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Title: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: The True Adonis on August 19, 2015, 11:06:25 PM
Hope this helps.


I see that Gay Norton now pushes this type of diet when he had me banned in like 2006 when I Pwned him in a dietary argument about calories and so called "clean eating".


Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Coach is Back! on August 19, 2015, 11:14:38 PM
Both are retarded.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Simple Simon on August 19, 2015, 11:42:56 PM
all due respect IIFMM and the Adonis principles are just people eating normally.
That has existed since the dawn of time.

All you and the IIFMM brigade did was give it a name.

My mum eats Adonis/IIFMM but she just doesnt count anything.
If she puts weight on she cuts down, if she loses weight she eats a bit more.

That works for anyone.

Neither you or IIFMM have invented anything.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: cephissus on August 20, 2015, 12:12:02 AM
eh i dont think it's normal to count calories... basically no one does it.

more people are starting to, but you ask nearly anyone how many calories are in X amount of food Y, and you'll see how clueless they are.  even people who have been trying to diet the weight off forever... they just can't bring themselves to count calories, for whatever reason.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Simple Simon on August 20, 2015, 12:14:37 AM
eh i dont think it's normal to count calories... basically no one does it.

more people are starting to, but you ask nearly anyone how many calories are in X amount of food Y, and you'll see how clueless they are.  even people who have been trying to diet the weight off forever... they just can't bring themselves to count calories, for whatever reason.

Where did I say it was normal to count calories.
I dont count calories, I eat what I like and use the mirror, if I want to lose weight I drop carbs, its that simple.
I could do it by skipping a meal or eating smaller portions, people are fat because they eat too much and people are skinny because they dont eat enough.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: cephissus on August 20, 2015, 12:15:57 AM
Well Adonis recommends counting calories, though "IIFYM" is different.

I don't know which, if either, you meant to call "eating normally".
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Simple Simon on August 20, 2015, 12:17:37 AM
Well Adonis recommends counting calories, though "IIFYM" is different.

I don't know which, if either, you meant to call "eating normally".

IIFMM counts calories
You work out macros based on your calorific requirements.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: thegamechanger on August 20, 2015, 12:42:46 AM
i dont know what iifym means
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Simple Simon on August 20, 2015, 12:47:01 AM
i dont know what iifym means
It doesnt matter.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: BigRo on August 20, 2015, 01:16:55 AM
Where did I say it was normal to count calories.
I dont count calories, I eat what I like and use the mirror, if I want to lose weight I drop carbs, its that simple.
I could do it by skipping a meal or eating smaller portions, people are fat because they eat too much and people are skinny because they dont eat enough.

your not going to be a successful personal trainer with such simplistic advices.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Simple Simon on August 20, 2015, 01:52:13 AM
your not going to be a successful personal trainer with such simplistic advices.
Simple doesnt sell.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Skorp1o on August 20, 2015, 02:09:34 AM
A calorie is not a calorie.

I feel much better when I eat healthy foods, cut out sugars and shitty fats like fried food...etc.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Skorp1o on August 20, 2015, 02:10:49 AM
Simple doesnt sell.

People try to complicate shit to justify their existence and rates.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: BigCyp on August 20, 2015, 02:42:03 AM
A calorie is not a calorie.

I feel much better when I eat healthy foods, cut out sugars and shitty fats like fried food...etc.

A calorie is a calorie. There is no arguing with that statement (which Adam is very aware of). However, when he says that phrase, (in the context of it's past discussions here) he is using 'loaded' terminology - i.e. he says 'a calorie is just a calorie' knowing full well that most people will misunderstand that statement and open a whole umbrella of discussions around it.

He means it, in the same way you could assert "A dollar is just a dollar". Yes, you can go back and forth for days on why a dollar means more to one person because of their circumstances, or a dollar isn't actually a dollar because of National Debt blah blah. At the end of the day, you will still be able to assert this statement and be correct.

However, I agree with what you are saying Skorp - depending on what foods I get my calories from, I feel different, I store fat more quickly or less quickly, I have less or more energy, and the list goes on - this aspect of dieting will always be too subjective to 'win' an argument though, and Adam isn't actually talking about this aspect of dieting AT ALL.

He is the godfather of trolling.

Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: BigCyp on August 20, 2015, 02:44:48 AM
People try to complicate shit to justify their existence and rates.

