Please critique my first cutting Diet..

[DNSource]

9am- Oatmeal, 1 cup of eggbeaters = 4Eggs, 2 whole wheat toast(sugar free)

12:00pm- Chicken breast or 2 cans of tuna, veggies

2:30pm(at work) - whey protein w/ 2 tbsp flax

4pm(at work)- ?????

6:30pm(work)- Low carb protein bar

8:30pm- ??? This is my last meal at work(9pm) before I go to the gym(btwn 9-10 pm)

11:30pm- PWO Meal...I need help with this one

* Should the Post workout meal be my last one before I go to sleep?

I REALLY NEED HELP SETTING THIS DIET UP!!

[Musclemar]

Your diet looks ok but where are the carbs?? You can't eliminate carbs from your diet! You will a) get friggin frustrated & cranky b) you won't be able to stick with it c) you won't be eating enough calories.

The best thing to do if you want is to either cycle your carbs ie 2-3 days low and 1 day high (refeed day) OR drop your complex carbs completely for the last 2 meals of the day and sunstitute with firbous carbs instead.

I suggest a diet like this:

Meal 1
1/2 cup oatmeal
8 eggwhites
1 yolk
half grapefruit

Meal 2
6-8 oz chicken or tuna
1 baked sweet potato
steamed veg

Meal 3
Whey protein
1/2 cup oats

Meal 4
6oz cottage cheese
apple

Meal 5
Protein bar
(or you could bring food from home)

Meal 6 (post workout)
2 scoops whey

[StoneGRMI]

PWO- whey/dex shake

[SwoleCat]

You will benefit GREATLY from reading the "HOW TO CUT" sample approach atop the page, as it's a great general guide to get you started.

~SC~

[Maraxus]

Your diet looks ok but where are the carbs?? You can't eliminate carbs from your diet! You will a) get friggin frustrated & cranky b) you won't be able to stick with it c) you won't be eating enough calories.

The best thing to do if you want is to either cycle your carbs ie 2-3 days low and 1 day high (refeed day) OR drop your complex carbs completely for the last 2 meals of the day and sunstitute with firbous carbs instead.

I suggest a diet like this:

Meal 1
1/2 cup oatmeal
8 eggwhites
1 yolk
half grapefruit

Meal 2
6-8 oz chicken or tuna
1 baked sweet potato
steamed veg

Meal 3
Whey protein
1/2 cup oats

Meal 4
6oz cottage cheese
apple

Meal 5
Protein bar
(or you could bring food from home)

Meal 6 (post workout)
2 scoops whey

wtf is this?
Protein Bar? Grapefruit (pure sugar)? no carbs pwo? and no ppwo meal? Jesus christ man. Disregard this persons advice.

[Maraxus]

Meal 1.
(Post AM Cardio)
10-12 Eggwhites, broccoli, flax seed oil.

Meal 2.
Lean Protein, Broccoli (green beans), flax seed oil.

Meal 3.
Lean protein, broccoli w/flax seed oil.

Meal 4
(Pre-workout meal)
Protein Shake + flax seed oil

Meal 5 (PWO) Post-workout meal
Protein shake + Dextrose 2:1 Ratio, preferable 40g:80g

Meal 6 (PPWO) Post-post workout meal
Lean protein (chicken breast) Broccoli, 1 cup brown rice

Meal 7 (pre-bed meal)

Protein shake + flax seed oil.

[DNSource]

Thanks allot!! By "lean protein" do you mean like chicken breast, fish, etc etc...or A shake?
Two More Questions:
1. I have EAS Carb Sence bars would you recomend me eating those somewhere in therE?
2. What Whey protein would you guys recommend that I should take?

[Maraxus]

In my opinion as well as many others on this board, bars are a waste of money. The protein in those bars are sub-standart and theyre filled with sugar (an enemy in cutting diets). By lean protein I mean Chicken breast . The whey protein that I use is from the Company AllTheWhey, I purchase their Whey Protein Isolate.


Trust me if you read the cutting sticky you will absorb much more information.

[DNSource]

Taking flax with all these meals isnt bad for you in any way?

[Kärnfysikern]

taking flax with all those meals isnt bad. But imo alternating betwen oil and flax every other meal is better. To get the benifits from both poly and monounsaturated fats.

[DNSource]

taking flax with all those meals isnt bad. But imo alternating betwen oil and flax every other meal is better. To get the benifits from both poly and monounsaturated fats.

Are you saying that I should get flax in pill form too? Sorry that mixed me up a little.

[Kärnfysikern]

lol a typo. I meant alternating betwen olive oil and flax oil. I by misstake only wrote oil