Psst.

I have a secret for you…

Your body doesn’t need to eat food every 3 hours to be healthy.

In fact, eating so often is not natural to the body.

The reality is this…

The only reason we desire food every 3 hours is because we’re eating carbohydrate foods.

Carb foods do two things to us:

1. They don’t satisfy our hunger and
2. They produce intense cravings every 3 hours

So no matter how much carbohydrate foods you eat, you never feel satisfied.

Ever ate and ate and ate until your stomach was about to explode … and then wanted dessert?

That’s because you were eating carbohydrate foods.

When you eat animal foods that are high in vitamins and saturated fat, it’s nearly impossible to overeat.

When you eat fatty meat once per day you become satisfied.

And that’s what I found out when I ate one meal a day every day for 30 days.

One Meal A Day (OMAD)

During the B&D; 30 Day Challenge, I challenged myself to eating only one meal per day, every day.

That is not the same as intermittent fasting. I did not eat all of my food in a 4 hour window and call it one meal.

I literally ate one meal per day.

These are the foods I ate: Grassfed ribeye steaks, grassfed beef liver, pastured bacon, raw butter, pastured eggs, goat meat, and pork chops.

This is nearly all I ate, though I did cheat approximately 5 times and eat ice cream which I will explain later.

But first, let’s start at the beginning…

I was used to eating 3 meals per day: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

I was on the carnivore diet and my usual meals consisted of steak, steak, and steak.

I felt fantastic eating 3 meals per day (again, meat only).

I wanted to challenge my own self-discipline and will and I wanted to make my mind stronger than my body.

So I committed to one meal per day, even though I felt great eating 3 meals per day.

Here’s exactly what happened…

1st day

On the first day I felt intense hunger around noon time.

This hunger lasted perhaps one hour and when I persevered, this hunger vanished and I felt a sense of euphoria and energy that I hadn’t experienced in a long time.

I ate that day’s meal at 5pm, so between 12 noon and 5pm I felt really fantastic.

That evening I ate a fat ribeye steak.

1st day = easy

2nd day

On the 2nd day I had the exact same hunger pang around noon and again I pushed through it.

I did not experience the same euphoria and energy as I did the first day, but I felt absolutely fine and had no intense desire to eat right away.

I made it until 5pm when I ate another fat steak.

2nd day = easy

3rd day

Things took a turn for the worse on the 3rd day…

During the day I was reading book after book about nutrition and this caused me to think about food all day long.

I began my meal early because of this (at 3pm rather than 5pm) but halfway through my meal I had to leave to visit a family member in the hospital.

This took 2 hours and when I returned I was obviously still hungry, and mentally weak, so I ate my normal food plus some vanilla ice cream.

This proved to be a big mistake.

3rd day = difficult

4th day 

On the 4th day I absolutely craved carbohydrates all day long.

On the previous days, my cravings were easy or zero, but after eating ice cream my carb cravings were absolutely intense.

I did not give in and ate only meat, but I certainly wanted ice cream again.

4th day = difficult

5th day

On the 5th day I again had intense hunger pangs around noon, but I persevered and did not eat until 5pm.

Again, I craved carbs but not quite as heavily as the previous day. I ate nothing but steak.

On the 5th night my dreams became incredibly vivid.

My dreams were like watching a full movie from start to finish.

5th day = medium

6th day

On the 6th day I had great energy in the afternoon.

Vibrant, clear, and alert.

Usually in the afternoon I would eat lunch and my energy would be decreased.

I thought to myself, “If I did eat right now my energy would definitely without question instantly decrease.”

I did not eat until 5pm, at which point again I ate only meat.

6th day = wonderful

7th day

On the 7th day I ate liver, raw butter, and pork ribs.

One hour after eating was still hungry and ate some raw milk cheese.

(Cheese seems to make it harder to defecate. I never once felt bloated or constipated but I typically do not defecate the day after eating cheese.)

Regarding the pork ribs, they were pastured pork ribs and very lean. They had almost no fat on them and I found myself again very hungry again even after eating the cheese.

Also on the 7th day I weighed myself at the gym and I had lost 4 lbs in one week.

This caused me to wonder if I was eating enough food and if I was losing weight too quickly.

My goal was never to lose weight, only to conquer the mind.

Unfortunately, the mind conquered me on the 7th day and I wondered heavily if I needed to eat carbs to maintain weight.

Because I was so scared of losing weight, and also mentally weak on this day, I ordered a cheese pizza and bought a bucket of vanilla ice cream.

I had absolutely horrendous heartburn in the middle of the night, something I never experience on the all-meat diet.

7th day = mistakes were made

8th day

The cravings on this day were absolutely intense. I felt “starving” and was wondering if I made the right decision to eat only one meal per day.

I felt sure I was not getting enough calories.

On the 8th day I was again mentally weak.

After my 5pm meal of meat I finished it with ice cream.

8th day = hard

9th day

On the 9th day I again had intense cravings for carbohydrates but I did not allow myself any ice cream.

At 5pm I ate only meat.

9th day = hard but disciplined

10th day

On the 10th day I noted that hunger was with me every day, seemingly all the time.

This is what I wrote in my personal journal:

Hunger is here every day. This process has become spiritual. It is a battle against the mind, to conquer one’s own mind. Hunger is the teacher of the spiritual.

3 meals a day and sleeping in was better for the work, but rising early and eating one meal a day set in motion a chain of events that could not have happened otherwise.

Hunger pangs last about 10 minutes and then they go away.”

I forgot to mention that in addition to eating only one meal per day, I was waking up at 5am every day.

This caused a big change and a forced adaptation, which took a little while to get used to.

10th day = very hard

11th day

On the 11th day I finally got enough sleep and felt absolutely incredible all day.

Hunger was no problem at all and I did not have the “black and white” feeling that insufficient sleep gives you.

I felt incredible and happy all day. Loved the idea of finishing all my daily work before I spent time eating.

I ate only meat.

11th day = fantastic

12th day

On the 12th day didn’t get as much sleep as the night before but still felt pretty good and banged out a 2400 word article like it was no problem.

At 5pm I ate goat chops and goat burgers. My mind was feeling a little dull or a little down.

I ate ice cream after eating meat and “felt better.”

Later that night I experienced total failure and went to a local Mexican restaurant for 4 tacos. All of my meals were eaten in a 6 hour window, so not OMAD.

That night I noticed that when I eat carbs my hands always fall asleep at night. They get a pins and needs feeling that doesn’t happen when I eat meat only.

12th day = total failure

13th day

Up until this day I had been force-feeding because I was scared of losing too much weight.

I was forcing myself to eat past the point of satiety just to get the extra calories in.

It was on the 12th day that I recognized the fact that my body does not like big meals.

What I learned is that big meals aren’t actually necessary. One normal sized meal per day is enough.

I ate a HUGE meal on the 12th day and did not defecate well on the morning of the 13th day.

Big meals make it harder to digest and harder to defecate (and also cheese backs you up).

I also realized how vital sleep is.

Whenever I get my full 9.5 hours sleep I have solid discipline and stay away from carbs but when I get less sleep I crave carbs and give in.

When sleep is insufficient, self-discipline is insufficient.

Insufficient sleep directly leads me to low self-discipline which directly leads me to eating carbohydrates which directly leads me to inferior energy and inferior mental clarity.

As noted in my personal journal:

My concentration is inferior when I eat carbs.”

On the 13th day I ignored the cravings for carbohydrates and ate meat only.

13th day = revealing

14th day

On the 14th day I started cooking my steaks outside on the grill.

This proved to be the best choice I made.

The steaks tasted better cooked over an open fire and the air was chilly and proved a good boost of vitality to my lungs.

I absolutely loved cooking my food outside on an open fire and eating my food outside in the cool air.

The cravings for carbohydrates on this day were strong, but I was stronger and did not give in.

On the 14th day I also moved my daily meal from 5pm to the afternoon (on this day it was around 2pm).

14th day = easier

15th day

This is what I wrote in my personal journal:

Ate nothing but meat yesterday and feel fine, the carb cravings are decreasing.

It’s easier every day to not eat carbs. When you eat carbs, you crave carbs.

Eating one meal per day with carbs is very emotionally taxing.

Carbs really are drugs, they cause the problems that they then fix.

Carbs fix depression and make you feel better? They caused the depression in the first place.

In the total absence of carbs, the mood is always bright.

When eating carbs, and when away from carbs for more than 3 hours, the mood is dark. Hence “Hangry”.

I prefer an afternoon meal to an evening meal.

I dislike waiting so long to eat, especially when I’ve been waking up at 5am and finishing my work by 1pm or so.

Waiting those extra hours seems pointless. After I eat my one meal I am content for the night so it seems better to be content than to wait and not be content.

Up until this time, eating one meal per day had been emotionally demanding.

I often felt blue, sad, and even depressed.

I was constantly second guessing my decision to both eat one meal a day and rise at 5am every morning.

Moving my one meal to the afternoon helped tremendously.

15th day = medium

16th day

On the 16th day I ate my meal around noon.

I felt absolutely awesome eating my one meal at lunch time.

I ate a fatty pork chop and 12 scrambled egg yolks (no whites) and became EXTREMELY full.

16th day = awesome

17th day

By now I’ve been cooking all my food outside on the grill.

I never want to use a stove ever again.

I also started blessing my food before I eat it and I will try to keep up the habit forever.

17th day = easy

18th day

From my personal journal:

I ate 3 burgers last night and got full. Didn’t poo-poo this morning but feel fine. Haven’t experience hunger yet (11:45am).”

19th day

I ate raw beef and some eggs last night. Defecated fine in the morning.

Some days I skip the toilet but I never feel bloated or constipated.

From my journal:

After last night’s raw beef and scrambled eggs, I feel pretty hungry today (12 noon) and will eat the remaining pork chops (maybe). Definitely feel very hungry around noon today. Raw beef and eggs don’t seem to last too long. I passed through the hunger pangs and they vanished.”

20th day – 21st day 

4 words can describe every day for the last week:

“Meat only, very easy.”

Not only has every day been very easy, but the initial sadness I felt on this diet completely vanished.

My sleep has been excellent and I only get mild hunger pangs in the afternoon.

I eat my meal at lunch time rather than dinner time and I feel absolutely fantastic.

All of the initial doubts I had in my mind have completely vanished.

My weight completely stabilized after losing only 4 lbs.

I never feel cravings or hunger. I never feel sadness. I feel happy, satisfied, content.

If I had to use one word to describe how I feel every day, that word would be: BLISS.

I have never been happier in my life than I am right now.

