Dr. Squat - Dr. Fred Hatfield

I add olive oil to my prrotein shakes. It's cheap calories. I'm not sure about all the other hype.

I put olive oil in with my foods. And I don't understand why they are saying to shoot olive oil. Why not just shoot fish oil instead? Thats what I do. Fish oil is more expensive, but its better.

And I don't understand why they say that you won't feel full from it because I'm sure you would. Unsaturated fats rate quite high on the satiety scale, which means it will make you full. Thats why when I first started supplementing with fish oil I had a lot of trouble eating all my meals. I'm still having trouble finishing 3 meals per day. Thats not like me. All my life I always had trouble overeating a little bit. So what they are saying about that is bull. If you need the extra calories for bulking you should have a protein shake. If that isn't enough, make it thicker.

9th,

The foudation of gaining weight is ingesting more calories. The reverse is true for losing weight, consuming fewer caloires.

The question is then becomes, "Where are those calories going to come from"?

It next to impossible to dramatically increase you calorie intake form eating vegetables. Vegetables are caloricly sparce foods, very few calories.

The two best caloric dense (high calorie) foods are sugar and fats.

One of the problem with high intake of sugar is insulin. As Jay Robb (nutritionist) noted, "Insulin is a fat maker and glucagon is a fat taker".

High levels of insulin shut down the fat burning process in the body. High insulin levels mean body fat is being stored in the body, too.

The exception to this rule is in post workout beverage/mean consumption. During this time period sugar tends to be reloaded into the muscle cell as glycogen rather than being stored as body fat.

However, a post workout beverage with a simple sugar also blocks down the fat burning process.

Fat has no effect on insulin. Thus, it does not block the fat burning process nor does it produce fat storeage (when ingested outside the post workout window) like insulin does.

Thus, increasing fat intake makes much more sense than increasing sugar intake.

I've tried drinking olive oil by itself or mixing it (like Marcus) in a protein drink. That never worked for me. I don't like the taste and end up tasting it for hour because I am burmping it up.

What I have found that works for me is whipping cream, coconut oil, and eating nuts. Like olive oil, these are good caloric dense foods.

However, there is a time an a place for sugar. I agree with Dr Maurio DiPasquale's Metabolic/Anabolic Diet method.

Have one or two days out of the week in which you eat junk, sugar. That serves a couple of purposes.

1) It give you a mental break...something to look forward to. "All work and no play..."

2) It appears (so to speak) two hormones that play a role in a diet, leptin and ghrelin. It falls in line with Hatfield's "Zig Zag" diet approach.

I guarantee it will never work if you never try it.

Kenny,
It's been quite some time since I've written that post. And since then my views on diet have changed dramatically. Previously I hadn't ever been successful since my 20's in maintaining a healthy level of leanness. But I eventually figured it out. I dropped 20 lbs last year and eventually managed to keep it off while feeling satisfied and without depriving myself, all the way up until this date, and I plan on keeping that for life. This time it will be without a problem.

So I guess I agree with you on this one.

I read up on these matters recently concerning the oils, and it appears too much omega 6 isn't exactly the best thing for you. It is more so desired to get more omega 3, that in which fish oil has a lot of. But my bet is that is all relevant to what you are lacking. Perhaps people who eat a lot of fish might need more omega 6's in their diet. I only touched on the subject though, so it's not like I'm an expert on oils or anything.

I'm not a big fan of bulking anymore either because it will make you fat if you don't do it right, that in which it can take a long time to get rid of the fat and at the legitimate risk of losing muscle. But I do realize that when training for some sports growth can happen as a side affect from the training even if you don't want it to. It happened to me once before when I did my first strongman contest. From the hard training and lots of volume my body was screaming for calories and I literally had no self control on my appetite. Even when my belly was stuffed I still mentally felt hungry. And I grew.

In such a case where extra calories is needed, if I had it to do all over again, I definitely would have done things much differently. I probably would have added lots of fruit of all varieties, the tasty kinds such as mangos. I'm not so sure about the oils though, maybe. Fruit takes up a lot of bulk with less total calories. It's way too easy to eat too much calories when it comes to oils, because they are so dense in calories. But I suppose if you really really needed the extra calories, adding good oils might be a good way to help out without resorting to eating junk food such as pizza. Junk will surely put on the weight, fat weight, and it definitely will leave you feeling unsatisfied and wanting more.

I think a good example of how to do it might be to have a sandwich with ezekiel bread and natural peanut butter along with an apple and perhaps a glass of milk (no fat milk if you don't like the saturated fat). For more calories spread the peanut butter on thicker and/or have more servings of apples and maybe another sandwich. For a real hard training athlete in need of lots of calories, mixing protein with the milk might just do the trick in making the meal more balanced towards their needs.

I guess the main thing as I see it is that a healthy meal is completely balanced with all the macros. That's why you need everything.