I was reading a brochure for a CRM system yesterday, and this thought occurred to me. The most value adding content of the whole brochure was the presentation of the material, and how they had dressed it up to seem like it is indispensable to your business lol. Apple have done the same thing for a long time. The actual information I needed wasn't even in the fucking brochure.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Yamcha on August 20, 2015, 02:52:01 AM
I find when I fret over counting my calories, my diet experience is not a very pleasant one.
To each his own.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Simple Simon on August 20, 2015, 03:15:35 AM
A calorie is a calorie. There is no arguing with that statement (which Adam is very aware of). However, when he says that phrase, (in the context of it's past discussions here) he is using 'loaded' terminology - i.e. he says 'a calorie is just a calorie' knowing full well that most people will misunderstand that statement and open a whole umbrella of discussions around it.

He means it, in the same way you could assert "A dollar is just a dollar". Yes, you can go back and forth for days on why a dollar means more to one person because of their circumstances, or a dollar isn't actually a dollar because of National Debt blah blah. At the end of the day, you will still be able to assert this statement and be correct.

However, I agree with what you are saying Skorp - depending on what foods I get my calories from, I feel different, I store fat more quickly or less quickly, I have less or more energy, and the list goes on - this aspect of dieting will always be too subjective to 'win' an argument though, and Adam isn't actually talking about this aspect of dieting AT ALL.

He is the godfather of trolling.



If a calorie was just a calorie then I would react exactly the same with a bar of chocolate as I would with a potato if the cals where the same.
I dont, so they are not.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Waller on August 20, 2015, 03:20:48 AM
If a calorie was just a calorie then I would react exactly the same with a bar of chocolate as I would with a potato if the cals where the same.
I dont, so they are not.

A calorie is a unit of measurement. The same as a meter is a meter. Walking a meter over grass isn't the same as over broken glass.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: da_vinci on August 20, 2015, 03:39:50 AM
A calorie is a calorie, but food in which that calorie resides may differ greatly, in the way it's digested, in the way it is digested by two different persons, factors like what other food is being eat at the same time is important too, glycemic index, glycemix load, everything differs greatly if you introduce different mixes of products and give them to different people. So maybe... a calorie is just an amount of heat that is present by burning a certain food product, nothing more.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: evandatp on August 20, 2015, 03:44:57 AM
i dont know what iifym means
"If I fucked your mother" as in "If I fucked your mother this is what she'd cook me afterwards."
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Rambone on August 20, 2015, 03:56:21 AM
IIFYM involves meeting certain requirements right? Like protein and fiber? You can't eat hummingbird cake all day and meet your fiber and protein requirements
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: BigRo on August 20, 2015, 03:57:51 AM
A calorie is not a calorie.

I feel much better when I eat healthy foods, cut out sugars and shitty fats like fried food...etc.

definitely.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Simple Simon on August 20, 2015, 04:10:43 AM
A calorie is a calorie, but food in which that calorie resides may differ greatly, in the way it's digested, in the way it is digested by two different persons, factors like what other food is being eat at the same time is important too, glycemic index, glycemix load, everything differs greatly if you introduce different mixes of products and give them to different people. So maybe... a calorie is just an amount of heat that is present by burning a certain food product, nothing more.
Wood has calories but it isnt going to make you fat if you eat too much of it.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: da_vinci on August 20, 2015, 04:13:09 AM
Wood has calories but it isnt going to make you fat if you eat too much of it.

Exactly.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: BigCyp on August 20, 2015, 04:16:21 AM
If a calorie was just a calorie then I would react exactly the same with a bar of chocolate as I would with a potato if the cals where the same.
I dont, so they are not.

Case in point lol.

Adam fully agrees with what you are saying, and he also chooses what foods he is going to eat based on more than just 'taste' and 'deliciousness', although he'd like to have us think otherwise.

When he says 'a calorie us just a calorie' he is talking about the unit of measurement, not the cause and effect in different subjects with different calorie sources.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Thin Lizzy on August 20, 2015, 04:20:41 AM
If a calorie was just a calorie then I would react exactly the same with a bar of chocolate as I would with a potato if the cals where the same.
I dont, so they are not.

There's two different issues at play: Body Composition and Nutritional Value.

