metabolic diet

[davidg]

Anyone had success with this?

 

[Kid Dynamite]

yes, it worked fairly well for me for the first few weeks. are you trying to gain or lose?

 

[skaman607]

sorry but I have no idea what you are talking about

 

[killroy70]

I've been on the metabolic diet for about a month now, and have been doing very well. I was trying to keep my total daily caloric intake at maintenance level, but ended up losing more weight than I wanted (from 197 to 189), so I'm actually about 500 calories over maintenance and am creeping back into the low 190's. I have definitely retained all of my muscle mass, and probably gained a bit, and have lost a few pounds of fat. I have never eaten very high carb, so the transition was rather easy for me. All week, energy is good, lifts have been going nicely, no real problems to report. I do peform a full 2 day refeed on the weekends, aiming for about 700 grams carbs on friday's and 400 grams on saturdays. I don't do it becasue I feel I need carbs, I do it for the supposed "anabolic effects" to enhance my early week workouts. I plan on staying on the diet for at least 6 months, and depending on where I'm at, possibly longer.

 

[MrMakaveli]

I made great strength gains with it, not much in the way of muscle gain but then, I wasnt very strict with it either.

I put one of my friends on it and he made great strength gains (all new pr's in core lifts).

 

[JJFigure]

Haven't tried it yet, although I'm going to start training with a powerlifter who has had great success with the original anabolic diet. We'll probably evaluate it for my use after comparing it to NHE.

 

[mike1107]

can you explain the "metabolic diet" ??
what is it for? to bulk or to cut ?? both??

 

[skaman607]

that's what I wanted to know

 

[davidg]

can you explain the "metabolic diet" ??
what is it for? to bulk or to cut ?? both??

Both-it is somewhat like the anabolic diet but you do have limited carbs throughout the week.

The problem that I have with it is the amount of saturated fats that is prescribed within the diet.

 

[JJFigure]

You don't HAVE to use saturated fats as your fat source; they're just the easy ones. I eat lean meat sources (chicken, turkey, london broil) and add olive oil, canola oil, and flaxseed oil as my fat sources. I also eat a couple egg yolks/day, but there are so many nutritional benefits to egg yolks, I don't sweat it.

The metabolic/anabolic diet have different plans based on your goals; there's a mass building plan, a maintenance plan, and a cutting plan. It's mainly a matter of calories consumed, and macronutrient percentages. When cutting, the carbs consumed are lower (<30 g/day), and fat and protein percentages are higher - something like 45-50% fat, 40-45% protein, 10% carb. Recommended calorie consumption is 11xbodyweight when cutting; higher when not.