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Basically you take like 1200-1600 kcal per day from protein shakes ONLY, curb appetite with an appetite suppressant, and use T3 to boost fat burning even more and steroids to keep as much muscle as possible (in my case trenbolone and test). I would be doing this for three weeks, let me know what you think. But please read the article first if you have time...
SLIM FAST: THE EXTREME DIET BASICS
by Grendel
This article is going to piss people off. This is a diet article but this article is extreme by even my standards. I am going to tell you how to drop the most weight in the shortest amount of time and this method will work for anyone and everyone. I know that what I am writing about flies in the face of what most experts will tell you and frankly, the experts are generally correct when they are talking about normal people with normal weight-loss goals. However, for those who are on the extreme, this is the new way of dieting. Part 1 of this article will address the basics of the diet I am outlining and part 2 will contain my drug recommendations.
Anorexics lose weight. Dieting literature tells you that if you stop eating your metabolism slows down and weight loss stops, which is why you have to eat a balanced diet, etc. This is certainly true, the moment calories are cut thyroid production will slow down. This is a perfectly understandable and crucial biological mechanism from the days before the 7-11 and the super-market. Ancient man, as a hunter and gatherer, went through periods of famine and feast; kill a large mammoth and you can gorge yourself and your family for a month or so but it may be months before you kill another one. So when your body detected that caloric intake is down it screams "Famine" and starts to slow your metabolism so that your fat reserves can last until the next Mammoth comes along.
If you ever look at concentration camp or prison camp victims you will see that the human body, even when given almost no food, does not completely shut down and turn off. You can survive for a very long time with almost no food and yes, your metabolism will slow down but there is a certain basic amount of fuel that must be burned each day. Obviously the physiques of concentration camp victims are not what we are trying to emulate (well maybe those Calvin Klein models are) but it does show that on the extreme end of starvation the metabolism does not completely shut off. Fat, muscle and eventually internal organs are consumed to fuel the life supporting systems of the body. And it is not just prison camp victims who go through similar processes. Anorexics enter periods of extended starvation as do many athletes (wrestlers and dancers come immediately to mind) who must make a weight class or present a certain appearance.
Compare this to how most people (even "enlightened" people) diet. Yeah, we all cut our calories and keep control over the number of fat or carbohydrate grams we consume. We do not starve because that would be bad! Duchaine and the ketogenic diet people were among the first to advocate very low calorie dieting to the weight-lifting public; diets with under 1000 calories per day. This was an important step in the evolution of dieting and Duchaine admits he was inspired by the classic water and fish diet that seemed to get anyone to drop weight. Ketogenic diets do play some cool tricks on the metabolism and the Kreb Cycle that is fantastic and very helpful; however there is an even better diet "trick".
I think everyone can see where I am going with this, towards a protein fast diet! So lets get the unaltered basics of that diet out of the way and then we will play around with the pharmaceutical elements available to us.
You are going to be eating almost nothing but protein for as long as you can stand. That is the fact. The goal is to lose as much fat as possible in as short a period as possible so bare with me. This is a 2-4 week diet at the most and it is extreme. This is not what I would suggest to anyone but a competitor or very dedicated (read that as crazy) dieter.
Step 1: Weigh yourself
Step 2: Multiple this number by 2-3 depending on the degree of weight loss you want
Step 3: This number is how many grams of protein per day you will be eating
Step 4: Multiple the result of step 3 by 4; this is how many calories per day you will eating.
So take someone who weighs 200lbs (and wants to drop weight quickly), they should be eating 400-600 grams of protein or 1600-2400 calories. This is the most calories you should eat in a given day. Now we are going to cycle these calories over a 7-day period. Vary the caloric intake by some 10 and 20 percent of your total daily calories. Now arrange your week such that there are 2 days spent eating your maximum calories, 2 days eating 80 percent of your maximum calories, and 3 days spent eating 90 percent. You can arrange the days to fit your workout patterns, giving yourself more or less food depending on when you anticipate the heaviest training. Below is a sample 7 day arrangement based on doubling your weight in step 2.
