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So what should you do now? Clean up your eating—remove most of the junk food and alcohol. Still allow it, but only on one or two nonconsecutive days a week. Just doing that should have you whittling away a few pounds of fat in a couple of weeks.
Cleaning up your diet will also prime your anabolic environment for faster muscle gains (fewer toxins for your body to deal with).
After a few weeks of cleaner eating, you'll want to gradually reduce your food intake and/or ramp up activity. For example, you could add a cardio day once or twice a week. A few weeks later, reduce your portion sizes at one or two meals a day.
The key is to whittle fat GRADUALLY—so you don't lose muscle and actually stimulate hypertrophy.
The biggest mistake most people make is cutting calories drastically and/or doing cardio too many days a week. Too much too fast is a sure way to burn off your hard-earned muscle tissue faster than you can say, "No, I'm not a marathon runner."
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