@Alex H I bought the joy of cooking about a year ago and it was a physical book with 4600 recipes for $20. Yes they aren’t “fitness” recipes but I don’t care about that because my brain works normally
@Alex H Used To Watch His Videos All The Time And Came Dangerously Close To Buying His Cookbook..Just Got A Generic One Instead And Been Bulking Ever Since.
@Alex H Last thing I want is to shill for Greg, believe me I'd never pay for the PDF either, but really? It's a little disingenuous to say that last line when I can get almost everything in that cookbook from wal-mart... (you will need to sub a few brands) Now, I want to defend it saying it's really easy to just sub out the FEW things you can't find (and believe me it is easy... this isn't rocket surgery ok buddy) but when he's charging so much for it maybe you have a point that it should be more accessible from a run of the mill store. Idk, it seems he talks a lot about just understanding what you're making/having and just substituting things and counting the cals for it so.... yeah just not that hard to do and a bit disingenuous to imply that you have to special order every item so it's perfect when in reality the book is a very loose recipe guide. Regardless I still overall agree with the video and the idea that no one should fall for these books as gospel or use them very often, just a nice tool sometimes to help a craving, at least for me.
If you significantly cut processed sugars from your diet, it has a noticeable effect on the pallette. Everything starts to taste sweeter after a while. Things like carrots and bread become sweeter than before. Even things that you don't necessarily think of as sweet, like steamed broccoli, start having a natural kind of sweetness you've never noticed before. And fruits like bananas and clementines eventually taste so sweet its like eating a dessert.
🎯💯🔥🔥🔥 100% correct ✅ facts! I was raw vegan! I only ate organic whole foods for 1 year, it was raw so it was too hard to maintain, now I'm only vegan. I haven't had any processed food / sugar in 3 years. Ur taste buds & brain wire changes with time. Now organic pineapples r too sweet for me 😅
Beets can taste exceptionally sweet after a while. It's truly amazing how well everything starts to taste after cutting out sugar. Unfortunately, two years ago, I started dating this girl who compulsively buys snacks. Now she lives with me. So I have literal shelves of snacks in my house tempting me. It's crazy that I manage to not to eat more than a cookie or so a week.
I noticed that with apples . Like it tastes like candy now. I love it lol. I do use some artifical sweetners like Stevie. Not a lot but just a little and I enjoy a zero sugar pop but I've significantly cut down My sugar and it made me love fruit so much.
Cutting sugar allowed me to properly enjoy black coffee (the expensive barista shit). Even Yoghurt (Greek style, low fat) and lots of fruits taste amazing. I don't even miss chocolate cause I can just, y'know, add cocoa or something if I want that flavour profile
I still use some “”anabolic””/volume eating recipes in my diet but I do agree that focusing too much on low calorie dense foods will probably not fix your appetite issues, if you’re always stretching your stomach. Additionally, if you actually have a life and go to restaurants and other people’s houses for meals, they likely won’t have tons of salad, guar gum and stevia to satisfy your cravings. Learning how to be satisfied on normal sized portions is key for long term dietary adherence.
@@REVIVALFitness Agreed 🤝 A clarification though, just because it’s regular whole food, doesn’t mean it’s automatically boring or flavorless. I enjoy my salmon, potatoes, eggs and veggies as much as my french toast, protein bars and ice cream.
@@sincorddnb9155 If we are talking about price though, for me personally the spices have been pretty bad. Used an entire 9 dollar bottle of berbere for my pork and cabbage soup yesterday (meal prep) for example. Boring is definitely good for the wallet.
Anyone who complains about eating chicken rice and broccoli leads me to believe they have no idea how to season their food and have the taste buds of a toddler
The fact that Greg finds even drinking regular water boring, is a serious concern, how can something that quenches our thirst naturally all of a sudden become boring?
@Exeunt Omnes Issue is that many obese people are terrifed of a lack of variety, even though in my experience they have a relatively unvaried diet... Food is important to them in a way not all of us can relate to. My (morbidly obese) family eat significantly less varied than me, but the idea I know a week in advance what I'm eating just terrifies them somehow. They need the freedom of choice on that day, every day and nothing can be off limits (and if you have a plan, to them everything but the plan is off-limits.) Or they go mental. Even though if you observe what they eat, it's 80% the same, which is no different from me, or anyone. We all know what we like and have a limited amount of 'go-to's' which is fine.
Crazy thing about this is that when I was eating low cal foods, I craved food a lot more which made cutting more difficult. Then when I started to bulk on whole foods it became harder to actually hit my calorie goal. Even though I had two different calorie goals, thinking less about food would have made it easier to cut as opposed to making intricate low-cal recipes.
Well no shit if you bulk your aren’t going to be as hungry because your in a surplus, the “anabolic diet” is Taylored to lose weight because your eating more food for less calories
@@MaterialistTalisman You don't get my point. Hitting my old calories goal when maintaining is the is equally if not more difficult when I switched to whole foods to bulk
@@hurricanejain4919 then you where maintaining a too low body fat for your own set point. Greg never tells people they should be shredded. He said you should maintain a healthy weight where you have energy and don’t feel hungry. And not everything you eat had to be low calorie. Maybe instead of 4 slices of pizza, you have 2, and eat a big salad on the side. You still get to eat pizza but you also get to be fuller without so many calories. He preaches balance
Agree with every point you made except for aspartame; the evidence doesn't hold up in peer reviews. But you are 100% right, whole foods need to be the core. I think Greg not having children partially influences his propensity to promote this type of food. Imagine trying to convince yourself this is good to give to your five-year-old.
Sweeteners in General don't have enough studies Behind them. There's ones saying they increase appetite and sugar cravings. There's others saying they dont. But it can't be healthy to have as many as Greg recommends.. He drinks like 15 a day?
That's the issue. There is evidence pointing to these issues with aspertame. There is studies that go both ways on this. Always remember though, the outcome of a study is heavily dependent on who paid for it.
Agreed. Also the other side isnt getting highlighted either. the amount of suger in soda isnt healthy either. So if you want to get a soda. you need to weight out the two evils.
this video couldn’t have found me at a better time. i’ve been eating anabolic for about a year and can personally attest to literally everything you touched on in this video. no matter how much volume and “deliciousness” i can eat, im left wanting MORE - never truly satisfied besides when my stomach is in pain and distended from all the crap artificial sweeteners and fillers. transitioning to way more whole foods lately and my mood and honestly quality of life has improved dramatically. i used to be afraid to eat anything i didn’t make because it wasn’t a “big enough” meal. i also should add i used to struggle for years with binge eating. what works? EAT ENOUGH REAL FOOD AND YOUR BODY WONT WANT/ASK FOR ANYTHING ELSE. i wish i learned this sooner!
I love your videos mate. Thanks for helping getting over my abs anxiety. I had stayed at 135ibs since past 1 year making no progress, eating low calorie high volume foods hoping that I'll maingain which never happened. After seeing your videos I have realized that I have to start eating more now if I am serious about building muscle. Btw I am 5feet 10inch.
Same here bro I was at your exact weight thinking I can “maingain” but I failed now I decided to bulk and I am heavier but still look lean but stronger than I was before
@@hammadayman5610 it's good to know that your bulk is coming out with good results I hope we can gains some real muscle this year and get this maingain shit out of our heads. This maingain has already made me waste my 1.5 years of lifting
I felt into that anabolic diet and I ended up thinking about food all the time. Like how can I make this or this kind of food with the less calories in it. It was an ED in the making until I told myself enough. I am now eating mostly whole foods that are super easy to prepare and that I learned to actually love. I am definitely spending less time in the kitchen and way less time thinking about food. But on the other end I don’t want to get into orthorexia , I’m totally fine with adding artificial sweetener here and there if I feel like it. It’s totally fine in moderation, I’m not killing my gut by adding a pack of Splenda in my cream of rice if I want to. All of it to say, any extreme will never be good!
