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anyway... as i said, for example, monday-wednesday, low cal low carb and normal food on wednesday night (as much as you want)... then thursday and friday you eat low cal low carb again... friday night, sat and sun... eat whatever you want in reasonable quantities. no need to focus on protein or shit. just eat what you feel like and eat til you're half full.
You need to take in different metabolisms react different. I be fat as shit, if i did that and dizzy..
you wanna lose fat faster? train harder (more volume, less rest)... hit 10% and can't get lower? drop the wednesday cheat meal and swallow any fat burner you can get your hands on. hit 6% and can't get lower? cancel sunday cheat day and do cardio.
I see guys do that in the gym and still look the same because of their diets.I see girls doing cardio for 1-2 hours and still look the same.
if you don't like dieting on low carbs (why the hell wouldn't you if you can cheat this much? LOL)... and insist on mod-high carb diets... i'd advise you to keep your cals low throughout the week so you can cheat once or twice if you want, and i'd advise you to only eat high GI carbs on your diet days.
YES I SAID HIGH GI CARBS.
IMO, if your protien is a little higher, you won't have to cut the calories as much.
also... eating 6 meals a day won't make your metabolism go faster (total bullshit), it's not better, it's OCD behaviour basically, and it's not practical at all... it's just another way to say you're hardcore so people could say "wow, i could never do that!"....
3 is enough
"but i'll get really hungry in between!"... you don't think that's a good thing?
Actually, there is studies to back that with smaller meals, because it will digest better., compare to 3 large meals.
and if you're gonna talk about health? I know that personally, i feel much much much better and my body functions much better when i'm eating 1500-1800 cals of "junk", as opposed to 3000-3500 cals of "clean nutritious bodybuilding food"... 3 weeks i ate egg whites, oats, brown rice, chicken breasts, veggies, whey, olive oil and all that "healthy" crap... i swear I was in so much pain/discomfort... gassy as hell... bloated... no energy... and it was around 2500 cals. the minute i dropped that diet to my own (explained above)... wow!
If you drastically changed any diet, you will get discomfort. I personally am the opposite of what you say, but I eat clean all year and have a very lean body at 51 all year.
and just so you know.... i'm waiting for some people to chime in after reading this to back me up... a lot of people tried this and they liked it a lot... one of the competitors told me he actually got into the best shape of his life after following that advice. but hey, if it aint hardcore, it aint bodybuilding... right?
. I do have respect for you, but that diet would never work for the average person with out drugs. however, i see what you look like and I know something is working for you.
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let me tell you, your points are very valid and i agree with everything you said... but that's when you pick them apart one by one
if you look at the whole picture here, you'll see how it comes together.
dieting on 2500 cals day in and day out for 4 weeks, for example
weekly average calories = 17500 cals
dieting the way i said on 1500 cals 4.5 days per week, and eating 3500 cals 2.5 days per week for example
weekly average cals = 15500 cals
less cals on the second, and having lots of days with very high cals too to replenish glycogen without getting fat.
and about the training... it's in combination with the diet... higher volume with less rest burns way more calories... if you combine that with the zigzaging of the carbs in the diet... you'd see how it works in your favor of making you super compensate glycogen and have better muscle-insulin sensitivity.
3 meals on 1500 cals.... 500 cals per meal
5 meals on 2500 cals... 500 cals per meal
you see where i'm going with this?
yeah, if you eat 4000 cals in 3 meals, that's a doozie... but that's not part of the picture i'm painting here.
and just for the record... eating 800 cals of fatty beef and eggs, will digest much better than 500 cals of egg whites, oats, and olive oil
and of course my advice is for people on aas... what the hell man! LOL
You look great Buselmo and I do have respect for you, but you seem to leave out a big factor, Health! I seen skinny and muscular people with bad cholesterol, not to mention clogged veins and fat around the organs. I guess I look at things in a long healthy, productive life. Foods do matter for health. 
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) not unles the original AR was a 28 year old born and raised on long island
i hear ya Buselmo, i agree with some of what you said, but not all of it...which is the beauty of message forums
Like you said, the body is not a closed system..hormones, sleep, and many other things affect the fat loss equation..So- I think the body chases homeostasis and that if you consumed 1500 calories a day, your body would adapt by slowing down your metabolism (ie go into starvation mode)..which is why you would either have to decrease calories or up cardio at some point
i dont have it handy, but i believe that there are studies that showed metabolic rate suffering for quite some time after a large calorie restriction..
Although, its probably a moot point because the question was about cheat meals, and i am not against having them (if nothing else for psychological reasons)
