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Steroid FAQ Continued
by BigCatThe first step:
Forget about the traditional way of eating. 3 meals per day just wont cut it (unless you are one of the genetically gifted few). A minimum of 6 meals will soon become your habit.

For the first 5 days, I want you to eat every hour. YES EVERY HOUR !!!. Its not as bad as you think. Not full meals every hour, but small portions of anything.
Example:
1 apple, ½ peanut butter sandwich, ½ protein shake, chocolate bar, banana.
Quality of the foods you eat in these 5 days is not as important as the fact of actually eating something. It must be small enough to not fill you, even if you are still hungry, don’t eat. Let your stomach get used to the small hourly snack/feeding. By the 3rd or 4th day you find yourself starving, craving for that snack. Your metabolism will also start to adjust to your new eating habit. Rather than storing calories to hold you over till your next feeding in 4 or 5 hours (like you used to do), it will come to expect another feeding in a short period. Thus, send more calories to be burned for energy, or for muscle recuperation from your work outs. Can you now see the opportunity for body fat reduction?

After getting your body used to the hourly feedings, you are going to find yourself hungry just about all the time. The logical step for the next 5 day period, is to start eating more at each snack time. But rather than eating every hour, spread the time out to every 90mins (1 ½ hour) or 105mins (1 hour 45mins).

Continue with this process of 5 day periods until your are eating a full meal every 2 ½ or 3 hours minimum.

Eating a lot is not easy. Food preparation of your 6 daily meals takes up a lot of time. Granted, 1 or 2 of those meals will probably be a protein shake but the amount of calories we are forced to eat would turn the average lazy joe into a 300 pound tub of lard in less than a year.
Workout hard, sleep as much as you can, drink the well dry of water, take your supplements and EAT.

Now that you have a solution to your appetite problem, I expect to see you walking around with 20 new pounds of mass within the next 4 months.

27.Can I consume alcohol while I'm taking steroids ?

Thanx to PTBW for raising the issue. Will alcohol limit your gains ? probably not. But consider a few aspects. First of all alcohol is an estrogen agonist. It can enhance the effects of estrogenic drugs and worsen their effects. Especially if you are sensitive to things like gyno and bloat, one should consider this effect. Secondly, alcohol has a hefty negative effect on your liver. Combining it with oral steroids can be very dangerous in terms of liver damage. All in all the risk may be minimal, but abstaining from alcohol is the only way to avoid a lot of problems. If you drink more than a glass of wine every day, or if you are renowned for your weekend binges, I urge you not to self-administer prescription drugs.

28. I am being drug tested for my new job next week. Will they be testing for steroids?

99 times out of 100 a corporate company is NOT testing for steroids. They are testing for opiates amphetamines and other recreation drugs. Steroid testing is very costly and these places would have to spend extra money testing for something that is not all to common in the business world. Now if you are joining the armed forces or some type of professional sports team then there may be a chance of testing, however a normal job does not test for this.

29. How can I ensure my source is legit?
There is no way to ensure 100% that a source will come through for you. Good sources do go bad, usually without any warning at all. Sometimes sources have problems and products take longer to ship out than usual (sometimes several months), hence why you should always plan ahead of time and never start a cycle without all your gear/ancilleries in hand. The best way to put the odds in your favor is by contacting a mod in the steroid forum via secure email (hushmail, elitefitness, cyber-rights, etc.) if you are unsure about the validity of your source. Before doing so it is best to contact the source's references and then contact the references and ask them about the source.