posted January 28, 2000 11:43 PM            

meal-1
8 egg whites, 2 whole eggs,2 pieces of bacon,and one piece of cheese

meal-2
2 scoops protein powder, and one serving of peanuts.

meal-3
3 hotdogs, one piece of cheese

meal-4
8 OZ steak (with a dab of A-1 of course )

meal-5
1 scoop protein powder

Thats all there is to it. not too bad, and i know ill be able to live with it since im making myself
do it. I follow these meals from mid-day sunday until mid-day friday. Friday begins my carb up
where my goal is to eat as many carbs with protein as i can until sunday morning. Once
sunday morning arrives I use insulin to lower my blood sugar so i will get into ketosis by
monday. I have played with this for a while now and have figured out what works for me. this
may not work for you,as you may be more insulin sensitive than i am or less sensitive. What i
do is on sunday about an hour after i eat a carb loaded breakfast, I take 3IU's of humilin R
insulin. I then wait a little longer than 2 hours and take another 2 IU's, 2 hours later i then
take 1 IU. I do this early because it takes 6 hours to finish and you dont want to go to bed
until at least 2 1/2 -3 hours after your last IU. Humilin R peaks in 2 hours. Once i begin the
insulin i do not eat carbs for the rest of sunday and i just go on my diet i outlined above. this
is a sure way for me to get into ketosis. the idea is to get your blood sugar below 50, and
with the insulin and no carbs it always works.
You have to train somewhat wierd on this diet. You want to have your whole body trained by
tuesday. Last time i trained sunday,monday and tuesday. This time im going to train monday
and tuesday only. Upper body one day, and lower the next. You need to do this because on
friday you perform a full body depletion workout, just before the weekend carb up. The idea
here is to make your muscles hungry for the carbs and then to flood them right after. It works,
you can actually SEE the difference from friday to saturday. I like to eat protein at this time as
well because the (natural) insulin spike will shuttle that to your muscles as well. One thing to
remember on the carb up is to watch the fat intake. fat will store as well at this time. Last time
i did it i ate everything on the weekend,but this time im going to be more strict.
How i plan to work the diet is...
I always begin by making sure my temp in the morning is normal. I know mine will be because
i have been eating my ass off on my bulking phase. You want your temp to be normal because
this is an indication that your metabolic rate is good. I will check my temp every monday after i
start. During about the 3rd or 4th week, my temp will begin to drop as my body gets used to
the new calories(thyroid downregulation). This is when i will phase in my t3(cytomel). I will use
just enough to bring my temp up to normal again. Last time 25mcg's worked fine. I continue
this pattern weekly until im at about 75mcg's of t3. This could be the 8th week or it could be
the 6th, it all depends on how you react. When im dieting I keep cardio to a minimum. You can
either reduce your calories, or do cardio. theyre the SAME thing. The problem with cardio is
that it usually results in muscle loss. Im not sure if youd get any loss on this type of diet as it
is anti catabolic. I just do 20 mins 3 times a week. Keep in mind that you are not eating any
carbs so you are only burning ketones. Some believe that when you burn ketones you make
your body create more, wich is good. im not sure if that is correct though.
The ways to know you are in ketosis are: you buy ketostix. you can get them at the grocery
store or in a drug store. they are in the diabetic section. they are strips you dip in your piss
and they change color to tell you if you are in ketosis or not. Another way to know is if your
breath smells like ass! ketosis gives you dragon breath from hell, make sure you not using
sugar filled gum to mask it. You can also get a glucometor and check your blood sugar.
Make sure you are taking in enough water. one of the cool things about this diet is that you
lose all of the water you are holding. I like that because i hate holding water. It is also
important to take in tons of water during your carb up as well. Make sure you are taking a
fiber and vitamin supplement. Last time i took fibercon or whatever and it worked fine. If you
do not take anything for fiber you will not be shitting much, except for on the weekends. other
than that its great. you will not be too hungry, i find i have to try to remember to eat wich is
rare for me on a diet. Once in ketosis I feel much better than i normally do. im in a better
mood, and have more energy. Some people feel like shit for the first week, expect this..but it
goes away.
Another thing is, you do not have to use insulin or cytomel to make this diet effective. I do
because I want the best results I can get and they help. Some people use the ECA stack
instead of the cytomel, its personal choice.
I hope this post has been at least somewhat informative to those who wanted to learn more
about this type of diet.I know i just jumped from topic to topic, and i apologize for any
confusion. If you have any questions, please dont hesitate to ask. thats why i started this
thread. some good links to give you more info are.. http://www.solid.net/~homerc/
http://solid.net/lowcarb/lylemcd/
these were the first things i read reguarding this diet. everything else ive learned has been by
talking to Dan Duchaine and Lyle Mcdonald about various topics. You can get both Mcdonald
and Duchaine's books at www.qfac.com
PEACE

[This message has been edited by BIGDAWG205 (edited January 28, 2000).]

posted January 29, 2000 01:56 AM         

your damn right about the ass breath, my girlfriend said it smells like rotten friut mixed with nail polish remover.

gotta use the gum...but some should be careful, aspartame can inhibit ketosis in some people.

listen to big dawg, he knows his low carbing.

posted January 29, 2000 06:56 PM         

iv been on the diet for 4 days and iv lost about 2 lbs so far so i figure i should be good in about a month and a half to 2 months.