So this may seem like a bit of a shot out of left field, but I’ve been meaning to put these up for a long time now, and somebody requested them just yesterday. So I’m, finally, putting this stuff out there for those of you who are interested in trying GOMAD.

GOMAD before blood work

GOMAD after blood work

These are the results of my pre-GOMAD and post-GOMAD blood work. Similar to how I did the Paleo thing, I got my blood work done the morning of day 1, and then got blood work done immediately after. It was supposed to be exactly 30 days, but I ended up getting so sick on day 28 that I had to cut it short. Did I get sick from the milk? I don’t think so. I’m pretty sure it was the plague. “Black Death”, if you will… I honestly almost went to the emergency room (I’ve never been that sick in my life).

Anyway, feel free to ask any questions regarding my experience and these tests, and I’ll do the best I can to hook you up with at least a half-assed answer.

Don’t worry, don’t worry.  This isn’t going to be a nostalgic montage. Though… that would be sick. I’m going to note it for a later post: Moooon…tage. Nice.

Your fridge may need the GOMAD adapter to be compatible with the diet. Photo courtesy of/hijacked from: imagur.com

I wasn’t planning on writing anything more on the GOMAD diet, as I was hoping to leave it behind me for good. But I thought I should share an epiphany I had the other day as I was looking in my refrigerator for something other than water to drink:

There’s no milk in here…. And I’m okay with that.

Now for a lot of people that might be normal, but for me pre-GOMAD, I would start having withdrawal tantrums if I opened the fridge and didn’t have the option of either plain or chocolate milk. I am not exaggerating when I say that my average daily milk consumption before going on the GOMAD diet was probably somewhere around half a gallon per day (keep in mind, this was low-fat milk).

But now, post-GOMAD, my desire to drink milk has plummeted to nil. I didn’t really notice at first, because right after coming off the diet I figured it was natural that I wouldn’t want to even look at the stuff for a while. However, here we are, a solid 2 months after coming off, and I still have no cravings for it. In fact, I don’t even drink the milk after I finish my cereal these days… That used to be my favorite part. It’s a little sad actually.

All other dairy products I’m fine with: cheese, yogurt, ice cream, etc. But milk in its purest form holds no appeal.

I’m not sure if this would or should have any affect on whether or not you try the GOMAD diet, but it’s one more thing to think about.

All good things must come to an end. Thankfully, that goes for the bad things too. My *cough*month*cough* long journey through the GOMAD diet came to an end a couple weeks ago, cut slightly shorter than anticipated by some invisible evil that wormed it’s way into my ecosystem. No matter, 28ish days of GOMAD were plenty for me, and I think it was a good indicator of how my body, and possibly yours, reacts to the diet.

Just a quick recap, the GOMAD diet involves drinking an entire gallon of whole milk each and every day, while eating your normal food at the usual quantities as well. The most common suggestion is to do this for one month, which I did (mostly).

The point? To gain weight. There are a lot of guys out there, and I used to be one of them, that are skinny as hell and would drown a bushel of kittens to just to gain and retain 10 pounds.

For this wrap-up, I’ll break it down for you into an easy to read and understand pro-con format, and then break out into some free styling on each point as well.

The Weight Gain

This is the one and only reason that a person puts them self through the GOMAD diet, so I’m happy to inform you, that you will indeed gain weight. In fact, I’ve read reports of some people gaining as much as a pound per day. I was skeptical of this at first, but judging from my massive weight gain in the first 2 weeks (15 pounds), I now tend to believe it.

Now the quality of that weight might not be what you’re looking for. When somebody says: man, I’m skinny, I sure would like to gain some weight, I think it’s very seldom that they’d like to put on more than half that weight in pure lard, which is basically what I did. I started off at 174lbs @ 6% body fat, and ended up at 188lbs @ 9.9% body fat. If you do the math, that’s a gain of over 8lbs of fat.

I’m happy to say that somehow my body is hiding it well. I really should’ve done an “after” picture, but I’ll just tell you that I really don’t look all that much different than before. There’s some slight definition lost, but not nearly the transformation that I would’ve expected from gaining that much weight.

So was the rest of the weight muscle? I’m sure it wasn’t. There was some muscle gained, but also a good bit of water weight was probably put on. Let’s be honest people, without the help of some serious ‘roids, you’re not going to put on 30lbs of muscle in 30 days. Real, hard earned muscle, is going to take months and months of strategic lifting and eating.

