01 - Main Guide PDF
01 - Main Guide PDF
01 - Main Guide PDF
The advice and tips given in this course are meant for healthy adults only.
You should consult your physician to insure the tips given in this course are
appropriate for your individual circumstances.
If you have any health issues or pre-existing conditions, please consult with
your physician before implementing any of the information provided in this
course.
This product is for informational purposes only and the author does not
accept any responsibilities for any liabilities or damages, real or perceived,
resulting from the use of this information.
I stepped outside into the hot sun and peeled off my shirt. As I
turned around and looked at my reflection in the windowsill, I felt a
wave of satisfaction wash over my entire body.
Every week, I would try and tighten up and dial down my eating
and cardio. But invariably… I would buckle.
Over the course of the next several weeks, I had been gaining
more and more weight. And the more I tried to be strict and diet
and train hard, the more I would sling shot to the opposite end:
complete gluttony.
I was mentally and physically burnt out. Any attempt to eat a very
strict diet or perform torturous amounts of cardio was to no avail.
And so weeks leading up to the trip I was stressed out what I was
going to do. I was worried that I would end up gaining a ton of
weight on the trip.
For most people this may not sound like a big deal and weight
gain on a vacation is just something that you accept.
But I wasn’t exactly ‘most people’. The idea of gaining fat was
asinine because a big portion of my self worth and my identity at
the time was invested in being lean.
To gain some fat that I would later struggle to burn off would be a
very hard hit to my self worth.
But it was too late, I already said ‘yes’. And I wasn’t ready to bail
on my friend. I did that enough in the past to avoid any potential
fat gaining situations.
And perhaps it was because I saw Yes Man around that time, I
was compelled to follow through and say ‘YES’ to life.
Eventually I just let go and decided to live a little and enjoy life.
And I devised a little strategy that would allow me to keep my
calories in the ball-park of what they needed to be to maintain my
weight (though I ended up falling below that, almost effortlessly)
The worst part was, I wasn’t even going out with friends to
restaurants or going on dates or hitting the town for drinks. I was
trying to be strict, then cheating at home at 10pm at night with
bowl after bowl of ice cream or cheese nachos, and feeling
horrible about it.
In fact, I had become so burnt out from harsh diets and rigorous
cardio routines that neither my body nor my mind could tolerate it
anymore.
Until you reshape your outlook, you will constantly run in circles
and you will be defined by exactly how you see yourself right now.
You may see some progress, but you will always run back to
home base, to what you know and are comfortable with.
I needed to crack this code. How can I achieve a fast level of fat
loss, while staying completely satisfied?
There had to be a way - and thank the gods - there was! And I
couldn’t be happier to share it with you.
And best of all, it won’t take years of effort for you to get there.
People who have been following this course have been dropping
8-10 pounds of fat per month, while progressing in the gym, and
all the while feeling great and super satisfied.
It’s being able to feast on truly satisfying meals that leave you in a
state of blissful peace.
But that’s not the point. The point here is that nearly all the will
power you had to exercise constantly, well you can say goodbye
to it.
Give this program a couple weeks, and you’ll see for yourself. The
results come fast and the level of effort is totally manageable.
Now you will need to push it hard in the gym a few days per week!
You will need to get used to fasting and eating bigger meals.
But the point I’m trying to make is that I struggled with fat loss for
years.
• Intermittent fasting
• Strategic black coffee to make fasting effortless
• Eating two meals per day (one very big meal and one
smaller meal)
• Utilizing strategic fruit snacks to make eating two meals per
day effortless
• Proper calorie intake to support aggressive fat loss, without
the downsides of extreme ‘crash’ dieting
• Macro ratios to best support testosterone, mood, satisfaction
and muscle retention
• Emphasizing foods that are highly filling and satisfying - lean
meats and potatoes baby!