Day 1: Max Calories
Day 2: Max Calories minus 10%
Day 3: May Calories minus 20%
Day 4: Max Calories minus 10%
Day 5: Max Calories
Day 6: Max Calories minus 20%
Day 7: Max Calories minus 10%
So given the above example the week would look like this for our 200 pound athlete.
Day 1: 1600
Day 2: 1440
Day 3: 1280
Day 4: 1440
Day 5: 1600
Day 6: 1280
Day 7: 1440
Cycling calories is intended to keep your metabolism guessing, although at this degree of limited intake I do not expect it to be extremely effective. It will certainly help. The best reason to cycle calories is that it permits you to "indulge" yourself a little more, albeit these are not cheat days.
Is that all you are eating? No. There are two other equally important elements of this diet, water and fiber. Be sure to drink lots and lots of water, the more water the better; I recommend at least a gallon of water a day. The second element, fiber, is something that your diet will absolutely be lacking and is very useful. First, it will make you feel more full then you really are and it will keep your digestive system healthy. I recommend a sugar free fiber drink or fiber wafer made of psyllium husks and I suggest you take it with each meal. It is ok to exceed (and you should in fact exceed) the suggested dosages on the package insert because your pure protein diet is completely devoid of all fiber. There is no real harm in taking too much fiber assuming adequate hydration. Trust me, colon health is not something to fuck around withI would rather be on a dialysis machine then have colon cancer. Do not under-estimate how helpful the feelings of fullness generated by the fiber will be.
What about cardiovascular training! Forget it. Yes, it does help to burn fat, but most people find that their appetite increases in response to cardiovascular activity and it is very easy to over-eat on this diet. I would rather see someone cut out 200 calories then spend 20 minutes on the stair-climber (on this diet) but if you are able to handle the exercise without over-eating, you should do it. It's not going to be fun, that I can promise you.
This is an extremely unnatural and unhealthy diet as it is written and as I said, this would put most doctors into an immediate state of shock. Good! I think the most important elements of this diet are the vitamin and mineral supplements you will be taking. Make sure to take an abundance of vitamins (I use 2 GNC multivitamins per day normally and I would, on this diet, add probably 1 more to that) and minerals. If you find your appetite uncontrollable, I suggest an over the counter appetite suppressant or ephedrine (which will also help with lagging energy levels). Creatine (without sugar loading drinks) is fine. Glutamine is a vital supplement on this diet particularly if you are not taking anti-catabolic drugs. Lastly, I suggest a product that contains guggulsterones (Guggolbolics by Syntrax or Metabolic Thyrolean by Prolabs) to naturally boost your thyroid.
Well that is the basic (and natural) version of my diet. Next week I will open the medicine chest (in my case a medicine vault would be more accurate) and we will explore what modern medicine and the Mexican labs have to offer us. Until then, Grendel out.
Slim Fast & Pharmacology: The Extreme Diet Revisited
by Grendel
Last issue I presented to the Anabolic Extreme readership my ideas on effective dieting; forget six small meals and jogging…starve yourself! I had decided to first present my ideas on this type of diet without the use of pharmaceuticals because this diet is of use to many types of people who are not concerned with maximum muscle mass or self-medication. I felt that if I addressed only the drug-related issues then I would lose a large segment of the audience that could benefit greatly from my ideas. Hopefully I have convinced a few readers to give my ideas some effort and I am willing to say that if you attempt a moderated starvation diet you will be impressed with the weight-loss that is possible.
Clearly there is room for the use of chemicals in this type of dieting. In previous articles I discuss the use of thyroid hormone, clenbuterol, and appetite suppressants; for those of you who need to be reminded please read I Get Lean With a Little Help From My Friends. To summarize from my own article I divide diet drugs (this is my own division, not something officially recognized) in the following categories:
1. Anti-Catabolics (steroids)
2. Hunger Suppressants (tenuate dospan, Nor-ephedrine)
3. Metabolic Rate Stimulators (Clenbuterol, Ephedrine, Cytomel, DNP)
With this diet my primary concern is two-fold: prevent muscle wasting and maintain thyroid function. Raising the metabolism in the sense of additional stimulant via central nervous system action or adrenal receptors is not crucial because the additional calories burned are “insignificant compared to the powers of the starvation”.