Dude this is so true. Long story short I tried following Greg’s and Remingtons way of eating and all that happened to me was messed up gut (with a lot of bloating) feeling sick and losing muscle. Dietary fat is not the enemy. I started listening to doctors about diet and now I eat healthy and feel great. Also with a healthy weight. I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who feels like this
As a broke college student, I wanted to follow Greg's meal plan for my gains but I remember unconsciously moving to whole foods due to lower costs + satiety. For example, I tried to make the anabolic french toast everyday in my hostel but the vast number of ingredients (cinammon + stevia) was too expensive for me so i just bough salt, pepper and chili powder to complement it. I think for some reason, the sugary + desert feeling was not as satiating as the primal basic salt + pepper.
I can see some of these foods being helpful during a competition prep phase, but for normal people and/or those with eating disorders, it can be dangerous. The other thing people overlook is the fact that although small amounts of artificial sugars, and thickeners won't hurt, the daily intake of large amounts of these things can't be good for your gut.
@@kodiakstrength2456 Bad analogy. The Dosage makes up the poison. You know that blueberries have the same chemical as toxic gas? Yk why no one cares? Because it’s so low of the dosage it doesn’t do anything. All of those studies done by rats are given the dosage x1000 of the regular consumption.
Sean N. Was correct about his book as its just over priced and underwhelming. You also know if you've seen his video about "Drink more diet soda than water video!" That his advice regarding artificial sweetened drinks has truly caused rot to his brain.
I think you can get books by the best chefs in the world for much less than that. And I really wonder how one can claim that diet soda is healthier than water.
People like Greg doucette and durian rider basically made me cut most dietary fat out of my diet was eating below 30 grams a day and it was the worst decision I’ve ever made. Glad there’s someone who isn’t petrified of dietary fat. Good point about how everyone preaching a low fat intake are on gear advice like what they spew out could potentially be catastrophic. Love the content man keep up the good work 👍
Solid video, man. Diets like these make me think of someone who isn't eating enough or who is maintaining an overly lean body-fat percentage dreaming about food. It feels more like a craving than a diet.
I'm fond of the volume eating approach but you REALLY made me think about all the points you raised. The tone of your videos are on point in order to make people reconsider their beliefs (cutting through B.S., blunt without arrogance/underestimating audience's IQ). I would add that I'm not so sure only young & broke are the target of those anabolic videos. I'm 40+ and was really drawn into them during the pandemic, and notice lots of family fathers/older guys following that trend. Loving the new cutting-based content, you will get beyond + subs in no time, keep the vids coming!
Everything you said is 100% on point. But people with eating disorders want to have their cake and eat it as well - pun intended. In fact when I re-watch these anabolic recepies I start to wonder if they are in the right state of mind. The fact that Greg, being on gear for decades gives diet advice is beyond me! People are gulible!
I somewhat agree but the fear mongering about aspartame is just BS. "Linked" in rat studies doesn't mean much. It has been studied a lot and is considered safe. It's cool if you don't want to use it (there are many other non nutritive sweetner alternatives to it), but let's not make stuff up.
I agree with about everything you said in this video. When I tried eating from the anabolic cookbook I was small, weak, and felt like shit all the time. Then I switched over to eating a lot more Whole Foods and stuff with plenty of fat in it and I stayed lean while putting on tons of size and strength whilst feeling better. People need to know this kinda information
The moment I heard Gregg say "Saturated fat is bad for you" my brain clicked and realised how full of crap he is. He cherry picks data just to promote his eating disorders as a health fad book.
To be fair, that’s still a widely held belief even among people with advanced degrees. They don’t know how to interpret science. Most of them just parrot the food pyramid - low fat (and it better not be saturated), lots of whole grains, lean protein, fruits and vegetables.
I haven't even tracked calories in forever. my plate is just some kind of meat, same amount (visually) in carbs and some veg with every meal and a decent sized snack. If I want to gain weight I eat a little more carbs, if I want to lose weight I don't eat the snack or simply up my movement. Idk man i'm amazed anyone still finds this hard. All these kids are seriously overthinking how hard this is.
I almost never comment on videos but I have to on this even though I know you've seen these types of comments hundreds of times - you literally changed my life. Like many people, I started getting into shape during quarantine. I have basically wasted the last 1.5-2 years of my fitness journey thanks to the advice of people like G-Shred. All I managed to do was become a twig by losing a ton of weight (thanks to your videos on bulking I recently realized I never should have lost weight - I was normal BMI but happened to have a "tummy" so thanks to G-Shred's insistence on having abs I assumed I was fat) and becoming paranoid of gaining weight while being obsessed with maximizing the volume of every meal and minimizing the calories like a buffoon. Literally last week I viewed this video as well as your other bulking videos and I felt like I was unplugged from the matrix. Your no-nonsense attitude is precisely what gullible novices like me need to slap us out of the delusions people like G-Shred put us in. I have finally embraced a common-sense approach to putting on muscle - not fearing bulking, eating simple boring whole foods while allowing myself small treats. I'm so frustrated and appalled by how much time I've lost and how gullible I was, but as you say, the only solution is to make better choices moving forward. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for taking time out of your day to save foolish beginners like me from ED and novice purgatory,
While I agree on most points you made, I have to say as someone who was morbidly of obese eating high volume low calorie foods have done more good than bad to me I substitute high calorie foods with lower calorie options which I have found to help me . I agree with you that supplimenting diet soda for water is not good and most of Greg's cookbook is bs.
Yeah that's cause you are obese and you can use your own fat. When you are normal weight just eat normally. Of course maybe it's normal in America to eat fastfood everyday, but try to emulate normal from European or Far East countries - just whole foods in reasonable proportion.
I was on this anabolic diet and let me tell you I felt like shit everyday probably because I was eating all that process shit. I’m so glad I’m eating more whole foods now because I have so much more energy now and now when i try to eat fast food I can’t, I feel like throwing up
Just found your channel and bruh you are a genius! I enjoy your humor but also the way you present information. I'm binge watching all your videos and they keep getting better and better. I will share your videos with my homies too! Keep up the good work 👏
Artificial sweeteners are the worst, I read many years ago, eating too much of that stuff tricks your body into thinking it’s getting natural sugar, which will sooner or later make you crave real sugar so badly. Pure cane sugar and raw honey is the best. This one guy on RUclips said if you are not craving eggs and meat, you are not hungry and you just want to snack on something..which makes a really good point. I found those cool books to be a scam.. always eat real food in moderation, cut out all junk to lose weight, oh and keep lifting 🙌
Hey, I recently discovered your channel and I've been binging all your videos. I really like your approach to bulking because without even knowing there was a time were I was eating more and more and more and my gym progress was improving (btw I have HUGE appetite). I gained a little bit of fat (nothing extreme whatsoever, more in the realm of body dismorfia self-image issues) maybe because I overate but my performance increased. I'm 6'2, 182lbs currently. Still slim I know but slowly the results will show up. I appreciate your grind and I hope to see your channel grow 💪
I too started off with the anabolic diet then after some time i realized it was lacking in micro nutrients so i started eating more whole natural foods. I still make some anabolic recipes here and there. Too be honest this video is solid, but a lot of the comments are just people coping with their bad habits and choices. Greg has some solid advice, but he definitely has a lot of shitty opinions as well which is why people need to learn to do their own research instead of blindly listening to someone online.
The amount of protein powder, egg whites, greek yogurt, artificial sweeter, fibre turns me off so much. Like just eat normal real food guy. Its ok to eat bad food once in a while.
This amount of fiber daily can’t be good for digestion. Dietary fat is also low because it’s not low enough in caloric content to warrant “volume eating.”
As a german, i couldnt even cook most of the recipes, even if i wanted to, because most of the stuff doesnt really exist in our supermarkets and im not paying the prices to get it delivered, in quantities that are way to high for me alone. Even something like pure eggwhites isnt available in any of the stores i have near me. Also whole foods can taste freaking amazing, if you just prepare it in a way that you like, like making an easy pan sauce to boost the flavor a little bit, if you got the time.
I'm from Germany too, had to look for the eggwhites for hours in different stores, eventually found them in a DM. And yeah, most recipes just aren't doable if you live outside North america
I’ve never understood people who say chicken, rice, and insert whatever vegetable, is boring. I literally eat that exact meal, with some seasoning and a little bit of sauce, ever single day. The whole premise behind the anabolic cookbook is that it’s a cheat code for people with no self control. It can be helpful in moderation I’m sure, but using it daily is not going to fix the problems that people have when it comes to eating.
