Muscle for Life

Once upon a time, I was stuck in a rut.Despite training 5 to 6 days per week, my weight wouldn’t budge…I couldn’t get stronger…and I hadn’t built any muscle to speak of in years.What is an aspiring little “shredder” to do?Well, I consulted the prestigious annals of broscience and quickly found the answer:Eat more protein. A metric f$%# ton, to be exact.   And so the great protein gluttony began. I double-scooped my protein shakes. I ate over a pound of meat per day. I popped hardboiled eggs like they were candy.I was a good little bodybuilder… with (thankfully) good little kidneys. Thanks mom! (Just kidding–high-protein diets aren’t bad for your kidneys.)Well, after a year of eating 400+ grams of protein per day… I had to face the facts.It wasn’t working.Despite all the gorging, I looked and weighed more or less the same and I was lifting more or less the same weights.Nothing had changed, really.Well…fool me once, shame on… shame on you. Fool me…you can’t get fooled again!To my credit, I got wise, dramatical