vega5 wrote: Pump your giving some seriously practical advice these days and it really made me for one realise that we're all maybe a bit too obsessed with eating "clean" and whatever goes with being a recreational body builder.
I was paging through one of my old Flex magazines the other day and came across a write up of when Melvin Anthony was preparing for a comp and Dennis James was helping him. In the first place what surprised me was that the guy was eating like 320g oats a day and in the one meal they were chowing down on ribs (no marinade and oven baked) but where the difference comes in is the guy does 5 cardio sessions a day and its all low intensity.
Exactly, life is about balance and we can’t obsess whether it is eating too much or too little. Just realise if you a fat sloth it is going to take time to lose that weight. Going on a HECTIC diet, will work no doubt, but if you do not control all aspects of your life you will land up back where you started. So rather slowly lose the weight just like you slowly put it on, no strain on the body. Also take time to realize why you let yourself get that size in the first place or what is your obsession with eating, do you have a chemical imbalance that you are trying to feed the body to give these quick serotonin boosts (mild depression), I don’t know.. However I do know if you head off in a extreme route something else will fall out of balance, eg: having an actual life.
