A lot of men think they have a “diet problem” when, in actual fact, theirs is a “training problem”.
Yours Baldly has been guilty of this in the past.
Like in the leadup to my wedding, for example.
I wanted to get Very Lean and so I embarked upon what can only be described as a pants-on-head stupid diet I discovered on a blog in some forgotten corner of the internet. (No, I’m not going to even hint at what that diet was, lest you try and emulate it).
And while I did get the RiPpEd SiX pAcK I so richly desired, I also nearly lost my sight in one eye and suffered not one but two bouts of severe constipation due to malnutrition. (The latter spoiling the first three days of my honeymoon, until I finally “popped the cork” and deposited a mountain of excrement so high it kissed my stones).
All of this could have been avoided, I’m sure, had I correctly identified that the reason I wasn’t as lean and muscly as I wanted to be was that I wasn’t training hard enough, in the right ways.
Something to consider perhaps, the next time you consider cutting your food intake in some way, shape, or form when, if you’re honest with yourself, you know you’re not giving it your best in the gym.
Or, indeed, doing enough conditioning, which is a fancy name for “hard cardio” like sprints, runs, cycle rides, bodyweight circuits, etc, and the subject of my short and ugly book:
“The Conditioning Codex”.
A detailed, and, if I remember rightly, chronological summary of what you will learn in the book is linked below for your perusal:
https://philtyreman.co.uk/codex/
Thank you,
Phil Tyreman