The Reality of the Lean Lifestyle

Tip of the day: If you want to be ripped and promote fitness this doesn't mean chug a bottle of Johnny Walker Red and then smash your local Dunkin Doughnuts in an cheap alcohol enduced rage.
I once asked a successful bodybuilder what was his key to being lean almost year round. His answer, "I plan my day around my meals and not my meals around my day". I then asked him "What if you work full time?". His response "I work 16 hours a day running my own business, if you want your body to look a certain way then you will make the time to do it, no excuses".

Is the above lifestyle necessarily normal, natural, or easy? Probably not but it is the reality of what it takes to be in the kind of shape you think you want to be. Sometimes the principles behind being really lean are as simple (note I did not say easy) as the picture above.