I have learned that:

• We constantly overeat food
• We are never satisfied and content
• We are over stimulated in all ways

One meal a day is more than sufficient. I feel I could eat one meal every 2 days and be satisfied. The thought of eating meals every 3 hours seems grotesque.

22nd day

On the 22nd day I drove to Albuquerque and planned to eat burgers on the drive.

I did this knowing that I would get the carb cravings and I wanted to test myself.

Also after eating 2 fast food cheeseburgers I got a tummy ache.

With this understanding of “junk foods” – that they always make me feel terrible – every day for a week afterwards was very easy.

23rd day – Bacon only

24th day – Beef only

25th day – Bacon, eggs, and pork brains

26th day – Bacon, eggs, pork brains, beef liver

27th day (Thanksgiving) – Duck bacon, wild boar bacon, buffalo steak, beef steak, sausage

28th day – Beef burgers with raw sauerkraut (sauerkraut is fermented and therefore less damaging than cooked or raw vegetables)

29th day – Beef only

30th day – Beef and liver

I didn’t look in the mirror for 30 days.

I hadn’t weighed myself since the end of the first week.

On the 30th day I woke up and looked in the mirror.

My reaction was simply: “wow.”

I had lost weight certainly, and become even mildly skinny, but I was a natural lean. In total I lost 7 lbs in 30 days.

I now have the look of a surfer or a swimmer rather than a bodybuilder, but this look is nearly without effort as I do not do standard bodybuilding workouts.

In fact, the only workouts I do are to activate muscles that atrophy from sitting to do computer work (neck, glutes, hamstrings mostly) and I do a lot of stretching.

Even though I was skinny compared to how I used to look as a bodybuilder, I was quite happy knowing that I could keep a nice physique and nice tone completely naturally (I took no bodybuilding supplements of any kind during this 30 day trial).

Thought other people did notice and remark that I was noticeably skinnier. Because of this, I will likely add raw goat milk to my diet to regain some of my lost weight.

What I learned eating one meal a day

Keeping a strict routine is very important to your success. 

If you fall out of your normal routine your self-discipline shrinks.

I noticed this when making the 9 hour drive to Albuquerque. During this long drive, and with constant billboards advertising junk food, it was difficult to not pull over and get junk food.

I also did not listen to any music or any podcasts on the 9 hour drive. I did not listen to any music because I wanted to do a quick dopamine fast and be alone with my thoughts.

But I was hardly alone with my thoughts because in the heartland of the United States you cannot go 3 miles without seeing a billboard for some kind of addictive food.

We don’t eat because we’re hungry, we eat because we’re bored (or addicted to junk).  

We often eat not because we are hungry, but because we are bored.

When you make the decision to only eat one meal per day you are forced to confront this fact.

Self-discipline shrinks when you’re tired.

It’s very important to get enough sleep if you plan to do this challenge.

The less sleep you get, the less self-discipline and willpower you have.

I found myself going to bed at 8:30 pm and waking between 5-6 am.

The first 2 weeks are hard.

They can be very hard. But after that, it’s easy.

And actually it’s not only easy, it’s great. It’s wonderful.

On this 30 day journey I found something I was not expecting to find…

Bliss.

Am I going to continue eating one meal a day?

No.

I am going to eat when I am hungry.

In particular, I am going to regain some lost weight. I became noticeably skinnier at the end of the 30 days.

On many days it was extremely easy to eat only one meal in the afternoon.

1 lb of bacon in particular kept me full for 24 hours or more.

On other days, it was harder. I am going to use one meal a day as my “base” but I am not going to limit or starve myself.

If I’m hungry, I will eat. If I am not experiencing true hunger, I will not eat.

I will skip breakfast and eat a meal at lunch time. If I need more in the evening, I will have more.

On any normal day I will follow the zero-carb carnivore diet and eat simply when I am hungry. Your body knows better what you need than a clock knows.

To put it simply, I’m going to eat food when I’m hungry and drink water when I’m thirsty.

However…

The one meal a day for 30 days plan was a spiritual journey.

I will do this every November from now on.

As the muslims follow Ramadan, Victor Pride follows Novembadan.

Do I recommend you follow the OMAD plan?

If you’re fat, yes.

Fat people can and should follow the one meal a day plan until they aren’t fat anymore.

If you’re skinny, no.

Skinny people should not eat one meal a day, they should eat 3 or 4 and gain weight.

If you’re standard, yes.

For standard bodied men and women I recommend you do it once a year for 30 days.

What you will find may surprise you.

You’ll learn more about yourself in 30 days of one meal a day than you will in 55 years of 3 meals a day.

And at the end you may experience what I experienced…

Bliss.

Until next time.

Your man,

-Victor Pride

PS – If you want to experience the bliss that I experienced during this 30 day challenge, I would suggest picking up the upcoming ebook entitled: MONK MODE: The Path of the Ultimate and The Key to Self-Mastery.

In the meantime, the original 30 day challenge, 30 Days of Discipline, will be $7 until the end of the year.

1) Eat Slow to Stay Lean

Next time you’re out to eat around a bunch of people, watch them. All the lean people eat very slow. To lean people, naturally lean, food does not seem to be a big deal. They’ll have a whole plate of food in front of them and they’ll eat a bite here, a bite there and continue the conversation.

I was out with a real deal lean girl the other night, I ordered 3 plates of food and she ordered one plate. I finished all 3 of my plates before she finished her one plate. To stay lean naturally, eat slow and let it digest.

2) Use BioFreeze on Your Tender Joints and Ligaments

BioFreeze is a life saver, I love the stuff. It’s like IcyHot except 1,000 times better. You rub it on your tender joints and it gives you a heating feeling and makes your joints and ligaments feel better. I was at the gym one day whining about how my shoulder was hurting and a gym rat buddy clued me into BioFreeze.

I made a mad dash down to a local massage parlor that same day to pick up a bottle at double price. If you’ve got some hurting shoulders, elbows, knees or whatever grab a bottle of this stuff and let it work it’s magic. BioFreeze will allow you to lift with sore or hurting bodyparts.

You’ve got two ways to buy BioFreeze:

1. You can buy from a local chiropractor or massage parlor
2. You can order Biofreeze from amazon

Pro Tip: Unless you are in pain right now and need BioFreeze asap, you should order from amazon. When you pick up a bottle at the chiropractors or at the massage parlor you will pay double the price.

BioFreeze comes in two flavors: You can buy as a gel and rub onto your skin with your hands and it comes as a roll on stick, like deodorant, and you can roll it on without having to touch it. I use the roll on stick and I rub it on my shoulders before I hit the gym.

3) High Carb or High Fat / Never Both

The combination of eating high carb and high fat equals fat-assery. Choose high carb or high fat, either/or but never both. Of course, you want moderate to high protein always.

For a natural guy you would be better off eating high fat, high protein and low carb. For a hormonally enhanced bodybuilder, high carb, high protein and low fat is fine.

For a look at what high fat / high carb / low protein does you can take a look at middle easterners. Those people have some of the worst bodies on earth. No muscle and high fat.

4) Eat Pineapples and Drink Pineapple Juice

For a hormonally enhanced trainer, pineapple is highly advisable because pineapple is very good for your liver and, if you are using hormones like superdrol or testosterone, you need to pay special attention to keeping your liver healthy.

Fresh pineapple of course is the best, but in a pinch you can grab a 6 pack of those little cans of dole pineapple juice or grab some canned pineapple.

5) Drink Egg Whites / Eggs

Eggs are mother natures protein shakes. They are natural, healthy, cheap and readily available. Whey protein is garbage, toxic waste filled with nasty chemicals.

I have been drinking eggs for years and I have never been sick from drinking them. I even drank eggs in China and never got sick. The salmonella risk is completely overblown, you are more likely to get salmonella from eating salad but those stupid freaks on the internet never tell you “don’t eat salad because you’ll get sick”.

[DISCLAIMER: I really DON’T recommend eating raw eggs.]

The trick is to never drink an egg that has a cracked shell. If the shell is cracked, throw it away. If an egg does have salmonella it will be on the shell, so never crack your eggs on the glass you will be drinking from.

Crack the egg somewhere else and then drop the egg into your glass. I typically drink 6 of them. Just pretend you are chugging a beer, you do not need to chew the yolk, it will go down just fine. Eggs don’t have much of a taste, but the texture can be a little gross. After you get used to it, it’s nothing.

If the thought of drinking eggs repulses you there is another solution.

Enter Cartons of Egg Whites……….

At the grocery store you can buy cartons of egg whites (called egg beaters, or the generic version). The cartons run about $4 and they are pure, complete protein. They have been pasteurized so there is no way they can make you sick.

Even better, they do not have the yolk which is the hardest part to mentally overcome drinking. Egg whites have almost no taste, you can chug a whole glass and it tastes almost like water. You can also mix in some powdered lemonade or pink lemonade and it will taste like lemonade.

I made the switch from whole eggs to the cartons of egg whites and I absolutely love it. They are extremely easy and there is no cleanup. I have a glass after a workout and I try and have a glass before bed.

Tips: There will be two types of egg white cartons at the grocery store. Type 1 is pure, 100% egg whites and type 2 will have some other bullshit in it. Be sure and buy 100% egg whites.

You may get diarrhea at first after drinking eggs or egg whites, but eventually your body will get used to it and you will be fine.

6) Follow Body of a Spartan

I developed the Body of a Spartan method while I was living in China. I had two goals in mind: a) Get lean b) Get strong. And that’s exactly what I did. I got stronger and I got leaner. I had some rock hard abs and I was lifting heavy as hell, naturally.

One thing about lifting naturally is that your recovery is no bueno and you get so goddamn sore. Because the Body of a Spartan method is not a typical bodybuilding routine, it focuses more on heavy weights and low reps, it really cuts down on the soreness.

I spent way too long spinning my wheels doing stupid ass bodybuilding routines, and not using hormones, and being constantly sore as a result. You can build a physique naturally, you can get strong naturally, and you can do it with Body of a Spartan. You will not get jacked following bodybuilding magazine routines if you are natural.

Check out Body of a Spartan here.

7) Plate Loaded Hammer Strength Machines are Good

I have said many times that machines are poop and free weights are the way to go. That is still true, but there are exceptions. You need to build up your strength first before you play with machines, and you do that with free weights.

But when you become strong and advanced, machines have some huge benefits. Especially the plate loaded hammer strength machines, and double especially the hammer strength back machines. If you are using a 25 lb plate per side on a back machine you are wasting your time.

If you are using two 45 lb plates or more then machines are OK. To build up your back strength focus on pull-ups, chin-ups, deadlifts, bent barbell rows, and rack deadlifts. When you are strong you can start playing with lat pulldowns, seated rows, and all those fancy plate loaded hammer strength machines to really blow your back up.