I wouldn’t say dangerous by themselves but they can have a very bad snowball effect with increased appetite, sugar dependence, hormone affects from low dietary fat, excessive fiber damaging the gut, etc.
Whole Foods aren’t even boring tbh. Like damn, these people need to learn about spices and flavor. You can make some bomb as food like lentil soups, pastas, beans, etc if you know how to flavor food lol
15:25 The point you are missing is that there are thousands of people who have struggled their whole life to control their eating (and their weight) and failed again and again, they just can't do it. So having this anabolic/low calories alternatives is a great option for them to stay in a somewhat healthier weight. The "put down the cookbook and learn to eat like an adult" doesn't work for them, they have already tried that, hundreds of times
I use a number of the recipes, but only in addition to my normal diet. I make sure to get my dairy fats, omega 3s and other necessary nutrients and use anabolic recipes for times when I do want to enjoy more volume for less calories while hitting my protein mark. I think a balanced approach is the best way, with more emphasis on natural, whole foods.
I enjoy this video a lot. I come from obsessively eating healthy, Whole Foods nothing processed but I truly do feel that I have developed an eating disorder by obsessing over this for so many years of my life. So I do watch Coach Greg only because he helps enlighten me a little bit and realize if I have something with chemicals in it once I’m not going to die. I would never follow that lifestyle 110% but I do think it’s important have a little bit of balance. So today I bought things I normally wouldn’t… like bread that’s not Ezekiel or homemade sourdough 😮 and kodiak cakes haha and cream cheese! Getting wild. I even thought about getting sugar-free syrup but of course I’m not gonna eat that shit every day 😂 thank you for this video made me feel not so crazy for believing everything I believe 😜
I’ve been seeing your videos and good job man but my only question and problem is that anabolic recipes have been around for a while now and why all of sudden you make this video about how their bad they can work mostly to satisfy everyone sweet tooth because let’s be honest most people fail with The clean diet and there’s a reason we more options then say 30 years ago and at the end of the day it’s calories in and calories out A wise man wants said science is not based on truth but on fact therefore I’ll continue with the diet that I’m on high protein delicious meals and I don’t care if there not perfect or pretty as long as they taste good that’s all that matters and iam a natural lifter i’ve been eating like this for a while and I’ve had no problems whatsoever let me know what you think tell your opinion and I’ll respond back.
Most of us are addicted to sugar in some degree, it’s almost impossible not to be given the state of the food industry. I’m working on it myself. Good luck man. 🤜🤛
Videos like this are super important, thank you for sharing this content! In my personal fitness journey, I made the goal of my dieting to be able to maintain the same high volume that I loved, and find a way to cut down on calories. I am grateful that the solution I came across was to massively increase my fruit and vegetable intake, from probably 10-20% to 40%. Now I feel more satiated then ever, my mental health is great, I broke out of a cycle of constant cravings for junk food, and even if my lift progression is somewhat slowed, I still feel like I have crazy high energy in spite of a 500 calorie deficit. If I came across this anabolic nonsense early on in my diet development, I don't know if I would have stuck with building healthy eating habits. Adding in one 'anabolic' meal per week has been nice to keep cravings down, but if I came across this diet when I was craving McDonalds 5x/week, I feel like I would have absolutely fallen into the trap that people like Greg try to sell you. I hope this video reaches some of the gym/dieting newbies who stumble across anabolic content so that they can save themselves from an ED or unhealthy diets.
One thing i would love to see a video on is off-weeks, slow weeks and bulking. I have back and knee issues and sometimes i just need to take a week and get some therapy to get back in the game. Even with my training split (I'm doing alphadestiny's naturally enhanced atm which is a 2 day split) i wonder if i need to be bulking so hard when I'm so far away from a training days. Please keep this in mind and do a video on this. ALWAYS KEEN TO HELP THE ALGO RHYTHM ❤❤❤
i hopped off the anabolic diet train when i found myself tracking the calories on fucking spinach and lettuce. its a one way ticket to an eating disorder
I used to eat shit like this pretty often, and it made eating actual whole foods so much harder. My palette isn't as bad as some of these other people, but I still find it difficult to eat fruits, vegetable, etc.
What's wrong with artificial sweeteners though? What you mentioned with Aspartam: The amount you need for these things happening is very high, with diet sodas for example you won't get to that amount
@@REVIVALFitness That makes sense, normally almost all of my diet is normal healthy foods, I just drink a lot of diet coke (maybe 2l a day) and I wouldn't think that's really unhealthy But yeah, with tons of sweeteners in all of your meals you're probably right.
@@REVIVALFitness Even with the amounts in that type of diet there is no way you are reaching the amounts in those rodent studies that found the correlation, it's kind of impossible. Also, they are just that, rodent studies. So take them with a grain of salt.
I appreciate the perspective. Might not follow this completely. I enjoy my protein oatmeal but the rest of my diet is pretty clean whole foods. I have backed away from needing to go completely on the "anabolic" recipes for every meal and just do them for some meals. Really trying to dec the volume I used to eat.
@@REVIVALFitness thank you!! I seriously was wondering what my desk was. I used to be heavily involved in the Whole30 diet, and didn't have this issue, but wanted to lose some fat, got sucked in, and suddenly was binging, hungry all the time, craving sugar without control, and the purging and feeling guilty.
@@REVIVALFitness thank you!! I seriously was wondering what my deal was. I used to be heavily involved in the Whole30 diet, and didn't have this issue, but wanted to lose some fat, got sucked in, and suddenly was binging, hungry all the time, craving sugar without control, and the purging and feeling guilty.
I've watched on a Jeff Nippard's video some research on diet soda, and - if I'm not mistaken - the conclusion was that it wasn't unhealthy at all. Maybe he was talking about sucralose and not aspartame, but I remember clearly watching a video of his on this topic.
The only unhealthy thing about diet sodas is how acidic they are, personally i wanna have healthy teeth which is why i stopped smoking and stuff. Other than that, there's nothing really unhealthy about diet sodas and if it works for you then that's great honestly.
Hey man, love the video’s. Do you have any plans to appear on any podcasts. Breaking Beta, SSDAbels channel etc? I usually listen to your videos at work and some longform content would be greatly appreciated. 👍
I treat the anabolic recipes the same as I treat any other recipe. When I'm craving something different, I'll cook it if it sounds good. Generally, I like to just focus on eating healthy overall.
@@AVB15 Lol these aspartame claims are actually terrible, it is often those studies where the people drink aspartame artificially sweentened drinks WITH a fucking Big Mac and Large fries to make up for the calories lol.
You know, it's just dawned on me. The more I think about it, if naturals struggle to train the same as enhanced people, what the hell makes us think eating like them works any better?
How freaking dare you! What? I'm not some irrational baby who can't take any criticism. It's just if I yell louder people will think I know what I'm talking about. What? I am not a clout chaser with beady eyes and look like a creep.
Holy shit. Thanks for making this. Luckily I mainly I eat simple whole foods now, but early on in my lifting journey I mainly followed these Instagram dudes who made stupid complex recipes with pretty bad overall nutrition. Sometimes I'm tempted to make these again, but this video has made me avoid these like the plague.
I used to struggle with binging but I eventually got over it and lost a lot of weight. However, it came back when I found Greg’s content because I thought, “why not enjoy food and stay lean?” He literally made my binging worse as if he was enabling it
I'm not a fanboy for any youtuber and i'm not defending them, but it sounds like your shifting blame to someone else. "He literally made my binging worse as if he was enabling it." Huge cope; you were the one who decided to over eat. Don't be a child and take accountability for yourself.
