[quote]Grneyes wrote:
Chim, I loved your recipes in the other thread. We will have to try it sometime.
They should start a Recipe Thread, that stays at the top of this board. There are such awesome recipes all over this site, it would be great if they were all in one spot.[/quote]
I so agree with you Green Eyes. We’ve asked for one for ages. It would be great to get at least one sticked at the top and I would vote for SteelyD’s La Cucina Anabolica. Total food porn. They have or had a recipe forum on Figure Athlete, I wonder why they don’t have one here.
[quote]Grneyes wrote:
Chim, I loved your recipes in the other thread. We will have to try it sometime.
They should start a Recipe Thread, that stays at the top of this board. There are such awesome recipes all over this site, it would be great if they were all in one spot.[/quote]
I so agree with you Green Eyes. We’ve asked for one for ages. It would be great to get at least one sticked at the top and I would vote for SteelyD’s La Cucina Anabolica. Total food porn. They have or had a recipe forum on Figure Athlete, I wonder why they don’t have one here.
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FA is what made me think of it. I have those threads saved as faves on my laptop, but they are a year old. There’s a beef thread and a chicken thread and several others. It’s obvious the men on here cook, why not put all their ideas in one thread? Or make a board with different threads dedicated to beef or chicken or salads or breakfasts or whatever.
[quote]Grneyes wrote:
Chim, I loved your recipes in the other thread. We will have to try it sometime.
They should start a Recipe Thread, that stays at the top of this board. There are such awesome recipes all over this site, it would be great if they were all in one spot.[/quote]
Someone (not it) should scour all the posts with recipes and make that thread! Or you guys could plagiarize the FA recipes.
[quote]Bricknyce wrote:
I can’t believe this thread I started over a year ago is still going strong. It’s in its third edition!
Edition 1: Rapid Fat Loss versus V-Diet
Edition 2: Rapid Fat Loss 2.0
Edition 3: Rapid Fat Loss
I got my brother on the diet and he lost 15 pounds in the past two weeks.
I’ll say this, I’m probably never doing it again![/quote]
RFL is the best diet hands down, I’ll thank you again for turning me onto it.
I dare anyone to find a more effective diet besides actual starvation. I recently tried a version, with just casein shakes. I lost 8 lbs in 4 days while my waist shrunk almost 2 inches (I know, water, blah blah bullshit) at least half was fat. I was so delusional by the 4th day I couldn’t do my job and almost crashed my car a few times. I don’t reccommend it.[/quote]
Makes sense since you were crash dieting, haha!!
Keep up the good work Chim! I can’t see pics though I’ll be joining you in the dieting realm soon. Not going full force RFL, but meat and veggies ftw to start with.
Wow Chim you are really looking fantastic. You need to post that first before pic in this thread so people can see what a big improvement you’ve already made. You had recipes in the other thread? Guess I didn’t go far enough back to see them.
[quote]attydeb2005 wrote:
Wow Chim you are really looking fantastic. You need to post that first before pic in this thread so people can see what a big improvement you’ve already made. You had recipes in the other thread? Guess I didn’t go far enough back to see them. [/quote]
I remember posting some recipes, but I don’t remember which.
[quote]pro-a-ggression wrote:
Wow, nice man, look forward to seeing the results!! How long ya going to do this? Till ya get the full abs or wat??[/quote]
I’m not trying to get crazy lean, abs yes but not contest ready or anything. My goal is a 32 inch waist, though I’m not sure what I’m at right now because my tape broke and the new one isn’t here yet.
One thing I’m wondering is, I know many never lost strength or muscle on the diet, but would the sudden drop in protein not result in a significant loss of body protein (i.e. muscle)? Apparently not from some empirical evidence, but from what I understand the body gets used to a certain amount of protein so if I were eating say, 300g, and then on the RFL suddenly dropped to such low calories and protein closer to 150g or something, wouldn’t the body still be oxidizing closer to 300g/day?
Also, I’d love if I could just keep gaining and then once every 3-4 months do RFL for 2 weeks to lose 4+ pounds of fat. It seems so great and simple and a way I could just keep gaining without taking a step back (assuming no muscle/strength loss). But if this is the case, why doesn’t everyone do this? Sticking to the diet is no problem for me (I keep seeing logs where people binge before the refeed, and it’s hard to relate to that lack of willpower honestly), but is there something to the idea of needing to “hold onto a top weight” to solidify the gains? I can’t see someone like Stu, Prof X, etc…doing something like that every 3-4 months…or at all lol.
[quote]pumped340 wrote:
One thing I’m wondering is, I know many never lost strength or muscle on the diet, but would the sudden drop in protein not result in a significant loss of body protein (i.e. muscle)? Apparently not from some empirical evidence, but from what I understand the body gets used to a certain amount of protein so if I were eating say, 300g, and then on the RFL suddenly dropped to such low calories and protein closer to 150g or something, wouldn’t the body still be oxidizing closer to 300g/day?
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I’m eating 250-270g of protein on the diet. If you’ve read the book, protein is basically all you get to eat.
[quote]pumped340 wrote:
One thing I’m wondering is, I know many never lost strength or muscle on the diet, but would the sudden drop in protein not result in a significant loss of body protein (i.e. muscle)? Apparently not from some empirical evidence, but from what I understand the body gets used to a certain amount of protein so if I were eating say, 300g, and then on the RFL suddenly dropped to such low calories and protein closer to 150g or something, wouldn’t the body still be oxidizing closer to 300g/day?
Also, I’d love if I could just keep gaining and then once every 3-4 months do RFL for 2 weeks to lose 4+ pounds of fat. It seems so great and simple and a way I could just keep gaining without taking a step back (assuming no muscle/strength loss). But if this is the case, why doesn’t everyone do this? Sticking to the diet is no problem for me (I keep seeing logs where people binge before the refeed, and it’s hard to relate to that lack of willpower honestly), but is there something to the idea of needing to “hold onto a top weight” to solidify the gains? I can’t see someone like Stu, Prof X, etc…doing something like that every 3-4 months…or at all lol.
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yeah to second what Chim said… There really wont be a sudden drop in protein. As a cat 1 dieter you’re supposed to have 1.5+ grams of protein per pound of bodywieght… so at 200lbs thats 300+ grams of protein a day… not a drop right there at all.
you’ll also hold onto the muscle mass because you’ll be lifting heavy. Everything is low rep heavy weight so you give your body a reason to hold onto the muscle
Hm, I’ve glanced over the book and am in the process of reading it now but I guess I need to finish it lol. I’m sure by the time I start it though I would be a category 2 or so (I’m at ~12-13% now, would probably do it around 17%), so protein would be a bit lower than that.
I’m hoping for the best with this because the way I see it, I may very well lose close to the total I lost throughout these past 16 weeks cutting (14lb or so), and may also think I lost muscle and strength.
And I may have, but the fact is if I lost an equal amount of fat in those 2-4 weeks then technically I should be okay with up to 3/4in lost off my arms and some slight strength loss, considering that would be the same as what happened during this last cut, but like 8x faster
I’ll be joining you in the dieting realm soon. Not going full force RFL, but meat and veggies ftw to start with.
