The ORIGINAL Animalbolics Diet Plan (by Animal)

[The Anonymizer]

How 5-6 meals a day makes you fat!


That's right, and you read it here first. They make you fat.

After I proved the farce of the ketogenic diets I began to think, 'What type of diet was I on that made
me the leanest and put on the most mass!' Then one of the ketogenic diets authors sent me a nasty
email which said, 'What diet won't shut down your thyroid, genius.'

Well, if nothing else, he was at least smart enough to realize that those almighty diets do shut down
your thyroid. I felt pity for him because it was sad how he was still clinging to dreams of ketosis even
though he had been scammed. But realized there was hope for him when he called me 'genius'! He still
had the power of rational thinking left and I'd be damned if I didn't help this poor soul.

Hmmm. What diets don't shut down your thyroid? First, what do we know about how the thyroid shuts
down when dieting? There are 3 ways; lack of carbohydrate, heat (DNP and external) and DNP binding
to T4 protein and excreting it which is actually good, but that is another story. We aren't going to take
DNP so those two are out and we are left with lack of carbohydrates. We are also not going to take CLA
or pyruvate so we are left with a pure diet with no catches. How can we keep the carbs going? We all
know of one diet that won't shut things down and that is the 'Up and down' type diet. We eat normal one
day and lower our calories the next and repeat. This maintains all the hormones, but could take quite a
long time. We need a faster and possibly simpler way.

Why not eat 5-6 small meals a day? Because it makes you fat! Now we are going to use the ketogenic
authors arguments against them. Insulin does what? It drives glucose and needed nutrients into the
cells, including fat cells, AND it stops lipolysis!!!! It stops lipolysis!!!!! If I am eating 5-6 times a day I am
going to be stopping lipolysis every single time I eat again because I will get an insulin rise which, can
you all say it? Stops lipolysis!! You cannot burn fat if you are eating all day!

Now, I am back to thinking about when I was the leanest. About 5 years ago when I was finishing
college, but why? Because I only ate 1-2 meals a day! That's right and when you see the logic you will
see the light always and realize that another scam has been perpetuated upon all of us in order to cell
meal replacements. When did all these 5-6 meals a day really start to hit. When those meal
replacements became all the rage. Throw them out because you don't need them anymore!!

We will start our diet in the morning. The night before we replenished all our carbs before going to
sleep. It is morning and we wake up and our body is in what mode? Fat burning mode!!! The first thing
you usually learn is that if you want to burn the most fat off with aerobics you do it in the morning
before you eat. Since we are in fat burning mode why would we want to ruin it with food that would raise
insulin? And for what? What exercise are you going to do which you are going to need all that energy
for? Remember you are fully carbed from last night. If you are fully carbed up and you eat
carbohydrates then where are the carbs going? They can't go to muscle so they are going to FAT! Your
morning meal makes you fatter!! So what do we do? You most likely are going to sit in a car and go sit
in an office for 8 hours or so. The only thing which needs sugar is your brain and it doesn't need much.
To keep in and enhance the fat burning you are going to drink coffee and take an ephedrine or PPA and
add some yohimbine. The coffee suppresses blood sugar and the E and Y and PPA cause a release of
noradrenaline which is a potent fat burning hormone. If you get hungry you can have a protein drink,
but no sugar. Fructose goes to fat automatically and the protein keeps the glycogen level up which is
another fat burner. You don't want too much protein, though or that can go to sugar which is going to go
to fat, as well.

What do I do for lunch? You want to stay in fat burning mode right? First let's look at what others
recommend. Eat your largest meal at lunch! Absolutely and totally wrong. What happens about an hour
later. You are so tired from the insulin that you can hardly think and it takes all you can do to stay
awake. Not only that, but all the carbs you ate are going to fat! What did you do to deplete the liver or
muscle of carbs from the morning until now? NOTHING. You sat at your desk and maybe walked across
the street to buy lunch. Your muscles need nothing so it all goes to fat and you ruined your fat burning
as well with the insulin from the meal. You eat a light low glycemic high fat meal, like a salad for lunch
and have some more ECY and maybe another protein drink. 2 hours - 45 minutes before you are going
to work out you eat a low glycemic meal like oatmeal or an apple.

This is scientifically proven to improve performance and will help you burn more fat. You workout and
then you get to eat! Your muscles are primed for growth and now you want the insulin to be spiked so
you get more glucose and AA's into them. We also know that most if not all of the recovery substrates
need to be supplied to the muscle in a two hour window and then again before 6 hours.

Immediately after your workout you consume up to 400 calories in a glucose/protein drink. 2 hours later
you hit the damaged muscle again with your regular meal. Your muscles are now loaded with glucose
and protein and they are waiting for you to take some ghb and go to bed so they can get some GH.

That's it!. No BS. No pain. Look at it again. You are all carbed up. In the morning you are in or near
ketosis and you want to keep it there. Eating would ruin it so you don't eat and besides, the insulin and
carbs from the meal have nowhere to go so any calories would just go to fat. You don't do anything
strenuous in the morning so you don't eat a high carb lunch which keeps you in ketosis.