@@mochashakakhan6609 I literally said that I overcame it, and took accountability. However, his advice is really shitty to people that are in an impressionable state of their fitness journey. Like saying “ if you don’t have abs, you are fat!” Or “eating way too much food is healthy as long as it fits your calories!”
its 2 times cheaper to eat a 80% whole foods diet and 20% sweets like oreos and chocolate than to volume eat and make all these recipes and stuff, whole foods are more satiating too
My eating disorder didn't go away until I switched to a mainly whole foods diet. I started meal prepping a REAL meal each day and now I don't have any issues
Anabolic food just confuses the hell out of me and my body. You can make delicious, dessert adjacent foods that have the same macros as chicken broccoli and rice and eat that instead. I make a microwave bread pudding with whole grain flour, whey, a little peanut butter and honey, around 500 calories and 43 g protein. I eat it for lunch - delicious, filling, and nourishing.
I would eat like this a couple years ago. I would scarf down so many of those quest bars and my stomach capacity stretched which made it easy to binge which I eventually did. If it looks like it was created in a lab never eat it.
Another great video man, much love from Australia. January this year I decided to add more calories (mainly from fat) to my diet after doing 6 months low calorie / low fat. It’s been a godsend and gym performance has never been better 85% basic whole foods with steak, pork, chicken, eggs, potato and pumpkin being my go to’s and olive oil of course.
I've been waiting for this video since I made a comment about this the other day. Great work so many people need to see and understand this video. People make eating sooo complicated when it's really so simple. For me when I first started to lose weight I was one of those people who always would drink the diet sodas, putting stevia on things, always looking for the lowest calorie foods and snacks I could find. While it worked and I was losing weight I was ALWAYS hungry. I would get hungry and drink a diet soda hoping it would help and it would but only temporarily, a hour or two later I'd be even more hungry than before. These days I stopped complicating things and just eat basic normal whole foods. Sure my scrambled eggs and bowl of oatmeal might not look fancy, or that bowl of chicken rice and beans might look nasty, but it does the job, it's cheap, it's nourishing, and rarely ever am I hungry even when I'm in a deficit. Eating is so simple just eat normal decent food, you can eat "bad" food here and there in moderation, and stop overthinking. I dont change what I eat bulking or cutting I just eat more or less
also greg velifies fat as if it's the devil when 1 avocado has 200 calories and extremley satiating many fat's are like that too. one thing that happend to me once increased my fat intake is high function of the brain my focus increased and my skin looked brighter, all theese anabolic enthuisiests seem to think low calorie= good meal no matter what the nutritional benifets are. thank you for this video man.
I have an eating disorder which got way worse on anabolic diet. My stomach stretched and I was binge eating more. Anabolic diet is expensive and makes you eat a lot of "trash".
I always thought this shit was just gross. This food doesn't taste and I think the logical process of "Fat = Bad, Calories = Bad" is straight up ignorance. Like sure I can make "protein pancakes" that have the texture of a rug in a college dorm. Or, alternatively, I can make some pancakes and fry them in a bit of butter and top them with some natural maple syrup and fruit. Sure, more fat, more calories, but also much more nutritious even if just simple carbs and fats. You can be damn sure it tastes way better too. It's absolutely preposterous.
I’d fallen into the anabolic diet when I first started trying to get leaner, now I realize it over complicates the whole process and over emphasizes the taste of food, it’s so much easier to eat whole food like veggies than making some low cal concoction that tastes “90% as good as Ben and Jerry’s” or some BS
Have I said this before… I did not like your channel one bit at first, but it/you have really grown on me. Keep doing you buddy. Eat big get big, it really works!
Yeah I went back to the old ways tracking Marcos and I realize if I try to eat out the cookbook all day it won’t happen because my fats are 65 grams and now my stomach doesn’t expand like it used too or my wallet lol
I remember I was so close to buying coach Greg’s cook book but I didn’t cause it was to expensive and cause I found out it didn’t seem healthy. I just tend to eat Whole Foods and in large quantities to get full. Anyways , I’m bulking.
This was another thing i fell for, i have only just kicked an addiction to sugar-free soda. 2 litres of Pepsi max per day.. calorie free but the acid was wearing away my teeth
TBF you should rinse your mouth afterwards. That's not exclusive to soda. Doesn't really have to do much with the fitness side of things but for teeth health, you should rinse your mouth at the very least after a meal.
I look at fitness as something you need to be constantly learning and gaining knowledge. On exercise form, diet etc. Anyone who is serious about health and exercise should have some meals they can trust to get their nutritional needs and should be looking to expand that so you don't get fed up with the same meals. Selling cookbooks I'm ok with. People should assess the price vs the value and if they can expand their meals/recipes from other sources or not.
I am a new subscriber, this is my first video of you ever....I am a big fan of coach, and you know what, you are 100% correct......great video, also I think Remington also said he sucks down about 4 sodas daily.
Actual marketing copy: “You’re pretty smart for thinking of buying my cookbook… now be REALLY friggin’ smart and actually buy it!!!”
@Alex H Paying full price then seeing it for free in 10 seconds via online search must be brutal. No refunds, remember.
@Alex H I bought the joy of cooking about a year ago and it was a physical book with 4600 recipes for $20. Yes they aren’t “fitness” recipes but I don’t care about that because my brain works normally
Wow
@Alex H Used To Watch His Videos All The Time And Came Dangerously Close To Buying His Cookbook..Just Got A Generic One Instead And Been Bulking Ever Since.
@Alex H Last thing I want is to shill for Greg, believe me I'd never pay for the PDF either, but really? It's a little disingenuous to say that last line when I can get almost everything in that cookbook from wal-mart... (you will need to sub a few brands)
Now, I want to defend it saying it's really easy to just sub out the FEW things you can't find (and believe me it is easy... this isn't rocket surgery ok buddy) but when he's charging so much for it maybe you have a point that it should be more accessible from a run of the mill store.
Idk, it seems he talks a lot about just understanding what you're making/having and just substituting things and counting the cals for it so.... yeah just not that hard to do and a bit disingenuous to imply that you have to special order every item so it's perfect when in reality the book is a very loose recipe guide.
Regardless I still overall agree with the video and the idea that no one should fall for these books as gospel or use them very often, just a nice tool sometimes to help a craving, at least for me.
If you significantly cut processed sugars from your diet, it has a noticeable effect on the pallette. Everything starts to taste sweeter after a while. Things like carrots and bread become sweeter than before. Even things that you don't necessarily think of as sweet, like steamed broccoli, start having a natural kind of sweetness you've never noticed before. And fruits like bananas and clementines eventually taste so sweet its like eating a dessert.
🎯💯🔥🔥🔥 100% correct ✅ facts! I was raw vegan! I only ate organic whole foods for 1 year, it was raw so it was too hard to maintain, now I'm only vegan. I haven't had any processed food / sugar in 3 years. Ur taste buds & brain wire changes with time. Now organic pineapples r too sweet for me 😅
Yeah, that's what i've noticed too when i went on a more whole food based diet.
Beets can taste exceptionally sweet after a while. It's truly amazing how well everything starts to taste after cutting out sugar. Unfortunately, two years ago, I started dating this girl who compulsively buys snacks. Now she lives with me. So I have literal shelves of snacks in my house tempting me. It's crazy that I manage to not to eat more than a cookie or so a week.
I noticed that with apples . Like it tastes like candy now. I love it lol. I do use some artifical sweetners like Stevie. Not a lot but just a little and I enjoy a zero sugar pop but I've significantly cut down My sugar and it made me love fruit so much.
Cutting sugar allowed me to properly enjoy black coffee (the expensive barista shit). Even Yoghurt (Greek style, low fat) and lots of fruits taste amazing. I don't even miss chocolate cause I can just, y'know, add cocoa or something if I want that flavour profile
I still use some “”anabolic””/volume eating recipes in my diet but I do agree that focusing too much on low calorie dense foods will probably not fix your appetite issues, if you’re always stretching your stomach.
Additionally, if you actually have a life and go to restaurants and other people’s houses for meals, they likely won’t have tons of salad, guar gum and stevia to satisfy your cravings.
Learning how to be satisfied on normal sized portions is key for long term dietary adherence.
80-90% boring whole food, 10-20% treats
@@REVIVALFitness Agreed 🤝
A clarification though, just because it’s regular whole food, doesn’t mean it’s automatically boring or flavorless. I enjoy my salmon, potatoes, eggs and veggies as much as my french toast, protein bars and ice cream.