So bottom line, if you’re trying to “bulk up”, then GOMAD will definitely give you the weight. If you’re thinking this will turn you into Arnold circa Conan The Barbarian overnight, then I’d suggest you go with some dude in your gym locker room sticking a needle in your butt instead.*

How I felt

If you read the updates throughout, you’ll see that for the first half of the diet or so, I felt pretty good. I was gaining weight like crazy and, other than feeling like I was going to pop, felt fairly energetic, motivated, and ready to rage on some weights. My workouts were good, and I felt stronger; I’m assuming from the wealth of calories that I had at my disposal.

Second half of the month didn’t go so well. I stopped gaining weight, my workouts weren’t as good, I felt unmotivated, and my energy was low throughout the entire day. My doctor said my body may have started reacting negatively to all the milk, but who can really say. Maybe I was just depressed. Or maybe I was depressed, but the reason behind that was all the milk in my diet. I’m a firm believer that what you eat has a huge impact on the way you feel, not only physically, but emotionally as well.

Will I die 10 years earlier as a result?

While there are many, many different chemicals and processes in the body that may have been effected (affected? I STILL DON’T UNDERSTAND WHICH ONE TO USE) by my dietary choices, there were three big ones that I, and my doctor, were concerned with:

LDL Cholesterol – “bad” cholesterol

Triglycerides – fat in the bloodstream

HDL Cholesterol – “good” cholesterol. You probably didn’t even know this existed.

I’d recommend doing some quick research online for a more medically relevant description of these elements, but for those of you who don’t really care, let me just say that having high levels of the top two is bad (particularly the LDL, as I understand it) and a high level of the HDL is good.

Considering all the saturated fat that is in a gallon of whole milk, a spike in my LDL and triglycerides wouldn’t have been all that surprising. However, the results of my blood test were quite surprising: While my Triglyceride levels rose, and my HDL dropped a little, my LDL dropped significantly. Below are the results:

Pre-GOMAD levels                        Post-GOMAD levels

LDL                                    108 mg/dL                                    70 mg/dL

Triglycerides                        71 mg/dL                                    85 mg/dL

HDL                                    66 mg/dL                                    50 mg/dL

There are more statistics on this printout regarding my blood work, including calcium and Vitamin D levels (those shot up, not too surprisingly) and a bunch of other stuff that I don’t even understand (what the hell is “Bilirubin”? MS Word doesn’t even think it’s a word) so I may post PDFs at a later date of both results so you can draw your own conclusions from all the numbers.

Bottom line from the blood results though, and my doctor concurred with this, is that the GOMAD diet did not have any clearly visible negative long-term health affects (there’s that damn word again. Figured I’d use the other one so I’d at least get it right once)

Reduced libido

Did you guys know that they had words in Maxim too!? Neither did I, but a lower sex drive opens your eyes to a whole new world…

I feel a little weird writing about this, but again, I want to be 100% honest about the whole experience. Pretty sure this falls in line with that whole “might’ve just been depressed” theory. I guess it was nice to not have it on the brain for a little while but, come on, I’m a dude… It scared the crap out of me. Happy to say it’s back to “normal” levels, whatever that means. It came back pretty quickly after I went off the diet.

I’m not saying this will happen to you, in fact other people have complained of having an overactive sex drive when on the diet. Though, dudes like to brag about their sex drive (as well as everything else), so they could just be lying. This is the friggin’ Internet, so we can all just talk about how huge all of our physical attributes are and how much testosterone is coursing through our veins… as we play World of Warcraft in our parents basement and tell our mom to stop asking us when we’re going to get a girlfriend.**

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?

Having put myself through all this, my suggestions for you if you’re considering trying GOMAD is:

1. Ease into it

I would recommend starting with a half gallon or so the first few days, and work up to the full gallon.

2. Don’t overdo it.

Yes, you’ll obviously have to push yourself to drink that much milk and eat that much food if you’re really going to see results, but listen to your body. If you’re just having a hard time forcing all the calories in, then suck it up. But if you stop gaining weight, you feel like crap, and start thinking more about who would win in a fight between Batman and a declawed Wolverine*** than the girl next door, then you might want to back off. The only reason I didn’t was because I was writing this damned article series. If it weren’t for this, I would’ve quit after week 3 when my weight gain hit a plateau.

3. Plan your consumption

Until it becomes habit to drink milk constantly, you may want to set an alarm on your phone to alert you every hour or so as a reminder to drink. Just pretend it’s an all day power-hour of milk drinking and your phone is hazing the crap out of you. He says drink, and you do it pledge, or you will be blackballed.

