Yes! Absolutely - if you check the bottom of my post, I listed all the supps I take, and yes yes yes probiotics & digestive enzymes are a MUST.

I eat a ton of that Fage brand Greek yogurt - each container has 92 grams of protein and only 36 grams of carbs, with zero fat. It's also loaded with good bacteria.

Other helpful things on top if taking daily probiotics & digestive enzymes (PS keep them in your fridge) are: apple cider vinegar (love this stuff - it's super good for cleansing & detox), and Kombucha - fermented tea.

You mentioned difficulty eating?

A must is to cook in bulk and LOAD your fridge with cooked meals in Tupperwares. I'll stuff as close to 20 individual meals in my fridge, so every time I leave my house and will be gone longer than 2 hours I'll toss a few Tupperware in my gym bag / backpack.

Also, keep a big glass of water when you eat - that makes it alot easier to eat - you chew each bite then force it down with sons water - helps you get your meals down.

FR if you ever want any help bro - peace!

Good catch Ham - I'll edit the language. The shakes are flexible and often especially with pre & post workout, are chugged within 30 minutes of eating.

Yes, the last "meal" is chugged in the middle of the night on an alarm. I don't do it every day, and haven't even done it recently.

The "meal" before that is chugged right before bed - sometimes that's only 20-30 minutes after a meal.

Same goes for shakes in general - sometimes I can't eat all my food on one meal so I'll slam a shake immediately after.

It's brutal man - yes, diet is the least fun and most arduous piece of the game.

Like I said, training and working out is the easy part - eating is the mind-numbing part. BUT, it's also the most important piece of the puzzle. I know no shortage of guys who train super hard; 2-3 hours 4-5 days a week, but they only eat 3 times a day and a few shakes.

Then, there are the guys who really don't train too crazy - and they're in and out of the gym in an hour, but they eat 8-10 meals a day, every day.

I'll let you guess which group looks better.

To answer your question, it's a discipline. You just have to sit and do it - I have to drink lots of water to get each bite of steak down, especially when it's cold.

What eventually happens is: your body responds to the increase in food & frequency by spiking your metabolism, which burns more fat - in turn, your muscles are getting nutrients every 120 minutes, effectively keeping your body anabolic all day long.

If you want to get big and jacked, you've got to master the diet.

Wow, right on thank you!

Cook in bulk - cook as much food as you can fit on your BBQ or your stove / oven, then weigh out and Tupperware as many meals as you can fit in your fridge. That's actually not hard - the hard part is forcing yourself to eat every 2 hours - it gets old - very old.

It's a discipline friend. Nothing is more useless than taking steroids if you're not prepared to do the work - and that's exactly what it is: work.

Working out is easy - I think we can all agree that the lifting is the most enjoyable part of this game. The constant eating is shitty - it gets so old. But there's alot of shit we do in life that works and is good for us but isn't fun or easy.

AAS don't build muscle - the meals do, once you've set the stage for growth by breaking the fibers down by busting ass in the gym. AAS increases nitrogen retention and protein anabolism - even if people are not using sauce, the diet is still widely recognized as being upwards of 60-70% of the results. You are optimizing your metabolism into firing on all cylinders by constantly providing nutrients at equally spaced time intervals, which constantly fuels LMB growth and simultaneous fat loss.

*COOK IN BULK (you cook 2 days worth of meals in bulk at once, and Tupperware as many meals as you can and stick in your fridge. That way your meals are ready to go, and all you're really "cooking" every day is breakfast = oats & eggs). Easy shit man. Then you grab your 6 Tupperwared meals to bring with you to work. You learn to eat every 120-140 minutes, and do so on a timer. You weigh your cooked meat.

*REPEAT REPEAT REPEAT.

Usually people once they hit the 7-10 day mark notice the metabolism start firing - they begin to see definite changes in LBM - fat loss, strength & energy gains, and the "full" feeling goes away because the metabolism responds to the increased meals by spiking. Which is exactly what you want.

The worst thing anyone on gear can do is starve themselves. It's fucking stupid. Eating 3-4 meals a day and a few shakes is a huge waste of your steroids - it's pointless and wasteful. It's like going to a bar and pouring every other drink on the floor. You want to get drunk, you need to drink. You want to get big & ripped, you need to eat. Not huge meals, but more meals.

It's all right there bud - I was like you for years, but as soon as I finally did it, this is the best I've ever looked and I don't even work out as hard as I used to.

Try to find one pro bodybuilder who eats less than 8 meals a day - you won't.

Good luck

I don't know - haven't had them checked lately.

You'll like the ZMAX - it's probably something I should reserve until post, but I like the sleep-inducing effect...

Peace buddy
T3

Right on, many thanks!