From a nutritional standpoint, the potato would be the better option. However, if you swapped a potato with a chocolate bar, or some kind of processed food of equal calories, your body composition would remain the same.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Simple Simon on August 20, 2015, 04:25:55 AM
There's two different issues at play: Body Composition and Nutritional Value.

From a nutritional standpoint, the potato would be the better option. However, if you swapped a potato with a chocolate bar, or some kind of processed food of equal calories, your body composition would remain the same.
Replace all complex carbs in your diet with refined sugar of equal calories then get back to me in 2 months and tell me if you body looks the same.

Oh, and if you are a fat fuck then its likely not going to be that obvious, if you are in any kind of shape it will be.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Skorp1o on August 20, 2015, 04:28:13 AM
Case in point lol.

Adam fully agrees with what you are saying, and he also chooses what foods he is going to eat based on more than just 'taste' and 'deliciousness', although he'd like to have us think otherwise.

When he says 'a calorie us just a calorie' he is talking about the unit of measurement, not the cause and effect in different subjects with different calorie sources.

But a calorie isn't a calorie.

When I did triathlons the swim was 1.5k the bike was 40k and the run was 10k....a km is NOT a km here, because if I had to swim 40km as opposed to 1.5k half the field would have drowned from exhaustion.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Thong Maniac on August 20, 2015, 04:51:41 AM
There's two different issues at play: Body Composition and Nutritional Value.

From a nutritional standpoint, the potato would be the better option. However, if you swapped a potato with a chocolate bar, or some kind of processed food of equal calories, your body composition would remain the same.

This , tried it myself
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: BigCyp on August 20, 2015, 05:01:28 AM
Replace all complex carbs in your diet with refined sugar of equal calories then get back to me in 2 months and tell me if you body looks the same.

Oh, and if you are a fat fuck then its likely not going to be that obvious, if you are in any kind of shape it will be.

Exactly. Insulin is a powerful hormone, and blood sugar levels are MASSIVE factors in how much fat you may store from eating the SAME amount of carbohydrate (in kcal value) verses table sugar.

The calorie is still a calorie. But the physiological processes that are altered, just by different carb sources are not all and the same.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: da_vinci on August 20, 2015, 05:04:33 AM
So.. it basically makes no sense to say that shit (a calorie is a calorie) when we talk about nutrition and body composition as plenty of other factors are at play. I actually have no idea what the fuss was always about regarding that.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Super Natural on August 20, 2015, 05:32:28 AM
 ;) There's nothing new under the sun...
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: SF1900 on August 20, 2015, 05:41:02 AM
If a calorie was just a calorie then I would react exactly the same with a bar of chocolate as I would with a potato if the cals where the same.
I dont, so they are not.

Well, I assume the reason your body is reacting differently to foods has nothing to do with the calories, but more to do with what is or isn't in the food. A bar of chocolate and a piece of broccoli both contain calories, but it's all the other healthy stuff that exists in broccoli and is absent in chocolate that makes you feel the difference. Not because it's a different type of calorie. No?
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Simple Simon on August 20, 2015, 05:46:07 AM
Well, I assume the reason your body is reacting differently to foods has nothing to do with the calories, but more to do with what is or isn't in the food. A bar of chocolate and a piece of broccoli both contain calories, but it's all the other healthy stuff that exists in broccoli and is absent in chocolate that makes you feel the difference. Not because it's a different type of calorie. No?

Exactly.
My veins blow up like ballons with a piece of chocolate but stay the same with a potato.
My body is processing the chocolate way faster than the spud.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Thin Lizzy on August 20, 2015, 06:07:24 AM
Replace all complex carbs in your diet with refined sugar of equal calories then get back to me in 2 months and tell me if you body looks the same.

Oh, and if you are a fat fuck then its likely not going to be that obvious, if you are in any kind of shape it will be.

They're both converted to glucose and susequently stored as glycogen. So, the end result is the same.

The Insulin argument holds no water either. Insulin just determines how fast or slowly the carbs or fats are stored. The amount remains the same.

The difference is in nutritional value.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Simple Simon on August 20, 2015, 06:08:55 AM
They're both converted to glucose and susequently stored as glycogen. So, the end result is the same.

The Insulin argument holds no water either. Insulin just determines how fast or slowly the carbs or fats are stored. The amount remains the same.