….Well… There you have it folks. I’m glad I gave it a shot, but I’m even happier that it’s over with. Back to “normal” eating habits for me, which are relatively healthy, and much more affordable and socially acceptable.
Would I recommend you try this diet to gain weight? I’m not sure I’d recommend it under normal circumstances, but if you’re really having a tough time gaining weight, it might be a good last resort. As always, just listen to your body, as I tend not to do.

As a final CYA, you should consult a doctor or something before starting any crazy-ass diet. There I said it.

If you have any questions that I left unanswered in this article, or throughout the articles series, please feel free to leave a question in the comments section, or shoot me an email at luke@theyoking.com. I’ll be more than happy to share.

* – This is not a real recommendation. Don’t do this.

** – Not a personal example, thank God.

*** – Batman.

It saddens me to inform you that I did not make it through the 30 days of GOMAD. But my excuse is a good one: at roughly 4:30AM on Monday morning, the stomach bug from hell set upon me with all the wrath of Satan. I was vomiting off and on for 5 hours, after which I fitfully slept for 24+ hours during which I also developed a fever. It’s now about 1pm on the 30^th (what was supposed to be the last day of the diet), and I’m sorry, but there’s no way I’m force-feeding myself anything and especially not milk. I’m just happy I can keep down veggies and tomato juice.

Regardless of this, I’m going into the doctor tomorrow morning (good timing), where I’ll get my blood work done and have my final weigh in. I’m also hoping they can tell me what the heck almost killed me yesterday.

Unfortunately, I expelled several pounds of water weight yesterday, and having not eaten much of anything for 36 hours, I’ll probably have lost a bit of the weight. But I think from the first two weeks of the diet, you can tell that gaining weight is easily achievable on this diet.

Now that it’s over, I have to say I doubt I’ll never do it again. Maybe for a week or two just to add some quick weight, if there’s ever a time where I need to add 10 pounds quickly (can’t imagine when that’d be), but if I’m being honest the last week and a half or so I’ve felt like crap. Very lethargic and sluggish, unmotivated, and downright depressed some days.

But hey, I’m no doctor, so maybe we’ll come to find out that I’ve just been sick the past week or so, and that yesterday was the culmination of that sickness. If so, then that’ll change my tune a little bit, because for the first 2-3 weeks of the diet I was feeling pretty good.

There’ll be one more, closing article to this series. After I visit the doc and get my blood tests back, I’ll post all the stats and really try to break everything down for you.

But until then…..

Remove this from my sight

I’m giving away two free gallons of organic whole milk!!!! How exciting for you. The rules of this contest are simple:

1. You need to be located in Richmond, VA
2. You need to be the first person to tell me you want them
3. You win

…Seriously, I don’t even want to look at the stuff right now. Who wants ‘em?

My apologies people, I have been failing miserably in updating as frequently as I should the past 2 weeks. I’m not sure if it’s the new lifting routine, the GOMAD diet, or the lack of sleep, but I’ve been feeling exhausted, unmotivated, and at times even a little sickly. In fact, last night we had to call my training session a bit short, due to me dry heaving in the corner for a minute or two. Coach said he couldn’t deal with me vomiting all over his gym, and I can’t blame him. I didn’t feel much like cleaning it up either.

I've had the "mondays" all week

Luckily I’m going back to the doctor December 1st for the post-GOMAD tests, so hopefully answers will be had at that point. Hopefully the answer won’t be, “You’ve got diabetes and cancer”.

Enough about my weakness. You want to know what the results were after 3 weeks on GOMAD:

Despite being extremely tired and unmotivated, I dragged my tail to the gym on Monday morning to weigh in and see where I was at. If you’ve read the previous 2 installments, you’ll know that after 2 weeks on the GOMAD diet I’d gained a whopping 15 pounds. With that in mind, I was expecting more weight to be added to that total after another week of the diet.

I’m not sure what to attribute this to, maybe I really am sick, or maybe my body has finally caught on that it has to fight a little harder to maintain my weight, but when I weighed in I had actually LOST a pound. That’s right, after week 2 I was at 189.5lbs., and this past Monday I was 188 @ 8.8% body fat. I’ve still been pounding milk, and eating my face off, and working out, and somehow I managed to lose a pound.

Again, I can’t tell you why, but I’m hoping the doctor can shed some light on it next week.

