Bullshit, Brawn and Business

It doesn’t take a lot of scrolling through my instagram feed ( @joe_guy ) to see that in recent years my bodyweight and body fat has taken some pretty major swings. In December 2015 my bodyweight was 82kg, which then dropped to 69kg in July 2016, which then ballooned to 93kg in November 2016, before leveling out again to 85kg today. To some people that may look like the classic stereotypical bodybuilding cycles of bulking and cutting, bulking and cutting, but others may sense that there’s a deeper issue there, which there was. After breaking my ribs in October 2015 I was unable to train for 3 months and although my diet was still relatively tight the lack of training meant aesthetically my physique went backwards. Upon returning to full training I decided that I was going to ‘prove’ to all those who said that I’d let myself go a little just how good a physique I had. After 4 months things were going well, I was looking ripped and training well but I wasn’t ‘cover model rip...

The 5:2, Keto, Slimming World, Weight Watchers; they all WORK! But why do they work?   The reasoning behind it is simple, it's because they make you subconsciously watch what you are eating. I have tried pretty much every single diet out there and I've lost weight on them all.  A diet that sticks in my mind and is at the forefront of current UK media is Keto. When I went on a Ketogenic I GOT SHREDDED! But the reason behind me getting super shredded on Keto wasn't because it's some kind of superior super diet. It was because I started to check the nutrients of every food I ate before I put it in my mouth. Chocolate; can't have that, it's got carbs in. Pasta; can't have that, carbs. Milk; can't have that, carbs again. You get the gist! Weight Watchers, another diet I got shredded on. Why? Because I was checking how many points a food was before I ate it!  However, as I've become more educated and knowledgeable I've learnt that I ca...