Eat a low glycemic meal 45 minutes before your workout. The time to eat and recover is AFTER you
have worked out and that is when and how you do it. Simple carbs and protein and then your meal.
Sleep. No expensive powders or pills or special foods. Can't get much simpler.


There are supplements and steps to follow to get the most out of your thyroid and liver, but that will be
later. If you have something to say about this being wrong then get some science to prove it or shut up.
Just as I had science to expose the fallacies of ketogenic diets, I also have all the science to back this
up.


The Science:

Study performed by Taylor and colleagues.

Following ingestion of a test meal consisting of cereal, skim milk, scrambled eggs, French toast, apple
juice, and a milk shake [200 g (60% or 800 calories) carbohydrate, 45 g (21% fat or 405 calories), 80 g
(19% or 320 calories) protein; 1,914 kcall] [The total calories and the breakdown of the intake is wrong
because my scanner screwed it up and I don't have the original] by healthy subjects, muscle glycogen
concentration did not start to rise until 1-2 hours after eating, and the increase was not statistically
significant until 3 hours after eating. Seven hours following the meal, plasma insulin levels were still
elevated threefold. Four hours following the meal, muscle glycogen began to fall, suggesting a flux of
excess carbon out of the muscle and into storage as triglycerides (fat).

Another argument for Animalobolics! I had been looking for this entry into my comp for 2 years and
though I don't have the entire study, that last line is significant. This was a mixed meal containing fat.
This is not what you want to do after a workout. Look how long it took glycogen levels in the muscle to
rise. 1-2 hours and it wasn't important until 3 hours. You need no fat and simple carbs with protein after
a workout. Seven hours following the meal, plasma insulin levels were still elevated threefold. Let's see,
you want to eat small meals all day, still? The point is that eating mixed meals gets your insulin up and
keeps it up for a long time. Hell, by 7 hours many would have eaten 2 more times and that would push
your insulin up even higher and longer. Remember, if insulin is present, fat burning is negative! The
magical last line!!! Four hours following the meal, muscle glycogen began to fall, suggesting a flux of
excess carbon out of the muscle and into storage as triglycerides (fat).

This is a main point of Animalobolics and why you only have carbs after your workout. Why? Because
you carbed up AFTER the workout when it is most important and any further influx of carbs is going to
leak out of a fully carbed up muscle and go to fat.

Again, I will give you the basics and most of you can figure out the rest. Base calorie should be figured
out at 10-12 x your wt in lbs. All caloric intake is worked out by going backwards from your post
workout meal. For that meal you take in 1g carbs for every 1k bodyweight. Now, you also take 1g whey
or soy protein for every 2.5g of carbs that you just figured out. Do this immediately and 1-2 hours later.
Subtract those numbers from your total caloric intake to see how much else you can eat for your other
meals.

200lb man x 12 = 2400 calories. 200/2.2 = 90KG.

90KG = 90g carbs after workout.

90/2.5 = 36g protein.

90g carbohydrates = 360 cal.

36g protein = 145 cal protein.

Total immediate intake is 505 calories.

If you do that regimen 1-2 hours later you will then have 1010calories.

2400 base - workout meals = 1390 calories left to eat for the next 24 hours. (Almost 3 Big Macs) and if
you can't make it through the day on those calories I don't know what to tell you) I'll tell you that with
all that protein it is hard to eat after those 2 postworkout meals.

ALL YOUR SUBSEQUENT MEALS ARE GOING TO BE NO GLYCEMIC MEALS! Except for 2-3 doses of
200calories worth of fruit for a total of 400-500calories in carbs to keep your liver converting T4-T3. 200
in the morning 100cal or so at lunch and 100-200 at 2hrs before your next workout. 1390 - 500 calories
leaves you with 890. If you are taking 1g protein per lb which I find very hard to do, that is 200g protein
and 800 calories. You already have taken in 72g protein for 288 calories. From morning until your next
workout you then need to get 128 g protein or 512 more calories in protein. That leaves you with only
378 calories in fat which is 42g. Just make sure you eat whey protein and eggs in the morning, then you
can eat chicken or tuna salad for lunch.


Animalbolics FAQ:

Q: How do you keep from loosing muscle mass while on this diet? And do you stay on it until you are
happy with BF% or do you come of for one or two days a week or what? Is this a good diet to run with a
cutting cycle.

A: How do you keep from loosing muscle mass while on this diet? I'll let you answer this for yourself. All
protein requirements are met as are carb requirements during the postworkout meals. As long as those
are met, how are you going to lose muscle? (you can't and constant supply of insulin has NOTHING to do
with maintaining muscle as AA's have their own transport system which ARE NOT affected by insulin.
And do you stay on it until you are happy with BF% or do you come of for one or two days a week or
what? Most people break diets on weekends, anyhow. Watch the alcohol as that seems to screw it up the
most.

Q: Was wondering how you might modify this diet for a lunch time workout. I'm half a block from my
gym and can take a 90 min lunch break. This is very convenient and lets me have my nights free. Also,
the weight room is always damn near empty at lunch, which lets me super-set and crank up my workout
tempo. Mean while, the evening crowds are sooo bad I'd be lucky to even find a weight let a lone lift it...
I'm not trying to compete or anything, but my BF as been a big concern over the last - (YES) - 4 to 5
years.

