Hell Yeah!
In the words of the immortal Samuel L. Jackson, "Hell MuthaF@*#ing Yes"!
I finally dropped some weight - 4 lbs to be exact and I am freaking excited. It is about time. After busting ass on the cardio, changing diets for the umpteenth time, psychological tricks on my mind, etc, etc, etc I finally got some of this damn weight off.
How did I do it? Well…..I sure the Hell didn’t eat 6 times a day. I didn’t eat only chicken and brocolli. I didn’t cut out all of my carbs. I didn’t count calories. I didn’t work some macro nutrient magic. I didn’t even do cardio! I went against EVERYTHING that is preached, taught, extolled, etc on this and every other site, book, magazine, etc I have read over the years. Yes….. I went against them all. Why? Well for one, I can only make myself eat so much chicken, eggs, and brocolli. I want a great physique, but really! I’ve only got one life and I don’t want to sit on my death bed trying to remember what a damn pizza taste like. If eating that prolongs my life, well I don’t want to say I don’t want a long life, but can’t we all just get along (with food)? I LOVE food. It’s kind of like Dennis Leary said (man I am quoting everone here LOL) about cigarettes, "Yeah it takes off the last years of your life, but those are the worst years anyway. The years your shitting yourself and drinking dinner through a straw".
So in my quest to bust this gut I found a forum by 2 dudes who have given me my tast buds back - Wave_length and Fatdaddy67. Both go extensively on how they lost weight and shredded by doing IF and the Warrior Diet. Wave_length is eating a ton of great freakin food - yes, fried food too! Dude drinks protein shakes all day (100 grams) and then eats like a S.O.B. Man, he’s got pictures of the food and everything! Same with Fatdaddy67. Also, Wave_length talks about some dude named TImberwolf who is SHREDDED! Does pretty much the same thing.
Pizza! BEER! Burgers! Fries! whatever. Oh, and did I say BEER! Yes you can have beer or wine on this venture. I pigged out at a Mexican buffet yesterday (and you know that stuff ain’t healthy!) and then later drank like a fish. Weighed myself today and BAM! 4 lbs off. Some may say that I would have 5 lbs off without the beer, but I’ll take the beer and 4 lbs.
Did I get hungry for the week? Yeah a little bit. But I just munched on some carrots (that’s what I had at the time), an occasional handful of almonds, and a little protein powder. Plus my 1 1/2 gallons of water and I was fine. In fact, I felt MORE energized than I did on the 6 meals a day protocol.
I will continue this journey and report results. If anyone actually reads this post, go to the forum and type in wave_length 2009 (he also has a fat loss for noobies forum), fatdaddy67 (warrior diet experiment), and the official warrior diet forum to get info on this strange but effective cutting deal. I did and so far so yum yum good!
October 9, 2009 at 7:52 am
How’s the diet working for ya at this point? I screwed mine up somewhat and added a lot more crap to it in the evenings for a while and gained some weight, but I"m back on track now following the same diet plan. I did alter it a little in the last couple of weeks. Here is what I was doing before: morning - water and vitamins and drink some olive oil, mid morning start sipping a shake that had 50 g of protein. Lunch - ate about 1000 calories or so, late afternoon - when I started feeling a litle hungry again I went back to that same shake. When I got off of work at about 5PM - finished the shake, went home, lifted weights, did some walking, then started on the next shake (also 50 g protein) until it was done, then off to bed.
I recently swapped the last shake for regular food, just not a ton if it. That one shake is like 405 calories with 50 g of protein, so I just eat foods that give me that same amount, or close.
Same results!
If you are counting calories, then the totals for the day are all you really need to be concerned with here. Wave_length goes lower cals on the weekdays and pigs out more on the weekends. Calorie cycling in effect, and I had great results with that when I was eating 7 times a day, and I get the same results now.
My biggest problem is self control after I have eaten all the calories I should for the day and I am not hungry, but I would end up snacking on crap right before bed. BAD! lol