The ideal way to use thyroid hormone would be to have a doctor check your thyroid levels regularly and then prescribe active thyroid hormone to keep your thyroid levels at a normal level despite your extremely low caloric intake. Realistically I do not see people doing this. The best choice for most people is going to be to choose a dosage of active thyroid hormone (T3) and stick to it for the entire diet. Remember that your body is already producing very little thyroid hormone on the diet so the effects of the synthetic thyroid are really only trying to keep you at a “normal” level.
There is a consequence of not letting your thyroid levels drop off; you will not experience a reduction in hunger. Normally when people fast or are in conditions of starvation they enter a period where they are just not very hungry any more, this is the metabolism slowing almost to a stop. In fact, there is debate over whether “fat people” are overweight because of over-active or under-active thyroids. An under-acting thyroid would produce fewer signals to eat. An over-acting thyroid could lead to obesity in the modern world because our food is so plentiful and calorie dense, a rapid metabolism is constantly saying “feed me” but instead of grains and mammoth, you have fast food and candy. Going back to the diet however, the thyroid hormone will not blunt your hunger and in fact may increase your appetite. I know this may seem counter-intuitive but you will have to trust me.
My other concern is preventing the loss of muscle tissue under such an extreme dieting condition. Protein intake, while high, is unlikely to be sufficient in and of itself to limit catabolism. Muscle mass decreases during starvation because literally the body turns upon itself as a source of energy, consuming first glucose (glycogen) then fats and finally protein via the process of gluconeogenisis wherein protein is turned to glucose for energy.
Obviously in this diet you are not getting any glucose so all energy for your body comes from the metabolism of fat (either dietary or stored in the form of adipose tissue) or the conversion of protein into glucose. The metabolism of protein into glucose is not a very efficient process nor is the metabolism of fat, which is why weight loss occurs. The challenge is to get the body to consume the stored fat and leave as much of the muscle as possible (hence the ketogenic diet).
The best types of drugs to prevent muscle wasting are anabolic/androgenic steroids. If you really need more information on steroids at this point, then I suggest you try actually reading some of the articles here at Anabolic Extreme; the basics of steroid use and method of action can be easily found in the archives.
Ok so what I have presented to you so far is not really that groundbreaking; I accept that. I am pretty much going back over familiar ground for most of my readers. What I am going to do is tell you what I use and my experiences with some of these drugs so you can have an idea of how to go about doing such things yourself.
Cytomel: I always use 100mcg of cytomel and I do not taper the dosages. My rationale is that as long as you are providing artificial thyroid hormone you are suppressing your TSH and hence impairing recovery; you should be either on or off thyroid medicines not in between. I started off cycling cytomel but now I go on at one dosage for the entire duration and I am fine. I think you should start off tapering only to get a sense of the dosages you require. This is a very controversial drug and lot of people have many varied opinions on dosage, tapering, length of use and whether or not cytomel can permanent damage your metabolism. I am not going to try to resolve those issues here because I don’t believe that they can be dealt with anymore then has already been done. Remember that using cytomel while dieting is going to be less harmful to your TSH function then using thyroid hormone and eating normally (ie using thyroid hormone as a fat burner directly not as a means of maintaining normal thyroid function in the absence of adequate food intake).
Clenbuterol: This drug is decent, I get the shakes pretty bad. I don’t see it as any real improvement beyond ephedrine when you consider price. I tend to take around 140mcg per day in divided dosages and I do 2 weeks on 2 weeks off.
Yohimbine HCL: I use this product a lot and I really like it. A lot of people cannot handle it, it makes them feel sick particularly at a high dosage. I use between 3-6 5mg tablets (I think they are actually 5.4mg…why? God only knows) per day and I am fine. I think Yohimbine is a great addition to any diet stack if you can tolerate it.
