Has anyone tried the anabolic diet?

[Mai72]

I've been eating the anabolic french toast. Man, so delicious. I don't follow it perfectly. I will allow some fat like a whole egg, or avacado in. It does have a ton of artifical sweeteners though. Everything is sugar free. And, it seems to be lacking in greens. The main focus is on calories and hitting your protein goals for the day. Its very simple. The two main guys who promote this diet are Greg Doucette and Reminghton James. No more chicken, brocolli and sweet potato.

The food is really good.

 

[Torn Mind]

You put up a pizza video.
This is the toast video?

Seems like a diet for a very specific purpose sold to those who don't really give a shit about whole picture of health and want to look meaty and sexy while still eating some "vice" foods(the starches are shittier than the fats, let me be clear. But since they get burned up as the guy is working out, the only matter is toof damage and P. gingivalis going wild if the meathead sex cannon doesn't care for his teeth). The pros that use the diet well, more power to them, but I have a hunch the number of actual powerlifters and bodybuilders are much too few to make a fortune from selling this diet.

I find that general classifications of foods by organism kingdom or type of fuel in food(fat, carb, etc) too vague.

Pepperoni is likely nitrate preserved but turkey? The only good way to eat fucking turkey meat is cooking that fucking bird Thanksgiving style.

The key word is sell. Americans, even the fucking homeless, are far too stuck in the first world of eating pleasurably to really just accept a bit of austerity and misery to the taste buds for actual health.

While it sounds like I'm never following the diet, I have sort accidentally fallen into it into the carb binging at times. Trying to go no sugar to protect teeth led me to breaking it via binging on the likes of custard pies and éclairs when tasks required mental sharpness.

It's still better than the utter sugar and carb centric bullshit the American mainstream diet is(both the unhealthy and so-called healthy variations). But I have my doubts about consuming sugar substitutes frequently. Sucralose and acesulfame potassium are both nasty to me after the faux sweetness wears off.

 

[Mai72]

Seems like a diet for a very specific purpose sold to those who don't really give a shit about whole picture of health and want to look meaty and sexy while still eating some "vice" foods(the starches are shittier than the fats, let me be clear. But since they get burned up as the guy is working out, the only matter is toof damage and P. gingivalis going wild if the meathead sex cannon doesn't care for his teeth). The pros that use the diet well, more power to them, but I have a hunch the number of actual powerlifters and bodybuilders are much too few to make a fortune from selling this diet.

I find that general classifications of foods by organism kingdom or type of fuel in food(fat, carb, etc) too vague.

Pepperoni is likely nitrate preserved but turkey? The only good way to eat fucking turkey meat is cooking that fucking bird Thanksgiving style.

The key word is sell. Americans, even the fucking homeless, are far too stuck in the first world of eating pleasurably to really just accept a bit of austerity and misery to the taste buds for actual health.

While it sounds like I'm never following the diet, I have sort accidentally fallen into it into the carb binging at times. Trying to go no sugar to protect teeth led me to breaking it via binging on the likes of custard pies and éclairs when tasks required mental sharpness.

It's still better than the utter sugar and carb centric bullshit the American mainstream diet is(both the unhealthy and so-called healthy variations). But I have my doubts about consuming sugar substitutes frequently. Sucralose and acesulfame potassium are both nasty to me after the faux sweetness wears off.

I like Remington James video on anabolic french toast. What I do is I'll change the plan a bit. Instead of 4 slices on bread, I'll use 3. I'll also add 1 egg, and 2 slices of turkey bacon. I'll also add some dark chocolate chips. It taste great, and I get about 50 grams of protein per dish. I'll make about 6 for the week. I don't do everything in the anabolic diet. The downside is you can't eat fat. Even good fats. This is a big issue for me. I have taken out the peanut butter, and put in Fitbit PB2. You get all the benefits of peanut butter, but no fat. But, I still eat whole eggs (1-2), avacado, sardines. I also eat a huge salad with walnuts and olive oil with my lunch. What I like to do with the anabolic diet is I'll include 1-2 meals into my daily eating plan. The other issue I have is the reliance on artifical sweetners. Remington showed off what he eats in a day, and he had 4 bottles of 0% calorie pepsi, and mountain dew. I use filtered water and pure green tea instead. I can't see myself drinking cola all day. Even the 0% calorie kind.

 

[Torn Mind]

You can't eat fats? Perhaps there is a ambiguous usage of the term here. My reading of the Dr. Mauro Di Pasquale diet called "The Anabolic Diet" I've googled recommends 60% fat intake and alternation between low-carb and high-carb binge days. The Doucette and Remington's diet seems not aligned to that at all.

Excess protein is wasted or stored as fat, so unless someone is a gym rat working the muscles hard to burn off the starch and protein intake, it's not a necessary diet.



I'm glad I never have to diet strictly for weight, thus leaving my mind free to focus strictly on picking out specific foods with micronutrients and specific effects. The "fuel" foods are merely commodities and I select them based the least damaging effect on body, primarily avoiding any further teeth and gum damage, and thus I choose cellulose and fat and try to limit carbs and sugar.




I'll just make regular french toast with real sugar and whole eggs before dental cleaning day. And a pass on any syrup. Those days are long gone for me.

 

[Torn Mind]

The "Remington" Anabolic:

The "Pasquale" Anabolic

Very different principles

 

[deadlyapp]

I'm not going to bother spending my time listening to some new fad diet, but if it is in fact a zero fat diet, I wish your poor hormones well.

 

[Torn Mind]

I'm not going to bother spending my time listening to some new fad diet, but if it is in fact a zero fat diet, I wish your poor hormones well.

Zero fat is the biggest fraud in the world. Makes you physically miserable. Mentally miserable. And makes you feel you are on a proverbial hamster wheel chasing losing weight while eating the exact stuff contrary to that goal. (Not my personal concern since I'm a constant 6ft, 120lbs; I eat whole fats intentionally to kill appetite. 3 bacon strips for the whole day can work for me sometimes)

The need to exercise is the result of naturally-occurring carbohydrate overheating. Exercise is essentially a waste of resources as it is labor without results.

Zero fat only works because it appeals to intuition and not how the body actually works.

I find it a little suspect that Remington James uses "anabolic" despite his diet(high protein and carbs with little fat) being completely contrary to the other "anabolic" diet(High-fat low carb with allowance for a couple carb binge days) .

 

[MrSquished]

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