Dylanamus on the Anabolic Diet

[dylanamus]

15-08-2009



Calories: 2223kcal | Carbs: 15.6g | Fat: 167.2g | Protein: 192.8g


16-08-2009



Exercise: 20 Rep Squat routine.

Calories: 1,713kcal | Carbs: 17.2g | Fat: 122g | Protein: 142.2g


17-08-2009



Calories: 2238kcal | Carbs: 24.6g | Fat: 157.3g | Protein: 190.4g


Moods: Happy or neutral, satisfied to very satisfied (hunger wise), slightly sick and a bit down on energy.

How did I go eating out? I had to ask for extra broccoli in place of potato at a restaurant, but other than that, everything was very easy to manage. In fact, I was able to eat fewer carbs the past three days than I have been since beginning the AD.

I've been a bit sick, but I have never felt down or anything. I simply exhibit hay feaver symptoms and feel a little less energetic.

So far so good, but I do look forward to having a coffee with sugar and milk! And the convenience of being able to eat bread and potato on weekends (sandwhiches for lunch and potato at dinner seem to be the most common choices when out and about!). Fat loss has slowed down, but is still on a downward trend. This may be consistent with a decreased frequency of intense exercise.

[joesterizer]

I must admit, the novelty of taking a scientific interest in nutrition has made my apparent strictness very easy to maintain. Beyond understanding that junk food and confectionery was bad for me, I previously just ate whatever tasted good (and more recently started eating things richer in protein)! Understanding the micro nutrient qualities of foods and viewing my body as a biological machine has made giving up the remainder of my vices a breeze. Measuring things has become second nature

I had much the same experience. I see people eating cake, and I ask them "why?" And they say "it tastes good," and I think that is such an inadequate reason to eat something!

I guess we just have a radically different view of food; we need premium fuel for our high-performance machines.

Also, I noticed you are doing a 20 rep squat routine. Why are you doing this in caloric deficit? I thought the 20-repper was for mass gain? (i.e. "squats 'n' milk!")

[dylanamus]

I had much the same experience. I see people eating cake, and I ask them "why?" And they say "it tastes good," and I think that is such an inadequate reason to eat something!

What's worse is I see people (mostly the women in my office) blabbering on about dieting and fat loss and talking about their perception of healthy foods (which is inaccurate in itself), then a second later they are raiding the vending machines for chocolate bars! There's no point commenting because they know it's wrong...

I guess we just have a radically different view of food; we need premium fuel for our high-performance machines.

Well said, sir!

Also, I noticed you are doing a 20 rep squat routine. Why are you doing this in caloric deficit? I thought the 20-repper was for mass gain? (i.e. "squats 'n' milk!")

This is was mostly just bad timing. I had planned on doing the 20 rep squat program as soon as I plateaued on all my lifts, then I was without my rack for a couple of months and by the time I got it back, I was dieting. It is quite torturous doing 20 rep squats without the energy. Obviously I don't expect to grow muscle from it, but at least develop my strength endurance a bit. I'm not sure I'd have the motivation to switch to 3 days of HIIT or circuit training though, and really, what else could I do? Strength training requires a minimum of maintenance calories!

62.5kg consistently lately.

[dylanamus]

Code: Select all

STUDY         RESULT      RANGE
Testosterone  20.6        6.0-30.0
HDL Chol.     1.3         >1.0
LDL Chol.     3.3*        <2.5
Triglyceride  0.8         <1.5
LDL/HDL Rat   2.5
Chol/HDL Rat  3.9
Glucose Fast  2.5         3.0-5.4
Neutro        1.9*        2.0-8.0
Sodium        137         135-145
Potassium     4.3         3.7-5.3
Creatinine    89          55-110
T.Protein     76          60-82

*LDL Cholesterol: Mild increase in LDL-Cholesterol which exceeds the target value and may be excessive in some individuals. Interpret in conjunction with other cardiovascular risk factors.

*Nuetro: Mild eosinophilia. Common conditions associated with eosinophilia are viral infection, allergy, parasitic infestation, drug sensitivity, pulumonary or collagen disease.


Thought I would throw in some other general chemistry and haematology results that may be of interest when I have a future sample set of results.

Thought I'd chuck in Nuetro, which in a round about way, represents white blood cells... This is consistent with my hay-fever symptoms of late. Blood never lies!


I can't really denote much from my cholesterol levels, but will insist on getting a test that distinguishes between free and serum levels the second time around. Basically, I can see nothing to be concerned about from these results. It will be interesting to see how testosterone is affected by continuing the diet.

[dylanamus]

18-08-2009




Calories: 2064kcal | Carbs: 19.7g | Fat: 135g | Protein: 191.7g


Mood: Neutral happiness, satisfied to very satisfied hunger, slightly sick still and a bit down on energy possibly from eye drain. Need to see the optometrist.

I'm resting today to give my knee/calf a break. See how I go tomorrow.

[joesterizer]

Too bad about the timing of your programming. Although, at your weight, your caloric intake on this diet is only 500kcal or so below your maintenance. I keep forgetting not everyone has to eat 3300 calories to maintain weight!

Also, that's interesting about your eyes. Mine got really dried out on the AD as well, but the optometrist said I had eye-bacteria in my contact lens causing it. I just had to rinse them with saline a few times a day. I recommend trying that anyways, it makes your eyes feel nice.

I wonder if low-carb diets cause eye dryness...

