[quote=lomox;562519]I'm now on week 2 and its going pretty well I think. There are definately aspects to this diet that cause some red flags to go up though:
[B]1. Eat as much raw nutz and veggies as you want.[/B] Really? Cause I can easily put down 3,000 cals worth fo nutz a day sitting at my desk.
[B]2. <20g protien & fat durring carb loads.[/B] So I can never have a sandwich?
[B]3. Occasions.[/B] Thanksgiving is right around the corner. What happens then? Fall off and get back on? Do the induction period again?
[B]4. HIIT cardio.[/B] While I love it, on such low carbs is it a good idea? Haven't smelled amonia sweat yet so I think I am good.
[B]5.[/B] [B]One day no exercize[/B]. I just can't do this unless I'm sick or something. Like today I did 60min LISS cardio. Its just walking. Hardly exercize IMO.
Other than that I think the plan is solid. I am hoping to see some results in the form of change in body composition and fat distribution soon. I keep carbs on the very low end of 30g net except for carb loads. Pretty much Broccoli and Spinach are my carb sources (and trace carbs from nuts and the like) most of the time with load carbs coming mostly from whole grain bread, low sugar cereal, sugar free cookies (sparringly), sugar free syrup, rice, potatoes and oatmeal.
How long have you been doing it? The website is pretty sketchy as is the company that sells the books. But I found Rob on Facebook so I may ask him these questions myself.[/quote]
> I'd have to check but I think nuts your advised to limit to 2 servings a day or at least your advised to moderate it due to the carb count. Unlimited Veg after your fat adapted but honestly, how much unlimited veg can you pack away without getting painfully bloated, I know I can't do much, fibrous veg doesn't tend to contribute much to overall carb calories, I get about 10-15 gms carbs from 1 kilo of veg daily!
2> Your advised to stick to the per meal limits during the early stages but you can experiment the longer your on the diet, especially when bulking, the whole point of the refeed is to ramp up insulin, increase glycogen and drive the goodness into muscles - I keep the wed load clean and adhere to the limits and sunday's load is a bit more dirty so I can have the bad stuff I like, like pizza and cakese etc!
3> Depends how long your loading/pigging out for, if it's a meal or a day your good I reckon without needing to do the induction again - I was worried about this line of thinking until I realised that if you look at the AD and other CKD's your allowed from 1 meal to 48 hours to load and this length of load doesn't turn you back into a sugar burner!
4> I don't do cardio so can't comment really but technically, your loading glycogen more often on this than you are on DP's keto protocol so in theory, you should be good for hiit and it's only 2 sessions a week?
5> I would say your fine if the last day is just an active recovery day with some LISS, the day off relates more to high intensity training because all the training on this program is high intensity and stressful.
I've been doing this since January this year but before that did the AD from October last year so I had the general gist of the program, really enjoy this way of eating - I'm having the best period of remission (7 months) on my Crohn's disease since I started the diet, the last 3 years has been prety chronic and devastating, this diet change that!!
I quite agree the website is pants, he's left it to rot essentially, not been updated in years which is a shame, Rob is a well educated man and has a lot to offer in training and nutrition imo! I'll have to look him up on FB, would be cool to get some answers to some niggling questions!!