The Cheat Meal Supplement

Eat Carbs, Stay Lean

Protect your waistline from cheat meals and high-carb binges with this supplement. Here’s how.


I eat a big plate of “'49ers flapjacks” every Saturday morning at my neighborhood diner. That kind of fare isn’t typically part of my diet the rest of the week. It’s a treat I give myself because I don’t want to be the kind of person who, on his deathbed, wishes he’d eaten more flapjacks.

I know it’s dietary crap. Too many white-flour garbage carbs topped off with even more garbage carbs from syrup. But I don’t sweat it because before eating my flapjacks, I give myself a little dietary insurance by taking 3 capsules of cyanidin 3-glucoside (C3G) (on Amazon).

“Bad” Carbs and Peripheral Insulin Sensitivity

Most of the effects of C3G are realized in days and weeks in the form of increased muscle gains, bigger muscle pumps, enhanced recovery, and fat burning, but those effects are precipitated by what happens in the minutes after you take it.

But it’s those quick-acting effects that make it such a good insurance policy against crappy carbs. What C3G does in the minutes after you take it is increase your peripheral insulin sensitivity, which has to do with how readily body cells in your periphery tissue (muscle and fat) absorb glucose or sugar.

If peripheral insulin sensitivity is high, you can eat lots of flapjacks, or lots of any other carb source, for that matter, and you won’t experience a large insulin release. Carbs can be preferentially shuttled off to muscle instead of being stored as fat. And, because insulin levels remain low, fatty acids can still continue to be released.

It’s hugely more complicated than that and involves a host of metabolic pathways, but suffice it to say, increased insulin sensitivity before a meal, especially a meal high in “garbage” carbs, is a good thing.

What Do I Need to Do?

People who use C3G daily to build muscle, increase exercise performance, enhance recovery, and burn fat generally take 3 capsules 30 minutes before they start their pre-workout supplementation. On non-workout days, they take 3 capsules 30 minutes before their biggest meal of the day.

But you can also use C3G to give yourself a little insurance policy against poor meal choices or cheat meals in general. Just take 3 capsules of C3G (sold as Indigo-3G (on Amazon)) 30 minutes before eating. For those of you who already use Indigo-3G, this would be in addition to your normal daily dosage. Maple syrup is optional.

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Appreciate the tip on taking an additional dose for the cheat meals! I had been doing that for a while now, curious if it was a smart idea or not. As someone that effectively eats zero carbs 6 and 3/4 days a week, knowing that I’m absolutely maximizing the carbs I DO eat has been pretty clutch.

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I always wondered about more than one dose in a day, because this is me:

and now this will be too, when necessary:

Thanks for the tip!

Dating back to the Brian Cushing article on Indigo-3G I’ve been a huge fan of this supplement. And in the interest of transparency - I don’t necessarily have an issue with carbs (6-3 210) but man I just love it before dinner and a training session. Much different ‘feel’ for both.

Just started taking Indigo about a week ago. I have been targeting prior to largest meal of the day in which I may have a higher carb content. Somehow missed the dosage prior to early A.M. workouts also.

So to be clear, double dosing (early workouts and also later meals) is the proper protocol?

Personally, I would either take it before my training session (every other day), or if I wasn’t training I would take it before dinner.
I’ll defer to the experts here for further clarification.

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you barely eat carbs one day per week, and you feel that this supplement is beneficial? wouldn’t you already be in a heightened state of insulin sensitivity on the one day you take in your carbs?

This makes it even more beneficial, and makes it that I am better at digesting such a foreign macro

that makes sense, thanks @SteelerBill.

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