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Optimize Metabolism with Fun Cheat Days and "The Cycle Diet" (Udemy.com)

The Complete Guide to Using Refeeds and Cheat Days to Coax Your Metabolism with a Sustainable Lifestyle Diet

Created by: Scott Abel

Last updated January 2016

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What you will learn

  • "Have your cake and eat it too" ...but intelligently and strategically, with no guilt.
  • Put your body in "supercompensation mode" so that refeeds and cheat days SERVE the body.
  • Keep your body as LEAN as it is reasonable to keep it, year-round, without "worrying" about diet.
  • Adapt and tweak your own meal plans by listening to your own body's "biofeedback" (the signals your body is giving you).
  • Learn to adapt and work with the diet to make it part of a sustainable, enjoyable lifestyle.
  • Enjoy the cheat days and overfeeds, then simply not have to think about food for the rest of the week.

How it compares

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  • Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 66% of them
  • Reviews115#479 of 663 by number of reviews
  • Length4 hourslonger than 64% of them
  • Last updatedJanuary 2016earlier than 95% of them

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Course Description

The Cycle Diet has been tested and proven for 30 years! The Cycle Diet has been used successfully by clients in the real-world to stay lean while enjoying fun cheat days where truly "anything goes"!

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"I've been a coaching client of Scott for over a decade now and have been using the cycle diet for almost that length of time too. I can say without any hesitation that this is the best diet to follow to stay ripped year round and indulge in all your favourite foods all while making cosmetic improvements to your physique."

- Andy Sinclair, fitness model (Andy is featured in the course!)

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The Cycle Diet is not like other diets out there that promise you that you can lose weight eating whatever you want. No. The Cycle Diet is a reasonable, sustainable lifestyle, but it also takes a certain level of discipline.

For example, with the Cycle Diet, you don't just "add in a cheat day." Instead, you put your body in what we call "Supercompensation Mode" so that a huge influx of calories (a "cheat day") is exactly what your body needs.

In this course, you will learn everything you need to know to start Cycle Dieting: what foods to eat and how much, how to read your biofeedback,how to get into supercompensation mode and stay there, and much more.


"COAX THE BODY AND IT RESPONDS; FORCE THE BODY AND IT REACTS"

The Cycle Diet is all about coaxing your body and your body's metabolism and your bodyweight setpoint. I've always said that the metabolic and hormonal environment into which calories enter is what really matters for sustainable weight loss. The Cycle Diet is all about manipulating that same metabolic and hormonal environment over the long term, as a sustainable solution to weight loss and weight maintenance.

Most diets only think in the very immediate realm of time. However, you have to consider the immediate effects, the residual effects, and the more long-term cumulative effects. Most diets "feel great" as you're losing fat at first, but under the surface the body is responding metabolically and hormonally, and eventually you get the inevitable "diet rebound." You can only force the body for so long before it reacts. To achieve longterm results, you have to coax your body. In other words, don't work "on" your body; work "with" your body.

This is what the Cycle Diet was designed to do. The Cycle Diet is NOT a "weight loss" diet; it is a "metabolism" diet. This is because any sustainable solution must be "metabolism first" in my opinion.

To my mind, any diet strategy must meet two essential criteria:

  1. It must serve the body.
  2. It must be sustainable.

I have been doing the Cycle Diet myself and with clients for 30 years, so I consider it very sustainable. I used it myself to stay "guest posing" ready for bodybuilding contests, and near photoshoot ready year-round. Andy, a fitness model whom you heard from above, uses it to stay within "striking distance" of photoshoot ready: meaning that when he has a photoshoot, all he does is cut out a cheat day or two beforehand, and he's ready for the covers of magazines. (I should add that Andy is a fitness model, so that's just for the magazines. Truth is he still looks fantastic even when he has the cheat day.) Check out the free preview of the "The 'Goals' of the Cycle Diet" video, as well as some of the CASE STUDIES videos, to see more examples of what I mean.


You Will Learn:

  • How cheat days and overfeeds can serve the body IF you are in the right metabolic and hormonal state, what's called "supercompensation mode," or simply, "Supercomp."
  • How to read your own body's biofeedback to determine when you are in "supercompensation mode" and a cheat day is exactly what your body NEEDS.
  • How to "graduate" from simple cheat meals, to half-day cheats, to full-day cheats.
  • The Right Mindsets for making this diet part of a reasonable, sustainable lifestyle.
  • Actual daily meal plans for your diet days, plus information on how to tweak them, or construct your own from scratch.
  • What kind of weight training works best with the Cycle Diet.
  • How to evaluate if a cheat day "went well" and whether you should keep them in your diet. (And what to do if it didn't go well!)
  • How to determine what foods to include in your diet day meals plans, based on your own body's needs and signals.
  • Variations of the Cycle Diet that Scott has "tweaked" with different clients, depending on their needs, backgrounds, and goals.

...and MUCH MORE!

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Instructor Details

Scott Abel

Scott Abel has been involved in the fitness, figure and bodybuilding industries for over 30 years. He has coached hundreds of bodybuilding and figure champions, and he has helped regular people lost fat, add muscle, all while managing busy lives and real careers with family and responsibilities. He is well known for his Metabolic Enhancement Training, his unique Cycle Diet, and for getting his clients ripped.

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Reviews

4.7

115 ratings on Udemy

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By Ludovic Couture-niles on 1/16/2017

The course is very well explained. Interesting way to live a life with cheat days but very difficult to execute the diet when living with other people. I will use some principles to loose weight, but I will try to stabilize and maintain my weight with a diet that I can apply with my family. Eating 5 times a day is the principle that I have used for a week and I already lost few pounds. Working really well on low calories' diet.