Norephedrine (Dexatrim): This is a great product considering it is legal and until recently was over the counter. I found that 1 dexatrim pill knocked out my appetite all day, however I rapidly grew accustomed to the effects of the drug. I used dexatrim in a week on week off pattern and I found that this kept the drug effective. If appetite suppression is a concern, then I would start with Dexatrim (or whatever generic equivalent you can find).
Adipex-P: This is one of the best prescription appetite suppressants I have ever used. I found that 37.5mg (1 pill) was too much for me to use. Not only did I not eat, I could not sleep even when I took it early in the morning. I went down to half a tablet and I found that this was good enough to keep down my hunger without causing horrific insomnia. The only problem with this drug is that it caused a good deal of water retention which obscured some of my weight-loss.
Growth Hormone: I used 6IUs per day for 6 weeks and I found that I did lose fat and maintain lean muscle, however, it was not until about the 6th week of use that I noticed rapid improvements. I really think that in order for this drug to be effective you need to take at least 6IUS per day for upwards of 2 months. Many people say that growth hormone isn’t effective unless you have very low amounts of body-fat. I think that this is a confused idea. I think that GH works very well on low calorie diets (by works well I mean maintains muscle mass). When are most people on low calorie diets (and I mean low, like 1000 calories per day)?
Therefore, which drugs would I consider to be essential on my Slim Fast plan? Here they are.
1. Cytomel (this is mandatory if you are using drugs on this diet)
2. Anabolic Steroids
-A combination of at least 750mg testosterone and another drug is recommended. I find that anadrol decreases appetite.
3. Dexatrim or Adipex-P
Well I hope this article expanded on my Slim Fast principles in a practical way. I spent a lot of time talking about my own experiences because I think that most of what I could write about, from a more observant perspective, has already been talked about (by me, in Anabolic Extreme’s past articles) and what was lacking was some personal insight and experience.
Direct your questions and comments to Grendel@anabolicextreme.com. Until then, Grendel out!
Basically you take like 1200-1600 kcal per day from protein shakes ONLY, curb appetite with an appetite suppressant, and use T3 to boost fat burning even more and steroids to keep as much muscle as possible (in my case trenbolone and test). I would be doing this for three weeks, let me know what you think. But please read the article first if you have time...
SLIM FAST: THE EXTREME DIET BASICS
by Grendel
This article is going to piss people off. This is a diet article but this article is extreme by even my standards. I am going to tell you how to drop the most weight in the shortest amount of time and this method will work for anyone and everyone. I know that what I am writing about flies in the face of what most experts will tell you and frankly, the experts are generally correct when they are talking about normal people with normal weight-loss goals. However, for those who are on the extreme, this is the new way of dieting. Part 1 of this article will address the basics of the diet I am outlining and part 2 will contain my drug recommendations.
Anorexics lose weight. Dieting literature tells you that if you stop eating your metabolism slows down and weight loss stops, which is why you have to eat a balanced diet, etc. This is certainly true, the moment calories are cut thyroid production will slow down. This is a perfectly understandable and crucial biological mechanism from the days before the 7-11 and the super-market. Ancient man, as a hunter and gatherer, went through periods of famine and feast; kill a large mammoth and you can gorge yourself and your family for a month or so but it may be months before you kill another one. So when your body detected that caloric intake is down it screams "Famine" and starts to slow your metabolism so that your fat reserves can last until the next Mammoth comes along.
If you ever look at concentration camp or prison camp victims you will see that the human body, even when given almost no food, does not completely shut down and turn off. You can survive for a very long time with almost no food and yes, your metabolism will slow down but there is a certain basic amount of fuel that must be burned each day. Obviously the physiques of concentration camp victims are not what we are trying to emulate (well maybe those Calvin Klein models are) but it does show that on the extreme end of starvation the metabolism does not completely shut off. Fat, muscle and eventually internal organs are consumed to fuel the life supporting systems of the body. And it is not just prison camp victims who go through similar processes. Anorexics enter periods of extended starvation as do many athletes (wrestlers and dancers come immediately to mind) who must make a weight class or present a certain appearance.
