strength)
Dont worry about eating past 5pm (unless you're doing something specific like intermittent fasting), as long as you have your calories in check you'll be fine. The reason behind the dont eat at night thing is people tend to binge on more meals/snacks as the night goes on so as long as you dont there's nothing to worry about. Whats your current height?

On March 24 2011 09:39 Dalguno wrote:


I'm 5'11". In the past, 1800 has seemed about the right spot. And the 5 o'clock is indeed for a warrior diet style. I don't eat much in the early day, and get home at 3 and usually eat big meal then. It's what's worked, but at the same time, I'm open to suggestions.
My time is really constrained, which is why I choose playing basketball for exercise over a weight program: I want to do something I really enjoy with what time I have. This summer, heck yeah, I'll hit up the weights, because I'll have time on my hands (I hope).

Hmm might wanna look into some of this if you havent already:
http://www.leangains.com/
And the diet you're referring to is called "paleo"

Your base bmr is ~2000 which is then multiplied by your activity, which if you're at all active is gonna put you at 2500-3000 calories a day. You want to be eating at somewhere around a 300-500 calorie deficit per day for weight loss, 1200 is just unhealthy.

On March 24 2011 09:52 Dalguno wrote:



I'll look into it. The website I've looked at is http://www.marksdailyapple.com
It called it Primal, so that's what I went by.
From what I've heard 2 pounds a week is healthy, so I'm assuming 7,000 calorie deficit/week is not too bad?