MOBILE. Some people have depot areas of bodyfat. They’re cellulite deposits or pockets of
fat. What we’ve found so far on the Anabolic Diet is that what fat there is gets redistributed
much more evenly on the body frame. There are no pockets or depot areas of fat.
I recently had a patient who had always had problems with large fat deposits on her buttock, inner
thigh and lower abdomen areas. On the Anabolic Diet, she found herself losing fat evenly throughout
the body and was quite pleased to see corresponding portions coming off areas that had never before
responded. We don’t know yet if this works universally, but we’ve seen it enough in other subjects
to know that the Anabolic Diet will work this way on at least a portion of the population.
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EDGE
Along with its many physical and metabolic advantages, the Anabolic Diet will also give you
a psychological edge over the high carb diet. Diets, by their nature, are psychologically tough.
Just the word “diet” itself is enough to send people running to the refrigerator for a soothing,
reassuring mouthful of whatever it is they’re not supposed to eat.
“Diet” implies sacrifice, of doing something that will be unpleasant. They can be almost
impossible to stay on and, if you weren’t already depressed by the diet itself, the fact that you
find yourself giving up and abandoning it can really send you into a tailspin.
The Anabolic Diet is a whole new animal. Its many motivational and psychological advantages
include:
Increased Energy: The hundreds of bodybuilders we’ve monitored on this diet have expressed
great pleasure with the increased energy they seem to have with it. Whether there is an actual
biochemical mechanism causing this, we don’t know. But it’s certain the success of the diet and
increased strength play a role here.
Many people suspect that they’ll experience a loss of energy on the Anabolic Diet because the
body isn’t getting glucose from carbohydrates anymore but, again, this just isn’t true. The free
fatty acids, triglycerides and ketones your body burns provides more than enough energy to get
through a workout. Red meat is also high in creatine, which is one of the compounds that increases
high energy phosphates in the body and the availability of ATP. There’s no lack of energy.
Where you’ll have an energy problem is when you’re overdosing on carbs and, as we’ll discuss
later, increasing serotonin levels in the brain. Likewise, if you go back and forth between diets
like some people have tried to do, the constant transitioning between high fat and high carb
metabolisms will also really take it out of you.
Though the Anabolic Diet contains a carb loading component, it isn’t of the duration necessary
to return the body to a glucose burning metabolism. Like insulin, carbohydrates are controlled
and manipulated in the Anabolic Diet to maximize growth benefits and minimize their drawbacks.
Decreased Mood Swings: Bodybuilders on the Anabolic Diet have also found themselves not
experiencing the wide and chronic mood swings they suffer on other diets. We think this may
have something to do with eliminating the chronic insulin swings you get on a high carb diet.
It’s common on the high carb diet to eat a high carb meal and find yourself feeling down for
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