Why Dieting Sucks
Published: Sat, 09/08/12
Here's the thing...
If you're tried dieting down for a competition, a photo shoot, or just for the summer season you know how much dieting can suck.
Timing meals, packing food, avoiding social eating events, feeling exhausted in the gym. It just sucks, there is no other way to say it.
This can be considered a traditional bodybuilding diet, but it may not be the best way for people to get ripped and stay that way.
Sure it works at least for the short term, but most people end up rebounding as soon as their photoshoot or competition is over. It seems like such a massive waste of time to get into such good shape only to have it all go away within a few days or weeks after the day of the shoot/show.
In fact many people put on even more weight than they took off.
I have to admit I've just always accepted that dieting would be this way, and that most people will only be in shape for the weekend of a show, and that's it.
But then I started thinking, what if there was a better way to diet, a better pattern to follow that could get someone contest ripped but also keep them that way. And last but not least, a way to diet that didn't just suck the whole time!
As it turns out the answer is the same for both of these questions and it's all based on something called the theory of fat availability that I learned from John Barban.
>>find out what the theory of fat availability is<<
This theory states that the more fat you have to get rid of the harder you can diet and the more strict you can be at the beginning of your diet. This is because your body has plenty of fat to make up for the deficit and you'll feel pretty good dieting hard while you've got the fat to burn.
But as you get leaner and leaner you're body simply doesn't have enough fat to keep up with a hard diet, and this is when you can put yourself at risk of losing lean muscle mass. Even though you still have some fat to burn, you're body can't burn it fast enough to keep up with a really strict diet.
In other words, you need to eat MORE food the leaner you get.
But most diets I've ever seen do the exact opposite, and make people diet harder and harder the leaner they get. In fact the final few weeks of most contest diets are the absolute strictest. And this is why many people experience muscle loss, or must resort to using anabolic agents in order to counteract the severe diet restriction and avoid muscle loss.
This style of dieting actually works against your body and it's the reason why we end up feeling like crap for most of the diet, it's why we get weak in the gym, and ultimately it's why we rebound and put the weight back on after our diet is over.
It's essentially crash dieting, and that's exactly what happens to your system...you crash!
John looked at what was happening to people who were following this kind of diet and thought of the simplest answer to avoid this crash.
The most obvious thing he could think of was to do the exact opposite.
After all if a standard forward taper diet (reducing calories as the diet progresses) was causing people to crash and feel like crap, he guessed that the answer must be to do a "Reverse Taper" and actually eat MORE food as the diet progresses.
Well before he told anyone else about this idea he tested it on himself...
...And it worked!
>>Check out his pictures after using his reverse taper method<<
He got in great condition, but more importantly he's stayed in that condition for over a year. Now that is something worth trying!
It's definitely not like any other diet, and I'll bet it plays games with your mind because you get to eat so much more food than you're expecting, yet you get into just as good shape as if you were crash dieting (maybe even better because you won't be at risk for muscle loss)...and you won't feel like hell the whole time!
The bottom line is dieting doesn't have to suck so bad if you know how to do it right, and you don't have to rebound and gain the weight back either.
If you want to shake things up and take an entirely new approach to getting ripped then I think you should check out the reverse taper diet.
I spoke to John yesterday on my radio show and I really like what he has to say.
Check him out,
Brian