gain muscle eating junk food



[music] hey, m'iqus. we have salad stuff, right? okay. i'm gonna have salad withmy next meal, i think. the hardest part about metraining for a competition and trying to be like the jay cutlerpeople know as a bodybuilder, not as, like, just a fitnessguy, as a competitive bodybuilder, is the amountof calories i need to eat.

the consumption of food,'cause it's consistent. and i still can't get enough. like, i'm in a deficitnow on a daily basis, trying to eat enough food. i went to bed at 280 lastnight and i woke up at 271. but that's how much i lose. i mean, on the stairsi'll lose 7 pounds. seven pounds everymorning on the stairs, seven pounds of water.

the way i balance everything iswhat i wake up to and what i go to bed at and what--when i getto a point where i wake up at the same weight i go to bed at,that's when i know my body's in a good holding pattern. right now, it's out of control. he has a pretty bigbreakfast, actually. but today and for the last fewweeks, he's been drinking his egg whites so two cups ofegg whites with one scoop of protein.

then he has three whole eggs,three packets of grits, two pieces of ezekieltoast and coffee. that will probablyend soon though. no one understands how strictit is, being on a meal time schedule where you canonly eat 2-1/2, 3 hours. the average person shouldeat at least five meals. i think, you know, if you'reeating every 3 hours, you have to be able to eat consistently. i can't fall asleep until heeats his meal 'cause then he'll

forget about it and he'll wakeup, like, you know, 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning and theneat it but that's too late so i got to stay up andmake sure he eats it. and it's not easy wakinghim up if he falls asleep. like when i've, what, 6, 7times before i get up to eat at--i get up and ate about 3'cause i ate at 12 and then i ate 3--every 3 hours. do you want-- two toast.

yeah, i got that. do you want the cottage cheese? yeah, i do. i want the protein in there. are you jumping in the pool? yeah. there's a towelout there, right? oh, man. when i worked construction inmy family business, i was forced

to eat very quickly so now iactually take my time and enjoy my food a lot more'cause i'm not rushed. but i would only eat, like,three major meals a day. i was in the pitfalls ofwhat everyone else did. but that's--you know, and noteat enough sufficient amount of calories on a continuous basisso, for me, the amount of calories i can eat is just,it's off the text book. it's hard because you follow,like, okay, i have to eat on a diet and you can't eat, youknow, everyone cuts processed

foods and they eat, you know, nofruit and they can't eat certain things but with me, if icut that stuff i shrink. i can't eat oatmeal and eggwhites and fish and, you know, plain potatoes and thatkind of--i can't do it. i need to have, like, simple,a lot of simple stuff in there like the grits and, like, sixsugars after i train and some fruits in thereand something fast. if i eat high carbohydrates thatare fibrous, like, high fiber, it burns.

it doesn't do anything for me. it doesn't hit mybody hard enough. ron, what's up? yeah, and then on both the eastand west side you have, you know, obviously, teriyaki boy,which has the jay cutler bowl. it's famous for that. i'm always a big fan of n9nesteakhouse at the palms. stk is also great atthe cosmopolitan, i go there quite often.

what's the name of thatpizza place next to kyzen? joe's? joe's pizza? joe's pizza. of course, yeah. it's the best, in-n-out burger. i just came off thein-n-out burgers last week. no more in-n-outs for 12 weeks. most bodybuilderslove to eat.

they crave, "oh, i've got toeat this, got to eat that." i have zero cravings, i havezero anticipation for any meal that i eat. i don't look forwardto eat anything. if you ask me whatmy favorite food is, i don't have a favorite food. i don't like to eat anything. there's nothingspecific that i like. i don't look forwardto any meal at all.

i've been eating. today i eat heavy. we do have to go. [bleep] that, eat now. well, dude it's hard gettingback to eating anyway, you know? right. i mean, i didn't want to comeback to this shit, you know? that was the worst part of myjob, dude, eating, you know? i mean, trying to run on nogasoline when you don't eat,

you know? how are you gonna haveproductive workouts? i try to tell people, like,you've got to put as much effort in as a diet as you dointo your weight training. everyone goes to the gym, youknow, 4 or 5 days a week, that's into it. but they don't eat sufficiently,enough to fuel that. i wish, you know, you could takea pill and be able to just avoid cooking or anything like that.

cooking and eating is 5 or 6hours of my day, no question. you know, and you see that,living my life, if you follow me for a day or 2 or 3, you'llsee that a lot of my day is of meals. are you on your 16time a day meal plan? thirty-seven, eighteenand a quarter, fifty-four. we work harder tomake his clothes. i got to chargehim a little extra. number one, you've gotto focus on your food.