That’s really all I’ve got for this post. I’ll come clean with you, due to my strange lethargy/sickness, I’m taking today off from milk. So this test will end up being a 29/30 days of milk test. Deal with it.

Today (Monday) marked my 15^th day into the GOMAD diet, which means I’m halfway to the 30 day mark. For those of you considering GOMAD as an option for gaining weight, I’ve got some good news:

1. It works

I weighed in again this morning. I’m up to 189.5 lbs @ 9.7% body fat. I started at ~174lbs. @ 6% body fat, just a little over 2 weeks ago. If you’re worried that I look like a complete fatty, I can assure you I’m currently hiding it well. Maybe that’ll be a different story on day 30, but hopefully you’ll all still enjoy the creepy pictures I post of my fat ass.

A good side-effect is, my workouts have been great. I’ve got a new lifting coach (interview with him coming up in a future post), and he’s kicking the living @$%# out of me. All these calories are coming in handy come gym time.

So while I may be putting on a couple pounds of fat, I’m definitely putting on muscle and strength to counteract that…. Look, I didn’t start this blog to look pretty. That’s God-given.

2. It gets easier

The first week was a little rough, just trying to cram that many calories and amount of fluid into your gut can be quite the challenge. Considering I was trying to eat full meals on top of the milk, much of my eating wasn’t all that pleasant (force-feeding is my fave).

Week 2 though was much better. Now that my stomach has grown accustomed to that kind of volume, and my metabolism has ramped things up to keep myself from becoming Moobhis Khan, it hasn’t been all that uncomfortable from a consumption standpoint. In fact, if I don’t consume milk or eat every hour or two, I’ll start to get really, really hungry. Most days now I can comfortably finish my entire gallon before 8PM.



My neighbors fear me

Hardest part is still scheduling the consumption. I used to drink quite a bit of water throughout the day, but I’ve now almost entirely switched over to milk. I even set a reminder on my phone to go off every hour, reminding me to drink milk. If I actually drink 10-12 oz. every hour, on the hour, then it seems to work out pretty well.

And now, since the mission statement of this blog (as if I had one) states “Integrity precedes yokehood”, and is not about getting myself dates, I’ve got something a bit unsavory to discuss.

I’m going to at least make an attempt at damage control: Ladies, click here. Gentlemen, read on….

A lot of people around the Internet who’ve tried the GOMAD diet have complained of digestive issues from this diet, most notably severe diarrhea due to all the excess lactose. I, however, have come across the opposite problem. I think this is probably due to a couple things:

1. I have no problem with lactose. None whatsoever. Therefore milk is not a natural laxative for me.
2. My body is a creature of habit, even when it comes to using the bathroom. However, now that I’m cramming in twice as many calories, one would think my body would adapt to going twice as much… Well it hasn’t.

What this has resulted in is some pretty serious unpleasantness. While most have diarrhea problems, I seem to have eaten handfuls of gravel off the back of a truck.

Keep in mind, this probably won’t be the case for most of you, but if you’re like me and are coming off of a calorie restriction diet, and your body handles lactose really well, you might want to consider supplementing your diet with foods that are high in fiber (which I have now done and praise Jesus for).

Not the most pleasant topic, but I want to share the entire experience with you guys, so if you consider doing the GOMAD diet you’ll know what you may or may not be able to expect.

Weighing in again on Monday. Will keep you posted as always.

Need to get to bed: Got a workout at 8am and coach is going to kick my ass I’m sure.

Hey party peoples. I’m now on the 8^th day of the GOMAD diet. Sitting in bed, jug on the night stand, roughly 20 ounces of milk to go. Man, this comforter is killing me. It’s so damn hot in here…



Obviously, that’s become my mantra for the month. I’m seven days into the GOMAD diet, and it’s been hard to get an entire gallon down daily. (If you’re just jumping into this thing, and are unfamiliar with the GOMAD diet, you’ll want to take a quick step back to part 1).

I’ll give you the easy, the hard, and the progress after only 7 days on the GOMAD diet.

The Easy: The high volume of lactose.

While this would probably be an issue for most people, much of my youth was spent eating cheerios, climbing trees, and setting things on fire. I know a lot of kids drank a bunch of milk, but I mean I drank a BUNCH of milk. Even in my teenage years, while all the other guys were showing up to baseball games with half gallons of Gatorade, I was rolling up with my bottle of Nesquik. My baseball skills may or may not have been amazing, but the entire team was pretty amazed that I never puked.

