Summary: Here's your new interview with one of the winners from the 8th Adonis Index Transformation Contest. Today John talks to Anthony Rivest who placed 5th in our last 12-Week Transformation contest. Check out his transformation pictures: Anthony was very proud of the progress he made in his 12 week transformation. His next goal is to achieve his "ideal" AI numbers. However, it's his amazing pictures that we'd like to highlight in this blog post. The phrase, Do it yourself (DIY) refers to building, modifying, or repairing something without the aid of experts or professionals. Surprisingly enough, Anthony didn't hire a professional photographer nor did he did do anything crazy for his photo-shoot prep. It was all homemade, just a bed sheet, mild water depletion, and a short fast. The result? No pressure, no money spent, and zero stress. Anthony even had cake and fajitas on the day before the shoot! While there are several different approaches to arriving "photo-shoot ready", most of them are essential only if you are well-developed and taking performance enhancement drugs; otherwise not really. Let's Uncover the Mystery Around Dieting Since Anthony is a bit taller than most people his BMR is significantly higher and so is his appetite. This means that when he eats, he eats a lot of food at one sitting. Let's break down his approach a bit and maybe you can incorporate some of his techniques into your lifestyle. For the most part it's based on the principles of Eat Stop Eat and Anything Goes Diet, it also happens to be an approach that lots of people in the Adonis community have incorporated. The thing is that apart from the many flaws that the traditional approach "eat every three hours" has is that if you eat light meals all the time you will never feel satisfied and that can lead to some serious binge eating. This is why it makes more sense to have fewer, but big meals. You will also spend less time on cooking, eating, cleaning the dishes. Not eating AKA fasting not only saves time, removes the thinking about food, but it also helps you stay more focused and productive. Anthony also told us that fasting helps him with school, he even credits getting better grades because of it. When all the students get back from launch break to class, they feel tired, but Anthony is full of energy and he is able to concentrate. And it's not just that skipping lunch helps, skipping breakfast is the same. You have to realize that as soon as you have at least a medium size meal you will feel tired and sleepy, definitely not like learning or working. Most people say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, well what it seems that actually skipping the breakfast and eating food later is the best thing you can do. It's literally breaking the fast, so try to move it as far into the day as possible. ...And my guess is that you aren't even hungry when you wake up, just thirsty and need to drink some water, so maybe you are mistaking hunger for thirst. If you are not ready for a full fast yet, try to gradually move the first meal of the day further ahead. If you wake up at 6am, regularly eat at 7am and want to benefit from the intermittent fasting, try to move your first meal to 10am. Once you are comfortable with that you can move that first meal to 2pm and then try to do the full 24 fast. Just give it a few weeks until your body gets used to it. It's better to start your day with a coffee and if you are like Anthony, you would start your day not only with coffee but also with your workout. If you do your workout in the morning, you have the rest of the day to do whatever you like. However, if you planned the workout for the afternoon, chances increase that you may skip it. This may sound non important but this is one of the reasons people don't get results - they just skip the workouts...and there is always an excuse... I'm too tired