Compare this to how most people (even "enlightened" people) diet. Yeah, we all cut our calories and keep control over the number of fat or carbohydrate grams we consume. We do not starve because that would be bad! Duchaine and the ketogenic diet people were among the first to advocate very low calorie dieting to the weight-lifting public; diets with under 1000 calories per day. This was an important step in the evolution of dieting and Duchaine admits he was inspired by the classic water and fish diet that seemed to get anyone to drop weight. Ketogenic diets do play some cool tricks on the metabolism and the Kreb Cycle that is fantastic and very helpful; however there is an even better diet "trick".
I think everyone can see where I am going with this, towards a protein fast diet! So lets get the unaltered basics of that diet out of the way and then we will play around with the pharmaceutical elements available to us.
You are going to be eating almost nothing but protein for as long as you can stand. That is the fact. The goal is to lose as much fat as possible in as short a period as possible so bare with me. This is a 2-4 week diet at the most and it is extreme. This is not what I would suggest to anyone but a competitor or very dedicated (read that as crazy) dieter.
Step 1: Weigh yourself
Step 2: Multiple this number by 2-3 depending on the degree of weight loss you want
Step 3: This number is how many grams of protein per day you will be eating
Step 4: Multiple the result of step 3 by 4; this is how many calories per day you will eating.
So take someone who weighs 200lbs (and wants to drop weight quickly), they should be eating 400-600 grams of protein or 1600-2400 calories. This is the most calories you should eat in a given day. Now we are going to cycle these calories over a 7-day period. Vary the caloric intake by some 10 and 20 percent of your total daily calories. Now arrange your week such that there are 2 days spent eating your maximum calories, 2 days eating 80 percent of your maximum calories, and 3 days spent eating 90 percent. You can arrange the days to fit your workout patterns, giving yourself more or less food depending on when you anticipate the heaviest training. Below is a sample 7 day arrangement based on doubling your weight in step 2.
Day 1: Max Calories
Day 2: Max Calories minus 10%
Day 3: May Calories minus 20%
Day 4: Max Calories minus 10%
Day 5: Max Calories
Day 6: Max Calories minus 20%
Day 7: Max Calories minus 10%
So given the above example the week would look like this for our 200 pound athlete.
Day 1: 1600
Day 2: 1440
Day 3: 1280
Day 4: 1440
Day 5: 1600
Day 6: 1280
Day 7: 1440
Cycling calories is intended to keep your metabolism guessing, although at this degree of limited intake I do not expect it to be extremely effective. It will certainly help. The best reason to cycle calories is that it permits you to "indulge" yourself a little more, albeit these are not cheat days.
Is that all you are eating? No. There are two other equally important elements of this diet, water and fiber. Be sure to drink lots and lots of water, the more water the better; I recommend at least a gallon of water a day. The second element, fiber, is something that your diet will absolutely be lacking and is very useful. First, it will make you feel more full then you really are and it will keep your digestive system healthy. I recommend a sugar free fiber drink or fiber wafer made of psyllium husks and I suggest you take it with each meal. It is ok to exceed (and you should in fact exceed) the suggested dosages on the package insert because your pure protein diet is completely devoid of all fiber. There is no real harm in taking too much fiber assuming adequate hydration. Trust me, colon health is not something to fuck around withI would rather be on a dialysis machine then have colon cancer. Do not under-estimate how helpful the feelings of fullness generated by the fiber will be.
What about cardiovascular training! Forget it. Yes, it does help to burn fat, but most people find that their appetite increases in response to cardiovascular activity and it is very easy to over-eat on this diet. I would rather see someone cut out 200 calories then spend 20 minutes on the stair-climber (on this diet) but if you are able to handle the exercise without over-eating, you should do it. It's not going to be fun, that I can promise you.