8) Strength First, Feel the Weight Second

When you first start training you need to get stronger. Period. End of story. You get stronger by lifting heavy weights. You’ll see some big mothertruckers in the gym curling 15 lb dumbbells but those are advanced guys.

For a new guy you’ve got to get strong. If you are a natural guy you will never get benefit from using tiny weights. The ironic thing is that you have to be advanced to use tiny weights. Get strong first, get big first, sculpt later with baby weights.

How do you get strong as hell? Body of a Spartan, of course.

Taking the time to build up that strength will pay off. I’m not a naturally super strong guy. In the strength department I am probably right about average for a white man of my height and build.

But I took the time to lift heavy and develop that strength. I paid attention to getting stronger. I made a plan to get strong. Now I am one of the strongest guys in any commercial gym anywhere. That isn’t braggadocio, that’s fact. Having strength is a great feeling and I highly encourage you all to become strong.

 9) You Will Put on Some Fat to Get Big

If you’re a skinny guy you need to eat, eat and eat some more. It isn’t pleasant, it isn’t fun, and it isn’t comfortable but it’s necessary. Start eating to get bigger. I started at 130 lbs at a height of almost 6’2 .I had to fucking eat and eat.

Nowadays I’m over 200 lbs and I maintain on two meals a day, but to get here I had to force feed and I lost my abs to get here. If you’re a skinny guy forget about eating clean, you aren’t going to put on weight eating chicken and rice.

If you’re a lean-skinny guy and want to get big, start eating. Maybe you’ll lose your abs and maybe you won’t. If you’re a skinny-fat guy and want to get bigger, start eating. You never had abs so don’t worry about it.

If you’re a skinny-fat guy do not diet and get lean. You need MUSCLE to get lean. If you diet as a skinny-fat guy you’re going to look like dogshit. You need muscle first, and if you don’t have muscle underneath you’re going to look like 120 lbs of shit instead of 140 lbs of shit.

10) Only Buy Supplements That ACTUALLY Work

I’ve said it a hundred times and I’ll say it a hundred more times. Most supplements are junk and you will never build muscle by using most supplements. So you have to use the ones that actually work (and are usually on the verge of being banned).

Supplements can help with general health though. Liver tabs are great supps, but that’s because they are liver, just dried liver.

I am also currently taking a product called Animal Flex, which is designed to help protect and support your joints from continuous weight lifting. I’m 67% sure it has done nothing to help my joints, but then again I’m bad about taking it every day.

• Skinny-Fat guys check out The Best Supplement Stack For a “Skinny-Fat” Guy

11) The One Song Playlist

This is exactly what it sounds like, you listen to one song on repeat while in the gym. Pick a song that pumps you up and just let it play on repeat. Music can and will have a huge impact on your workout, but you can easily get sidetracked dicking around with your MP3 player, trying to find the right song.

Pick one song that fires you up and get to the gym and go to work. I prefer powerful music full of aggression (here is my current choice).

I also have a secret weapon for great workouts: sad sack, sappy songs, ballads, and lonesome music. This type of music really does a number on your emotions and is a great choice for the gym, just not everyday. Once in a while I’ll put on Dwight Yoakam or Michael Bolton and hit them weights with a passion. Pick whatever music fires you up.

BONUS: What To Do When You Get Big

 1) Enjoy It

As a big man you will get respect from people. People who would not have thought anything of you before. Big men, as in not fat, are rare and command respect. People will defer to you. People will get out of your way.

Little girlies eyes will pop out of their heads and their jaws will drop as they stare in awe. You will get big, bright smiles from the little cutie in the cereal aisle. Girlies will say “Whoa, you’re big like Vin Diesel“.

Note: I also keep my hair in a military style high and tight (see pic of ol’ Big Bear below). For some reason the combination of being big and having a high and tight haircut commands respect. I get respectful nods and comments constantly.

Of course, I always get asked how long I’ve been in the Marines and I have to explain that’s just a fashion choice. If you’re looking for a clean and easy hairstyle you should try the high and tight. I’ll never go back to having long, hippie hair ever again.

With the high and tight your hair is always clean looking, you don’t have to wash it much, you never have to style it, and you are always ready to go. Be sure to go to a barber, and not a stylist.

2) How to Scratch Your Own Back

When you get bigger you will become less flexible, unless you stretch, making it impossible to scratch parts of your back. I don’t stretch, so I am not flexible. As a consequence I cannot scratch parts of my back or sometimes my shoulders.

Never fear, I have a secret weapon: a fork. I keep a fork on my bedside table and whenever I get an itchy back I grab the fork and go to work. You can also get yourself a human back scratcher, just make sure she grows her nails out.

When you’re out and about and don’t have a fork or a girlie, you may have to scratch your back like a Bear scratches it’s back on a tree. Find an edge that is the right height and sharpness and rub your back on it like a Bear. Looks stupid, but sometimes it’s the only way to get the middle of your back.

3) How to Put on Your T-Shirts and Not Get Deodorant Stains

“But Victor, I’ve been putting on t-shirts my whole life lol”

When I started getting bigger, I would always get deodorant streaks on my t-shirts. I couldn’t put 2 and 2 together and figure out what was going on. I was in a hotel room in Austin, TX with some buddies. We were getting ready to go out on the town and pick up some of that Saturday night beaver and I put on 3 shirts and got deodorant streaks on all of them.

After yelling fuck for the 3rd time, my buddy showed me a little trick. To put on your shirt and never get deodorant stains on the outside you’ve got to fold the shirt up from the bottom.

Fold it up halfway, like you’re going to show off your belly, and put it on that way. When you put it on you will still get deodorant on the shirt, but it will be on the inside of the shirt where it’s invisible, and not on the outside of the shirt where it makes you look like an idiot who can’t put on a t-shirt.

4) Go to the Gym You Lazy S.O.B.

There is no better time than right now.

Recently, I wrote about my experience with meditation.

In no un-certain terms I said this: meditation does not work. I then provided a list of clear reasons why meditation does not work.

In response I received many comments, many of them agreeing and a few of them disagreeing with me.

One commenter said this: 

Mediation is scientifically proven to be beneficial, so I think I’ll take the word of science over someone looking for traffic to their website.”

I have a lot to say about science, so if you have a scientific mind you will want to read this…

WHY SCIENCE GETS IT WRONG

The commenter above referred to the “word of science”, but there is no such thing as the “word of science.” 

Scientific journals are written in vague uncertainties, the same way zodiac predictions are written. 

Even the definition of science is too vague to actually say anything:

Science: the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

Huh?

I suppose it “sounds smart” but it doesn’t say much of anything. 

In contrast, let’s look at the definition of another word…

Experience: practical contact with and observation of facts or events.

The word “experience” gives us a completely clear definition of it’s meaning. 

The definition of “science” leaves us scratching our heads wondering what it actually means.

This is the tricky way that science gets away with pretending to be smart and pretending to provide answers (while doing neither).

Science does not work because it promises a solution that it never provides

Science promises to give you all of life’s answers but it never provides a single honest answer.

You look to science for an answer, to see if you should or shouldn’t do XYZ, but science never actually provides this answer for you. 

What science writers do is jumble a bunch of “smart sounding” words together.

It is impossible to tell what “science” is for or against for two reasons:

1. Science isn’t a real thing, it’s a bunch of people who are afraid of stating true facts in black & white – so they hide their hypothesis in confusing, “smart sounding” language that says nothing
2. For every piece of scientific literature that is “pro”, you can find in nearly equal amount scientific literature that is “anti”

Science does not ever draw a conclusion

Science starts at A and instead of going to B in a straight line, science ends up right back at A in a circle.

If science were in any way honest they would adopt the ouroboros (a snake eating it’s own tail) as their symbol.

Science does not go from A to B in a straight line, they go from A right back to A in a circle.

When asked if something is good or bad, scientists cleverly say “it may do this, it may do that” and they leave it to the fans of science to interpret in any way they choose.

Because the language of science is so vague, “science” always appears to be correct to you because you can make the science say anything you want.

Science is the lazy man’s search for truth

But just like meditation, science will never give you what it promises: an answer. 

In fact, there is only one way to ever get a true answer….

Forrest Gump’s mama knew the real science of life when she said, “you gonna have to figure it out for yourself.”

In other words…

Truth is always found in experience

If you don’t ever figure it out for yourself and come to a black & white conclusion, you will always be running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off because the science you rely on will always change.

They say you can only count on two things but that’s not true, you can count on three things in this life:

1. Death
2. Taxes
3. The science will change

Until you realize this, you are nothing but a tumbleweed, always flowing with the wind, this way and that way each time “science” changes it’s mind, which it always does.

A strong belief in science kills your ability to think and learn for yourself

A strong belief in science leaves you with a complete inability to think for yourself.

The belief that “science already figured it out” leaves you with no will or desire to figure it out for yourself.

An over-reliance on science does the exact opposite of what it promises. 

Instead of making you smart, it makes you stupid because it kills your ability to think and learn for yourself.

“A science mind” is a mind completely unable to think.

LIFE EXPERIENCE BEATS SCIENCE

Life experience always beats science because life experience is real and true and science is fickle gibberish. 

A low IQ person like Forrest Gump who has lived life and had life experience will always be smarter than a science zombie.

Instead of living life and learning as they go along, the science addicted do no learning on their own.

In complete objective reality, idiots who know nothing of science are smarter than people who profess to love and live by science. 

An idiot knows the value of experience over vague “studies” and “hypothesis”. 

Because science shelters you from reality, it keeps you as dim and as docile as meditation does, while convincing you that it’s good for you.

SCIENCE IS AN ILLUSION OF TRUTH

To create an illusion of intelligence, they muddy up the definitions to the point where any science study can mean both anything and nothing.

(See the definition of science for proof.)

Science appears to give you an answer, but when you look deeper you will see the reality…

Science leaves you with no concrete answers to life

After reviewing the science you are as confused or more confused than before – always scratching your head thinking, “I just don’t know what to believe anymore.”

Wouldn’t it be easier, and smarter, to get a clear answer? Yes, of course. Has science ever actually provided a clear answer? No, it hasn’t.

“Yes” or “No” is the only acceptable answer

If you want a real, clear, black & white answer you must ask someone who has had experience. You must get a firm yes or a firm no.

You must get the answer from someone who has “been there, done that”, not from some nerd in a lab-coat who thinks a lot of big words on a clipboard makes him smart.

Don’t you think that if scientists were so smart, they would give you an answer?

