Almost all kinds of cheeses are fair game as well. Use the full fat and non-skimmed varieties.
Keep in mind that cheese spreads, cottage and ricotta cheese are higher in carbohydrates and
thus less appealing. Brie, camembert, muenster, gruyere and monterey jack are very low in carbs
and good for the diet.
Whole eggs are great. Deviled eggs can be a good snack food to keep in the refrigerator to
use. Butter, margarine, and oils (focusing on poly and monounsaturated oils) are fine. Nuts
and seeds like walnuts and sunflower seeds are also good. Condiments such as salt, vinegar, oil,
and mayonnaise are good Anabolic Diet foods, although we urge you to use oil and vinegar
dressing most of the time because most other commercial salad dressings are in the vicinity of
7 percent carbohydrates.
Sugar is going to be a problem for people with a sweet tooth. You can end up craving it, especially
during the first 3 weeks of the diet. Look to appease any cravings along this line with low carb
drinks and desserts with artificial sweeteners (no sorbitol, fructose, etc.). Diet soft drinks are fine.
You can also put sugar free jello to good use. Topping it with carb-free whipped cream may
be just what you’re looking for to gain control. You can eat a ton of it, it has no carbs, and
bodybuilders have found it quite successful in ceasing any cravings.
Another big factor here is that, even with cravings, you’re only putting off satisfying them
until the weekend. You can eat basically anything then. We’re just partitioning or separating
foods here. We’re not saying you can’t have pizza or lasagna. You just have to wait for the
weekend. That’s a lot better than other diets where you’re basically stranded on Low-Fat or
even Low-Carb Island for the rest of your life.
This can also work for you psychologically. You’re giving yourself a goal. Just get to the
weekend and you can have that pizza. You’re giving yourself something to look forward to. It
can even be fun. It doesn’t present the kind of depression and boredom you get eating the same
thing over and over, week after week, month after month. You don’t have to come up with an
elaborate set of recipes to keep yourself sane.
And when you get to the weekend, do what you want! Get satiated on the foods you want.
Satisfy those cravings. Some people will go overboard at the beginning of the diet and eat until
they’re nearly sick. Most will overdo to some degree, but this is fine. It gets easier as you go.
Once they’ve been on the diet awhile, they won’t have that strong desire for ice cream or lasagna
anymore. They’ll eat it but they won’t pig out and, as they start adjusting their diets and dialing
them in for maximum muscle growth, they’ll begin to see some real gains and acquire some real
knowledge about the way their body works, and how adjustments can be made to achieve their goals.
THE BEST DIET
When on the high fat portion of the diet, we urge you to look for some variety in the foods
you eat during the day. You’ll be eating plenty of meat, but look for opportunities to supplement
it with other foods. Later, in the supplement section of this book, we’ll talk about the importance
of fish in the diet as a hedge against any possible health problems. Look to add fish and other
foods to your diet to obtain some balance and make the diet more interesting and effective.
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