@@bernardobarreto4211 Yea man. Imagine there are these things called spices....
bro what are you talking about? Right next to the jungle juice is always a salad bar with Walden Farms, Fiberlyze, and xantham gum
@@sincorddnb9155 If we are talking about price though, for me personally the spices have been pretty bad. Used an entire 9 dollar bottle of berbere for my pork and cabbage soup yesterday (meal prep) for example. Boring is definitely good for the wallet.
Anyone who complains about eating chicken rice and broccoli leads me to believe they have no idea how to season their food and have the taste buds of a toddler
Agreed. Whole food is delicious when you're used to eating it and can cook at even a mediocre level.
Exactly, when I hear Greg and others saying it’s boring blows my mind. I’ve always loved some good baked chicken with some broccoli and rice😋😋
The fact that Greg finds even drinking regular water boring, is a serious concern, how can something that quenches our thirst naturally all of a sudden become boring?
@Exeunt Omnes Issue is that many obese people are terrifed of a lack of variety, even though in my experience they have a relatively unvaried diet... Food is important to them in a way not all of us can relate to. My (morbidly obese) family eat significantly less varied than me, but the idea I know a week in advance what I'm eating just terrifies them somehow. They need the freedom of choice on that day, every day and nothing can be off limits (and if you have a plan, to them everything but the plan is off-limits.) Or they go mental. Even though if you observe what they eat, it's 80% the same, which is no different from me, or anyone. We all know what we like and have a limited amount of 'go-to's' which is fine.
Greg's addicted to Sweetners
Crazy thing about this is that when I was eating low cal foods, I craved food a lot more which made cutting more difficult. Then when I started to bulk on whole foods it became harder to actually hit my calorie goal. Even though I had two different calorie goals, thinking less about food would have made it easier to cut as opposed to making intricate low-cal recipes.
I’ve said before, whole food bulking wil tell you a lot about how big of an appetite you think you have.
Well no shit if you bulk your aren’t going to be as hungry because your in a surplus, the “anabolic diet” is Taylored to lose weight because your eating more food for less calories
@@MaterialistTalisman You don't get my point. Hitting my old calories goal when maintaining is the is equally if not more difficult when I switched to whole foods to bulk
I'm the same with carbs. I have to up my fats and lower my carbs to feel full. It is what it is.
You do what works for you.
@@hurricanejain4919 then you where maintaining a too low body fat for your own set point. Greg never tells people they should be shredded. He said you should maintain a healthy weight where you have energy and don’t feel hungry. And not everything you eat had to be low calorie. Maybe instead of 4 slices of pizza, you have 2, and eat a big salad on the side. You still get to eat pizza but you also get to be fuller without so many calories. He preaches balance
Agree with every point you made except for aspartame; the evidence doesn't hold up in peer reviews. But you are 100% right, whole foods need to be the core. I think Greg not having children partially influences his propensity to promote this type of food. Imagine trying to convince yourself this is good to give to your five-year-old.
Sweeteners in General don't have enough studies Behind them. There's ones saying they increase appetite and sugar cravings. There's others saying they dont.
But it can't be healthy to have as many as Greg recommends.. He drinks like 15 a day?
That's the issue. There is evidence pointing to these issues with aspertame. There is studies that go both ways on this. Always remember though, the outcome of a study is heavily dependent on who paid for it.
I wonder when’s the last time Greg had a regular home cooked meal (the stuff yo momma would make)
Agreed. Also the other side isnt getting highlighted either.
the amount of suger in soda isnt healthy either. So if you want to get a soda. you need to weight out the two evils.
What’s healthier bread/ protein powder with multiple ingredients etc or chicken/eggs and based on what?
this video couldn’t have found me at a better time. i’ve been eating anabolic for about a year and can personally attest to literally everything you touched on in this video. no matter how much volume and “deliciousness” i can eat, im left wanting MORE - never truly satisfied besides when my stomach is in pain and distended from all the crap artificial sweeteners and fillers. transitioning to way more whole foods lately and my mood and honestly quality of life has improved dramatically. i used to be afraid to eat anything i didn’t make because it wasn’t a “big enough” meal. i also should add i used to struggle for years with binge eating. what works? EAT ENOUGH REAL FOOD AND YOUR BODY WONT WANT/ASK FOR ANYTHING ELSE. i wish i learned this sooner!
Thank you for sharing 💪🏼
"It's actually the catabolic diet. "
~ Geoffrey Verity Schofield
This is true
I love your videos mate. Thanks for helping getting over my abs anxiety. I had stayed at 135ibs since past 1 year making no progress, eating low calorie high volume foods hoping that I'll maingain which never happened. After seeing your videos I have realized that I have to start eating more now if I am serious about building muscle. Btw I am 5feet 10inch.
Enjoy the gains 🤜🤛
Same here bro I was at your exact weight thinking I can “maingain” but I failed now I decided to bulk and I am heavier but still look lean but stronger than I was before
@@hammadayman5610 it's good to know that your bulk is coming out with good results I hope we can gains some real muscle this year and get this maingain shit out of our heads. This maingain has already made me waste my 1.5 years of lifting
@@designfreek5783 I know right we could have been so much bigger now if we listened to guys like revival fitness instead of G shred doucette
@@designfreek5783 but yeah best of luck to you man
I felt into that anabolic diet and I ended up thinking about food all the time. Like how can I make this or this kind of food with the less calories in it. It was an ED in the making until I told myself enough. I am now eating mostly whole foods that are super easy to prepare and that I learned to actually love. I am definitely spending less time in the kitchen and way less time thinking about food. But on the other end I don’t want to get into orthorexia , I’m totally fine with adding artificial sweetener here and there if I feel like it. It’s totally fine in moderation, I’m not killing my gut by adding a pack of Splenda in my cream of rice if I want to. All of it to say, any extreme will never be good!
🤜🤛
Dude this is so true. Long story short I tried following Greg’s and Remingtons way of eating and all that happened to me was messed up gut (with a lot of bloating) feeling sick and losing muscle. Dietary fat is not the enemy. I started listening to doctors about diet and now I eat healthy and feel great. Also with a healthy weight. I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who feels like this
🤜🤛
As a broke college student, I wanted to follow Greg's meal plan for my gains but I remember unconsciously moving to whole foods due to lower costs + satiety. For example, I tried to make the anabolic french toast everyday in my hostel but the vast number of ingredients (cinammon + stevia) was too expensive for me so i just bough salt, pepper and chili powder to complement it. I think for some reason, the sugary + desert feeling was not as satiating as the primal basic salt + pepper.
Cinnamon and stevia are expensive? Ahahah
I can see some of these foods being helpful during a competition prep phase, but for normal people and/or those with eating disorders, it can be dangerous. The other thing people overlook is the fact that although small amounts of artificial sugars, and thickeners won't hurt, the daily intake of large amounts of these things can't be good for your gut.
I'm drinking alot of diet Coke like 5 cans of coke and it doesn't seem to be giving me problems
@@crispy4797 I smoke 5 pack of cigarettes a day and I’m not dead yet
@@kodiakstrength2456 Bad analogy. The Dosage makes up the poison. You know that blueberries have the same chemical as toxic gas? Yk why no one cares? Because it’s so low of the dosage it doesn’t do anything. All of those studies done by rats are given the dosage x1000 of the regular consumption.
I was with y’all till the cigarette analogy…..
@@kodiakstrength2456 thanks for the laugh and spray mate lol.
Sean N. Was correct about his book as its just over priced and underwhelming. You also know if you've seen his video about "Drink more diet soda than water video!" That his advice regarding artificial sweetened drinks has truly caused rot to his brain.
People here are angry about my comments on artificial sweeteners.
I think you can get books by the best chefs in the world for much less than that. And I really wonder how one can claim that diet soda is healthier than water.
People like Greg doucette and durian rider basically made me cut most dietary fat out of my diet was eating below 30 grams a day and it was the worst decision I’ve ever made. Glad there’s someone who isn’t petrified of dietary fat. Good point about how everyone preaching a low fat intake are on gear advice like what they spew out could potentially be catastrophic. Love the content man keep up the good work 👍
Solid video, man.
