Hey guys,

After reading and reading, and talking to a buddy of mine who is big on Beverly supplements and diet, I decided to give this a full 12 week run(bought my supplements already)... And if I see a big difference over my normal stuff, then, of course, I'll stick with beverly.

I can afford U40's and Mass Amino's.

I'm 5'10 195 lb's and about 15% bf (I haven't had it checked lately, but, I've had it checked enough times to know where I'm @ give or take 1-2%).

Anyway, on to the diet part. I've gotten as low as 8%(skinfold)one summer with a typical 40/30/30 p/c/f which worked out to about 200p/150c/75/f, and I've had success with a ckd type diet(to about 10% bf).

After reading about Beverly's principles for the past month or so, here's my current diet(all grams include U40's{4 per meal} and Mass Amino's{during workouts}).

It's a carb cycling plan revolving my carb-up days around my HST workouts.

50/20/30 Sun/Tue/Thu/Sat with carb-up meals on Tue and Sat(2 of my 3 workout days).

Low-Carb on M/W/F

Goal is to drop to about 10% and maintain it, maybe adding some muscle along the way or at least after I get there. I'm an endo so this has been my toughest thing(edit:maintaining low bf%).

Typical week would look like this:
Sun-290p/115/78
Mon-280/27/105
Tue-290/224/80
Wed-280/27/105
Thu-290/115/78
Fri-280/27/105
Sat-290/224/80

Sorry for being long-winded, but, I wanted to paint the complete picture so I could make the best of my new supplements.


So, here's the question: As a Beverly plan, how does this stack up? What changes, if any, do I need to make?

Thanks

Hi Jeremy - Expect no miracles from BI supplements, but you will be able to count on the fact that they are what the lables say and that you will get consistent high quality products.

Two things strike me about your plan. 1 - The huge swings in carbs and #2 the relatively high fat content.

Do a search on the board here for carb cycling and you will see some recent posts by Aram and Craig that explain a typical carb cycling plan which is usually set up as HI, LO, NO, HI, LO, NO, NO and then repeating. No days might be between 25-50 g of carbs, LO 50-75g and hi 125-200g depending on a lot of different factors.

Your rotation is different as are the ranges. Your fats are also higher than I would typically expect to see. 35-50g of fats should be more than sufficient. Normally you would add to the protein grams rather than to the fat grams when dropping carbs very low. There is not a need to maintain total daily calories at the identical level. Your overall daily calories can be somewhat lower on very low carb days.

Have you asked the BI consultants to work with you on a diet plan? It is a free service. You just fax them your current status and goal informaiton and they get back to you with a suggested plan.

There is no one good way of doing this, each person is somewhat unique, but there are proven plans that seem to work well for most persons who try them.

Good luck in meeting your goals.

Thanks for answering.

Your answer left me a bit confused though. Why do you recommend only 15-20% fat when the standard Beverly diet recommends 30%?

50/20/30 is what I keep seeing.

It depends on what your current goals are and other factors like age, body type, current stats, past knowledge of how your body reacts to certain diets, etc.

For myself, and for most on a pre-contest body fat reduction diet 30% fat would be on the high side. Personally I bump up my protein higher and reduce the fat percentage and then use the carbs for manipulation. Last season pre-contest my ratios were around 60P/20C/20F on high carb days and 62/13/25 on low carb days but that was just a snap shot. The percentages change slightly as you drop total k/cals and or carb rotate using a HI, LO, NO scheme. If the fats are healthy fats 25% can work fine. 30% is just a little high for me, but for some it might work fine.