If scientists actually had the answers, they would give them to you. But they don’t…

How do you get an actual answer?

You only have 2 ways to ever get an answer in life:

1. Learn it for yourself through life lessons
2. Learn it from someone who has “been there, done that”

I’m afraid your only real option is to put down the lab-coat and the clipboard and pick up a life well lived.

If you go outside and live life, the truth of life is very easy to learn. 

Life has it’s own way of teaching you lessons, in a way that science simply can never do. 

That is why “learning” from scientific studies is a waste of time.

You’ve got to learn for yourself or learn from the best

You have to figure it out for yourself or you have to learn from a straight-shooter who tells it like it is.

So…

Go live life for yourself, and listen to someone you know who has “been there, done that” and written the book on it.

When you do that, you will learn the rules of life well enough that you’ll be able to play to win.

Until next time.

Your man,

-Victor Pride

PS – If you like clear, honest answers then you should quickly sign up for the B&D; email list. You’ll be notified when a new clear and honest article is posted. The answer is always black and white, just the way you like it.

This is a handshake.

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This is a bunch of bullshit.

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Bros be thinkin’ it’s cool to imitate the brothas. Dudes be thinkin’ they hip and progressive. Guys be thinkin’ they down and dirty with the cause.

Men don’t do this nonsense.

The importance of a good, strong, firm handshake cannot be overstated. When you shake hands with a man (or bump it or whatever this other faggotized baloney going around is called) you know right away what kind of man you’re dealing with.

If you are dealing with a serious man not to be “trifled” with you will receive a solid, firm and strong handshake and eye-contact. If you be dealin’ with a “bitch nigga” you’ll get a limp wristed finger shake, some faggoty fist bump, something like in the picture above, or worst of all he will offer you his left hand.

I have been offered the left hand twice in my life. The first time it happened the man had grease all over his right hand and I didn’t see it, so he offered the left hand with an explanation. Fine. The second time it happened a joke of a man offered his limp left hand with no explanation. I knew right away I be dealin’ with a “bitch nigga”.

As a man of integrity you must always offer the handshake and never offer any kind of fist-bump baloney.

 This is how you offer a handshake.

• Always try to be the first to offer a handshake and an introduction.
• Always make eye-contact when you do so.
• Always offer a good, firm grip. Never give a limp greeting to a man.
• Always offer the handshake at the beginning of a meeting and at the end.
• Always offer a handshake to male family members, business partners, male friends, and people you meet for the first time.
• Never remain seated for a handshake.
• Reduce firmness and grip as needed for the elderly and for women.
• Generally the handshake should not exceed 3 or 4 seconds (there are exceptions).

What happens when they try to do this?

JUST SAY NO.

PS – While we are on the subject don’t be a bro, a dude or a guy.

That swinging dick makes you a man. That’s how you refer to yourself and that’s how you conduct yourself. You ain’t no bitch nigga is you?

Dorian Yates is misunderstood as only ever doing one set per exercise. This could not be further from the truth. Dorian did many sets but! here is what sets him apart…

Dorian Yates only did one WORKING set to failure.

Dorian Yates would often do THREE or FOUR sets per exercise. The first 3 sets were warmup sets.

What’s the difference between a warmup set and a working set? INTENTION AND INTENSITY.

The intention of the warmup set was to prepare him for his one working set. The intention of his working set was to go past the point of failure and beyond.

It was Dorian’s one working set that blew up and grew his muscles. His warmup sets prepared his mind and body to get there.

With his one working set, Dorian went to absolute failure and then continued past failure using negative reps and forced reps (with the help of his crazy training partner).

After his one working set, Dorian was completely spent and any additional set after this one all-out set would be pointless.

In his one working set, Dorian Yates gave everything he had to give. Here’s how you can do the same thing…

DORIAN YATES WORKOUT ROUTINE

Dorian’s warmup sets would pyramid up in weight and down in reps until he got to his 3rd or 4th set which was his one and only working set.

• 2-3 warmup sets per exercise
• 1 minute rest between warmup sets
• 1 working set to failure per exercise
• 3-4 exercises per muscle group
• Rep schemes vary between 6-12
• 30-45 minutes in length
• Weight training 4x per week
• Cardio 2-3x per week

Dorian Yates’ workout routine is often routine to as HIT. High Intensity Training. There is one thing that is absolutely required to work-out like Dorian and that one thing is INTENSITY.

You must be prepared to give all that you have to give during the one working set. If you aren’t prepared to give all you have to give, don’t try this routine.

To do the Dorian Yates HIT routine you need a training partner who is as crazy as you are because you have to go way beyond failure, way beyond pain, and way beyond comfortable.

“If you’re comfortable, you’re not gonna put yourself through that extreme pressure and pain required to change your life.” -Dorian Yates

REP SCHEMES – Dorian’s warmup sets would typically be between 8-15 reps. His one working set would typically be between 6-8 reps with another 2-4 forced reps concentrating on the negative portion of the movement.

The amount of warmup sets you need depend on how strong you are per exercise. The stronger you are, the more warmup sets you will need. The weaker you are, the less warmup sets you need.

Here is a typical weekly Dorian Yates Training Split:

• Monday – Chest and Biceps
• Tuesday – Cardio, Abs
• Wednesday – Legs
• Thursday – Cardio
• Friday – Back and Rear Delts
• Saturday – Shoulders and Triceps
• Sunday – Off

MACHINES VS FREE WEIGHTS – It doesn’t matter which you use, it only matters that it works for you. Dorian Yates uses the same basic bodybuilding exercises that everybody else uses. Like Dorian once said, “Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lee Haney, Dorian Yates, Ronnie Coleman- we all use the same fuckin’ exercises all the time.”

Pay attention to the negatives! Positive strength gives out before negative strength does. You want to exhaust the muscle completely and that means exhausting the positive (up) and negative (down) portions of the movement.

CARDIO – You need a decent amount of cardio to recover in-between sets. 25-30 minutes of moderate cardio, 2-3 times per week is good. Do your cardio on days you are not weight training, don’t do weight training and cardio at the same time (unless it is a simple cardio warmup to get your blood pumping).

If you do a cardio workout right after a weight training workout it interferes with your muscle recovery. Recovery is the name of the game, you don’t get big from lifting weights only, you get big from allowing the muscles to recover from your workouts.

ABS – Dorian did a small amount of ab work, using body-weight exercises only, but he did not use additional weight. Dorian did this to not thicken the waist. When you work abs, always use very controlled, short movements – sit-ups, crunches and reverse crunches will do. Once per week is all that is needed.

6 WEEKS HARD TRAINING / 2 WEEKS RECOVERY TRAINING –After 6 weeks of hard training you’re going to hit a wall. After 5 or 6 weeks you do down in intensity. Shift from a growth phase to a maintenance and recovery phase.

That’s 6 weeks of hard training, 2-3 weeks of easier training with an occasional week off with no weight training at, this is to let your nervous system recover – so you can come back refreshed.

OVERTRAINING – In order to give your body results, you go to the gym and give it stress that it is not used to. It reacts to stress by building bigger and stronger muscles. Bodybuilding is not an endurance sport, it’s about training hard, heavy, and intense enough to stimulate muscle growth.

You don’t need to be in the gym a long time! And if you do too much training your progress will eventually come to a halt. It isn’t possible to train too hard but it is possible to train too often and too long. You have to train for brief periods of time. 45 minutes per session is enough. Remember, very INTENSE, very concentrated training!

“All your focus, all your soul goes into that one point.” -Dorian Yates

DORIAN YATES DIET AND NUTRITION

• 1.5 grams of protein per lb of body-weight
  3.3 grams of protein per kg of body-weight
• 1.5-2 grams of carbohydrates per pound of body-weight
  3.3-4.4 grams of carbohydrates per kg of body-weight
• Moderate fats

PROTEIN – A high protein diet is ESSENTIAL for gaining muscle! Dorian recommends 1.5 grams of protein per lb of body weight. Example: If you weight 200 lbs, you need 350 grams of protein per day.

Broken down into 5-6 small meals per day, that’s where protein supplements become very important. To get 300-400 grams per protein per day from food is difficult and unpleasant, Dorian recommends protein supplements to help you achieve your protein requirements.

CARBS – Dorian recommends 1.5-2 grams of carbohydrates per lb of body weight. Example: If you weight 200 lbs, you need 350-400 grams of carbohydrates per day.

Use carbohydrates that are broken down slowly and released slowly into your system so you don’t get spikes and drops of blood sugar. Oatmeal, brown rice, sweet potato, vegetables etc.

Here’s the rules for carbs: You should be losing fat and gaining muscle. If you’re gaining body fat you have to cut the carbs down, if you’re not gaining weight you have to up the carbs.

FATS – You need a moderate amount of fats in your bodybuilding diet. Eggs are a great source of fat for bodybuilders, always be sure to throw in a few egg yellows with your egg whites. Example: 10 egg whites and 3 yolks.

Chicken breast, turkey breast, lean beef, fish and protein supplements all contain moderate amounts of good fats. You can use 2 tablespoons per day of omega fats per day (fish oil, coconut oil etc).

Dorian would usually train after eating two meals. Breakfast would be oatmeal and eggs. A couple hours later he’d have his pre-workout meal: a protein shake and a banana (an hour and a half before he trained). After training he’d take a whey protein shake and some simple sugars to get a quick insulin reaction.

DORIAN YATES STEROIDS – Dorian spent 12 years cycling steroids, from 1985-1997 when he retired due to injury. He said he liked testosterone, deca, dianabol, and HGH. A typical bulking cycle would be 1,000mg testosterone weekly, 600mg deca weekly, 20mg dianabol daily, and a little HGH.

TRACK YOUR PROGRESS – Always track your progress and take weekly pictures when you are dieting. One easy way to tell if you are making progress is this… If you’re getting stronger, you’re getting bigger.

Something that really helped to keep me motivated over the years was keeping a journal, with nutrition and training. What I used to do is every month, write down where I’m at presently. ‘This is my body-weight, this is my nutrition, these are my max weights for 8 reps on 10 key exercises’. And then I always set myself a short-term goal which is like, ‘in one months time I wanna do this.’ And it’s gotta be an achievable goal, for instance if you could just add 5 lbs to your bench press in a month, if you could do that every month then that’s 60 lbs at the end of the year, that’s a huge gain. So it’s important to have goals, short term monthly goals and maybe a long term goal at the end of the year, and break it down into little steps … and writing them down makes them much more powerful … If you’ve got no clear goal, you’re very unlikely to get anywhere.” -Dorian Yates

Today, you should keep track of your progress in a blog (you may eventually be able to turn it into a business in which you make money from your bodybuilding).