Diets like these make me think of someone who isn't eating enough or who is maintaining an overly lean body-fat percentage dreaming about food. It feels more like a craving than a diet.
I'm fond of the volume eating approach but you REALLY made me think about all the points you raised. The tone of your videos are on point in order to make people reconsider their beliefs (cutting through B.S., blunt without arrogance/underestimating audience's IQ). I would add that I'm not so sure only young & broke are the target of those anabolic videos. I'm 40+ and was really drawn into them during the pandemic, and notice lots of family fathers/older guys following that trend. Loving the new cutting-based content, you will get beyond + subs in no time, keep the vids coming!
Thank you 🤜🤛
Im lifting around 5 month now with your advice applied. Im getting compliments in gym class that my arms look huge. Thanks alot.
Everything you said is 100% on point. But people with eating disorders want to have their cake and eat it as well - pun intended. In fact when I re-watch these anabolic recepies I start to wonder if they are in the right state of mind. The fact that Greg, being on gear for decades gives diet advice is beyond me! People are gulible!
Gullible is an understatement
Man I was so close to buying Greg’s cookbook this channel saved my gains and money.
This one is spot on, I think so. An urge to eat in volumes is better spent on vegetables and pickles.
I somewhat agree but the fear mongering about aspartame is just BS. "Linked" in rat studies doesn't mean much. It has been studied a lot and is considered safe.
It's cool if you don't want to use it (there are many other non nutritive sweetner alternatives to it), but let's not make stuff up.
I agree with about everything you said in this video. When I tried eating from the anabolic cookbook I was small, weak, and felt like shit all the time. Then I switched over to eating a lot more Whole Foods and stuff with plenty of fat in it and I stayed lean while putting on tons of size and strength whilst feeling better. People need to know this kinda information
The moment I heard Gregg say "Saturated fat is bad for you" my brain clicked and realised how full of crap he is.
He cherry picks data just to promote his eating disorders as a health fad book.
To be fair, that’s still a widely held belief even among people with advanced degrees. They don’t know how to interpret science. Most of them just parrot the food pyramid - low fat (and it better not be saturated), lots of whole grains, lean protein, fruits and vegetables.
I haven't even tracked calories in forever. my plate is just some kind of meat, same amount (visually) in carbs and some veg with every meal and a decent sized snack. If I want to gain weight I eat a little more carbs, if I want to lose weight I don't eat the snack or simply up my movement.
Idk man i'm amazed anyone still finds this hard. All these kids are seriously overthinking how hard this is.
I almost never comment on videos but I have to on this even though I know you've seen these types of comments hundreds of times - you literally changed my life. Like many people, I started getting into shape during quarantine. I have basically wasted the last 1.5-2 years of my fitness journey thanks to the advice of people like G-Shred.
All I managed to do was become a twig by losing a ton of weight (thanks to your videos on bulking I recently realized I never should have lost weight - I was normal BMI but happened to have a "tummy" so thanks to G-Shred's insistence on having abs I assumed I was fat) and becoming paranoid of gaining weight while being obsessed with maximizing the volume of every meal and minimizing the calories like a buffoon. Literally last week I viewed this video as well as your other bulking videos and I felt like I was unplugged from the matrix. Your no-nonsense attitude is precisely what gullible novices like me need to slap us out of the delusions people like G-Shred put us in.
I have finally embraced a common-sense approach to putting on muscle - not fearing bulking, eating simple boring whole foods while allowing myself small treats. I'm so frustrated and appalled by how much time I've lost and how gullible I was, but as you say, the only solution is to make better choices moving forward. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for taking time out of your day to save foolish beginners like me from ED and novice purgatory,
Thank you for sharing. Enjoy the gains. I was stuck in the same vortex years ago, that’s how I’m so familiar with it.
*stands up*
*sheds tear*
Well done
👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you 🤝
While I agree on most points you made, I have to say as someone who was morbidly of obese eating high volume low calorie foods have done more good than bad to me I substitute high calorie foods with lower calorie options which I have found to help me . I agree with you that supplimenting diet soda for water is not good and most of Greg's cookbook is bs.
Yeah that's cause you are obese and you can use your own fat. When you are normal weight just eat normally. Of course maybe it's normal in America to eat fastfood everyday, but try to emulate normal from European or Far East countries - just whole foods in reasonable proportion.
20K soon 🦈🦈🦈
Imagine not eating a diet full of artificial sweeteners and processed foods while pretending to be healthy. How else are you gonna maingain, brah?
I was on this anabolic diet and let me tell you I felt like shit everyday probably because I was eating all that process shit. I’m so glad I’m eating more whole foods now because I have so much more energy now and now when i try to eat fast food I can’t, I feel like throwing up
Good to hear 💪
I bought the cookbook. It was pretty lackluster. You're better off getting high protein foods that are prepackages at your grocery store.
Just found your channel and bruh you are a genius! I enjoy your humor but also the way you present information. I'm binge watching all your videos and they keep getting better and better. I will share your videos with my homies too! Keep up the good work 👏
Thank you. Binge my videos, not food!
Artificial sweeteners are the worst, I read many years ago, eating too much of that stuff tricks your body into thinking it’s getting natural sugar, which will sooner or later make you crave real sugar so badly. Pure cane sugar and raw honey is the best.
This one guy on RUclips said if you are not craving eggs and meat, you are not hungry and you just want to snack on something..which makes a really good point. I found those cool books to be a scam.. always eat real food in moderation, cut out all junk to lose weight, oh and keep lifting 🙌
Every anabolic dessert is just protein powder disguised into 100 different ways anyway.
Essentially. Don’t forget some egg whites too.
$149.00 for an “anabolic cookbook” Greg is out here giving Mr Krabs a run for his money
Eugene was a menace 🤑
Hey, I recently discovered your channel and I've been binging all your videos. I really like your approach to bulking because without even knowing there was a time were I was eating more and more and more and my gym progress was improving (btw I have HUGE appetite).
I gained a little bit of fat (nothing extreme whatsoever, more in the realm of body dismorfia self-image issues) maybe because I overate but my performance increased. I'm 6'2, 182lbs currently. Still slim I know but slowly the results will show up.
I appreciate your grind and I hope to see your channel grow 💪
This video just makes sense. And I’m always amazed how well this guy does his videos in one take.
Thank you. But one take? Not quite…
I too started off with the anabolic diet then after some time i realized it was lacking in micro nutrients so i started eating more whole natural foods. I still make some anabolic recipes here and there. Too be honest this video is solid, but a lot of the comments are just people coping with their bad habits and choices. Greg has some solid advice, but he definitely has a lot of shitty opinions as well which is why people need to learn to do their own research instead of blindly listening to someone online.
The amount of protein powder, egg whites, greek yogurt, artificial sweeter, fibre turns me off so much. Like just eat normal real food guy. Its ok to eat bad food once in a while.
This amount of fiber daily can’t be good for digestion. Dietary fat is also low because it’s not low enough in caloric content to warrant “volume eating.”
As a german, i couldnt even cook most of the recipes, even if i wanted to, because most of the stuff doesnt really exist in our supermarkets and im not paying the prices to get it delivered, in quantities that are way to high for me alone. Even something like pure eggwhites isnt available in any of the stores i have near me.
Also whole foods can taste freaking amazing, if you just prepare it in a way that you like, like making an easy pan sauce to boost the flavor a little bit, if you got the time.
I'm from Germany too, had to look for the eggwhites for hours in different stores, eventually found them in a DM. And yeah, most recipes just aren't doable if you live outside North america
Lol Im from India, imagine me.. I couldn't make almost anything i see on RUclips.
I’ve never understood people who say chicken, rice, and insert whatever vegetable, is boring. I literally eat that exact meal, with some seasoning and a little bit of sauce, ever single day. The whole premise behind the anabolic cookbook is that it’s a cheat code for people with no self control. It can be helpful in moderation I’m sure, but using it daily is not going to fix the problems that people have when it comes to eating.
I agree with pretty much everything you said but artificial sweeteners being linked to cancer has been disproven for years and years
I like how your diet is very similar to mine. I drink alot of milk with my meals to help get in the protein and calories. It makes a huge difference
Dairy is excellent imo if you tolerate it well.