Having said that, I was a little unsure how my body would react to such a high volume of milk day-in and day-out, but so far I have yet to feel the queasiness that many people associate with drinking too much milk.

The Hard: The sheer volume of fluid and calories

When’s the last time you drank a gallon of water in a day? It’s doable, but takes discipline and sometimes a little forced drinking.

Now think about injecting 2400 calories into that gallon of water, while eating and drinking your “normal” amount of calories. Yeah it can get pretty rough, especially if you don’t start pounding milk right out of the gate in the morning.

This past weekend my buddy had a couple of tickets to go see a comedy show, and the plan was to meet up around 6 for happy hour to grab a couple beers before the show. Sounds great right? Yeah, well that shaved a solid 4-5 hours off of milk and I’s “alone time”, and I was pretty sure they’d frown upon me bringing in my own White Russian ingredients to the bar: “Pardon me sir, can you use this milk? It’s kind of important…. Yes, that’s 12 parts milk, 1 part vodka and Kaluha… What? Oh yes, I thoroughly expect to vomit in your bathroom before the night is through. Don’t worry, I tip well.”

So like a champ, I decided to accelerate my drinking of mass destruction program, and pounded a solid half-gallon in about an hour and a half. Literally taking my last gulp before walking into the bar, tossing the carton into the trashcan out front.

Let’s just say that the beer was less enjoyable that evening. In fact, everything was a little less enjoyable until about 10pm that night.

Meh, you live you learn. I’m getting better at planning the consumption out as I go, and I’ll be honest, I didn’t get the whole gallon in every single day. In fact, the first two days of the diet I only got up to ¾ of a gallon before having to pass out in a fatty coma. But no more of that, I’m hitting a solid gallon each day now, and even a little more if you take into account the milk in my morning coffee.

The Results: Hoooollllyyy….

I literally went into the gym, weighed myself, and took the Omron 306C body fat test just 10 days ago. That day, a Friday, I was roughly 174lbs. at 6% body fat.

This morning I went in to do the same. Hadn’t had anything to eat or drink since the night before, like I always do. I took off my shoes, my belt, and emptied all my pockets. Figuring I’d just subtract a half-pound or so for my clothing, I stepped on the scale… Blinked, and quickly stepped off.

I took off all my clothes minus the skivvies and socks, and got back on: 184.5 lbs.

Wow.

Granted, I always go to sleep now on a full stomach, so I might have been carrying around a little of that weight, but this just floored me. I pulled out the Omron 306C to see what I was at, and I’ve already shot back up to 8.2% body fat.

… I didn’t even really know what to think. I still don’t. I expected some serious weight gain, but not this fast! I can’t even tell if I’m getting stronger, considering I’ve only hit each body part once since I began. It’s only been a friggin’ week!

If you do the math on that, this means I’ve gained a little over 10 lbs., and roughly half of that is body fat. Well this is why I shed all that weight. Lean out, before I get yoked out… Or maybe just fat.

No worries though, the goal isn’t to look pretty, it’s to gain strength. I’m going to keep plowing through my milk, and lifting heavy weight, until the month is through.

So one week (and a day) down, and a little over 3 weeks to go. I’ll be weighing in and reporting every Monday. Hopefully you’ll recognize me if you see me, and not think it’s just some fat guy in a little coat (….had to).

You may or may not have attended college, and if you did, you may or may not have joined a fraternity… for that matter, you may or may not be a dude, which is a prerequisite for said fraternity. Anyhoo, people who are in fraternities do stupid, stupid things. I have witnessed (and sadly participated in) some… okay, many, of these dumb things back in my college days, but the one that I want to revisit today is the infamous milk challenge.

If you aren’t familiar with this challenge, the gist is this: One man, one gallon of whole milk, and one hour to drink it. Simple… and terrible for witnesses and participants alike, as the inevitable result is pretty unappetizing.

I think frat dudes are the only people crazy/drunk enough to even try this. I’ve seen it. It’s gross/hilarious.

So what does this have to do with the GOMAD diet? Does it call for a gallon of whole milk every hour, on the hour? No no, nothing crazy like that. I figured I’d bring the shock and awe of the milk challenge to open your mind to the idea of the GOMAD diet: one man, one gallon of whole milk, one full day to drink it. See? That’s not so bad, right?

This should last about a week

How it’s done

Sorry, this isn’t a one-time thing. To do the GOMAD justice, one must drink a gallon of whole milk per day for 1-2 months straight. Not only do you have to drink the milk, but you need to eat your normal meals and snacks throughout the day. Considering that a gallon of whole milk has roughly 2400 calories in it, and you’re supplementing that with 2000+ calories of regular food…

Yeah, you did it math wiz, that’s equals a ****load of calories.

