I'll just leave this here before you kids starving your body of macronuetrients it needs because of brainwashed fad diets start trying to tell me I'm wrong
The Ultimate Cutting Diet - Devised By Pro Natural Bodybuilder Layne Norton | SimplyShredded.com
Where would you like me to start on this one? I guess I'll start where is logical:
Every person is different and that means in every way, diet and metabolism included. So the whole idea behind an Ultimate Cutting diet is full of shit. Any diet that claims to be the best for everyone and that it will work for anyone is full of shit.
My diet goes like this:
1 meal a day, usually ramen or a McChicken with McSweet-Tea. (the former around 140 calories and the latter around 750 calories)
12 cigarettes a day
9 hour standing shifts with lifting and constant moving around.
Now I'm down to 168lbs and cutting pretty fast. I'm not saying that this road is for everyone, and I don't suggest it unless you know that you can handle it, and I've been trained to know how to live off as little food as possible for days at a time. So I know how t
rk with what I am doing. Another person might try and do what I am doing and fail terribly and get sick or it might work perfectly for them.
I have also followed different regimens for when I was bulking to add muscle fast. And my diet consisted of something much different and my workout regimen was intense. Yet I knew how to make it work for me.
It all comes down to knowing your body and shocking your body into a diet is not knowing your body. Its punishing it. If you go from eating 8k calories a day down to less than 2k and change your actual food intake drastically, you will not go in the direction that you want to, and it can even be less healthy to do that. Gradual working into that is what is needed. You can't go from a high protein meat filled diet to salads and healthy turkey and shit. It just doesn't (always) work.
I'm not saying you don't know your shit for
your body. What you're doing probably works best for you, and I say kudos for finding out what it is that works for you. Most people give up because they keep trying these fads and these bullshit diets that don't actually work and give up thinking it's not for them. But it is all based solely on the person, and their originating diet.
Every meal is like this. Intaking 5+K cals a day. Macros are 40/40/20, as usual.
Lunch is post workout with lots of carbs.
I put on an average of 2 lbs a week. Mainly lean mass.
Intaking over 350gs of protein a day.
750 cal shake and 55gs of protein after I work out, plus lunch.
I also intake creatine and other supps
Starting gallon of milk a day for a month or two once I'm back stateside, should gain 15-20 lbs in first month.
Starting dirty bulking until 210 lbs, then cutting to sub 10% bf again.
For you guys focusing on no break or grains, why? Shit's stupid, just work out and keep a 40/40/20 diet and you will cut all the weight just fine.Don't starve yourself by making deficit cal intakes or watching what you eat by only eating salads and shit. Get your 40% protein, 40% fats, and 20% carbs a day
Protein for muscle growth and recovery
Fats for hormone balancing and creation (testosterone, etc)
And carbs for energy
I mean, unless you're a fatass that doesn't burn any of the carbs and fat, then yea. But if you're actually working out and active.... lol eat that shit. lol@low/no fat
brb low T levels
If it fits your macros, eat it.
IIFYM — | If It Fits Your Macros
Every single thing you are saying here is not 100% true. Carbs and fats are needed, this is widely known, and yet people focus on the bullshit of saying that fats are bad, and that just not true. You need carbs and you need fats. Bottom line. There are healthy fats and unhealthy fats, and carbs are carbs. If you want to get to the nit picking in this, then we can go there: polyunsaturated fats are good. Monounsaturated fats. Also good. Anything saturated is bad. SO that statement is misleading
Carbs: you need carbs in your body. Simple fact. Carbs are the engines to your energy machine. Without carbs, you lose energy and focus while you workout. All that can be said.
Milk is good for your body. A gallon a day isn't. It can lead to your natural processes (aka shitting) being backed up. Last thing you need while doing any kind of phase, whether it be cutting or bulking is to be constipated. You can't push the rest of the excess that you didn't use or that your body can't use out of your system, you also can't push the literal shit out. And that stops weight loss, and can cause bloating in the lower abdominal area and build up of secondary nutrients (garbage nutrients)
which leads to belly fat.
There is only one proven method to losing weight. Caloric deficit. You have to burn more calories than you intake. That is obvious. Stating otherwise is ignorant to how the body works. I'm not saying eat like a rabbit or anything, but caloric deficits are the only way to actually burn (bad) fats.
Next note: testosterone is a naturally occuring hormone in the body and it exists for one sole purpose: make men just that, men. It decreases once you get in worse shape and your body is weak and stationary. If that happens to you, production goes down. That much is true. But testosterone can be created in the body by working large muscle groups, like the leg, chest, or back muscles. Working any of these groups to the point of failure then using a protein and a creatine to rebuild and get you ready for the
next cycle.