A: Here's my sense of how to do it. Just eat the protein/glucose drinks right after and 2hrs after your
workout. The rest of your meals, make them low/no glycemic. There's nothing magical about working
out at night. In animal's example using a PM workout, the person spends most of the day burning
bodyfat before the workout. You spend less time in that EC + PPA + yohimbine fat burning at rest state
during the day, but you have more hours later in the day where you reenter that state. Like, you go
back to the low insulin meals later in the day, whereas the evening workout person, doesn't hit that
point of low insulin fat burning till some hrs after his last shake. And he may not even eat again till the
next day, the shakes being his last food. If you work out midday you will eat probably 1-2 more times.
Look at the overall concept.....low/no insulin meals, then hi glycemic + protein right after and 2hrs after
workout. It doesn't really matter when this happens as long as you keep the carbs to post workout. It
may be a little better to have a workout later in the day, to have more hours during the day on
thermogenic supplements, since if you do a midday workout, you might not be ready to take more
ephedrine and caffeine later in the day. That's the only downside I can see.

[muscle_20]

seeing that protein is used and got rid of after around 3 hours this diet would lead to many hours of amino deficiency
i would never try this diet but to be honest i do think you will lose weight on this diet for sure!

[MadManiac13]

Originally Posted by muscle_20

seeing that protein is used and got rid of after around 3 hours this diet would lead to many hours of amino deficiency
i would never try this diet but to be honest i do think you will lose weight on this diet for sure!

And probably some muscle, too.

[The Anonymizer]

Originally Posted by muscle_20

seeing that protein is used and got rid of after around 3 hours this diet would lead to many hours of amino deficiency
i would never try this diet but to be honest i do think you will lose weight on this diet for sure!

the idea of this diet is to minimize your carbs prior to your workout....not minimize your protein or calories. you basically eat only protein and fat all day until you workout, then carb up for 3-6 hours after your workout, and then go to sleep. seems logical to me and i have heard alot of people who loved it.

[jpme]

I eat 5-6 meals a day everyday if not more. But then again they are clean, or just a few protein bars and I'll call that a meal. I also went from being a fa ass to eating right so that may have had something to do with it to. Anyway you look at it it always comes down the the person and their daily habit, genetics, ect.

[muscle_20]

Originally Posted by The Anonymizer

the idea of this diet is to minimize your carbs prior to your workout....not minimize your protein or calories. you basically eat only protein and fat all day until you workout, then carb up for 3-6 hours after your workout, and then go to sleep. seems logical to me and i have heard alot of people who loved it.

oh i see...........i didnt understand the article then because i thought it was saying only eat 3 meals per day.
what you have described is a good diet and is very similar to what i practice year round.

[hiramabiff]

This has been improved upon by Swolecat.

[colie]

sorry anon...

but i find that article to be pure nonsense
the highlighted part got me the most....3big macs and a workout meal per day?????

2400 cals for a growing 200lb bodybuilder is madness.....

my missus eats that amount of food...and she is 5ft and 100lbs or so...

like i say ...i dont mean any disrespect....

just doesnt make any sense to me

2400 base - workout meals = 1390 calories left to eat for the next 24 hours. (Almost 3 Big Macs) and if
you can't make it through the day on those calories I don't know what to tell you) I'll tell you that with
all that protein it is hard to eat after those 2 postworkout meals.

[UnderConstruction]

I found this diet in early '07 and tried it for about three months. I liked it for body recomp. I lost fat but gained weight. I looked and felt great. I don't think that this diet, the way that it is stated is meant for bodybuilding.

[The Anonymizer]

this diet fails to explain a few things that those of us who have discussed it know:

#1 - its not a bulking diet.....its a cutting/recomp diet. for a 200lb bodybuilder 2400 kcal is correct since its approx 50-60% of what is normally taken in during bulking.

#2 - its a low fat diet.....so when it says you have 1390 kcal left to eat for the rest of the day (already subtracted the 2 post workout meals) then that comes out to 347g of protein and carbs. no diet has zero fat, but even 250g of protein and carbs which would leave 43g of fat is reasonable for recomp/cutting. most of you consume way more calories on a daily basis and think you need this to grow, but consume a tremendous amount of fat to make up these calories. remember, protein and carbs have 4 kcal per gram and fat has 9 kcal.

#3 - when he makes statements like "5-6 meals per day makes you fat" he MEANS carbohydrate containing meals. the whole basis of this diet is controlling your insulin levels so you release unusually low levels of insulin prior to your workout when you're not in an anabolic state (anabolic by definition means the body's metabolic mode geared toward growth, not necessarily the growth itself) and releasing unusually high levels of insulin post workout when your body is trying to grow/rebuild. plus by manipulating your insulin production like this so it only spikes for about 2 of the 24 hours in a day decreases insulin resistance, thus making your post workout insulin even more effective for expressing the target receptors.