DORIAN YATES TRAINING ROUTINE

To fully understand Dorian’s training style, it is important to watch all of the videos below. In these video’s, Dorian Yates explain his training style and philosophy. The best thing to do is watch one section per day, right before you go to the gym.

For example: If it’s back day, watch Dorian’s back training videos below right before you go to the gym. You do this so his philosophy and training methods are fresh in your mind.

When starting out, do his routine exactly as described. As you progress in your bodybuilding, you can start to change and substitute exercises and rep-schemes to suit your body.

DORIAN YATES SHOULDERS AND TRICEPS ROUTINE

DELTS

• Dumbbell shoulder press
  2 warmup sets – 12 reps 1st set, 8-10 reps 2nd set
  1 working set – 6-8 reps to failure
  Notes: Don’t lock out the elbows at the top of the movement
• Dumbbell lateral raises
  1 warmup set – 12 reps
  1 working set – 8-10 reps to failure
• Low pulley delt raise
  No warmup, 1 working set – 6-8 reps to failure
• Bent over reverse dumbbell flyes
  1 warmup set – 10-12 reps,
  1 working set – 8-10 reps to failure

Rest for five minutes before you start training your triceps.

TRICEPS

• Triceps pushdowns
  1 warmup set – 10-12 reps
  1 working set – 10-12 reps to failure
  Training notes: Keep your elbows by your side
  Stand with one leg forward, one leg back (this is to help your balance)
• Lying barbell triceps extensions
  1 warmup set – 10-12 reps
  1 working set – 8-10 reps to failure
• Dumbbell seated triceps press
  1 warmup set – 10-12 reps
  1 working set – 8-10 reps to failure

Dorian tip: Don’t worry about the burn, take a Jane Fonda class if you want to feel the burn. As long as your muscle is going to failure it doesn’t matter how much weight is on the bar.

DORIAN YATES CHEST AND BICEPS ROUTINE

Start with a 10-minute cardio warmup.

CHEST

• Rotator cuff warmup
  2 sets, 12 reps
  Note: If you’re struggling too much, the weight is too heavy. This is a warmup exercise only, not a hard working set!
• Decline bench press
  2 warmup sets – 10-12 reps
  1 working set – 6-8 reps to failure
  Note: Dorian believes the decline bench press is the most effective chest exercise you can do.
• Incline dumbbell press
  1 warmup set – 10-12 reps
  1 working set – 6-8 reps to failure
• Flat bench dumbbell flye
  1 warmup set – 10-12 reps
  1 working set – 6-8 reps to failure

Rest for 5 minutes before training your biceps.

BICEPS

• Dumbbell concentration curl
  1 warmup set – 10-12 reps
  1 working set – 6-8 reps to failure
• Straight bar curls
  No warmup
  1 working set – 6-8 reps to failure
  Note: It isn’t terribly important to do warmup sets for the biceps because at this point in your training, they should already be warm.

DORIAN YATES BACK AND REAR DELTS ROUTINE

• Machine pullovers (do dumbbell pullovers if you don’t have a pullover machine)
  2 warmup sets – 10-12 reps each
  1 working set – 8-10 reps to failure
• Close grip cable pulldowns
  1 warmup set – 10-12 reps
  1 working set – 8-10 reps to failure
• Barbell rows (or dumbbell rows)
  1 warmup set – 10-12 reps
  1 working set – 8-10 reps to failure
  or Dumbbell rows (or barbell rows)
  1 warmup set –  10-12 reps
  1 working set – 8-10 reps to failure
• Wide grip cable rows
  1 warmup set – 10-12 reps
  1 working set – 8-10 reps to failure
• Barbell deadlift
  1 warmup set – 10-12 reps
  1 working set – 8-10 reps to failure

BACK TRAINING NOTES – Any lat exercise you do, your spine has to be arched for your lats to contract.

DORIAN YATES LEGS ROUTINE

Start with a 10-minute cardio warmup, followed by active stretching (explained in video).

QUADS

• Leg extensions
  2 warmup sets – 15 reps 1st set,  10-12 reps 2nd set
  1 working set – 10-12 reps to failure
• Leg press
  2 warmup sets – 10-12 reps
  1 working set – 10-12 reps to failure
• Hack squat
  2 warmup sets – 10-12 reps
  1 working set – 10-12 reps to failure

Rest for 5 minutes before starting your hamstrings/calves routine.

HAMSTRINGS/CALVES

• Seated hamstring curl
  1 warmup set – 10-12 reps
  1 working set – 10-12 reps to failure
• Stiff-legged barbell deadlift
  1 warmup set – 10-12 reps
  1 working set – 10-12 reps to failure
• Calf press
  1 warmup set – 10-12 reps
  1 working set – 10-12 reps to failure, rest for 15 seconds and do reps to failure, rest for another 15 seconds and do 1 last set of reps to absolute failure
• Seated calf raise
  1 warmup set – 10-12 reps
  1 working set – 6-8 reps to failure

This is the full Dorian Yates training and diet routine. Dorian’s routine is built around simplicity, intensity and focused concentration.

If you forget everything about the routine, just remember this: use the basic exercises, do 2-3 warmup sets, do one all-out set in which you give everything you ever had to give and leave it all in the gym. Then allow your body the time it needs to recover.

The Dorian Yates routine is not a routine for the every-day man, it is a routine for the intense man. Be prepared to go all the way.

TRUE FAILURE MEANS MENTAL FAILURE!

You can push your body long after it wants give up…

But only if you are mentally tough enough.

Are you?

Until next time.

Your man,

-Victor Pride

You’d like to have a handsome face but you just don’t know where to start, right? Friend, I have good news.

You may very well be a handsome stud right now and you didn’t even know it. Let me explain…

Handsome men all have one thing in common. No, it isn’t a big wallet or big height or anything else.

Handsome men ALL have this one thing in common and it’s something every man has control of.

What is it?

A LEAN FACE.

Handsome men always have lean, defined faces that show off their masculinity.

I’m going to show you exactly how to get a lean face, but before we get started let’s talk about what having a lean face can do for you…

The facial features that women find attractive and that men find intimidating — a chiseled jawline and defined cheek bones for example — can only be seen when a man’s face is lean.

Before and After: Fat Face Vs. Skinny Face With Chiseled Jawline and Defined Cheek Bones

If you aren’t lean, you’re actually hiding the most attractive features of your face because fat rounds out the facial features and smoothes out any definition.

The average male face is covered in fat. Fat is estrogenic, unattractive and it hides the masculine characteristics that make a man handsome.

So why did I say you might potentially be a handsome stud and not even know it? If your face isn’t lean you may not even know what your face truly looks like. 

Fat completely hides your masculine characteristics, but there is actually one great thing about fat.

Do you know what the great thing about fat is? Fat can go away and when it goes away, guess what happens…

When the fat comes off of your face, the masculine features come in and make you look…

H A N D S O M E

Before and After: Fat, Puffy Face Vs Skinny Face And Chiseled Jawline

The guy on the left has a fat, puffy and bloated face which is unattractive. The guy on the right has a lean, skinny face with a chiseled jawline and is handsome enough to be in an underwear advertisement.

Both photographs are of the same man, me, and I went from chunk to hunk with no surgery, no make-up, no nothing. 

I’m still the same person, the only thing that changed was my fat levels – specifically my face fat levels. The fat levels went down and the handsome levels went up. 

When the fat that was covering my face went away, it brought out the facial characteristics that make panties wet.

3 Steps To A Chiseled Jawline

Below, you’re going to learn exactly what to eat, exactly what to to drink and exactly which supplement to take to get LEAN and reveal the true you. Let’s get started…

#1 – This is the only way you will ever get a lean face

There’s only one way to get your face lean and it’s not by going on a face diet, chewing a lot of gum or by doing facial flexes (some people actually do that).

The only way to lose fat on your face and get a chiseled jawline is to lose fat everywhere. You cannot only lose face fat because body fat is distributed evenly around your body and spot reduction is impossible.

So what do you have to do to lose weight in your face? You have to diet. Diet is the #1 key to a lean face and lean body. Diet is way more important than training when it comes to getting lean. 

The reason why so many people go to the gym and never get chiseled is because they don’t eat right. People get addicted to the gym all the time, they spend 2 hours per day in the gym…. and they’re still chunky! You can do as many crunches as you want, but you’ll never have abs unless your diet is in check.

Nothing wrong if you want to carry extra fat, I don’t care, but if you want REAL RESULTS it comes from strict dieting.

Most people are not lean because strict dieting is very hard to do, unless you know the secret of the pros which I will show you in a moment. But first, let’s figure out if you are too fat or just bloated…

What if you aren’t actually fat, do you still need to diet?

You may even have a low body fat percentage, but if you are severely bloated it will cause your facial features to be hidden.

Known in the medical world as puffy face syndrome, a bloated face obscures an otherwise handsome face. See proof: 

Before and After: Normal Slim Face vs Bloated Puffy Face

Even if you aren’t fat by societal standards your face may be too bloated to be handsome. In the left photograph I’m not incredibly lean but I’m not bloated. In the right photograph I’m terribly bloated and you can tell a big difference.

Even if you don’t get down to zero percent bodyfat, you can still make a huge difference in handsome levels if you get rid of excess bloat. 

If you can’t see your facial features, you’re either too fat or you’re too bloated. This diet will take care of both fat levels and bloat levels and will maximize how chiseled your jaw and face can get…

#2 – The Best Fat Loss Diet For A Lean Face: The low carb, low sodium, high protein diet

Carbohydrates and sodium soak up water like a sponge. Any diet high in sodium and carbs will cause you to be more bloated than a low/zero carb diet with minimal sodium would.

Dropping your carbohydrate intake to zero will cause your body to shed off several pounds of water in just a few days and you will already notice a visible difference in leanness after that.

Carbohydrates also cause blood sugar to spike, which spikes your insulin levels. Spiked insulin levels cause your body to essentially put a complete halt on fat burning while your insulin levels are elevated.

To prevent insulin spikes during your day you need to eat a low amount of carbs (or none at all). The less time your insulin is elevated, the better your fat burning results will be.

To stave off muscle catabolism that will occur in a calorie deficit you need to keep your protein intake high. 1.5 – 2 grams of protein per pound of body weight, per day, is ideal for this diet.

What exactly should you eat? Friend the low/no carb diet could take an entire article to cover properly. In fact, it did take another article and here it is: The Zero Carbohydrate Diet (for Insane Fat Loss)

The entire dieting plan is laid out in that article. Read through that article like a bible and follow the exact diet laid out in that article. When you get comfortable with the diet you can start to switch out foods and ingredients to your liking.