As for macronutrients, they are a simple little thing people trying to spew some "secret" answer throw out there a lot. fact of the matter is, so long as your nutrient intake is something other than Little Debbie, or McDonalds, and you are getting all of your nutrients, you will be fine. Just do what is needed to stay in shape. Otherwise you're wasting your time.
I'm cutting now.. these are my rules.
-Don't drink calories
-No-Low Sodium
-50g carbs or less
-No dairy. Cheese, milk, etc
-Protein Shakes are okay, mixed with water.
-No-low fats
-Consume 150g of protein a day
-No sugar
-No starchy vegetables (peas, corn, etc)
-Gallon or more of water a day
-No carbs after 6
-No fruit
You are right with a few things, but wrong a few others; let me explain:
-No-low sodium is ignorant. Sodium is needed in your body to prevent hypernutriemia. Basically that means you've washed all of the nutrients out of your body, and there is nothing to stop you from overhydrating. And since you are intaking a gallon a day with little-no sodium, it's not far off.And not to mention, everything has some level of sodium in it, even if minutely. So you can never escape it. Ever.
-No-low fats is also ignorant. Just watch the type of fats you eat. Refer to the section above where I refer to good and bad fats.
-Starches are NEEDED. You need starches. Simple as that. Not a fuck ton of them, but you need them, so having basically no starches is just stupid. Starches contain building blocks to muscle fiber, both lean and bulk. So you might want to rethink that
-Carbs after 6 don't matter. They really dont. So long as you aren't falling asleep immediately after eating a carb heavy meal, you're fine. Trust me on this one.
-No sugar is not a good idea. The main amino acids that comprise your muscle fibers have sugar in them. The starches have sugar in them as well, so if you double-cut, you're losing a major ingredient to the muscle recipe. Soda sugar = bad. Fruit sugar = good. Which brings me to my next point:
-Not having fruit in your diet is just plain wrong. They have the natural sugars that curb appetite. And they drive off the cravings for bad sugars (candy, soda, etc). Not to mention the metabolic nutrients that most of them have, specifically blue berries that stimulate your thyroid and helps to release HGH and increases your metabolic rate as well. Fruits are a win-win in the diet area because they are HEALTHY.
I do a relatively Paleo diet eating normally, although I occasionally eat grains.
Planning to start a new diet for gaining muscle mass as an ectomorph.
The list of foods I'll be cycling through is pretty long, but as far as protein goes.
* Chicken Breast
* Cottage Cheese
* Turkey Breast
* Salmon
* Tuna
* Ground Beef
* Whole Eggs
* Egg Whites
* Shrimp
* Halibut
* Swordfish (although hard to get)
* Isopure Zero Carb Whey Protein
* Optimum Nutrition Whey Protein
* Myoplex Meal Replacement Packets
* Designer Whey Protein
All of this stuff has a lot of protein, and especially the whey protein has a shit load of calories.
Will be trying to do 5 - 6 meals a day with protein bars in between.
Then I have complex carb foods (rich, potatoes, beans, yams, and yogurt), complex carb vegetables (asparagus, cucumbers, eggplant, onions, tomato, and peppers), simple carb foods (grapefruit, mangos, plums, rasperies, oranges, grapes, and kiwis [<3]), and then high fat foods like peanuts and oils.
No grains. Fruits, vegetables, meats, nuts, and oils mainly.
This literally looks like to was copy and pasted from a body building website. Like...Almost word for word with the list. So To save you the time and the $24.88 per swordfish steak, let me help you:
Gold Standard Whey Protein. Take all of that money you were going to spend and go spend it on a tub of that stuff. There are 2 types of protein that are used in different circumstances: casein (formerly egg) protein and whey protein. Lean why for cutting or just adding some small mass to your muscles, and mass protein for major bulk gains. Casein helps with the same but has a long range of other uses, but bulking is the main thing that sonmabitch is used for. Casein (bulk) and Whey (bulk) will yield the best results.
Everything else with your diet is pretty spot on. Just don't forget avacado and almonds. Two of the best fats and protein sources outside of steak and shakes.
I'm not trying to move you guys away from what you are doing, but you need to think about what you are doing, what you are eating and what the point of it all is. I have a lot of experience on diets and fads and supplements and shit. I've contributed to the physical training of over 140 United States Marines, both in and out of a deployment area. So I have a small wealth of knowledge on the area.
