I'm coming off of 3 months of low-carb dieting using the Anabolic Diet from Dr. Pasquale. It worked like a champ for losing fat and maintaining muscle, I lost 6% body fat while keeping my body weight the same during that time. Thing is, gaining weight seems nearly impossible, and I just don't know if I can keep this as a lifestyle diet. Anyone have any experience maintaining a similar plan? I need to gain some weight at this point and at least I know if I go the bulk method I can lose it quickly on the low-carb, but I'd just as soon grow a bit slower if it meant I could avoid the fat altogether.

Steve,
If you want to maintain and possibly loose a little more fat as well, then look at the LEAN GAIN diet that I followed and have posted on my website at www.geocities.com/kburger10/TRANSFORMATION2K3_LEANGAIN.html

There are some good gaining diets that you can look at from other clients articles. I used a modified version of Gary Passmore's and found good results w/ it. Early this fall I am going to switch to Sean Young's. Might want to check a couple of them out.

-Kevin B.
BURGER'S BODYBUILDING WORLD

Link was stretching margin of page over 110%

[This message was edited by Admin on Tue August 05 2003 at 10:50 AM.]

[This message was edited by Admin on Tue August 05 2003 at 10:51 AM.]

Well Steve what is your bodyfat right now. If you went from 18 to 12 that is easily maintained with a diet with carbs in it. If you went from 12 to 6 that will be tougher to maintain and introduce carbs and no fat at all. As you add in carbs at such a low % you will likely add bodyfat, but the key is to keep it below 10%. From there you can always strip away a % or 2 and be very lean for the summer. Now the stage is another matter. My point is that to gain more muscle you may need to add a little fat, but a good diet will allow you to gain muscle slowly with minimal fat. Kevins suggestions on the diets are great. A diet with some carbs at breakfast, lunch and post workout will provide what is needed to grow but keep the bodyfat in check. I dont think youll have to stay on the low low carb all your life. Cardio may be necessary as well. Another thing to consider is post your current diet in the diet section on the board and well recommend where carbs can be added for slow gradual muscle growth without the fat. Later,

JT--

Kevin, thanks for the info. Nice layout and great pics man. Jason, thanks for your input as well. My body fat is still around 12%. I started adding in some carbs to start slowly adding the weight back on, and the fat stopped dropping. I think I may use 4 more weeks to get down to 10% as you suggest, and then introduce the carbs in slowly to put some weight on. The Grow Diet cycling gain for 3 weeks and hardeing for 2 weeks back and forth might be a good one for me.

Thanks again.

Steve,

Do you have that diet you used available? A link to it? I have never heard of it and was wondering about that diet

Stepper2, you can read up on this diet at the following address: http://www.metabolicdiet.com/. You can also read an evaluation from a bodybuilder who tried it here: http://t-mag.com/html/69eat.html . I used it with much success for losing fat while maintaining and even adding muscle, but trying to add weight has been impossible (much as the bodybuilder found), and I just don't know if it's a lifestyle diet I want. Good luck.

I only read the first couple paragraphs of this diet, but it sounds like a CKD diet to me. This diet is designed to put your body in a state of ketosis, thus burning fat for fuel. It has "refeeds" on the weekends. Not too good for training, better have a good set your first couple sets, because energy runs out quickly. Probably a more advantageous one would be the TKD(targeted ketogenic diet). This allows you to target carbs, a certain amount, about 50 or so before and after training, so at least you have a little more productive workouts. The Bev diets are a much better choice for us.

Ron, this diet does exactly that. You keep your carbs low, but not at 0. Anywhere from 30 - 100 depending on how well your body utilizes fat. As for training, once you get fat-adapted you have all the energy you need. At least I was able to train for a powerlifting meet doing it, but that involves less ATP which I'm sure would be harder.

As it is, I start my Bev diet next week and am very excited about it. The one negative with this diet was I found it near impossible to add weight on it. I'm hoping to add some weight this winter without having to bulk up.