• Performing three intense workouts per week to maintain and
even increase muscle
• Performing low intensity exercise on rest days to support fat
loss without increasing appetite or cutting into recovery
Well without further ado, let’s begin! Now keep in mind, this is a
simple and quick read. You actually may be shocked at just how
simple it is. Brevity is key!
Using this program, you can drop up to 1.5 to 2 pounds per week
provided you (A) get some form of daily activity in whether
strength training or cardio and (B) you have the Intermittent
Fasting protocol dialed in that I lay out in this program.
Accept that it will be a long road. If you don’t, then you’ll fail
because you’ll get discouraged that the pounds aren’t coming off
“fast enough”.
Every month you should be down 6-8 pounds of fat and your
waist should be down 1-1.5 inches. Though, most people will lose
8-10 lbs the very first month.
The Strategy
Intermittent Fasting
Intermittent Fasting is what makes this program so effective.
I’ll explain this more in just a second, but you’ll be skipping
breakfast and eating 2 meals per day.
When you skip breakfast, growth hormone goes through the roof,
which is advantageous because it shifts your metabolism to
burning fat for fuel and sparing muscle protein.
You’ll break the fast with a large meal that I call “The Feast”.
After this smaller meal, only drink water. Don’t take in any calories
between this smaller (later) meal and the Feast the following day.
Now, this may take up to a couple weeks to adjust to, but there
are ALL sorts of benefits of Intermittent Fasting.
Not only does this method diminish cravings for sweets and junk
food, but it also helps with focus, clarity, and boosts mental
alertness.
The meal plan may sound harsh, but keep in mind: this is an
aggressive strategy. It’s brutally effective, but it can be tough, at
first.
Meal Frequency
As I said above, you’ll be eating 2 meals per day: one big meal
and one smaller meal.
I’d recommend eating your biggest meal first (the Feast), since it
takes you out of the big calorie deficit from fasting. If you save the
That’s what works for me. If you find yourself getting hungrier
earlier, then eat earlier. As long as you’re skipping breakfast and
waiting at least 4-5 hours after waking up, you can eat that first
meal whenever you like.
(So for example, if you wake up at 7am, then you’d eat this first
meal somewhere between 12-2pm.)
Then, eat a second smaller meal 4-6 hours after this larger first
meal. I’ll get into specifics of these two meals in the next section.
If you want to have smaller meal first and save the bigger meal for
later in the day, then you totally can. If you want to have the
bigger meal first, then you can.
It’s the total at the end of the day that counts, not in what order
you eat the meals in.
This bigger meal (a.k.a. the Feast) should contain 60%+ of your
daily calories.
I’ll get into setting up your macros and calories in a later chapter,
but here are the basics of what this looks like:
For fats: if you’re using lean meat (chicken, turkey, white fish),
then add fats like oils, avocado or cheese. If you’re using steak,
then keep fats lower to optimize the protein to fat ratio.
If you have issues with being tired after the big meal, emphasize
fats and proteins and go lighter on carbs.
Any three of these choices work great because they’re very slow
digesting, making them better to eat at night while you’re fasting
to the next afternoon.
Another option, for people that aren’t scared of going a little lower
in protein, and a personal favorite of mine, is to make 3-4 cheese
quesadilla’s with low fat cheese.
This is fine, just make sure not to use oil each time, otherwise you
will go too high in fat.
If you’re going to go with the fried tortillas with cheese, you will be
getting more carbs and fats and less protein.
That said, calories should be around the same. This will result in
the same level of fat loss.
A benefit is that the extra carbs and fats will help support higher
testosterone, since carbs and fats have play the greatest role in
testosterone (more so than protein).
You can simply enter the food that you’re using and the weight of
it in grams or ounces, and it will tell you how many calories you’re
getting.
You can see that these are just guidelines. You don’t have to be
exact, as long as you’re within range of your target.
The fruit snacks only add a couple hundred calories to your diet,
but this couple hundred calories offers a big bang for its’ buck.