Why, dear God, would you do this

Well, to get huge-ified of course. Or more specifically, pack on a good amount of weight and muscle in a short period of time.

Many people seriously advocate this diet for “hard gainers” (guys with really fast metabolisms), which would make sense since you’re taking in tons and tons of calories, and milk is packed with loads of protein and macronutrients for getting straight yoked (or fat).

Sure, it’s obvious that you’ll pack on some fat in the process, but if you’re consistently lifting heavy weights, the idea is your muscle gains will be a significant portion of your weight gain; and if you’re a person who has a hard time gaining weight, it’s probably not such a problem for you to lose the fat after you’re done with the weight gain phase.

I’ve seen claims around the all-knowing, never lying, Internet that some guys have gained as much as 25lbs in 25 days. I’m going to say that’s BS, but hey, who knows?

But why whole milk!?

Ha. My doctor asked the same question.

Well the idea behind the whole milk is:

1. Whole milk has more calories.

You’re basically trying to cram as many calories into your skinny little frame as possible.

2. Whole milk has more saturated fat.

Oh, you thought saturated fat was bad? Well according to the online community of fitness “experts”, saturated fat helps promote testosterone production (the one real perk), but won’t affect your blood cholesterol, won’t give you heart disease, etc…

Look, I’m not saying whether they’re right or wrong. But I’m pretty sure many of them graduated from medical school with the same GPA as Dr. Dre (who produced a riveting dissertation on the medicinal uses of marijuana).

Why are you telling me this

Because I’m doing it. Right now. This minute. Gallon jug in hand.

This article is part 1 of a series on the GOMAD diet. I’ve seen a lot of chatter around the Internet and in the gym of how great/terrible this diet is, so I’ve decided to take matters into my own hands and do a little self-experimentation for your education… Get your mind out of the gutter and focus.

I’m not talking about your typical meathead experimentation with random un-approved supplements with sinister sounding names: “Bro!! I just gained 8,000lbs on my bench press from taking this sweet supp called JACKED-UP PCP R.I.P.!! I think I may have just murdered all my family members with my bare hands, and I’m pretty sure I just ate your kitten, but look at how huge I am-DID YOU JUST LOOK AT ME FUNNY BECAUSE I AM RAGING RIGHT NOW”

No, no. I took measurements. I even went to the doctor. Yes, a real doctor, and got my blood work done. So here’s how this is going to work:

• For 30 days I am going to drink 1 gallon of whole milk each and every day. I am going to lift heavy weight (I’m embarrassed to admit what passes as “heavy” these days) 3-4 days a week, as prescribed by most power/strength lifting routines.
• I weighed myself and took my body fat measurements before starting. I will do so again the morning of December 1^st before stepping into the doctor’s office.
• I visited the doctor and had blood work done to check what my LDL, HDL (cholesterol) and triglyceride (fat in the blood) levels were at right before starting this diet. I will go back the morning of December 1^st to have my blood work done again to see where these indicators are at (….among other things. JUST KIDDING GRANDMA).

My thinking is I will absolutely gain weight, strength, muscle, and fat. However, if I have diabetes, cancer, and my heart is about to explode, then is it really worth it?

It seems like many guys completely segregate their goals in the gym from the goals in the rest of their lives: Sure, I want to get strong. But I also want to have a wife and kids someday. I want to celebrate a 50^th wedding anniversary. I want to be there to watch my son play his first tee ball game, scream at the umpire when he blows the call, and get escorted out of the stands like any good father would. If I have a daughter, I want to walk her down the aisle, and she better be wearing white or I will lay waste. You get the idea.

Point is, is it worth taking extreme measures to reach your fitness goals if you’re sacrificing your long term health? After all, fitness doesn’t just equate to strength. It equates to overall good health and longevity.

Now yoked, on the other hand, equates to all the above. That’s why we do this.

Bottom line

By the end of this series I hope to answer two questions for you:

1. Does the GOMAD diet work.
2. Will it kill you.

I hope this intrigues you, because I don’t want to do this for naught.

I’m not going to give you any links to any GOMAD related websites. I don’t want them to think I was specifically calling them out with my Dr. Dre comment, and then get sued for slander or some bull like that… You’d be amazed at what people are suing over these days.

Just type GOMAD into Google, and you’ll find plenty.