Carbs on APD

[burch81]

Has anyone tweaked the APD diet to utilize carbs? Reading Lyle mcdonald, he advises 50 grams to prevent the body using amino acids as fuel.
Thoughts?

 

[KrisL]

It's not necessarily a zero-carb diet. I think one of his clients even did APD+Potatoes because it made him happy. IIRC, keeping it under 150g carbs/day will let you hang on to ketosis, though I have trouble even hitting 50g/d unless I make myself eat them. I honestly forget the carb policy on PSMF days, but I'd assume they're actually as close to zero carb as shakes will allow. He's got like 9 blog posts on the diet (Evolution of My Diet, Introducing, FF, NTFF, Italians, Rampage, etc). If you haven't read them all, do so.

 

[burch81]

That's great cheers.
Only reason i would want to include carbs is i train up to 3 times a day. Wrestling practice and a weight program but i like to do weird **** in the gym and hit my favourite lifts and the weight program is kind of rigid. I mix up the 6 shakes in a gallon jug and just make sure it's gone by the end of the day.
So it's simply a case of tweaking the diet to work with what i do

 

[CNPJamie]

Yo guys- I covered adding carbs and the dispute about when here: http://chaosandpain.blogspot.com/2012/04/apex-predator-diet-for-athletes-and.html?zx=eeb46d3e42d75b49