I always knew and suspected that these anabolic foods can be dangerous since Greg Doucette said Diet Soda is healthier than water
I wouldn’t say dangerous by themselves but they can have a very bad snowball effect with increased appetite, sugar dependence, hormone affects from low dietary fat, excessive fiber damaging the gut, etc.
Whole Foods aren’t even boring tbh. Like damn, these people need to learn about spices and flavor. You can make some bomb as food like lentil soups, pastas, beans, etc if you know how to flavor food lol
Very easily
Yep, I never get tired of my lunch/post workout meal: Salmon or Steak , Broccoli/Cauliflower with Boiled white potatoes, so satisfying
15:25 The point you are missing is that there are thousands of people who have struggled their whole life to control their eating (and their weight) and failed again and again, they just can't do it. So having this anabolic/low calories alternatives is a great option for them to stay in a somewhat healthier weight.
The "put down the cookbook and learn to eat like an adult" doesn't work for them, they have already tried that, hundreds of times
They evidently haven’t tried that fully. Who is eating to the point of obesity with single ingredient whole foods?
@florene bleu monster💀
I use a number of the recipes, but only in addition to my normal diet. I make sure to get my dairy fats, omega 3s and other necessary nutrients and use anabolic recipes for times when I do want to enjoy more volume for less calories while hitting my protein mark. I think a balanced approach is the best way, with more emphasis on natural, whole foods.
I quit consuming sugar altogether. I now carefully monitor both sugar and sodium. I consume mostly organic cage free eggs, organic cabbage, organic broccoli, organic spinach, organic arugula,wild caught Alaska Sockeye salmon, wild cod Alaska Pacific cod,wild caught Alaska Pacific halibut, turkey burgers, organic apples etc.
At one point I was convincing one of my family members to buy this cookbook. I am really happy they didn't do that.
I enjoy this video a lot. I come from obsessively eating healthy, Whole Foods nothing processed but I truly do feel that I have developed an eating disorder by obsessing over this for so many years of my life. So I do watch Coach Greg only because he helps enlighten me a little bit and realize if I have something with chemicals in it once I’m not going to die. I would never follow that lifestyle 110% but I do think it’s important have a little bit of balance. So today I bought things I normally wouldn’t… like bread that’s not Ezekiel or homemade sourdough 😮 and kodiak cakes haha and cream cheese! Getting wild. I even thought about getting sugar-free syrup but of course I’m not gonna eat that shit every day 😂 thank you for this video made me feel not so crazy for believing everything I believe 😜
I’ve been seeing your videos and good job man but my only question and problem is that anabolic recipes have been around for a while now and why all of sudden you make this video about how their bad they can work mostly to satisfy everyone sweet tooth because let’s be honest most people fail with The clean diet and there’s a reason we more options then say 30 years ago and at the end of the day it’s calories in and calories out A wise man wants said science is not based on truth but on fact therefore I’ll continue with the diet that I’m on high protein delicious meals and I don’t care if there not perfect or pretty as long as they taste good that’s all that matters and iam a natural lifter i’ve been eating like this for a while and I’ve had no problems whatsoever let me know what you think tell your opinion and I’ll respond back.
Thank you for making this video... Finally someone did it
Holy shit…i didnt know i have BED and i am addicted to sugar until i watched this video…thnx dude gonna get off this shit ASAP
Most of us are addicted to sugar in some degree, it’s almost impossible not to be given the state of the food industry. I’m working on it myself. Good luck man. 🤜🤛
Videos like this are super important, thank you for sharing this content! In my personal fitness journey, I made the goal of my dieting to be able to maintain the same high volume that I loved, and find a way to cut down on calories. I am grateful that the solution I came across was to massively increase my fruit and vegetable intake, from probably 10-20% to 40%. Now I feel more satiated then ever, my mental health is great, I broke out of a cycle of constant cravings for junk food, and even if my lift progression is somewhat slowed, I still feel like I have crazy high energy in spite of a 500 calorie deficit.
If I came across this anabolic nonsense early on in my diet development, I don't know if I would have stuck with building healthy eating habits. Adding in one 'anabolic' meal per week has been nice to keep cravings down, but if I came across this diet when I was craving McDonalds 5x/week, I feel like I would have absolutely fallen into the trap that people like Greg try to sell you. I hope this video reaches some of the gym/dieting newbies who stumble across anabolic content so that they can save themselves from an ED or unhealthy diets.
Thanks for sharing 💪🏼
I had been eating ‘boring’ chicken and broccoli (and sweet potatoes, and stake, and salmon....) for years. Still love it.
One thing i would love to see a video on is off-weeks, slow weeks and bulking. I have back and knee issues and sometimes i just need to take a week and get some therapy to get back in the game. Even with my training split (I'm doing alphadestiny's naturally enhanced atm which is a 2 day split) i wonder if i need to be bulking so hard when I'm so far away from a training days. Please keep this in mind and do a video on this. ALWAYS KEEN TO HELP THE ALGO RHYTHM ❤❤❤
i hopped off the anabolic diet train when i found myself tracking the calories on fucking spinach and lettuce. its a one way ticket to an eating disorder
I call it a commercialized eating disorder
I used to eat shit like this pretty often, and it made eating actual whole foods so much harder. My palette isn't as bad as some of these other people, but I still find it difficult to eat fruits, vegetable, etc.
You’ll readjust. But that’s an issue people overlook.
Love your channel and all the calling out you do. Thank you for doing these videos.
Thank you 🤜🤛
Thank you for your informative and honest video, we need more RUclipsr like you
Thank you 🤝
Editor seethe: (silent rage)
I wonder how Seethe has been lately
@@REVIVALFitness hes been reading the comments, keeping his hands away from the keyboard by sitting on them
I remember when I did this diet, felt absolutely horrible can’t even say. Thankfully now Revival Fitness has cleared my eyes up. 🤙
🤜🤛
What's wrong with artificial sweeteners though?
What you mentioned with Aspartam: The amount you need for these things happening is very high, with diet sodas for example you won't get to that amount
The anabolic diet includes artificial sweeteners in considerable quantities, especially if you adhere to it for a good portion of your diet.
@@REVIVALFitness That makes sense, normally almost all of my diet is normal healthy foods, I just drink a lot of diet coke (maybe 2l a day) and I wouldn't think that's really unhealthy
But yeah, with tons of sweeteners in all of your meals you're probably right.
@@REVIVALFitness Even with the amounts in that type of diet there is no way you are reaching the amounts in those rodent studies that found the correlation, it's kind of impossible. Also, they are just that, rodent studies. So take them with a grain of salt.
I appreciate the perspective. Might not follow this completely. I enjoy my protein oatmeal but the rest of my diet is pretty clean whole foods. I have backed away from needing to go completely on the "anabolic" recipes for every meal and just do them for some meals. Really trying to dec the volume I used to eat.
Protein oatmeal is mostly a whole food. Whey/casein are just milk derivatives.
Let's not forget,this dude tried to roast Gordon Ramsay once.
anabolic diet is so expensive and not satiating, whole food diet is superior and more budget friendly
I got involved in this diet and, suddenly, out of nowhere, I developed a binging and purging problem. So glad for this video.
I believe this “diet” is a commercialized eating disorder
@@REVIVALFitness thank you!! I seriously was wondering what my desk was. I used to be heavily involved in the Whole30 diet, and didn't have this issue, but wanted to lose some fat, got sucked in, and suddenly was binging, hungry all the time, craving sugar without control, and the purging and feeling guilty.
@@REVIVALFitness thank you!! I seriously was wondering what my deal was. I used to be heavily involved in the Whole30 diet, and didn't have this issue, but wanted to lose some fat, got sucked in, and suddenly was binging, hungry all the time, craving sugar without control, and the purging and feeling guilty.
I've watched on a Jeff Nippard's video some research on diet soda, and - if I'm not mistaken - the conclusion was that it wasn't unhealthy at all. Maybe he was talking about sucralose and not aspartame, but I remember clearly watching a video of his on this topic.