Now let’s talk about the next most important step in getting lean…

#3 – For a lean face, drink more water

If you want to look like a granite statue then drinking enough water is crucial. Water is free unless you drink evian like I do so there’s no excuse to not drink enough of it.

Why should you drink more water?

When you don’t drink enough water, your body will naturally start retaining water and bloating itself to prevent dehydration. To offset this, you need to increase the amount of water you drink.

When your water intake is increased to a gallon or more per day, you will notice your body is peeing a lot more than usual (obviously).

Your body isn’t just expelling the water you’re drinking, it is also expelling the subcutaneous water it is retaining. 

When your body recognizes that you are giving it a lot of water, it no longer has to retain water to maintain hydration.

When you drink enough water, your body will freely pee-pee out all of that water retention and bloat you were holding, making you look even leaner.

Yes, you can pee-pee the bloat away… to a point. At that point you will want to put your fat loss into overdrive by using the 2 supplements….

The #1 Supplement You Need For A Chiseled Jawline

For a lean face there is one supplement you need to use while dieting and there is one supplement you may want to use at the end of your diet.

While dieting you definitely want to use a fat burner. You never want to waste precious time during a diet by not burning as much fat as you can.

The only people who need to diet “naturally” are obese people because they will be able to lose an enormous amount of fat naturally. 

Athletic people who spend time in the gym have a harder time losing fat and need to really hit the fat-burning hard. There is no reason to suffer through a diet UNLESS you get the results you are after and, as you will learn, no one gets the results they want without using a fat burner. 

A fat burner burns extra fat by improves your body’s nutrient partitioning abilities which is a fancy way of saying it burns extra fat. 

A fat burner definitely burns extra fat, but there is one more important reason to use a fat burner which you can read about in an article coming to B&D; very, very soon.

What fat burner should you use? There are many illegal fat burners that work very well and many legal fat burners that don’t work at all. Here’s the one that is both legal and effective…

The Holy Grail Of Legal Fat Burners And The #1 Supplement For Facial Aesthetics Is…

Red Burner: The Best Legal And Effective Fat Burner On The Market

RED BURNER

RED BURNER is a natural fat burner that actually works by enhancing fat oxidation during exercise. Below you can read the fancy reasons why Red Burner burns more fat and gives you extra energy…

Red Burner works by improves your body’s nutrient partitioning abilities, increases how many calories your body burns, and greatly enhances your energy levels (which will give you better workouts in the gym).

• The caffeine in Red-Burner specifically stimulates the nervous system and increases epinephrine levels in the body which signals the body to break down fat.
• The green tea and T2 increase resting energy expenditure (or the amount of calories you burn at rest) for several hours post ingestion.
• With Red Burner you can shed a huge amount of unwanted fat and greatly improve your body composition.

How to take Red Burner: I like to take 2 in the morning with my coffee and 1-2 in the afternoon. Don’t take more than 4 in one day.

Optional Supplement to make your face look lean, skinny and defined

Friends, at the end of your dieting phase I would also recommend you use Dandelion Root. Dandelion Root is a natural diuretic that will pull all the extra water from your face, making you look much leaner and more defined. Dandelion root gives you temporary results only, but the resutls can be very good.

Follow the directions on the bottle of Dandelion Root and remember these 2 rules:

1. Do not take too much dandelion root
2. Be sure to drink PLENTY of water when you use Dandelion Root

If you do not drink enough water and if you take too much dandelion root you can become severely dehydrated. So be safe and drink enough water and use only the recommended amount of Dandelion Root. 

What’s the best dandelion root brand? Nature’s Way makes a good Dandelion Root. I’ve used it before and it works very, very well. I would recommend you take 3 caps per day only. If 3 isn’t enough, then you could increase to 4-5 caps per day. Be sure to drink enough water!

How To Get A Chiseled Jawline Recap

Chiseled Jawline vs Fat, Puffy, Bloated Face

#1) To get a lean face (and lean body) you have to diet

#2) Follow the Low/No Carb Diet outlined here: The Zero Carbohydrate Diet (for Insane Fat Loss)

#3) Drink at least one gallon of water per day

#4) Take Red Burner while dieting to burn extra fat and maintain energy levels while you’re in a calorie deficit

#5) OPTIONAL: Use Dandelion Root at the end of your diet to make your face as dry, defined and handsome as possible.

And that’s it friends, your 5 steps for a lean, attractive face and chiseled jawline.

You may have been a handsome stud this whole time and didn’t even know it.

Now you know.

Until next time.

Your man,
-Victor Pride

What do Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla, and William Shakespeare have in common?

They are all great geniuses of the world. People admire them, emulate them, and even worship them.

They produced such tremendous work that they changed the world for centuries. They were men who had incredible vitality and life-force.

Because they had such incredible life-force and vitality, they were prolific geniuses of their field. Newton of physics. Shakespeare of literature. Tesla of invention.

These great men possessed such tremendous energy and endurance that the entire world admires them even hundreds of years after their deaths.

But how did they become so great? Was it their genetics or is there another reason why these men were able to create such prolific works of genius?

How about you? Are you full of vitality and creative energy?

Probably not. But I’ll bet you are curious why you never seem to have the mental energy to create all the great work you envision.

If you are lacking in creative energy, vitality, and radiant life force it is because of one reason, a reason which I have discovered after nearly wasting my entire life.

I have discovered the source of the greatest energy and creativity this world has ever known.

This great energy is natural and abundant. It does not come in a pill, a cup, or a shot. You cannot buy it at a spa, a resort, or a doctor’s office.

It is entirely free and there is actually nothing you must do to obtain this tremendous energy. It is entirely natural in you in abundance.

The great energy and power of the ancient masters is in your own hands and I will show you how to harness this incredible energy to use for yourself.

Before I give you the terrific cure for malaise, laziness, and stupidity I must first give you the terrible secret of the destroyer of man.

The #1 health destroyer of men is called…

Masturbation.

Masturbation is the thief that robs your vitality, creativity, and life energy.

That is the bad news but there is good news.

This is the good news…

When you quit masturbating you will abundantly increase your health, wealth, and energy.

You will go from low energy to high energy. From weak to strong. From stupid to intelligent. From degenerate to upright. From sickly to vibrant.

Why stop masturbating?

I can tell you 10,000 reasons to stop masturbating and they will all be powerful.

But I want to first show you one reason which highlights why you really must quit the bad habit of masturbation.

This reason may sound silly, but new information always sounds silly.

After you hear this reason and read the accompanying information, you will understand how important it is to never masturbate, ever again.

You will understand that this reason has nothing to do with religion or morals and everything to do with science.

You will understand that this reason is the reason you are not all you could and should be. You will understand why Tesla, Shakespeare and Newton all had tremendous vital and creative energy. You will understand fully why you must never masturbate.

Here is this reason…

SEMEN IS LIFE-ENERGY.

Every time you expel semen your life-force says “bye bye.”

When you waste your semen you are literally wasting your life-force.

The more semen you spill, the more of your most precious and vital bodily fluid you spill.

Let me ask you, how is a child created? Through the semen of the father and the egg of the mother. The semen literally creates a new life in this world.

The semen is so vital, so precious, so intricate that it creates a new life.

Yet so many men are bamboozled by the modern industries of the world and they waste this precious bodily fluid right down the toilet, as if it were a waste product!

So what’s the problem?

The problem is that this vital force takes tremendous energy to produce. Each time this force is expelled you are expelling your own vital energy.

Energy does not come from nowhere. When a child is created, it is created through the vital energy of the mother and the father.

Each drop of semen contains your vital energy because it is meant to create a new life. Remember, energy cannot come from nothing. The energy of the child was once the energy of the mother and father.

It is this energy that you must use if you wish to increase your health and increase your creative energy.

Semen is the literal creative energy in man. Without it, there is no great creator and no great creation.

This is why when a man creates his great work it is called his seminal work.

Without retention of your semen you will create no great work and live no great life.

Not only will you have no creative energy, but if you waste your semen you will not have radiant health.

Grandma and grandpa were right when they told you all of those tall tales about how bad masturbation is. As bad as grandma and grandpa said it is, it is worse.

Why is it worse?

Because in our technologically hip world masturbation is pervasive and these so-called doctors and mental health professionals will actually tell you it is healthy.

It isn’t! But not for the reasons you think…

Masturbation is not a sin against God or an act of immorality. No, it is worse. It is an act of pure self-abuse that we actually believe is pleasure.

Masturbation is but a moment of pleasure that causes a lifetime of pure pain. Masturbating causes you to live in hell on earth, but you never know the reason why.

You think you are low energy, weak, and stupid because it’s this disease or that syndrome or this food or that food.

Nope.

The real reason you are a sick weakling is because you drain your literal life force. Each act of masturbation kills you slowly (and terribly).

I am not here to scare you about damnation and hellfire.

You aren’t going to masturbate and then go to hell when you die.

Masturbaters, or “wankers”, are already living in hell. Depravity is the abyss.

I’d like to show you a way out of the darkness and into the light.

Rather than focus on the negative effects of masturbation (which are legion) I’d like to show you the great person you can be when you slay the dragon and learn to let your life-force build.

The secret of male success is to quit the masturbation habit forever. There are many incredible things that happen to your body and mind when you do quit.

Your self-esteem and self-confidence will rise dramatically. When you masturbate your self-esteem vanishes. It is not because you are doing a shameful act, it is because the act is draining your sense of self. Actually, it is draining your real self.

The semen is the life, literally. The semen creates a brand new life out of you. Your sons and daughters are you, they come from your semen. It takes a lot of yourself to make another life and when you drain this, you drain your sense of self. You must left yourself build by never letting your semen go to waste.

Here is a terrific list of the things that will happen when you give up masturbation.

Courage/Fearlessness – Fear reduces a lot. It’ll become hard for you to be scared, even of dangerous things. In a dangerous situation, you’ll be aware of the risk but you will also be able to deal with it carefully instead of panicking and worsening the situation. You will start to feel what real masculinity is like.

Better Eyes – Eyesight improves considerably with the practice. And it’s not just the sight that improves but also the endurance of the eyes. You can then spend hours in front of your computer without your vision getting fuzzy and/or your eyes getting tired. In ancient times they used to say that “masturbation causes blindness”. It’s an exaggeration but there is a connection between the two. The floaters around the eyes also reduce or disappear completely.