The difference is in nutritional value.
Stop telling me what science says and do what I asked.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: ritch on August 20, 2015, 07:46:53 AM
All I can say is I've helped lots of people who WEREN'T getting results following methods very similar to what I'm reading here.

People need structure. Putting off proper nutrition to "any time it suits you" is a great way to not do it today, then probably fail again at it the next.

But some have gotten results. However, pics snapped when you're peaking with glucose, did pump up sets don't really display how you look the rest of the time now, does it? And we all know ya look so much bigger in bathroom selfies. All nice and close to the mirror makes anyone look dramatically bigger.

So keep fooling a few gullable turds here and there with that BS, guys like myself know what the real deal is.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: wes on August 20, 2015, 07:59:17 AM
Eat like a bodybuilder = look like a bodybuilder.

I know Adam disagrees,but I`d never try his methods.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Tapeworm on August 20, 2015, 08:10:20 AM
"If I fucked your mother" as in "If I fucked your mother this is what she'd cook me afterwards."

That's what I got.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: local hero on August 20, 2015, 08:13:38 AM
Eat like a bodybuilder = look like a bodybuilder.

I know Adam disagrees,but I`d never try his methods.

Yeh I think the same, no need to reinvent the wheel..
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: ritch on August 20, 2015, 08:16:37 AM
Yeh I think the same, no need to reinvent the wheel..

What he said is too logical for most to understand.

Here's what I'D DO if I were starting out. Keep an open mind to stuff like this but build your base off stuff that is proven to work. When you get close to your ideal look, THEN start playing around with this garbage.

When you see you begin to degrade, go back to what was working and got you there. Simple...
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: The True Adonis on August 20, 2015, 09:43:50 PM
Where did I say it was normal to count calories.
I dont count calories, I eat what I like and use the mirror, if I want to lose weight I drop carbs, its that simple. don't like the way I look, I just use more steroids.
I could do it by skipping a meal or eating smaller portions, people are fat because they eat too much and people are skinny because they dont eat enough.
Fixed for accuracy in your case.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Simple Simon on August 20, 2015, 10:03:29 PM
Fixed for accuracy in your case.
I will wager I use less than 99% of the people on this board who use.

Seems you think that someone who stays in shape year round has to be using high dosages of gear.
Its not your fault your genetics suck.

And can you explain how steroids help you lose weight in a calorific excess?
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: The True Adonis on August 20, 2015, 10:12:20 PM
I will wager I use less than 99% of the people on this board who use.

Seems you think that someone who stays in shape year round has to be using high dosages of gear.
Its not your fault your genetics suck.

And can you explain how steroids help you lose weight in a calorific excess?
You can't do any of it without them. 
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Simple Simon on August 20, 2015, 10:42:25 PM
You can't do any of it without them. 
It would appear neither can you.
 ;)
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: The True Adonis on August 20, 2015, 10:56:22 PM
It would appear neither can you.
 ;)
If thats what you have to tell yourself cupcake.

Truth is, I am not interested in ever using steroids.  Hard for people who rely on them (people like you) to believe.

I know.  Deal. With. It.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Simple Simon on August 20, 2015, 10:59:48 PM
If thats what you have to tell yourself cupcake.

Truth is, I am not interested in ever using steroids.  Hard for people who rely on them (people like you) to believe.

I know.  Deal. With. It.

Strange response, I didnt accuse you of taking steroids, I was talking about staying in shape year round naturally.

Nice to know how your mind works though.
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Thong Maniac on August 21, 2015, 12:14:32 AM
;) There's nothing new under the sun...

Spot on
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Donny on August 21, 2015, 02:13:35 AM
I saw just recently a report on the news here about a trainer who said he just ate Baked Beans all the time, sometimes with other things but mainly just Beans... i am sure he was from the UK. Jeez.. his farting must be terrible :-X
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: Donny on August 21, 2015, 02:17:22 AM
ask any cowboy..Beans are in  :D
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/real_life/6533604/Man-lives-on-nothing-but-baked-beans.html
Title: Re: Adonis Principles came way before stupid IIFYM, Flexible Dieting and other crap
Post by: gothorium on February 15, 2017, 07:40:57 PM
ask any cowboy..Beans are in  :D
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/real_life/6533604/Man-lives-on-nothing-but-baked-beans.html

This guy is a god, should not live with a woman.
So many women getting better than they deserve.