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Olivier Richter | Eat Like | Men's Health

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00:00When I go to the cinema with my girlfriend, I have my container with eggs and I just pull

00:03them open.

00:04It has become such a lifestyle.

00:06This is the most extreme version and I don't advise it to anyone.

00:09If you or I want to challenge Reacher, maybe later Dwayne Johnson the Rock, I don't know,

00:15this is the lifestyle you'll need.

00:16Hey guys, this is Olivier Richter, also known as the Dutch Giant.

00:19I'm 7 foot 2, 350 pounds and this is what I did for my diet to prepare for Reacher season

00:253 and I'll tell you all about it.

00:30The reason I started Journey, I was very skinny.

00:40You have to imagine that at the age of 14 I was already 2 meters taller than any person

00:45my teachers.

00:46So I was so skinny you could see my bones.

00:48I was wearing two t-shirts over each other to cover it, extra white jeans to not see my

00:52skinny necks.

00:53That made me go to the gym and I didn't understand food at all.

00:57I only understood calories.

00:59So after the gym I would go to a snack bar to eat fries because I wanted to gain and

01:04only years later I discovered how food works.

01:07I just wanted a weight on my body that matched the 2 meter 18.

01:11I think I reached that at 125 kilos.

01:15But I continued this journey because I noticed that the bigger I got with my length, the more

01:21interesting I became.

01:22I was at some point of course 155 kilos and for Reacher I went to 160.

01:27And that got super interesting for Amazon of course.

01:31So normally I eat 6,000 calories to stay on 160 kilos but for Reacher I had to train 5 hours

01:38a day.

01:38And that consists of 4 hours of sun training and bodybuilding at night.

01:42And that burned a lot of calories.

01:43So I had to actually go to 7,000 calories and I'm not getting 500 grams of protein a day

01:48just to maintain this physique.

01:50I eat 16 eggs a day, 600 grams of meat, 1 kilo of quark, as we call it in Dutch, probably

01:57you know it as Greek yogurt, and a lot of oats that I drink.

02:01To get all of this food in I divide them over 7 meals.

02:04So I eat every 2 and a half to 3 hours and this is how I do it.

02:10So my first meal is the biggest meal of the day.

02:13It's 8 eggs, 120 grams of oats and 30 grams of whey protein.

02:18It's actually a very fast breakfast.

02:20So first I put my eggs in the air fryer, yes in the air fryer.

02:23I scoop them like crazy, 8 eggs, done.

02:26Then I go into my car and I drink this oat shake.

02:28So it's shredded oats with the whey protein in it, which gives the flavor.

02:32And then I just and done and that's actually gives me 1,250 calories and 109 grams of protein.

02:40And that gets me ready for today.

02:42So I have a great meal prep company.

02:44I'm very lucky to have muscle meat.

02:45So meal number 2 and 3 are actually my high protein meals.

02:50But these meals are for the general public.

02:52So they're between 500 and 700 calories.

02:54So for instance, my pasta bolognese or risotto spinach.

02:58So I eat it at 12 and 3 and it's very convenient because those are always the most

03:02difficult times for people to eat because they're on the road or at work and the same

03:06for me.

03:07So that's why I do ready to eat meals.

03:09So that's kind of the trick for me.

03:10I always eat until I can't eat anymore.

03:14But for some reason, the body can always drink.

03:16For example, if you're in a restaurant, oh, I'm done.

03:19But then you always still drink a glass of cola or water.

03:23And that made me think, hey, if I can turn that space into oats, then I can reach the

03:301,000 calories.

03:31Meal number 4 is the pre-workout meal.

03:35So I do salmon with spinach and another oat shake.

03:39And that's 1,300 calories and 70 grams of protein and it gets me ready for the training.

03:44I have my meal at 6 and I train at 7.

03:47Now, during my training, I noticed that I can push much harder if I get protein in again

03:53and sugars.

03:54I have to tell you this.