Blissfulness/Contentment – You will start to feel bliss, which will cause dispassion and distaste for sensual pleasures. Sometimes the bliss is so great that you lose interest in everything around you. To increase this bliss it’s best to practice self-inquiry (hold the I thought-feeling) as taught by Ramana Maharshi. The bliss is similar to the pleasure you get from sexual activity but more refined (subtler). It’s better because it’s continuous, and has an invigorating effect on the body.

Better Memory – You will find it easier to remember things and you will also remember memories which you had long forgotten. Never mind old memories, you will also start to remember dreams which you had a long time ago. The mind will become much sharper.

Better Immunity – The energy reserves of your body are much higher now so the body will find it easier to deal with illnesses.  It may happen that illnesses actually increase in the beginning with the practice, probably because of the body healing itself from ailments, but all will be better in time.

Lack of worry – Your worries reduce greatly. You will actually start to find it difficult to worry because you feel perfect or close to perfect. This will give you a sense of security enabling you to deal with difficult situations without worrying.

Intuition/Spontaneous Understanding – The mind becomes incredibly sharp and able to grasp things easily. You’ll start to understand things intuitively without thinking about them. The answers will come to you naturally on their own.

Suppleness – The body will become more supple and flexible. Notice how flexible young children are? They haven’t wasted their vital force as much as adults and so their bodies are strong and supple.

Calmness – An indescribable inner calm develops. You will develop the virtue of patience quite naturally.

Confidence  – You’ll develop vigor and confidence. Shyness leaves you and you feel comfortable with yourself. The increased confidence can easily make one conceited so be careful.

Lack of Anger/Irritability – The greater the bliss, the greater the inner peace. The blissful feeling makes it nearly impossible to get angry. Suddenly everything’s fine. Nothing bothers you anymore.

Friend, I can go on and on about the benefits of giving up masturbation forever.

Your mood will improve, your anxiety will improve, you will eliminate mental problems like excessive worry (you will stop being a nervous wreck), you will be able to control emotions, your skin complexion will improve, you will become more attractive, your body will become leaner, you will develop good self-discipline, you will be able to overcome any addictions, your depression will disappear, your masculinity, virility and vitality will return, you will develop strong moral character, you will be complete instead of being lost, you will kill Mr. Hyde and always be Dr. Jekyll (the good guy), you will become radiant, you will develop a strong aura, you will develop animal magnetism, you will become happy, healthy, and free like a child, you will become calmer and more patient, you will become cleaner and more organized, your willpower will increase, and you will possess the ability to make more money.

If that is not enough for you, know that killing the bad habit of masturbation is one of the core tenets of all religions the world has ever known.

Here are is a quote from the Hindu religious text Bhagavad Gita which clearly states that this vital energy semen should not be wasted (Veerya = semen and Prana = life-force):

“My dear brothers! The vital energy, the Veerya that supports your life, which is the Prana of Pranas, which shines in your sparkling eyes, which beams in your shining cheeks, is a great treasure for you. Remember this point well. Veerya is the quintessence of blood. One drop of semen is manufactured out of forty drops of blood. Mark here how valuable this fluid is!”

The secret to male success is to quit the masturbation habit!

Friend I never accomplished anything in life until I gave up this nasty habit. I was a retarded moron who failed english class twice. I became a respected, influential, and rich writer only after I gave up the “dark arts” of masturbation and sex obsession/compulsion. It was impossible for me to ever accomplish anything in this life until I did.

The great secret of sexual transmutation is to never waste your great energy unless it is to create a new life. If you are not going to create a new life, your great energy should be used to create great works of art, literature, and business.

You don’t have to take my word for it. You can take the word of many accomplished men. Below are quotes from Sri Swami Sivananda that show you the great importance of retaining your energy.

Sexual pleasure is an illusion. It is no real happiness at all. It is mere nerve tickling. All worldly pleasures appear as nectar in the beginning. They become poison in the end.

Eminent doctors of the West say that various kinds of diseases arise from the loss of semen, particularly in young age. There appear boils on the body, acne or eruptions on the face, blue lines around the eyes, absence of beard, sunken eyes, pale face with anaemia, loss of memory, loss of eye-sight, shortsightedness, discharge of semen along with urine, enlargement of the testes, pain in the testes, debility, drowsiness, laziness, gloominess, palpitation of the heart, dyspnoea or difficulty in breathing, phthisis, pain in the back, loins, head and joints, weak kidneys, passing urine in sleep, fickle-mindedness, lack of thinking power, bad dreams, wet dreams and restlessness of mind.

Mark carefully the evil after-effects that follow the loss of seminal energy! Persons are physically, mentally and morally debilitated by wasting the seminal power on so many occasions for nothing. The body and the mind refuse to work energetically.

There is physical and mental lethargy. You experience much exhaustion and weakness. You will have to take recourse to drinking milk, to eating fruits and aphrodisiac confections, to make good the loss of energy.

Remember that these things can never, never repair the loss completely. Once lost is lost for ever. You will have to drag on a dreary, cheerless existence. Bodily and mental strength gets diminished day by day.

Those who have lost much of their Veerya [semen] become very irritable. Little things upset their minds. Those who have not observed the vow of celibacy become the slaves of anger, jealousy, laziness and fear.

If you have not got your senses under control, you venture to do foolish acts which even children will not dare to do.

He who has wasted the vital energy becomes easily irritable, loses his balance of mind and gets into a state of explosive fury for trifling things. When a man becomes furious, he behaves improperly.

He does not know what he is exactly doing as he loses his power of reasoning and discrimination. He will do anything he likes. He will insult even his parents, Guru [teacher] and respectable persons.

Excessive sexual intercourse drains the energy enormously. Young men do not realize the value of the vital fluid. They waste this dynamic energy by immoderate copulation. Their nerves are tickled much. They become intoxicated. What a serious blunder they commit!

It is a crime that demands capital punishment. They are slayers of Atman [spirit or soul]. When this energy is once wasted, it can never be recouped by any other means. It is the most powerful energy in the world. One sexual act shatters completely the brain and the nervous system.

The energy that is wasted during one sexual intercourse is tantamount to the energy that is spent in physical labour for ten days or the energy that is utilized in mental work for three days. Mark how precious is the vital fluid, semen! Do not waste this energy.

Preserve it with great care. You will have wonderful vitality. When Veerya is not used, it is all transmuted into Ojas Sakti or spiritual energy and stored up in the brain. Western doctors know little of this salient point.

Most of your ailments are due to excessive seminal wastage.

A good lot of energy is wasted during copulation. Bad memory, premature old age, impotence, various sorts of eye diseases and various nervous diseases are attributable to the heavy loss of this vital fluid.

It is greatly shocking indeed to see many of our youth walking with tottering steps, with pale, bloodless faces owing to loss of this vital fluid, instead of jumping hither and thither with agile, nimble steps with vigour and vitality like the squirrel.

Some people are so passionate and weak that even the thought or sight or touch of a woman causes discharge of semen. Pitiable is their lot!

Why do you lose the energy that is gained in many weeks and months for the sake of the little, momentary sensual pleasure?

Falling of semen brings death; preservation of semen gives life. Semen is the real vitality in men. It is the hidden treasure in man.

Eminent European medical men also support the statement of the Yogins of India. Dr. Nicole says: “It is a medical and physiological fact that the best blood in the body goes to form the elements of reproduction in both the sexes.

In a pure and orderly life, this matter is reabsorbed. It goes back into circulation ready to form the finest brain, nerve and muscular tissues. This vital fluid of man carried back and diffused through his system makes him manly, strong, brave and heroic.

If wasted, it leaves him effeminate, weak and physically debilitated and prone to sexual irritation and disordered function, a wretched nervous system, epilepsy, and various other diseases and death.

All waste of spermatic secretions, whether voluntary or involuntary, is a direct waste of the life force. It is almost universally conceded that the choicest element of the blood enters into the composition of the spermatic secretion. The suspension of the use of the generative organs is attended with a notable increase of bodily and mental and spiritual vigor.”

How to Stop Masturbating

The great lie about masturbation is that it is “hard to quit” and lifelong. This is so wrong! When you understand the great power you will obtain when you quit, and when you understand the great health problems you give yourself when you don’t quit, it becomes INCREDIBLY EASY TO QUIT!

First thing you need to understand is this: Masturbation is not a biological need, it is a mental addiction. You become addicted to this death-spasm like people become addicted to heroin. It’s great when you first shoot up heroin, then it is a lifetime of hell. Masturbation works the same way.

Not to mention that many say that semen is made up of cerebrospinal fluid, when this fluid is gone your body and bones start to hurt. Masturbation is a big reason why so many have unexplained lower back pain and joint pain.

Understand that it does you no good and it causes all of your problems. Yes, self abuse causes most of your mental and physical problems and sicknesses. Doctors won’t admit it but doctors don’t make any money when you are well. Nearly all problems are directly traced to masturbation. It is the #1 cause of illness in this world.

“But I need to release!” You don’t actually. It’s the very last thing you need to do. It is an addiction saying you need to release, it is not reality. In reality, the release you crave is literally killing you. Both your spirit and your body.

“But I will be so unhappy without it.” Actually you are unhappy with it but you are unwilling to see it. You will be enormously happier without it. That’s why the people who masturbate are called walkers and the people who don’t are called saints.

“But it feels good so there can be no problems with it.” Eating junk food also feels good, so there can be no problems down the line right? Wrong. We all know own what happens when you eat food that is too sweet and rich. Fatness, sickness and premature death. It feels good for a moment and causes pain for a lifetime. You get immediate please for long term pain, just like when you eat junk food. And just like when you eat junk food, masturbation slowly kills your mind and your body.

We could all act like a bunch of retarded deviants and pretend that masturbating is healthy and normal for you. Or we could confront this obvious problem like men. Masturbation is killing you and if you argue this fact your what the guys in England call a “wanker”. A wanker is a loser, a masturbating simpleton. If that is you, do something about it.

Oh, and to answer my original question. What do Tesla, Shakespeare, and Newton have in common? They never masturbated in their lives. They were “celibate” meaning they did not spill their precious energy.

“I believe it is right to live celibate.” -William Shakespeare

These great men of history saved their precious energy and transmuted it to their great work.

You can do the same if you so choose.

Try this for 30 days and you will see with your own eyes how much better of a man you become.

Until next time.

Your man,

-Victor Pride

• For more on giving up the nasty habit, check out NoFap.com. There you will find many hundreds and thousands of success stories who all tell you the same exact thing: Life is better when you do not masturbate.
• For more extensive research, research this word: Brahmacharya

When you turn 18 you are a free man. You can kick off the shackles and go about your life as you wish.

But the plan that is likely laid out for you is a plan destined to fail, so you’ve got to make the right choices to get a jumpstart on a life of health, wealth and happiness.

