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Do you think you could drink a whole gallon of milk every day
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Well, I did it and I'm going to share with you what it was like. Did I see a difference? Was it worth doing
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I'll give you my real experience going on the Go Mad diet. Welcome to another video
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I'm going to talk about probably one of the most unusual bulking strategies that I've actually tried
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in order for me to gain more calories into my diet. The gallon of milk a day diet or the Go Mad diet
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You may be watching this because you yourself are an ectomorph body type or you're a hard gainer as they call it
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or somebody who's really skinny and wants to add some muscle to your frame in a short period of time
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Now, I'm not going to tell you whether or not you should or shouldn't do it. I'm just going to give you my experience with it and let you decide if it's something that you yourself want to try
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So the basics of the Go Mad diet is simple. You drink a gallon of whole, full fat milk every day in addition to your regular intake of food
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That's pretty much it. And that's assuming that your regular intake of food is somewhat balanced
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I did the Go Mad diet about eight years ago for a month straight. I wouldn't say I was super skinny at the time
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But my situation was I was struggling to get in enough calories per day in order for me to bulk up and add muscle to my frame which is what I wanted to do at the time My work schedule at the time was crazy It didn really allow me the time or the space to prepare or heat up pre meals all the time
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And I didn't have the money to buy food every day. We all know how expensive eating out can be
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So I was in a tricky situation. I was trying to think of ways to stick to a certain amount of calories per day consistently while still maintaining my work schedule
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And that's how I came across an article which was talking about the idea of drinking a whole gallon of milk a day
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When we look closely what's actually in milk, a gallon of whole full fat milk gives you around 2,400 calories
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130 grams of fat, 187 grams of carbs, and a whopping 123 grams of protein
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So it made sense at the time for me to do this. I'm 6'5 and according to my calculations at the time
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the amount of calories I needed to hit per day if I wanted to bulk up was 3,800 calories
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So already you can see what I was up against. In order to hit that amount of calories from normal food
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while doing the work hours that I was doing was just unrealistic for me
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A lot of the time, taller people struggle to add muscle to their frame for this very reason
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The amount of calories that we need is going to be more than somebody of a shorter stature which leads a lot of people down the road of dirty bulking which isn something I recommend at all But a lot of people do do it and in the long term the results can be really bad for you
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So let's look at how I actually did the Go Mad Diet. What I did was I split it up into eight pints throughout the day
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What you'll notice right away is two, maybe three things. The first thing you'll notice is that you're going to be going to the toilet a lot more
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I had to make sure that when I drank each pint, I wasn't going to be anywhere that would be too far away from access to a toilet
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I didn't do any super long car journey. Second thing you'll notice, the milk bloat is very real
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After about two days, my stomach got really bloated. But I knew the cause and I just powered through it
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The third thing you might notice is that milk can really make you sleepy. The casein in milk or the casomorphine, which comes from the digestion of cow's milk, can really make you tired
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I was feeling really sleepy every day. I was like a zombie. You know, that feeling after you've had a really big meal after maybe your Thanksgiving dinner or Christmas dinner, it was like that all the time
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All of those things aside, after about a week of drinking this milk, people
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who knew me started to tell me that they could see my body changing and I wish I had some photos to share with you of the time of how big I looked but people were
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telling me in my face did really get noticeably wider and I really did see a difference on the scales My workouts did suffer a bit I was still able to lift my weights five times a week and get good workouts in but that sleepy bloated feeling kind of did mess up my energy levels again
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Also worth noting my fridge at home looked crazy, it was just full of milk and after a while
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the sight of milk just started to make me feel sick. After doing the months I had enough
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I had to stop. But did it work as a bulking strategy? Technically it does work but I wouldn't recommend
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it. Why? Because eating normal food is just so much better. Since then I've learned
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I've learned a lot about bulking up for the body type that I have as a taller guy
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and I've found much better ways to get more calories in every day as a hard gainer
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or what some may call an ectomorph without turning into doing things at the Go Mad Diet
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or maybe even dirty bulking. Almost drowning myself in milk every day was an interesting experience
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Even though it works to a degree, I don't think it's something that I could do on a long-term basis
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Are you thinking of going on the Go Mad Diet yourself? Drop me a comment below. Thank you for watching this short video and I'll see you on the next one