[dylanamus]

19-08-2009




Calories: 2080kcal | Carbs: 28.2g | Fat: 141.7g | Protein: 177.1g


There was a cappuccino with two sugars in it sitting on my desk when I got to work. Apparently someone lost a bet and had to buy everyone coffee as a result. So I drank it and fasted for the morning (conveniently having forgotten to bring my pre-made omelette to work anyway)!

Mood: Happy (tax return!), rather hungry, slightly sick still still got sore eyes.

I decided to allow another day rest as my right knee thought it would play up again too!


I have definitely noticed an increase in thirst and I do wake up with a dry mouth and get hot easier than usual. I don't know that this is linked to my eye though. I've seen an optometrist before and I have an astigmatism in that eye, so I guess I just need reading glasses.

[Hash]

Just a note about the measurement website you used: Is it possible that you took the measurements wrong?

The website for measurements you posted might help me, so thank you.
I'm on the 9th week of the AD, but I'm eating maintenance as I'm not interested in losing weight. What i'm interested in though, is losing fat, and was trying to see if maintenance + strength training + some cardio = fat loss. The last measurement I had last week put me @ 22% using the chart that comes w/ the accu-measure calipers, and in those 8 weeks, it has stayed the same, with my weight staying the same.

After seeing the websites you linked for measurement, I remembered another website that showed that the waist/hips is one of the last spots where you lose fat. The accu-measure directions say to take the measurement next to the hip-bone, but if I lost fat elsewhere first, my BF% should've decreased, but my measurements would give me the same value.

Now about being more thirsty, and getting hotter easier, I think I that happens to me, but I can't really be sure because temperatures have changed drastically here since I started the diet. The thirst is definitely there though.

For eye irritation, I sit in front of a PC for 7 hours at work. That alone dries my eyes up, but I haven't seen anything worse since the diet. There can be other reasons for dry eyes though, and the weather + AC + computers play a big role in that.

[dylanamus]

20-08-2009




Calories: 1672kcal | Carbs: 27.1g | Fat: 106.2g | Protein: 146.2g

Exercise: The Bear @ 30kg 7,7,7,7,7 in 7:48 - Decided to keep it light to minimise risk of aggravating my knees.

Mood: Happy, moderately satisfied, feeling healthier and eye not giving as much trouble, still feeling quite unenergetic though.

Progress Photos:

Taken almost immediately after dinner reading 63kg @ 16.2% bf


Relaxed


Tightened, but not flexed.

Hash: My focus is on losing body fat and maintaining muscle - I'm not sure if you got another idea from my log. I have so far dropped 6% bf and 3kg in the time since I have been preparing for and partaking in the Anabolic Diet, which is around 40 days. See for yourself if you think I've lost muscle. I don't think so...

Honestly, I have been doing considerably less exercise now than I did before dieting, so I am happy to attribute the bulk of my fat loss to the diet alone. If your progress is slow, reevaluate your diet and the number of calories you are taking in.

[atypical1]

This is really good stuff. I agree on the fat loss attributed to diet as that exactly mirrors my result too.

james

[dylanamus]

The first carb-up went well. I ate one junk meal - a burger and fries, and ate out quite a lot, opting for chicken avocado and veggies once, veal and pumpkin ravioli another time and finished off some frozen left overs from my pre-diet days of creamy chicken pasta. I also had about 5 beers over the course of the entire weekend.

Coming down off the high and re-entering ketosis put me in a bit of a sullen mood and I didn't have the mental energy to log the food I ate. However, having been eating AD style for so long, I just ate as I normally would, so I can gaurantee my carb intake was under 30g on Monday

Back to normal now:

25-08-2009

Exercise: 20 Rep Squat workout 5.

Mood: Took me a while to get into today, but after a few hours I was back to my pre-carb-top-up state of mental self control and contentment. I was not hungry at any stage throughout the day. Getting back into heavy exercise further improved my mood. I am exhibiting very slight symptoms of hay feaver and have felt rather tired all day until during and after my workout, despite getting 9 hours sleep. A reduction in caffeine may be in order to improve the quality of my sleep.

Calories: 1898kcal | Carbs: 19.4g | Fat: 132.5g | Protein: 176.9g

Now that my induction is over, I will no longer be photographing dinners nor uploading screen dumps from fitday. However, I am happy to share any of this information upon request.

My weight has increased by around 200g since last Friday. I will record again at the end of the week and see if it was just an outlier.

[maroon]

Thanks for posting this Dylan. Very interesting to follow the progress of somebody taking their diet seriously.

Looking strong by the way. Frame looks to be packing a good deal of muscle now. You are pretty much pressing your own bodyweight over your head, when your bf % drops a bit more you are going to look real beasty :p All the hard work seems to be paying off bigtime, congrats.

[Hash]

My weight has increased by around 200g since last Friday. I will record again at the end of the week and see if it was just an outlier.

I believe the weight change is water weight. I used to gain ~1kg over the weekend on the AD.

[dylanamus]

26-08-2009

Mood: Lacking energy/drive, but otherwise content. Satisfied to very satisfied hunger.

Calories: 1867kcal | Carbs: 25.4g | Fat: 123.4g | Protein: 163.7g


Hash, you appear to be correct. Perhaps it was from all the beers?

Anyway, the average of Tue/Wed/Thurs weigh ins is:

61.8kg @ 15.9%bf

Still making some headway.

[dylanamus]

27-08-2009

Exercise: The Bear - extreme effort session.

Mood: Satisfied to very satisfied hunger. Content and relaxed. Decent energy levels.


Calories: 1608kcal | Carbs: 19.5g | Fat: 112.5g | Protein: 140.7g