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How to quickly dump fat, water, and bloat for a photo shoot or special event.
there's lean and then there's really lean and dry, like how a bodybuilder looks on stage. If you're already lean, this 6-day plan will take you to the next level, just in time for a contest or photo shoot.
You don't just want to dump water weight; you want the muscles to look full and round. This will require special techniques.
The biggest mistakes when cutting water weight are made when manipulating minerals and cutting water intake too soon or too gradually.
This is not a fat loss diet. It's a specialized plan to look your leanest on a target date.
A lot of times we accidentally manipulate our subcutaneous fluid levels. Ever wake up one day, catch a glimpse of yourself in the bathroom mirror and think, "Wow, I'm ripped!" Then, two days later, you look in the mirror again and look softer or kind of bloated?
Obviously you didn't gain that much adipose tissue in two days. The reverse wouldn't happen either: you can't go to bed chubby and wake up lean. Yet something is happening, and it's visible to the naked eye.
Most of the time this is due to "water weight" fluctuations. You just happened to eat and drink a certain way, or train a certain way, that caused you to drop or retain a couple of pounds of fluid.
There are three main factors we're going to be manipulating here to cause your body to dump water fast:
1. Carbohydrate Manipulation
2. Fluid Intake
3. Training
Monday: Drink 2.5 to 3 gallons of water today. You're going to avoid carbs as much as possible.It's fine if you get a few grams of trace carbs from solid food, but try to avoid them.
Tip: Buy three, one-gallon containers of water with a handle. This will let you visually know exactly how much water you have left to go.
Tuesday and Wednesday: Same as above.
Thursday: Today you'll bump up water intake to 4 gallons. Do not eat any solid food during the day
Friday: If you choose to take an herbal diuretic, start it this afternoon and begin your carb-up. You'll have 6 solid meals, each containing 50-75g of carbs. Avoid sodium/salt as much as possible.
Meal #1: Breakfast around 7am. Get your carbs from fruits to fill liver glycogen. Starting the carb-up with fruit replenishes liver glycogen very fast. We believe that the faster liver glycogen is filled, the more effective the rest of the carb-up will be.
Meal #2 through #4 (10am, noon, 3pm): For these meals, go for more starchy carbs. Yams and potatoes are best. Plain rice is fine too. Avoid grains such as wheat as these might bloat you up. Keep water intake under 8 ounces per meal. After meal #4, stop drinking any fluid!
Meal #5 eat a protein bar
Meal #6 (optional): Only have this meal if your muscles aren't yet full-looking or you think you can get a little fuller. Almost anything goes with this meal. Remember, you still won't be having any water, but go ahead and eat any sugary food you crave
Along with this simple sugar meal, have two tablespoons of food-grade vegetable glycerine, which is found in most health food stores.
Friday night: Before going to bed, fill the bath with water as hot as you can tolerate, pour 400g of Epsom salts in the bath and soak in for 20-30 minutes. Add more hot water as it cools.
Saturday (contest, photo, or beach day): Breakfast depends on how you look:
Looking flat? Have another simple sugar meal.
Looking good? Small portion of fruit and protein.
Holding water? Protein only (shake with very little water).
Forty-five minutes before pumping up for your shoot, take two tablespoons of vegetable glycerine with one can of full-sugar soda.
Here's How It Works
The goal of the low-carb days with super-high water intake is to deplete glycogen to better supercompensate later on, but the real goal is to put the body into water flushing mode.
Doing both for five days turns you into a fountain: your body simply flushes everything you drink. When you suddenly cut your water on Friday, you're still in heavy flushing mode. As a result, you'll dry up significantly by flushing and not drinking.
A gram of carbohydrate pulls 2.7g of water into the muscle. So if you carb up when you're in flushing mode and not drinking, where do you think this 2.7g of water will come from? Beneath your skin, of course!
The vegetable glycerine recommended is a plasma expander, meaning that it pulls water into it. When you consume this thick, sickly sweet liquid, it basically goes to the muscles and pulls water into it.
Since you're not drinking any water at the time, the water that's attracted to the glycerol will come from beneath your skin. So, you'll look dryer and fuller at the same time.
This only lasts for a day or until you drink
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