It’s really sad about Greg. Thinking of the opportunity he had and the absolute lack of effort to want to improve. It just sucks.
Greg bought lots of T-Nation supps before the clinic since he was a “Level 4”, at least that’s what I thought he was. Amazingly, they did nothing for him. Supplements are supplements. If your diet blows, supplements can’t fix it.
What I really think happened was, that he liked the idea of doing this clinic, but when he realized what he had gotten himself into, he couldn’t just run away in defeat. He was afraid that he would never be a part of the T-Nation community again.
It’s not like Bizarre is posting anymore. Greg likes to eat, that’s how he got so fat in the first place, so the idea of not eating and not being able to put on muscle, this was not what he had wanted. He had second thoughts. He probably wasn’t expecting to be picked in the first place.
However, since he knew he was sticking with the plan at 50 or 60 percent, he couldn’t really give good feedback. He just wasn’t a good enough liar for that. You could tell the clinic wasn’t really a part of him by how little he posted. He probably tried a couple times and then he just sort of gave up.
He’s a lazy guy. He’s probably real nice, a good person, etc., but he doesn’t want to diet. He likes being big. He’s still caught up in the size game. Unfortunately, the truth is, he’ll never weigh 240 lean, he just doesn’t have the genetics for it.
Then, when he actually gave things a go, he tried to make himself look like he was making up for lost time by shaving his body and changing his poses.
Greg was too embarrassed to show his weight again, since he knew that he didn’t lose nearly what he had expected, since he probably doubled up on shakes or had extra food. The scale was never seen. The other part that sucked was his complete lack of trying in the post V-diet meals.
He posted to me that he used cheese for a “saturated fat source”?!?!?! Only tremendous fatties who are afraid of being small consider cheese to be a healthy and productive meal. Not to mention eating hamburger and raisins and pumpkin pie filling and all the other borderline junk crap that he still needed.
The other thing that drove me nuts was his incessant assault on the treadmill. Cardio sucks, you don’t need it to get lean- unless we’re talking bodybuilding comp. It probably made Greg a lot hungrier and fatter. His training could have made him lose the tub, but his appetite got the best of him. 2 hours of cardio doesn’t do dick if your diet isn’t in check or if you’re eating too much.
Honestly, what amazes me everytime I come to his thread is looking at the before pictures. He looks like his before picture to a T! Even after 5 months. It looks like he got fatter somewhere during the clinic, probably near the first month, when he was hoping to get stronger, so that he would magically gain more muscle and drop bodyfat because of having the extra lean mass.
He has a shot at becoming lean, but at this point, he ruined one of the best chances he’ll ever get. He didn’t want to do the work. Unfortunately what defeated him was fear and his ravenous appetite. Hopefully, he learned something in 5 months and will not gain back all 10 pounds that he lost.
