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To Times Roman's specific advice on a couple foods, I have to offer a rebuttal. First and foremost, to say that wheat bread is over processed and not a complex carb leaves much to be expounded upon. If a wheat bread product simply states "wheat bread", very often it is nothing more than white bread with the addition of caramel for coloring, and in this aspect you are correct. However, if you look for a product that states "100% whole wheat" or "100% whole grain", you do in fact have a complex carb on your hands, and a food that should be included in the diet.
Secondly, on the subject of white rice, this is still a complex carbohydrate. What makes white rice different from brown rice is simply that the bran has been removed, and therefore the fiber with it. Otherwise, this is still a complex carbohydrate.
Thirdly, in regards to potatoes, this is a complex carbohydrate also. When you compare a sweet potato to any of the several types of white potatoes, the primary difference is that the flesh of a sweet potato has much more fiber than the whites, whereas in white potatoes, the peelings contain most of the fiber. Otherwise, we are still dealing with a healthy carbohydrate. We actually learned this in grade school, but luckily for me I have a girlfriend who is one of the leading registered dietitians in my area. There is a great fallacy out there when it comes to foods that are "anything white", that being that they are simple carbohydrates, but this simply is not the case at all.
And finally, yes, lactose is a simple sugar, but milk contains essential amino acids, not to mention milk is an important source of nutrients that our bodies requires from the very first day of life post-womb. Do we require milk for good health later in life? Absolutely not. But milk is by no means necessarily bad for us, quite the contrary, there are many benefits from consuming milk in correlation with a good diet. If you want to stay away from simple carbohydrates, you need to stay away from refined sugar and most importantly, high-fructose corn syrup.
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. My workouts and diet is just what I've found over the years to be my niche. From time to time I'll drop my reps to 5 or up to 15 for a week to mix things up, but I've found I personally get my best strength and size gains off predominately compound free weight movements using the philosophy of maximum weight + time spent under said weight, using somewhat explosive yet controlled movements. My particular diet is also where I've found success. I find keeping my calories between 3000 and 4000, with whole foods "for the most part" is where I get optimal muscle gains with minimal fat gains. I move up any higher and I just see fat gains moving up while muscle gains stay relatively the same. Although AAS might change that, so I'll keep an open mind in diet alteration. Also, as far as the preexisting pubescent gynecomastia, I've taken Nolvadex and Clomiphene after every PH or DS cycle I did. So I'm still skeptical as to whether it will clear up any preexisting conditions :/.
