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While there’s something to be said for developing mental toughness and perspective and making sacrifices… let’s be honest.. we ALL want the fastest EASIEST way to lose weight and gain muscle possible.

In my journey to 6 pack abs I’ve come across a lot of AWESOME ways to eat what you want and still lose weight..These are great for when you;re in a hurry or don’t feel like cooking!

Without further adieu ..here are 5 secret junk foods that will get you skinny!

Fresco Taco

Let’s start it off with the junk food that surprised me the MOST

5. Taco Bell

A lot of people don’t know this but Taco Bell has an ENTIRE menu devoted to being under 9 grams of fat.. it’s called the FRESCO MENU… My favorite item on there is the Fresco Grilled Steak Taco with only 4.5 grams of fat and 160 calories. I get 2 at a time.

The even have an entire website devoted to it check it out http://www.drivethrudiet.com/menu

* And don’t worry if you are CRAVING CHEESE… I’ve got something for you too..

Taco Bell Gordita Nacho Cheese — Chicken

270 calories
10g fat, 2.5g saturated fat

4. Quaker  Chocolate Chunk Granola Bars

These little bad boys kept me from going crazy for the LONGEST!

This is straight off their website

http://www.quakeroats.com/products/oat-snacks/chewy-90-calorie-granola/chocolate-chunk.aspx

“You might find yourself wondering how something so tasty could be 90 calories. With big chunks of chocolate in every bite, it’s a natural question. Our granola bars are loaded with chocolate, sweet toasted granola and made with the goodness of whole grain Quaker Oats. Stop questioning and start enjoying. With Quaker, you know it’s good.”

These bad boys are only 90 calories each and have A LOT of chocolate in them. No high fructose corn syrup and they have whole grains.. I eat 3 at a time and STILL stay under 300 calories! Awesome!

3. Buffalo Chicken

Hey if you’re like me.. you LOVE chicken fingers and wings! We’ll now you can get that same great taste with only a FRACTION of the calories..

Here’s how.. Subway recently introduced Buffalo Chicken subs and guess what.. they’re on the under 7 grams of fat or less menu.. I get mine with fat free honey mustard instead of ranch and since spicy foods have been proven to burn calories I get jalapenos too! Super spicy!

If you can’t part from the ranch dressing they have low fat ranch as well.

Oh and Subway just introduced low fat breakfasts.. So now you can get a steak and egg breakfast sandwich on an English muffin and start the day off skinny!

Check out all of their stuff at http://www.Subway.com

2. Applebees

I watched Taladega Nights with Rick Bobby (Will Ferrel) and I thought the thing to do was get KICKED OUT of Applebee’s but since they introduced their under 550 calorie menu I’ve come to realize the thing to do is get skinny there!

You can get shimp in pasta sauce or a 7 ounce steak plus a lot more all for under 550 calories each..

Check it out here: http://www.applebees.com/Menu_Under550.aspx

1. Frozen Yogurt! (Even with Chocolate and Whipped Cream!!)

Didn’t know you could eat dessert AND lose weight?

Well.. You CAN!!

A lot of Fro-Yo places have been popping up lately.. Golden Spoon.. U Swirl.. Pinkberry etc and the best part is most of them are GOOD FOR YOU!

Here’s nutrition info straight from http://www.u-swirl.com

Frozen yogurt is the perfect nutritious meal or anytime snack.

U-SWIRL uses only the finest non-fat & sugar free frozen yogurt that meets and exceeds the requirements set forth by the National Yogurt Association and carries the NYA Live & Active Cultures seal.

Good for your bones

• An excellent source of calcium: Based on 2 servings (8 fl oz). Adequate calcium as part of a healthful diet may reduce the risk of osteoporosis.

Good for your tummy

• Helps regulate digestive function
• Increased digestibility for individuals with lactose intolerance

Supports wellness

• Helps maintain general digestive and body immunity
• Low Sodium: Diets low in sodium may reduce the risk of high blood pressure, a disease associate with many factors

Promotes a healthy lifestyle

• Live and Active Probiotic Cultures
• Low Cholesterol
• Low Sodium
• Nonfat flavors available

Just make sure to get a fat free yogurt and top it with fruit instead of candy.. Then use chocolate syrup instead of chocolate fudge because chocolate syrup is FAT FREE! And if they have fat free whipped cream too .. pile that on! haha

Frozen Yogurt  is one of my FAVORITE treats even on during the slow carb diet I’m on .. Just make sure you get it right after lifting weights because of the simple sugars :)

Ok so I’ve been experimenting with my diet a lot and I’m discovering some really cool tricks..

King David Hogan has a serious situation

I found the coolest diet in Tim Ferris’ 4 hour body book. Along with a ton of other cool stuff like how to add 34 lbs of muscle and how to give women 15 minute orgasms..

Anyway.. This is the EXACT diet I’m on now except I don’t drink alcohol so there’s no red wine for me and I’ve been watching a lot of Entourage re-runs lately instead of Discovery Channel.

I’m 165lbs right now with 6 pack abs and the scale says I have 7.7% bodyfat and still losing.

This diet is really easy to maintain because I like Mexican food and that’s pretty much all I eat on this. A form protein (lean chicken, lean steak, or egg whites) with black beans and salsa for every meal. About once or twice a day I eat guacamole with it and I’m still getting leaner.

Anyway check out the entire diet I found in Tim’s book The 4 Hour Body!

Enjoy:

P.S. He also shows how he gained 34 lbs of muscle in 28 days without steroids, how to triple testosterone and how to produce 15 min female orgasms. All here.

