Hi everyone!
It's my first posting here, so I wanted to share my experiences with Peating with you.
I'm Thomm from Germany, 27 years old, 184 cm (6 feet), 93 kg (205 lbs). Doing natural bodybuilding for about 8 years. Doing it more focused with almost daily heavy compound weight lifts like squats / deadlifts for about 2 years. Now it's maybe like 8 hours wight lifting per week.
This is a picture of me after a very stupid 1800 kcal crash diet which I did for 4 weeks. It made me very sick and I would never ever do again.
https://imageshack.us/i/b8v6k5j
After that stupid diet I did LowCarb (~120 g) / Paleo and 16/8 Intermittend Fasting for about 1 year. That way I was able to maintain that low bodyfat percentage all time. But still I ended up with mild depression, very low energy, digestive problems, bad mood, bad sleep and zeeerooo libido. In short I felt like I wanted to die.
Now that I'm Peating for only about one month all of that symtoms are gone! It's just unbelievable. I'm in a very good mood, have eeendless energy (doing walks for several miles almost daily), waking up only once or twice at night to pee and I'm interested in other people again. I get strong moring wood every day and spontanous erections, which I never had for at least 5 years. My libido is very high. Life is enjoyable again! :)
I gained about 1 - 2 kg of fat in that month Peating, but that doesn't matter. Before Peating I was eating like 3500 kcal with no desire to eat more. Now I'm eating 4000 kcal up to 5000 kcal and still wanting to eat way more.
I'm just feeling too good. Sixpack is still slightly visable and my goal right now is to stabelize wight while keep on Peating.
Now my RP diet looks like this:
~4000 kcal +, sometimes even 5000 kcal (tracking carefully with cronometer)
20 % protein, 35 % fat, 45 % carbs
4 - 5 quarts 1,5% milk
1 - 2 quarts OJ
50-80 g coconut oil
500 g carrots
100 g cacao powder
4 eggs or 150 g beef liver
500 g broccoli or spinach
40 g salt
5 g creatine
no other supplements / herbs / hormones
Ray Peat saved my life. In that moment I decided to go out to a club this night. Alone, since I lost almost all social connections because I just stayed at home before Peating (because of low energy and no interest in interacting with other people). But now everything is very fine again. Since I'm happy and healthy again it shouldn't be too hard to meet new people.
Thanks for letting me share my story with you! :)
It's my first posting here, so I wanted to share my experiences with Peating with you.
I'm Thomm from Germany, 27 years old, 184 cm (6 feet), 93 kg (205 lbs). Doing natural bodybuilding for about 8 years. Doing it more focused with almost daily heavy compound weight lifts like squats / deadlifts for about 2 years. Now it's maybe like 8 hours wight lifting per week.
This is a picture of me after a very stupid 1800 kcal crash diet which I did for 4 weeks. It made me very sick and I would never ever do again.
https://imageshack.us/i/b8v6k5j
After that stupid diet I did LowCarb (~120 g) / Paleo and 16/8 Intermittend Fasting for about 1 year. That way I was able to maintain that low bodyfat percentage all time. But still I ended up with mild depression, very low energy, digestive problems, bad mood, bad sleep and zeeerooo libido. In short I felt like I wanted to die.
Now that I'm Peating for only about one month all of that symtoms are gone! It's just unbelievable. I'm in a very good mood, have eeendless energy (doing walks for several miles almost daily), waking up only once or twice at night to pee and I'm interested in other people again. I get strong moring wood every day and spontanous erections, which I never had for at least 5 years. My libido is very high. Life is enjoyable again! :)
I gained about 1 - 2 kg of fat in that month Peating, but that doesn't matter. Before Peating I was eating like 3500 kcal with no desire to eat more. Now I'm eating 4000 kcal up to 5000 kcal and still wanting to eat way more.
I'm just feeling too good. Sixpack is still slightly visable and my goal right now is to stabelize wight while keep on Peating.
Now my RP diet looks like this:
~4000 kcal +, sometimes even 5000 kcal (tracking carefully with cronometer)
20 % protein, 35 % fat, 45 % carbs
4 - 5 quarts 1,5% milk
1 - 2 quarts OJ
50-80 g coconut oil
500 g carrots
100 g cacao powder
4 eggs or 150 g beef liver
500 g broccoli or spinach
40 g salt
5 g creatine
no other supplements / herbs / hormones
Ray Peat saved my life. In that moment I decided to go out to a club this night. Alone, since I lost almost all social connections because I just stayed at home before Peating (because of low energy and no interest in interacting with other people). But now everything is very fine again. Since I'm happy and healthy again it shouldn't be too hard to meet new people.
Thanks for letting me share my story with you! :)
Thomm
