Ok, so I’m really new to this way of life. I need some feedback.
I’ve read, like, 80 million articles on this site. My mind is exploding.
I was thinking of drinking protein shakes all day but then have a solid dinner. (I just realized that it’s reminiscent of those old Weight Watcher shakes commercials. Ack!)
I’d have a shake about every 2-3 hrs.
The dinner would typically be 2 veggies and a meat, usually chicken breast or a white fish.
Yeah, this is similar to VD or the old Fat Fast and the MRP diet that Chris Shugs once wrote.
I’ve tried to do something like this, and I can do it for about 1-2 days max. I find that for me, I need whole food. I can’t live on liquid meals all day long, and I crave the texture and fullness that I get from “real” food rather than various protein shakes.
Don Alessi has some good advice in his “Don’t Diet” book. He recommends three liquid meals and three whole meals a day. This is more of what I do (but I also eat some whole food with my protein shakes, except with Surge - postworkout). That works for me, but if you can do 4-5 protein shakes/MRP’s and one whole-food meal a day, then go for it.
[quote]JMac10 wrote:
Read the V-Diet, it is kinda the same but you dont eat the meal at night.[/quote]
Yeah, I actually tried it last time I was working out (March). Unfortunately, it didn’t last long. (Kids got sick, I fell off the wagon.) I felt like total crap by day 3 or 4 and so I had a salad. Sweet, sweet delicious FOOD! LOL
Seriously, I do like the V-Diet, but is it ok to do since I’m a beginner?
That was the link I didn’t have already bookmarked. Thank you! And thanks for your Beginners thread. Excellent! I think I bookmarked nearly every link you had in there. LOL!
For the V-Diet… if you are just starting to clean up your diet, mentally it would be tough. If you had 1 clean solid meal I feel sure the mental strain wouldn’t be so bad. My boyfriend did this diet and he did lose weight, without losing muscle. He was up to 222 and at 2 weeks he was 215. Some of that will be water weight as well though. Goodluck