To help with this, we’re going to add 2 servings of fruit to your diet
each day. This is very healthy as long as you’re in a calorie
deficit.
There are three options for fruit snacking but you will only go with
two. So you might have an apple before dinner and again late at
night. Or you might have an apple before lunch and dinner.
#1 – Have the first “fruit snack” 1-2 hours before your first meal,
around the time you start to get hungry.
For example, if you sleep till 10am, you’d have your first meal
around 4pm and at 2-3pm you’d snack on an apple. This makes it
easier to extend through the fast.
Caffeine will help shuttle fat cells into your blood stream, will help
blunt appetite and increase energy.
No more than 2-4 cups of coffee per day: 1-2 in the morning, 1-2
later at work before you eat your first meal. That’s it.
So keep that in mind. And don’t forget, you should stick to black
coffee. If you must, you can have a splash of milk. But ideally
you’d go black.
I’d also recommend cutting out the pre-workout... You don’t need
them. If you adapt to this strategic caffeine use, the performance
effect of caffeine in the morning will be awesome.
This strategy helps with sleep as well. When you keep caffeine
consumption to the morning, the effects are gone by the time you
go to sleep. Sleep is critical to fat loss and dietary adherence.
If you’re getting hungry between meals 1 or 2, have something
else like herbal tea.
Herbal tea (to clarify: caffeine free hot tea) is great to drink later
in the day if you want something without taking in any additional
calories.
The Calculations
Setting Calories & Macros
Now that we have the nutrition plan laid out, let’s talk about how
to set up your calories and macros:
This will put most people around 11 calories per pound of goal
bodyweight. From my experience, this seems to be the sweet
spot for aggressive fat loss.
Going any lower than this, you’ll experience more hunger, lower
energy and negative side effects with very little extra fat loss.
Here’s how you would calculate your total calories for the day
Example: if you weigh 200 pounds and you want to drop down to
180, then it would be 180 x 11 = 1980 calories.
The rest of your calories should from fats and carbs. Fats will
come from meat, cottage cheese or Greek yogurt, and
supplemental fats like oils.
This is fine. Research has shown that you only need 0.82g of
protein per pound of bodyweight. And many people have gotten
amazing results going lower than this.
That said, since you’re fasting and eating big meals, you shouldn’t
have any issues with not being full after a meal.
This gives you the flexibility to opt for higher protein or lower
protein. If you want higher protein stick to cottage cheese or an
egg white omelet with 1-2 whole eggs for your last meal.
If you want lower protein and more carbs and fats, fry a few
cheesy corn tortillas. Use lower fat cheese (should have about 5g
of fat with 7-8g of protein).
I have gotten great results with higher protein and lower protein.
Both can work, so go with whichever you enjoy. You can also mix
it up.
Once per week, you can do a reefed day. This is where you bump
your calories up by about 600.
I recommend sticking to your diet for most of the day. Fast in the
morning, drink black coffee then eat your first main meal.
You don’t have to track your calories and get them dead on for
your reefed day. If you’re eating out, you can’t be exact.
Just eye ball it! Make no mistake: if you’re in the ballpark, you will
lean down perfectly.
Your fat loss may start to plateau. If this happens for longer than a
2-week period, then drop your daily calorie target by 200.
After 8-12 weeks (2-3 months) on this diet, you’ll want to bump
your calories to maintenance level for 2 weeks - about 15 calories
per pound of bodyweight.
You can cycle this diet for these 8-12-week “sprints” for consistent
fat loss, readjusting as you go along to drop down to your ideal
weight.
What To Do Next
When you hit your goal, switch to maintenance level calories (14-
15 calories per pound of body weight).
You could also have a big bowl of cereal at night for carbs to help
you sleep well (I prefer gluten-free cereal).
Thanks for taking the time out of your day to invest in and read
this guide... This is the first step towards the physique you want!
Greg O’Gallagher
Owner, Kinobody Fitness Systems