03:56I invented the milk with extra protein in it.

03:59So what they do is a milk factory and they scoop out the proteins and they put it back

04:03into the milk.

04:05So what I do is I drink one liter of this and it's 75 grams of protein and it gets me through

04:11the training.

04:12But also my stomach immediately can use those proteins for recovery after training.

04:16So then before I go to bed, at 11, I eat half a kilo of quark.

04:20That's just kind of the Greek yogurt.

04:22And actually you can drink that.

04:23It's a kind of a trick that people call me crazy.

04:26If you put it in the microwave, this thick yogurt becomes really thin.

04:31So you put it in a shake, a little water and you can just drink, drink, drink, drink.

04:34And I do the same as my last meal at 7 at night.

04:37I don't set my alarm clock, but because I eat at 11, you wake up around 3 and then in

04:43the bathroom, there's another shake.

04:46And yeah.

04:47But if I don't do those one kilo of Greek yogurt, I will lose weight.

04:51It's so insane with the human body.

04:53The bigger you get and the heavier you get and the more calories you burn because you're

04:58moving with a body that's twice the size of a normal being.

05:01A lot of men are 80 kilo and I'm only 60.

05:03Do you really need 7,000 calories?

05:05Yes, I do just to stay like how I look now.

05:11The diet is harder than the training.

05:13The problem with people are trying to gain muscle is that most people really want to

05:19go to the gym and I see them going six times to the gym out of seven.

05:21Way too much, guys.

05:23But diet is every day.

05:25It has to be so consistent.

05:27I'm not a bodybuilder that goes on stage, but there's a consistency that if I miss it,

05:31one of those calories every day, I'm going to see it on weight scale.

05:34So it's really intense.

05:36But I got so used to it and my body got used to it.

05:39If I don't eat every three hours, I might get a little bit slow.

05:43So that also motivates me to, oh, I need to eat again.

05:47The Dutch pancakes are great.

05:49If I go out to dinner with my girlfriend and she asks, shall we do it?

05:52And I say, yeah, let's go to the pancake house.

05:54But I make sure that it's after training that I can really use those extra sugar carbs.

05:59I don't do those things in the normal daytime.

06:02It doesn't make sense.

06:04I have to cheat sometimes on normal days because of my work or traveling that I can't get the

06:09calories in.

06:11Out of the seven meals, sometimes one of it is fast food just to get the calories in.

06:15I'm sorry, guys, but it's the truth.

06:17Out of the 400 grams of animal protein, 100 grams are out of weight protein, because else

06:22I have to eat another 400 grams of meat, yeah, that would be insane.

06:27I couldn't do that.

06:28So I love to have my supplements, whey protein, I have my creatine, I have my fish oil, I have

06:33zinc magnesium, vitamin D3.

06:36And only sometimes I take a multivitamin, but that's when I feel weak.

06:40But I ate so many sources that I don't think I actually need a multivitamin.

06:44Ah, very good question.

06:47I'm very careful with caffeine because I love what it does with the body.

06:52So what I do is I never take caffeine unless I really need it.

06:56I'm super sensitive.

06:58So I only have to take like 40 milligrams and my eyes go .

07:02And that's amazing because I can use it on set as long as I don't use it on normal days,

07:07maximum two times a week, I can abuse the caffeine effect for the goodness of my mind and focus.

07:17The last meal I would ever eat?

07:19Kind of a sad story.

07:21Yeah, the last meal I would ever like to eat is my mother's hot spot.

07:26It's like mashed potatoes with gravy and carrots, there's like a sausage around it and pancakes

07:32on the side with some protein milk on the other side, because protein for life.

07:37Okay, listen, guys, I know my diet is super extreme, so don't do this at home.

07:41But what you can learn from it is that it is kind of healthy if you bring the numbers down.

07:46That's kind of the thing.

07:48For people with less appetite, learn from somebody in the extreme phase, but don't do it as extreme as.

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