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What the CHEAT DAY can do for you: BURN MORE FAT, BUILD MORE MUSCLE

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THE “CHEAT DAY”. whether you’re into fitness or not, you have probably heard of cheat day. I find it interesting that people get the wrong  perception about cheat day…they think it amounts to failure, or its just another excuse to have a day if eating what what ever you want, junk food in particular. Truthfully, I used to think that as well, until I found out about the book “Man 2.0  Engineering the Alpha”.

DO YOU WANT to learn how you can build more muscle, and burn more fat faster? Well, all you have to do is pay attention to what I’m about to talk about, because this simple method improved my body drastically, along with my brothers as well. In about a month of following this method, we burned a significant amount of fat, and gained much more muscle mass than before in just 1 month of following this method.

SO …CHEAT DAY. “What is cheat day?” Is probably what you’re really wondering right now. Like I talked about in one of my previous blogs before about intermittent fasting, the “cheat day” correlates with intermittent fasting, which means it would be more effective to have a cheat day if you intermittent fast on a daily basis. Anyhow, if you’re currently doing that, great. So you have cheat days one day a week, and what it is is you can literally eat what ever you want the whole day. whether it’s junk food, burgers, deserts, you name it. All that food you’re engaging into your system confuses your metabolism and generate the food as energy to burn your fat, and build more muscle. Keep in my mind, when you’re eating all that food through out the whole day, it raises your leptin levels, and controls  your metabolism, which then produces more growth hormone during the process because you keep eating junk that confuses your body which then makes you lose fat and build muscle.

WHAT TRULY COUNTERACTS with this is since you have all that food working in your system the whole day, you have to fast for 36 hours, due to the fact that you spend all day eating delicious unhealthy foods that enhance your leptin level to increase, which then results in burning significant amounts of fat and help your muscles grow the day after cheat day by NOT EATING the entire day. Yeah, you’re probably thinking this sounds crazy, but in reality it counteracts, because you spend the whole day eating ANYTHING you want all you want, then the next day you fast.

THE BEST THING about having a leptin system working properly, is it IMPROVES your brain function, enhances your mood, and leads to a better memory. Isn’t this an awesome deal?! Finally, getting to eat what ever you want, when ever you want, and there are no limits.

LETS GO OVER a few ground rules though….whenever you do have cheat days, like me the first time, you’re probably gonna get a little too excited and eat like you never have before. That’s the problem though. According to the book “Man 2.0″ by John Romaniello and Adam Bornstein, they talk about the cheat day in great detail, and explain that you cannot gorge; filling yourself up. Like me when I first did it, I was too impatient and ate more than I could, lol….that’s what you don’t want to do. It also mentions in that book to never stay hungry, but NEVER gorge. What I like about this is it also makes you feel good about yourself…the fact that you get to treat yourself every week and look forward to this amazing day of pure deliciousness!

SO YOU SIMPLY have to eat all day, have some doritos or chips ahoy, or oreos with you. NEVER STOP EATING. Man…I’m making myself hungry by talking about this. Lol.

I’M TELLING YOU, you’re going to absolutely love this day for the rest of your life. It truly will improve your body more. I like to call them “treat days” rather than “cheat days” since you have it planned for every week. Lol…

THERE YOU GO guys, I encourage you to have a cheat day once EVERY WEEK, for your own physique benefits. I guarantee you, this is most likely what you’re gonna be looking forward to every week, for the rest of your life…and always getting RIPPED each day you do so. Hopefully you took this information into consideration, love you all.

BEST OF WISHES, GOOD LUCK TO Y’ALL!

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