This is an extremely unnatural and unhealthy diet as it is written and as I said, this would put most doctors into an immediate state of shock. Good! I think the most important elements of this diet are the vitamin and mineral supplements you will be taking. Make sure to take an abundance of vitamins (I use 2 GNC multivitamins per day normally and I would, on this diet, add probably 1 more to that) and minerals. If you find your appetite uncontrollable, I suggest an over the counter appetite suppressant or ephedrine (which will also help with lagging energy levels). Creatine (without sugar loading drinks) is fine. Glutamine is a vital supplement on this diet particularly if you are not taking anti-catabolic drugs. Lastly, I suggest a product that contains guggulsterones (Guggolbolics by Syntrax or Metabolic Thyrolean by Prolabs) to naturally boost your thyroid.
Well that is the basic (and natural) version of my diet. Next week I will open the medicine chest (in my case a medicine vault would be more accurate) and we will explore what modern medicine and the Mexican labs have to offer us. Until then, Grendel out.
Slim Fast & Pharmacology: The Extreme Diet Revisited
by Grendel
Last issue I presented to the Anabolic Extreme readership my ideas on effective dieting; forget six small meals and jogging…starve yourself! I had decided to first present my ideas on this type of diet without the use of pharmaceuticals because this diet is of use to many types of people who are not concerned with maximum muscle mass or self-medication. I felt that if I addressed only the drug-related issues then I would lose a large segment of the audience that could benefit greatly from my ideas. Hopefully I have convinced a few readers to give my ideas some effort and I am willing to say that if you attempt a moderated starvation diet you will be impressed with the weight-loss that is possible.
Clearly there is room for the use of chemicals in this type of dieting. In previous articles I discuss the use of thyroid hormone, clenbuterol, and appetite suppressants; for those of you who need to be reminded please read I Get Lean With a Little Help From My Friends. To summarize from my own article I divide diet drugs (this is my own division, not something officially recognized) in the following categories:
1. Anti-Catabolics (steroids)
2. Hunger Suppressants (tenuate dospan, Nor-ephedrine)
3. Metabolic Rate Stimulators (Clenbuterol, Ephedrine, Cytomel, DNP)
With this diet my primary concern is two-fold: prevent muscle wasting and maintain thyroid function. Raising the metabolism in the sense of additional stimulant via central nervous system action or adrenal receptors is not crucial because the additional calories burned are “insignificant compared to the powers of the starvation”.
The ideal way to use thyroid hormone would be to have a doctor check your thyroid levels regularly and then prescribe active thyroid hormone to keep your thyroid levels at a normal level despite your extremely low caloric intake. Realistically I do not see people doing this. The best choice for most people is going to be to choose a dosage of active thyroid hormone (T3) and stick to it for the entire diet. Remember that your body is already producing very little thyroid hormone on the diet so the effects of the synthetic thyroid are really only trying to keep you at a “normal” level.
There is a consequence of not letting your thyroid levels drop off; you will not experience a reduction in hunger. Normally when people fast or are in conditions of starvation they enter a period where they are just not very hungry any more, this is the metabolism slowing almost to a stop. In fact, there is debate over whether “fat people” are overweight because of over-active or under-active thyroids. An under-acting thyroid would produce fewer signals to eat. An over-acting thyroid could lead to obesity in the modern world because our food is so plentiful and calorie dense, a rapid metabolism is constantly saying “feed me” but instead of grains and mammoth, you have fast food and candy. Going back to the diet however, the thyroid hormone will not blunt your hunger and in fact may increase your appetite. I know this may seem counter-intuitive but you will have to trust me.
My other concern is preventing the loss of muscle tissue under such an extreme dieting condition. Protein intake, while high, is unlikely to be sufficient in and of itself to limit catabolism. Muscle mass decreases during starvation because literally the body turns upon itself as a source of energy, consuming first glucose (glycogen) then fats and finally protein via the process of gluconeogenisis wherein protein is turned to glucose for energy.
