In this article you are going to learn the SECRETS on How to Go From ‘Skinny Fat’ to Superman all in just a few short weeks.
Hey my friends. Elijah here aka “The Realist”. Today, Let’s talk about 6-pack abs and weight training, shall we?
Recently I showed an old picture of myself to a lady friend and her exact words were “wow, you were small AND fat”. Which was true, I was skinny and fat.
We chuckled a bit but the reality was that my body was completely normal, it’s only now that I’m fit that my body is abnormal.
Every day I see a great many men who have the same body type: skinny fat.
Skinny-fat-itis is the nasty result of not doing any strenuous exercise and eating junk.
But I’m here today with some great news. The disease of skinny-fat-itis can be cured and Elijah aka The Realist is going to show you HOW.
But it’s no overnight cure.
The transformation usually goes from metamorphosize, and evolves to skinny-fatso to eventually Superman.
Skinny Fat is usually the result of 10+ years of NO strenuous exercise and NO attention paid to eating protein instead of mac and cheese.
Men who sport the skinny-fat “physique” almost always have terrible posture as well and they look like a bag of estrogen to boot.
The funny thing is being skinny-fat is NOT abnormal.
The skinny fat body type is completely totally normal, and, the worst part, being skinny-fat is probably better than the majority of most other fellas who are just simply FAT.
As I said before, I see guys who look like CRAP every single day.
Here’s the thing, boys: When you look good, you FEEL good. When you look like doggy-doo you don’t feel good.
But when you have NEVER looked good you don’t know what you’re missing.
When you start to hit the weights and pay attention to diet and when you start to get results that’s when you realize what a difference it makes.
I used to have a group of friends who all looked like bodybuilders or fitness models. They’d say to me “you should start working out” and I’d always say “nah, don’t want to”.
Looking back I can now see the development I missed by wasting 10 years doing no exercise. Boo hoo for me but now you know how important physical development is.
10 years wasn’t too late for me and it’s not too late for anyone.
No cardio whatsoever, no supplements whatsoever. Weights and food and nothing else. It’s not that I “don’t believe” in supplements, it’s that supplements don’t work to build muscle and you can quote me on that.
If you’re skinny-fat, or just regular fat, and you want 6-pack abs there are two things you need to know.
- You have to eat LESS food to burn the fat and reveal the abs. No way around it, you MUST diet.
2.You MUST have a base of muscle before you diet. If you have no muscle and diet you will still look like absolute SHIT after your diet.
If you’re skinny-fat you need to eat large amounts of food and lift TONS of heavy weights first until you put on enough QUAKITY muscle mass.
Dieting for a skinny-fat guy is utterly and entirely pointless. When you have put on enough quality muscle mass THEN you can diet down and reveal the abs.
How to diet the EASY way
Here are the two easiest methods in the history of the world to cut down your calories.
- Eat 2-3 meals per day.
- Don’t snack.
No snacking leads to 6 pack abs. I learned that almost by accident.
I was living in China at the time and Chinese snack food is not appealing. They have things like corn flavored ice cream and things that don’t even look like food. Because the snack food looked so unappealing, I never bought any snacks ergo I never ate any snacks.
If you don’t buy snacks, you can’t eat snacks. Never buy the damn things, #1 rule.
Once per week when you feel drained and need snacks and extra calories buy enough for just one day.
Don’t buy boxes and boxes of snacks because you’ll eat them. Only buy enough for ONE day.
One other easy way to cut out calories is by eliminating either breakfast or dinner. I’ve skipped breakfast off and on for years. I’ve also off and on stopped eating meals at 8pm.
Both of those methods work to burn off fat. I stopped counting calories years ago when I realized how pointless it was.
When I want to get leaner, I do ONE very simple thing: eat less food.
Drink some black coffee in the morning to help curb appetite, works wonders.
Dieting is the hard part, getting there is the hard part. Maintenance is the EASY part.
Nowadays I’m never more than 3 or 4 weeks away from a full 6-pack.
BONUS: How I kept a 6-pack while eating junkfood, candy and soda pop daily
My eating “strategy” was completely opposite of what I told you about above. I was eating anything and everything I could get my hands on including candy and soda. But there is a very good reason I was eating like that: I was damn starving!
I was in Vietnam for 30 days and let me tell you two things about Vietnam.
1) Vietnam is hotter than hell.
2) Vietnamese food is made for tiny Vietnamese people.
They like to eat noodles and vegetables with a tiny side of meat. They are malnourished to put it nicely and their portions of food are portioned for Vietnamese people, obviously.
I couldn’t get enough food to fill my belly so I ate anything and everything.
At restaurants I’d order two meals then I’d go to the corner mart and buy 3 snickers bars and eat them. I drank up to 6 or 8 cokes and sugary drinks per day because I was sweating so much and walking so much.
As a tourist in Vietnam, you do a lot of walking and sweating. Not to mention I was still training hard 4 days per week.
The gyms in Vietnam don’t have air-conditioning so I’d be covered in sweat 30 seconds into my routine. So even though I was eating and drinking tons of junk food I was still in a caloric deficit and burning off all the calories I was trying to get in.
At the time I was in Vietnam a reader emailed me to ask what my diet was like while traveling. I told him.
He replied “Wow, I wish I was lucky enough to be able to have your genetics and be able to eat like that”.
Yeah, it’s too bad you don’t have “genetics” like me.
Actually, it’s too bad you didn’t read Badass Bodybuilding. Could have saved you some wishing’.
Until Next time.
Your man,
-Elijah “The Realist”