that's no question. so, you know, you have to makesure you're getting, you know, your protein and yourcarbohydrates, your fats, you know, your good fats, whatever,but, i mean, for products alone, i mean, most people are gonnabuy a protein powder, you know, a multivitamin. they might, you know, then theymight launch into pre-workouts and, you know,branched chain aminos. and then, of course, the numberone fat burner, if you're trying

to lean out. but, you know, i don't suggestusing a fat burner year round. pre-workouts and protein, yeah,of course, you know, you can use those year round. you know, you're talking threeor four products, i mean, it's necessity. it's something that, i mean,i think it's an advantage, if you want to do thingsright, you've got to have the advantage, right?

so you have to try to find waysto budget and be able to, you know, fit thatextra stuff in there. there's nothing betterthan chicken on the grill. ten ounces of chicken. you know, i grew up on a farmso, i mean, i knew food values kind of early. we were never allowedto eat very poorly. and i was in massachusetts sothe meat was--that i was getting was very good quality.

i mean, i attribute a lot ofthat to what my success was because i was buying, like,you know, cows and, like, chicken breasts from,like, a real farm. i eat, you know, 100 grandworth of food probably between eating out and eating on a diet. i mean, i'm in vegas, i goout--i eat out a lot too, you know, when i'm not training. so i mean, that might not justbe for myself but just saying in general on food, it's mybiggest expense probably.

you know, i kindof do my thing. i like to stay athome and prep my food. i like to weigh everything,like, i weigh--this is 10 ounces of meat, 12 ounces of potato, imean, obviously now is a crucial time 'cause i'm in training soi take it much more serious. when i train, i don't like toeat out that much unless it's catered to whati--whatever my diet is. this is filet steak, right? i can tell the differencehow it cooks.

i wonder if that otherstuff is filet or not? it looks more likeflank steak, huh? just water's good, i think. thanks. i hope it hasn'tgrown in now. my god. bad? you know, i never had hair on myback until i started shaving, you know that?

ever. really? that was a zit. i went over the zit. you have a zit back there? yeah, huge. everyone has zits. i've never hada zit, dude, ever. what are you talking about?

i used to have badzits too, you know? when i eat potato chips,i got zits, you know that? did you tell them about-- i tried some potato chips'cause they were local where i lived and i remember-- did you tell them about whatyou used to eat at your mom's house when you would go visit? yeah, i used to get zits,dude, when i was, like, 12. what did you eat?

tried some potato chips. they were very greasy. tell him what you would eat. tell him what you would ask yourmom to make you every time you went to her house. chips and dip. chips and what kind of dip? a whole bag. sour cream and onion.

i used to eat 'em forbreakfast, sour cream-- sour cream? well, there you go. ask mo' about the pizzashe ate the other night. did you have pizza? good for you. see? someone has to have it. listen, it's tough, man,because you--it's like, at some

point, like, you want to goeat junk food and you think to yourself, like, whatwould jay say, kind of. would he be like-- he would say, "do youreally need to eat that?" honestly, if i'm on a diet,though, i'm, like, thankful that someone can go and eatsome junk food, you know? no, of course,i'm not saying-- listen, man, i'm not,you know, i'm not a saint. i've eaten to lot--plenty of junk food.

i mean, there's no question, youknow, i've been in cheesecake and desserts and all that stuff. i like burgers, you know, that'ssomething i do eat but, like, having a turkey sandwichand some potato chips is great for me. that's like, phhh. a turkey sandwich withsome cheese on there. you know, i like cheese so, imean, for me, it's like, i don't really sit there and crave,okay, well, i would like to have

sugar this and sugar that. i mean, i don't get a cravingfor--i eat snickers bars once in a while. you know, there was a timewhen my macros and my nutrition was normal, where i ate on aspecific diet, day in, day out. and now, you know, i'm justan out-of-control eater where i just eat everythingdifferent on a daily basis. so the consistency has to beimportant as the training. i think i had the best advisorsfrom the day i started

pretty much. from, you know, 6 months in,i started working with chris aceto who's a major playerin fitness, trains a lot of top, top guys, put--made a lotof guys professionals, you know, brought me to olympia. won my first olympia with him. so i think it's good to hiresomeone that has some knowledge of some nutrition. you might as well do it rightbecause the nutrition is almost

more important thanthe weight training is. stack 'em is the show. come on. let's go, jay, come on. suck it up, suck it up,suck it up, suck it up. mentally, you have to be,i think, a little crazy. people approach me and theysay, "jay, what's the secret? what's the secret?what's the secret?"

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