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I’m new to this anabolic diet and was thinking of giving the diet ago but I’m finding it difficult trying to keep the calories up while keeping the carbohydrates low at 30grams. The diet states you should start at the same calories you are presently taking which my case 3296 cal. The breakdown of the diet says Carbohydrate Intake should be 30grams which in my case would be roughly 32grams 4% that leaves me to find 96% split between fats and Protein. So Protein 46% & Fats 50% that comes to in grams Protein 379, Carbs, 32 & Fats 183 if people are on this diet are they also struggling to come up with a diet sheet?

thats a lot of protein, but try to get some caloricly dense foods to help bump it up..like nuts

I could drop the protein to 40% which drops grams to 329 and up the fats.

Let's see, here's today's menu for me. Just double up on the fatty stuff to bring it to your desired goal. This is all planned out because I know EXACTLY what I'm eating today; it's a huge help to stay on-plan to plan and pack the day's foods!

Breakfast
I was in a hurry, so it was a protein-shake-thingy. 1 scoop IsoPure, 1 tbsp MCT oil (to bump up the fats), 1c 2% Hood's Calorie Countdown, 1 raw egg, and some black coffee afterward. Yeah, I know, some people don't like the idea of eating raw eggs; if that's you, then don't eat 'em! Liquid breakfasts aren't very filling, but they're great in a hurry.

Morning snack
A handful of macadamia nuts (30g), a can of Diet Mt Dew, 50g Pepper Jack cheese, a hard-boiled egg left over from Easter Sunday (they are getting slightly old, gotta eat 'em or throw 'em away!)

Lunch
Chicken leg & thigh, a whole avocado blended into a can of light tuna.

Afternoon snack
30g walnuts, Atkins Advantage Caramel Cookie Dough Bar (I count this as 8g carb, not 2g!), another hard-boiled egg.

Dinner
My daughter is cooking a scrumptious beef pot roast in the crock-pot right now. I'll steam some broccoli with it.

Post-Workout
A serving of Low-carb isopure in water.

Macros for the day: 145g fat, 210g protein, 55g carbohydrate (26g fiber for 29g net carbohydrate), 2284 kcal.

Now, that's like 1000 calories off your target, and also 1000 calories off my maintenance diet, too. To maintain at this weight, I'd double up on walnuts, double up on macadamia nuts, eat more veggies, maybe have a second avocado, score some beef for lunch rather than tuna, have some bacon or steak with my eggs in the morning, have a spinach smoothie with heavy cream and blueberries (damn you, Michelle, for turning me on to that dark green sludge, I kind of like it!) that kind of thing.

Hope it helps!

--Matt B.

redgiki wrote:damn you, Michelle, for turning me on to that dark green sludge, I kind of like it!

Guess what I missed most on my "fat flush" diet Monday & Tuesday?! The Spinach Assassin works her cunning Oleracean wiles on you all!

Certainly helps redgiki....I will try and give this diet a run next monday whether I can stick too it time will tell....Alot of people say they feel tried all the time and no energy for workingout and strenght loss even thou they may up the carbs? Like I say I will give it a try and see if the diets for me.

The problem people have with "low energy" on keto is usually due to not allowing their bodies enough time and low enough carbohydrates to "fat adapt". Don't carb up your first weekend on the diet, and maybe not your second or third if you aren't yet feeling energetic. I've never met anyone who has gone a month -- without eating way too many carbs -- on a low-carb diet that hasn't fat-adapted and felt great.

When I restarted low-carb in September, it took me around 4 days to feel like my energy levels were returning to normal, and two weeks before I felt like my general mood was actually improved versus high-carb. I've tried introducing carb-ups into my diet, and found that I struggle quite a bit to have good energy levels for several days after the carb-up (they fluctuate wildly).

--Matt B.

Just one question is the anabolic diet more suited for the person who wants to maintain his or her body weight while losing fat or a cutting phase, I ask because I'm on a bulk phase and need to add weight & muscle with minimum fat gain.

I thought MCT worked against the anobolic diet in terms of muscle production and fat breakdown redgiki

krs wrote:I thought MCT worked against the anobolic diet in terms of muscle production and fat breakdown redgiki

Where'd you get that?!