The only unhealthy thing about diet sodas is how acidic they are, personally i wanna have healthy teeth which is why i stopped smoking and stuff. Other than that, there's nothing really unhealthy about diet sodas and if it works for you then that's great honestly.
Hey man, love the video’s. Do you have any plans to appear on any podcasts. Breaking Beta, SSDAbels channel etc? I usually listen to your videos at work and some longform content would be greatly appreciated. 👍
I treat the anabolic recipes the same as I treat any other recipe. When I'm craving something different, I'll cook it if it sounds good. Generally, I like to just focus on eating healthy overall.
THE ASPARTAME CLAIMS MAKE ME LAUGH
What no pussy does to a mf
@@AVB15 Lol these aspartame claims are actually terrible, it is often those studies where the people drink aspartame artificially sweentened drinks WITH a fucking Big Mac and Large fries to make up for the calories lol.
You know, it's just dawned on me.
The more I think about it, if naturals struggle to train the same as enhanced people, what the hell makes us think eating like them works any better?
Many enhanced lifters eat whole foods based diets too. You’d be better off doing so since PEDs can already heighten inflammation, hormone issues, etc.
How freaking dare you!
What? I'm not some irrational baby who can't take any criticism.
It's just if I yell louder people will think I know what I'm talking about.
What? I am not a clout chaser with beady eyes and look like a creep.
LOL
Double Intro thing is good 🎉
Holy shit. Thanks for making this. Luckily I mainly I eat simple whole foods now, but early on in my lifting journey I mainly followed these Instagram dudes who made stupid complex recipes with pretty bad overall nutrition. Sometimes I'm tempted to make these again, but this video has made me avoid these like the plague.
I used to struggle with binging but I eventually got over it and lost a lot of weight. However, it came back when I found Greg’s content because I thought, “why not enjoy food and stay lean?” He literally made my binging worse as if he was enabling it
I'm not a fanboy for any youtuber and i'm not defending them, but it sounds like your shifting blame to someone else. "He literally made my binging worse as if he was enabling it." Huge cope; you were the one who decided to over eat. Don't be a child and take accountability for yourself.
@@mochashakakhan6609 I literally said that I overcame it, and took accountability. However, his advice is really shitty to people that are in an impressionable state of their fitness journey. Like saying “ if you don’t have abs, you are fat!” Or “eating way too much food is healthy as long as it fits your calories!”
I never understand why anybody would buy a book in 2022. Google a meal plan. It's not hard. Most ppl eat the same stuff weekly.
its 2 times cheaper to eat a 80% whole foods diet and 20% sweets like oreos and chocolate than to volume eat and make all these recipes and stuff, whole foods are more satiating too
6:57 made me laugh, sounds like what the ppl who are fans of greg would say
My eating disorder didn't go away until I switched to a mainly whole foods diet. I started meal prepping a REAL meal each day and now I don't have any issues
This stuff is glorified junk food and sweets
12:00 looks like a bunch of frozen Tony's pizzas that got ran over by a pickup.
Thank you, when I first started working out and eating healthy, I was obsessed with the anabolic food bullshit and I felt like shit almost every day.
Maingaining at too low of a level. Sad.
Anabolic food just confuses the hell out of me and my body. You can make delicious, dessert adjacent foods that have the same macros as chicken broccoli and rice and eat that instead. I make a microwave bread pudding with whole grain flour, whey, a little peanut butter and honey, around 500 calories and 43 g protein. I eat it for lunch - delicious, filling, and nourishing.
I would eat like this a couple years ago. I would scarf down so many of those quest bars and my stomach capacity stretched which made it easy to binge which I eventually did. If it looks like it was created in a lab never eat it.
Another great video man, much love from Australia. January this year I decided to add more calories (mainly from fat) to my diet after doing 6 months low calorie / low fat. It’s been a godsend and gym performance has never been better
85% basic whole foods with steak, pork, chicken, eggs, potato and pumpkin being my go to’s and olive oil of course.
I've been waiting for this video since I made a comment about this the other day. Great work so many people need to see and understand this video. People make eating sooo complicated when it's really so simple.
For me when I first started to lose weight I was one of those people who always would drink the diet sodas, putting stevia on things, always looking for the lowest calorie foods and snacks I could find. While it worked and I was losing weight I was ALWAYS hungry. I would get hungry and drink a diet soda hoping it would help and it would but only temporarily, a hour or two later I'd be even more hungry than before.
These days I stopped complicating things and just eat basic normal whole foods. Sure my scrambled eggs and bowl of oatmeal might not look fancy, or that bowl of chicken rice and beans might look nasty, but it does the job, it's cheap, it's nourishing, and rarely ever am I hungry even when I'm in a deficit. Eating is so simple just eat normal decent food, you can eat "bad" food here and there in moderation, and stop overthinking. I dont change what I eat bulking or cutting I just eat more or less
zero calories!
😳☝
no sugar either, except it is experienced as sugar
also greg velifies fat as if it's the devil when 1 avocado has 200 calories and extremley satiating many fat's are like that too.
one thing that happend to me once increased my fat intake is high function of the brain my focus increased and my skin looked brighter,
all theese anabolic enthuisiests seem to think low calorie= good meal
no matter what the nutritional benifets are.
thank you for this video man.
I have an eating disorder which got way worse on anabolic diet. My stomach stretched and I was binge eating more. Anabolic diet is expensive and makes you eat a lot of "trash".
Great video’ anyone who’s a legitimate shopper’ 😂 made me lol
I always thought this shit was just gross. This food doesn't taste and I think the logical process of "Fat = Bad, Calories = Bad" is straight up ignorance. Like sure I can make "protein pancakes" that have the texture of a rug in a college dorm. Or, alternatively, I can make some pancakes and fry them in a bit of butter and top them with some natural maple syrup and fruit. Sure, more fat, more calories, but also much more nutritious even if just simple carbs and fats. You can be damn sure it tastes way better too. It's absolutely preposterous.
I’d fallen into the anabolic diet when I first started trying to get leaner, now I realize it over complicates the whole process and over emphasizes the taste of food, it’s so much easier to eat whole food like veggies than making some low cal concoction that tastes “90% as good as Ben and Jerry’s” or some BS
Tren and Jerry's
I’ve never liked any of the anabolic meals idk if it’s me. The anabolic French toast and protein ice cream are like not filling and not tasty imo
Have I said this before… I did not like your channel one bit at first, but it/you have really grown on me. Keep doing you buddy. Eat big get big, it really works!
Appreciate it. I can be rough around the edges.
Just like everything else. Moderation. I usually have one meal a day from the cook book and the other two meals mainly Whole Foods.
1/3 meals per day? Best of luck.
Yeah I went back to the old ways tracking Marcos and I realize if I try to eat out the cookbook all day it won’t happen because my fats are 65 grams and now my stomach doesn’t expand like it used too or my wallet lol
I remember I was so close to buying coach Greg’s cook book but I didn’t cause it was to expensive and cause I found out it didn’t seem healthy. I just tend to eat Whole Foods and in large quantities to get full. Anyways , I’m bulking.
Don't you love how it capitalizes Whole Foods as in the store? I assume you're on an iPhone, mine does the same thing.
@@REVIVALFitness yup. Lol
This was another thing i fell for, i have only just kicked an addiction to sugar-free soda. 2 litres of Pepsi max per day.. calorie free but the acid was wearing away my teeth
I’ve noticed a lot of fitness personalities seem to have quasi-diet pop addictions.
You need to brush your teeth and use mouth wash after
TBF you should rinse your mouth afterwards. That's not exclusive to soda. Doesn't really have to do much with the fitness side of things but for teeth health, you should rinse your mouth at the very least after a meal.
I look at fitness as something you need to be constantly learning and gaining knowledge. On exercise form, diet etc. Anyone who is serious about health and exercise should have some meals they can trust to get their nutritional needs and should be looking to expand that so you don't get fed up with the same meals.
Selling cookbooks I'm ok with. People should assess the price vs the value and if they can expand their meals/recipes from other sources or not.
I am a new subscriber, this is my first video of you ever....I am a big fan of coach, and you know what, you are 100% correct......great video, also I think Remington also said he sucks down about 4 sodas daily.