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It is possible to lose 20 lbs. of bodyfat in 30 days by optimizing any of three factors: exercise, diet, or drug/supplement regimen. I’ve seen the elite implementation of all three in working with professional athletes. In this post, we’ll explore a variation of the “slow carb” diet as used by Dean Karnazes, an ultramarathoner famed for completing 50 marathons on 50 consecutive days in 50 different states. The most impressive part of this, for me, is that he did so, not with the typical anemic marathoner build, but with a well-muscled mesomorph body.

In the last six weeks, I have cut from about 180 lbs. to 165 lbs., while adding about 10 lbs. of muscle, which means I’ve lost about 25 lbs. of fat. This is the only diet besides the rather extreme Cyclical Ketogenic Diet that has produced veins across my abdomen, which is the last place I lose fat (damn you, Scandinavian genetics). Here are the four simple rules I followed…

Rule #1: Avoid “white” carbohydrates

Avoid any carbohydrate that is — or can be — white. The following foods are thus prohibited, except for within 1.5 hours of finishing a resistance-training workout of at least 20 minutes in length: bread, rice, cereal, potatoes, pasta, and fried food with breading. If you avoid eating anything white, you’ll be safe.

Rule #2: Eat the same few meals over and over again

The most successful dieters, regardless of whether their goal is muscle gain or fat loss, eat the same few meals over and over again. Mix and match, constructing each meal with one from each of the three following groups:

Proteins:
Egg whites with one whole egg for flavor
Chicken breast or thigh
Grass-fed organic beef
Pork

Legumes:
Lentils
Black beans
Pinto beans

Vegetables:
Spinach
Asparagus
Peas
Mixed vegetables

Eat as much as you like of the above food items. Just remember: keep it simple. Pick three or four meals and repeat them. Almost all restaurants can give you a salad or vegetables in place of french fries or potatoes. Surprisingly, I have found Mexican food, swapping out rice for vegetables, to be one of the cuisines most conducive to the “slow carb” diet.

Most people who go on “low” carbohydrate diets complain of low energy and quit, not because such diets can’t work, but because they consume insufficient calories. A 1/2 cup of rice is 300 calories, whereas a 1/2 cup of spinach is 15 calories! Vegetables are not calorically dense, so it is critical that you add legumes for caloric load.

Some athletes eat 6-8x per day to break up caloric load and avoid fat gain. I think this is ridiculously inconvenient. I eat 4x per day:

10am – breakfast
1pm – lunch
5pm – smaller second lunch
7:30-9pm – sports training
10pm – dinner
12am – glass of wine and Discovery Channel before bed

Here are some of my meals that recur again and again:

Scrambled organic egg whites with one whole egg, black beans, and mixed vegetables

Grass-fed organic beef, pinto beans, mixed vegetables, and extra guacamole (Mexican restaurant)

Grass-fed organic beef (from Trader Joe’s), lentils, and mixed vegetables

Post-workout pizza with extra chicken, cilantro, pineapple, garlic, sundried tomotoes, bell peppers, and red onions

Rule #3: Don’t drink calories

Drink massive quantities of water and as much unsweetened iced tea, tea, diet sodas, coffee (without white cream), or other no-calorie/low-calorie beverages as you like. Do not drink milk, normal soft drinks, or fruit juice. I’m a wine fanatic and have at least one glass of wine each evening, which I believe actually aids sports recovery and fat-loss. Recent research into resveratrol supports this.

Rule #4: Take one day off per week

I recommend Saturdays as your “Dieters Gone Wild” day. I am allowed to eat whatever I want on Saturdays, and I go out of my way to eat ice cream, Snickers, Take 5, and all of my other vices in excess. I make myself a little sick and don’t want to look at any of it for the rest of the week. Paradoxically, dramatically spiking caloric intake in this way once per week increases fat loss by ensuring that your metabolic rate (thyroid function, etc.) doesn’t downregulate from extended caloric restriction. That’s right: eating pure crap can help you lose fat. Welcome to Utopia.

If you want more like and to learn how to gain 34 lbs of muscle in 28 days.. give 15 minute female orgasms and a lot mote then check out the book I got this all from by clicking the pic of the book below

So as you know..

I LOVE FOOD!

Well sometimes that doesn’t work out too well when you’re 6ft tall 190lbs and have to be 155lbs for a fight.

So I’ve been on a pretty crazy diet lately.

It consists of one meal in the morning.

Like Brown Rice with Grilled Chicken.

Then one meal after training.

Like a bowl of raw spinach .. with mustard!

That’s IT! :(

Anyway this diet is so extreme because I have to lose so much weight in such a short amount of time.

The easy way to lose weight is a little bit at a time over time..

Then once you’re at your goal weight you can pretty much just maintain it.

So after this fight (July 9th at Tachi Palace) I’m going to focus on maintaining a bodyweight of 170lbs or less .. a bodyfat % of 10% or less and focus more on getting lean and “shredded”.

Now.. a diet won’t do that. But working out WILL.. so I’ going to incorporate something I thought was B.S. into my routine.

P90X .. I know .. I know.. they have cheesy commercials and they sponsor me .. but their stuff does work. See, I refused to promote them until I TRIED their workouts..

So because I thought it was all nonsense I never bought it.. but we started doing some of their exercises at the gym and I NOW can see how people get such awesome results.

One of their ab exercises I had never even head of before..

You lay on your back put one leg in the air.. and grab your raised leg with your hands … then “climb” hand over hand up your own leg..

Try it.. it works. Click here to check it out if you want.

I think you guys are gonna see me looking like again this pretty soon ;)

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