Obviously in this diet you are not getting any glucose so all energy for your body comes from the metabolism of fat (either dietary or stored in the form of adipose tissue) or the conversion of protein into glucose. The metabolism of protein into glucose is not a very efficient process nor is the metabolism of fat, which is why weight loss occurs. The challenge is to get the body to consume the stored fat and leave as much of the muscle as possible (hence the ketogenic diet).
The best types of drugs to prevent muscle wasting are anabolic/androgenic steroids. If you really need more information on steroids at this point, then I suggest you try actually reading some of the articles here at Anabolic Extreme; the basics of steroid use and method of action can be easily found in the archives.
Ok so what I have presented to you so far is not really that groundbreaking; I accept that. I am pretty much going back over familiar ground for most of my readers. What I am going to do is tell you what I use and my experiences with some of these drugs so you can have an idea of how to go about doing such things yourself.
Cytomel: I always use 100mcg of cytomel and I do not taper the dosages. My rationale is that as long as you are providing artificial thyroid hormone you are suppressing your TSH and hence impairing recovery; you should be either on or off thyroid medicines not in between. I started off cycling cytomel but now I go on at one dosage for the entire duration and I am fine. I think you should start off tapering only to get a sense of the dosages you require. This is a very controversial drug and lot of people have many varied opinions on dosage, tapering, length of use and whether or not cytomel can permanent damage your metabolism. I am not going to try to resolve those issues here because I don’t believe that they can be dealt with anymore then has already been done. Remember that using cytomel while dieting is going to be less harmful to your TSH function then using thyroid hormone and eating normally (ie using thyroid hormone as a fat burner directly not as a means of maintaining normal thyroid function in the absence of adequate food intake).
Clenbuterol: This drug is decent, I get the shakes pretty bad. I don’t see it as any real improvement beyond ephedrine when you consider price. I tend to take around 140mcg per day in divided dosages and I do 2 weeks on 2 weeks off.
Yohimbine HCL: I use this product a lot and I really like it. A lot of people cannot handle it, it makes them feel sick particularly at a high dosage. I use between 3-6 5mg tablets (I think they are actually 5.4mg…why? God only knows) per day and I am fine. I think Yohimbine is a great addition to any diet stack if you can tolerate it.
Norephedrine (Dexatrim): This is a great product considering it is legal and until recently was over the counter. I found that 1 dexatrim pill knocked out my appetite all day, however I rapidly grew accustomed to the effects of the drug. I used dexatrim in a week on week off pattern and I found that this kept the drug effective. If appetite suppression is a concern, then I would start with Dexatrim (or whatever generic equivalent you can find).
Adipex-P: This is one of the best prescription appetite suppressants I have ever used. I found that 37.5mg (1 pill) was too much for me to use. Not only did I not eat, I could not sleep even when I took it early in the morning. I went down to half a tablet and I found that this was good enough to keep down my hunger without causing horrific insomnia. The only problem with this drug is that it caused a good deal of water retention which obscured some of my weight-loss.
Growth Hormone: I used 6IUs per day for 6 weeks and I found that I did lose fat and maintain lean muscle, however, it was not until about the 6th week of use that I noticed rapid improvements. I really think that in order for this drug to be effective you need to take at least 6IUS per day for upwards of 2 months. Many people say that growth hormone isn’t effective unless you have very low amounts of body-fat. I think that this is a confused idea. I think that GH works very well on low calorie diets (by works well I mean maintains muscle mass). When are most people on low calorie diets (and I mean low, like 1000 calories per day)?
Therefore, which drugs would I consider to be essential on my Slim Fast plan? Here they are.
1. Cytomel (this is mandatory if you are using drugs on this diet)
2. Anabolic Steroids
-A combination of at least 750mg testosterone and another drug is recommended. I find that anadrol decreases appetite.
3. Dexatrim or Adipex-P
Well I hope this article expanded on my Slim Fast principles in a practical way. I spent a lot of time talking about my own experiences because I think that most of what I could write about, from a more observant perspective, has already been talked about (by me, in Anabolic Extreme’s past articles) and what was lacking was some personal insight and experience.
Direct your questions and comments to Grendel@anabolicextreme.com. Until then, Grendel out!