By Christian Hriljac on 10/6/2016

excellent course..learned alot....I wish he would have gotten more specific....and got more in depth.........especially there was very lottle discussion of putting it all together....It came out fragmented...No real discussion of training and how to implement cardio weights Neat etc. but the focus on the cycle diet was on point again More specifics would have been appreciated....Alot of sections just talking about clients and the past and funny stories was a time waste. overall a b- Chris nyc

By Angela Ripolo on 5/26/2016

I have been a coaching client of Scott's for a year now and as usual he goes above and beyond my expectations! I started with him because I have been left so confused in this industry of what and what not to do. Scott is straight forward and tells it like it is. I've been thinking about testing the cycle diet out myself to see whether it is for me or not. This course has made it so clear and has helped understand what super compensation mode is and how you get into super compensation mode. He covers why the cycle diet is actually beneficial for you and how it trains your metabolism to work for you. Once again, I learned so much from this course and look forward to experimenting with the cycle diet and making it a way of life.

By Tony Satas on 3/1/2016

Thanks Scott for this great course! So glad to see you went into such detail explaining these principles. I would recommend this course to anyone who is SERIOUS about longevity, building a better body, learning how to eat properly, and having fun doing it. If you're not serious, or not committed to the discipline it takes to improve your mindset, your diet, and your physique, then there's plenty of mis/dis information on the internet for you to "dabble" with. Scott's the real deal and you should consider yourself privileged to learn everything you can from this master. Thanks again, and always looking forward to learning more from you.

By Gabriel Craft on 1/31/2016

I actually contributed my own experience in the cycle diet book. I'm happy to know that Scott did touch on the night sweats, as that was one of my concerns when I was doing it. It's actually why I stopped the cycle diet, I would sweat so much the day after a refeed that I was very miserable and unable to sleep the night after. I followed the diet for 3-4 months and didn't know if what I was experiencing was normal or not. It's good to know that what I was feeling was totally fine. I may have to give this a second shot!

By Matus Juran on 1/28/2016

This course is a must have for anyone looking to get some serious results without harming their metabolism, mental health, body functions . It must be applied correctly therefore I advice to watch&listen carefully, take action, apply , be patient and success will follow. I am a personal trainer and Scott is the best teacher I could ever have even though I havent met him personaly. There is so much to learn from him folks. Im getting ready for my first ever competition - Men`s Physique using HIS Cycle Diet. (have started Cycle Diet with the book he wrote but this course is even better as it clears all my questions) It simply works! all you need to do is make it work!

By David Kays on 1/27/2016

I would highly recommend this course to anyone wanting to learn about a unique and effective way to lose weight....and keep it off. This course guides you through that process but even more it educates you as well as any university course on the topic and that to me is most important. Instead of just telling you how to do it- Scott successfully tells you the science behind it. I love the course format, the ability to bounce to any lecture and review if required and the downloadable material. The video segments are especially useful and the discussion allow for question/answers. Best of all you have access to new material as Scott adds it ....great deal. Scott - great job and keep up the great work!!! The only negative thing I have to say is the price of the course dropped significantly after I purchased it which seems unfair by Udemy.

By Aimie on 1/18/2016

I have been a client of Scott's for quite a few years as well as been on the cycle diet. I just can never stop learning from Scott. I bought his original CD on the Cycle Diet in 2007, his recent book on the Cycle Diet as well as this recent Udemy course on the Cycle Diet and I'm always learning something new about it or picking up more information. There is so much info packed into this course it's impressive, and it's also nice to get more meal plan ideas, more stories, more experiences and inspiration. I just love this course because it's so easy to navigate through the topics you may want to refer back to, and I also like the 3.5 hours of audio/visual sections as it's nice to listen to while your doing things around the house - like making some great meals for the week! :) I know you will love it!! Aimie

By Tobias Pauer on 1/12/2016

I've been a coaching client of Scott Abel for nearly two years now and i have been using the Cycle Diet for almost that length of time. From my own experiance i can say that this diet is the best way to follow to stay lean year round and indulge in all favorite foods you like while making cosmetic improvements to your body. This course explains everything you need to know why this diet works and how you can make this diet work for you. In every section you will learn something new and even me, who has been following it for a time now, learned some interesting and new valuable information. Especially the lection on biofeedback is very important to reconizing when you really are in supercompensation mode. This section makes clear when you are actually in the right physiological state where a cheat day or cheat meal will have a positive effect to your physique. I highly recommend this course for a clear explanation why the cycle diet is very effective, how to start with it and how to let the diet work for your own body while living a normal life in the real world.

By Joy Islam on 1/8/2016

Hi, I started this course, I am 48 (5ft,10) years old, I work in a computer field/Recording Engineer/Family man. I was 209, and reduce to 203.9 in 5 days, trying to eat 4 to 5 meal a day, last 5 days i only exercise total of 2 days for half hour bike ride due to my hectic life. As you said everbody wants to look good and and i have to MAN up with my words. At work my energy is there, first day or 2 felt a little sluggish went out from that hump. Thanks, I will keep up this diet as long as possible, If you could provide me more details food plan i will follow that in heartbeat. Thanks that I took that course and may be more. I know you are a celebrity.It will be an honor, if you spare your precious time to guide me more please give me a call. Thanks again for your inspiration, thanks, Joy Islam 612-396-6720 From Minneapolis, Minnesota

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