Regrets are pointless, but if for some reason I was put into a time machine and found myself 18 years old again this is what I’d be glad to know.

Here are 18 things every 18 year old should know…

1) Don’t get married

She isn’t your soulmate, she isn’t “the one”, it isn’t true love. That’s my 100%, money back guarantee to you. Assuming you are a westerner, especially an American, getting married young will be the biggest mistake of your life. Just say no. As a young man you can be free to date around and play the field. Tying yourself to one woman with a Government enforced noose will do two things: turn you into a shell of a man and significantly reduce your income after she gets bored, divorces you so she can find herself, and papa Government helps her finance it with your money. Wait until later in life and pick the right wife before you sign your life away.

2) Do not make women your priority

Priority numero uno should be making money and building a life for yourself. There are 3+ billion women in the world and they are all basically the same. Your soul-mate Kimberly isn’t one in a million, at best she is about one in a hundred. She can be replaced and it’s not true love that you feel for her it is infatuation. If she wanted you then you would not want her so much but because she does not want you you want her. Make sense? No? Doesn’t matter. We want what we don’t have or what we can’t have, when we have it we don’t want it. You don’t need a psychology textbook to learn that, just a little Bold and Determined 101.

3) College doesn’t guarantee money

It is time to get women out of the schooling of boys. It is way past time. Women in our feminized classrooms are consigning generations of our sons to years of misery and diminished futures. The evidence is everywhere. Few dare notice it. –Fred Reed

College is a big joke. I said it, you read it. My freshman year of college I had a female English teacher who had the build of a linebacker and, rather than teaching us English, taught us feminism. Every day she would talk about feminism ad nauseam. If you’re thinking “wow, what a waste of time” you are right.

I wasted a great deal of time in college, aimlessly drifting through because that’s what you’re supposed to do. The cold, hard reality is that you aren’t guaranteed a job or a career and your college degree is going to be the most expensive piece of paper you ever purchase. A college degree in this day and age usually guarantees one thing: debt.

Making money and living well is completely and 100% up to you, not your piece of paper. I never learned anything in college and with good reason: colleges are filled to the brim with stupid people (see exhibit A and exhibit B). It’s not a coincidence that recent college grads look like glassy eyed morons as they serve your coffee.

Smart people simply don’t belong in college and unless you are going to school to become a physician or to get a degree in a highly technical STEM field college is almost completely unnecessary. Every successful entrepreneur I know says the same thing: “I never use my college degree for anything“. If I found myself at 18 years old, knowing what I know now, I would absolutely 100% not go to college.

4) You can make money on the internet

Getting a degree in some phony baloney major like communications is great for wasting time pretending to be successful but there is an easier, better, freer and more profitable way to make money. Make money through the power of the internet. Look around you, what is one thing you see every person doing? They are all playing around on the internet on their laptops, smart phones and tablets. Everyone is online, you are online right now reading this, I am online writing this. The difference is that I am making money online and most of you are playing online. Kill two birds with one stone, play and make money.

If I were 18 years old right now this is exactly what I would do: I would skip college, I would read the Fastlane Forum voraciously, I would save up two thousand dollars and I would move to either Chiang Mai, Thailand or Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Those two places are filled to the brim with young, white foreign entrepreneurs who spend their time networking, building businesses and partying and they live on about $500 per month while doing it. I don’t even personally like those cities but it’s undeniable that they are the hub cities for young expat entrepreneurs. Go where the talent is.

5) World travel is not just a fantasy

13 years ago I watched a movie called The Beach. I was blown away. Not by the story, or the acting, but by the photography. The film takes place on an island in Thailand and when I saw the movie it looked to me like paradise. I never forgot that lagoon.

Too bad I could never visit a place like that, I thought.

You see, when I was a young man I was unaware of the possibilities. I thought it was college, job, two years into the job I could have a one or two week vacation, then I would retire. I never thought I could visit far away countries.

It was not until I read the Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris that I even knew it was possible to not just visit other countries but you could actually live in other countries and it would be cheaper than living in America.

Right then and there I made my plans and I visited that island in Thailand that I saw in the movie. Nowadays I even live in Thailand and I save a ton of money doing so. It’s not impossible, frankly it’s quite easy.

6) Gym time is critical while you’re young

You must build your body and your strength, a physically weak man is a failure and the body of the average man is disgraceful. As a young man you should have a few things going for you. Those things are high testosterone, high natural growth hormone and high IGF-1 levels. Take advantage of those now because when you’re older those levels diminish. Now is the time to get in the gym and build your body naturally to it’s peak. A body built when you are young will stay with you for a lifetime.

Do not take steroids as a young man, your HPTA levels are still developing. Using steroids while under 22 years of age can and will result in an underdeveloped HPTA which will result in permanent lack of HPTA maturity meaning you will have permanently low natural testosterone levels. Yikes!

7) Your family is full of BS

Unless your dad is a self-made millionaire your family doesn’t know what they are talking about when it comes to planning your financial future. They’ll tell you college degree, good job, marriage, retire rich. All they’re missing is a little thing called evidence. That’s a get-rich-slow scheme and it works as well as get-rich-quick schemes. That is to say, it doesn’t work.

8) Work ethic is critical to develop early

The longer you wait the lazier you get. Now is the time to get to work building your future empire. Laziness is a learned trait and ass-kicking is also a learned trait. Get to ass-kicking instead of sittin’ around on your ass. 30 Days of Discipline will give you a boot to the ass to fuel that fire.

See also Why Every Young Man Needs 30 Days of Discipline: 30 Days of Discipline Review

9) Everything is not just A or B, there is a C solution

The world is not just black and white, christian or atheist, republican or democrat, liberal or conservative. Stand on the outside and look in to make the best decisions. As soon as you say “I’m such and such” you stop thinking about things. If you say “I’m a liberal” you’ll follow liberal dogma, if you say “I’m a republican” you’ll follow republican dogma. There is a 3rd option, a 4th option, a 5th option etc. but it requires you to put on your thinking cap and not just accept your group’s POV without thought. As an outsider you will be able to see things clearly in a way that group-followers never will.

10) You have a future

Never listen to people that say “This is the best time of your life. It’s all downhill from here“. Your life is as good as you make it. Work to build yourself a future and you will have a nice one. I’ll tell you my life is phenomenally better at 30+ than it was at 18 but I never sat around pining for the old days, I was always working to make something of myself. Forget about the retirement scam, work on your own future, build yourself. Your future is yours to make, but your future will come whether you build a good one or a poor one.

11) Pay attention to money

Never pay attention to the “money is the root of all evil” talk. The people who say this are morons. Money is the #1 necessity of life. Forget about greed, money is need. Make it so you can do as you wish and have the highest amount of freedom possible. Keep multiple bank accounts with balances in each and always keep some cash on hand. Never, ever keep all your financial eggs in one basket. I learned this lesson the hard way when my American bank closed my account for no reason (read about it here), leaving me low on funds. Now I keep 10+ bank accounts in several countries.

12) Find older, accomplished men and pick their brains

If you can find one, a mentor is a great asset. In the old days these were known as ‘fathers’ but in the days of feminazism these guys aren’t around so much. Thankfully we have the internet and can make contact with people from all over the world.

13) Feminism is a sick joke

Young man, you’ve been sold a bill of goods with the whole feminism thing. Let me explain in perfect English the reality: Western women were never discriminated against, there is no such thing as ‘rape culture’, women aren’t paid less for the same work, feminism is not about equality.

Feminism is about women trying to be men without any responsibility. Feminism has left you with a pool of women who are truly insane. Solution? Kick dirt in the face of feminism.

14) If you need a job get a sales job or a manual labor job

If you need a job, if your entrepreneurial gig isn’t paying the bills, then sales or manual labor are great. Working in offices is for women and girly-men. A sales job will teach you how to make money and a manual labor job will build your body while you get paid. In fact, there are quite a few manual labor jobs that will pay you big, big bucks. You’ll have to do some travel and work some long hours but you can make 100k+ per year working on offshore oil rigs. A young man with a strong back could work 6 months out of the year doing manual labor and spend 6 months free, traveling, working on an entrepreneurial gig, or doing whatever you want.

15) Don’t buy anything on credit

Debt is slavery. Stay out of debt at all costs. If you don’t have the cash don’t buy the item. Pay everything upfront, no payment plan no credit. If you use credit cards to build up your credit always pay them off 100% at the end of the month. Think of credit cards as delayed payment debit cards.

16) Don’t bother choosing a career

I’m not an artist, I’m a hustler. As a hustler I’ve done many things. You should really believe it when I tell you that, ’cause I’m not being sarcastic. I’m a total hustler. What that means is I’ve hustled to make a buck and I’ve hustled to change the world and I’ve hustled to take revenge – but it’s always hustling. I’ve never had a career or a single goal. I’ve never been formally educated. To get things together, to make a living, I constantly have to hustle. – Vincent Gallo

Choosing a career is pointless and choosing your life path at 18 years old is just silly. You don’t even need a career, you can do many, many, many things throughout your life.

17) Nobody believes in you

It’s true, no one believes you can succeed outside of the college, job, marriage paradigm. Big deal. Frankly, they are right to not believe in you because until you have walked the walk you are just a daydreamer. Until you have accomplished what you have set out to accomplish there is absolutely no reason for anyone to believe in you. All you need to do is realize that no one believes in you and don’t seek approval. Approval is for dogs, men take what they want and don’t ask permission.

18) Be proud of who you are

If you’re a young white man then you have just come from a schooling system where scumbags have tried to make you feel bad about being a white male. I remember vividly in my high school that all problems were the fault of white men. Young man, you can be happy to know that that is all baloney and you have zero reason to feel bad about being white. White people are the least racist, least sexist people on the face of the earth and I can assure you that is a fact. The nice guy always has to eat shit and when it comes to race, the white guy is the nice guy. Never apologize for who you are or for what color you are. You aren’t a dog so don’t tuck your tail between your legs.

BONUS: What to do if you’re younger than 18

I get a lot of messages from young men under the age of 18 asking what they can do. My answer is this: Endure. When you’re 18 you’re free and you can do as you please. Until then you’ve got to do what mommy and daddy say. 18 will come before you know it, that’s a guarantee. Until then just endure. Try and build yourself a business on the internet, try and build your body by going to the gym or exercising at home and count down the minutes to freedom. That’s exactly what I did as a young man. Counted down the minutes, hours and days until I was free. It seemed like forever at the time, now it feels like it was the snap of a finger.

Good luck, and have a nice day.

Your man,

-Victor Pride