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Performance Area => Strength, Power, Reactivity, & Speed Discussion => Topic started by: D-Rose Jr on March 29, 2011, 04:45:40 pm
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http://www.higher-faster-sports.com/dietproblems.html
After reading Kelly's article I decided to test my diet for like 2 weeks. After putting in a couple days into fitday, I see that I am eating WAY too many carbs and too little protein. Like today I ate 220 carbs when today was an off day.
Following Kelly's advice:
1. I decided whether to focus on losing fat or gaining muscle
2. Making small adjustments to the food I eat for that goal
FOr the longest time I did not know whether to be focusing on gaining muscle or losing fat. After reading this:
http://jasonferruggia.com/carb-cycling-made-easy-part-1/
http://jasonferruggia.com/carb-cycling-made-easy-part-2/
I decided on focusing on losing fat because I have 16.60% body fat.*
As I already mentioned, you need to first determine your bodyfat levels. That will tell you how many carbs you can consume on each day. The fatter you are the fewer carbs you can have and the leaner you are the more carbs you can eat.
This is for two reasons. Firstly, when you’re fat (above 15% bodyfat) your insulin sensitivity usually sucks. That means you don’t tolerate carbs very well and eating them is very likely to make you even fatter. Secondly, if you’re fat and trying to get lean, that’s obviously going to be difficult to do while eating a lot of carbs. But that’s pretty damn obvious.
When you’re trying to gain size but are above 15% bodyfat you will gain an equal amount of fat and muscle when you eat a decent amount of carbs. That’s if you’re lucky. In the worst case scenario you will gain two pounds of fat for every pound of muscle. So it’s best to be somewhat lean before trying to gain a ton of size.
*67.5 inches tall, 30.75 waist, 12.75 neck, 140 lbs
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I decided to adjust my breakfast. I will eat: some protein (eggs,nuts,beef jerkey) + carb (fruit on nontraining days and carb on training day)
Monday:Cashews,apple,water
Tuesday: beef jerkey, chocolate milk
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I decided to adjust my breakfast. I will eat: some protein (eggs,nuts,beef jerkey) + carb (fruit on nontraining days and carb on training day)
Monday:Cashews,apple,water
Tuesday: beef jerkey, chocolate milk
- cashews
+ eggs
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I wanted it to be eggs but there is no way i can sneak in some eggs in class and I don't have the appetite to eat at 5:30-6:30
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Then drink a protein shake or eat beef jerky or whatever has some good protein
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I wanted it to be eggs but there is no way i can sneak in some eggs in class and I don't have the appetite to eat at 5:30-6:30
If your losing fat as goal and not hungry let it be man. Still gotta get protein in but since you're keeping carbs low your body will be set up to use fat preferentially so protein scavenging (ie muscle loss) will be minimal.
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How about a simple bowl or two of muesli for breakfast?, which is pretty perfect if you find the right product.
When it comes to diet, people complicate the $hit out of it.
Just ask Lyle & JC. ;D
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How about a simple bowl or two of muesli for breakfast?, which is pretty perfect if you find the right product.
When it comes to diet, people complicate the $hit out of it.
Just ask Lyle & JC. ;D
(http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/003/0/3/haters_gonna_hate_by_genshihebi-d36bgfk.gif)
I bulk on fast food, whole milk, and candy. Just saying
You'd probably be better off putting on some muscle first, but if you insist on cutting, just cut carbs a bit and eat below maintenance. You're not very lean so you don't need to get technical.