Originally Posted by xenithon
Hi All,
Here's my new diet for maintenance/slow lean mass gain. I'm 22, 1.8m, 65kg, around 9% body fat (used to be VERY overweight, thus inherent fear of trying to gain back too quickly). Weight train 4x a week, low intensity cardio 3x a week on off days. Diet is a modified carb-cycling diet: training days ~150g carbs, 2 off days ~50g carbs (breakfast only), 3rd off day a carb-up of ~300g carbs.
Here is a typical day's diet (training - Mon, Tues, Thur, Fri):
9am - 12 egg whites, oats (40p, 50c)
11-12am - train
12am - PWO shake (40p from whey, 35c from oats)
1:15pm - PPWO chicken and brown rice (50p, 50c)
4:30pm - turkey, fibrous vege, healthy fat (50p, 15f)
8pm - tuna, fibrous vege, healthy fat (40p, 15f)
12pm: slow digesting protein and flax oil (30p, 15f)
Totals including miscellaneous carbs and fats in the food: 250p, 150c, 50f
Non-training days (Wed, Sat): same as above, but no PWO shake, and PPWO becomes another Protein/Fat/Fibrous Vege meal. Totals for non-training days: 220g protein, 50g carbs, 60g fat.
Carb-up day (Sun):
9am, 12:30am, 4pm, 7:30pm - 35g lean protein and 75g complex carbs
12pm: 30g slow digesting protein, 15g flax oil
Totals: 170p, 300c, 15f
How does it look? Any advice? To give you an idea, it is around 200-300 calories more than I am currently taking in. Also what do you think of making Saturday a no-carb day (in preparation for Sunday's carb-up), thus being only protein, healthy fats, fibrous veges.
Thanks for any help and advice,
X
PS. This is much shorter than the previous thread so hopefully people can read through it completely and chip in :) If you need further details please ask.