Originally Posted by
Canon7
Hey thanks a lot for the quick response.
As for me, I am very dedicated to loosing body fat and increasing my gym performance. I want to be a bodybuilder. I go to college and I have no job, just time on my hands so besides doing my school work I live in the gym. My diet that I posted was a low carb diet, based on keto, since I read a few good and bad things about that kind of diet, I wanted to see others feedback on that subject. I read everyday a lot of information on bodybuilding and nutrition, and nutrition is still one thing I have yet to perfect. I read so many different opinions on nutrition I know there are many different ways to diet.
I feel that this "performance"dieting approach will help you 10-fold in your progress.
I for a while now have been listening to noobs offering me advice on nutrition and its getting me no where, thats why I am here today to get some real advice from someone who knows their stuff. I have read over your last post about a sample dietary approach, and I have a few questions.
1. So from what I got out of it, this is based off a 7 meal a day instead of 6 meals? How many hours should you wait for the next meal if it is 7 meals?
you can base it off of 6 meals if you want. You would just need to divide macros evenly across those meals. I eat every 2.5-3 hours.
2. I see you show chicken breast and sweet potato as a sample meal. What other foods would be appropriate for this diet, just anything that would fit into that macro 372cals, 8g fat, 30g carbs, 45.5g protein? Is there anything I should stay away from on this diet like milk etc?
tuna, steak, beef, turkey, salmon, eggs: your lean protein choice can vary as often as you'd like, you just want to be close to those macro totals for each meal. you're looking at minimal fat, around 30g of carbs and 40-50g of protein in your meals on this day in the diet. You can supplement milk into teh mix but then you would need to make room for it in your macros. So, in the example if you wanted 8 oz of milk you would cut that sweet potato offering in half, and eat about 4-5oz of chicken. Then your numbers would be roughly the same. Plus veggies are always a plus in a cutting diet. The fiber helps with motility and keeping you full.
If you could give an aspiring bodybuilder some advice I'd greatly appreciate it. I know 99% of you guys know a lot more than I do on this subject, I will admit I am a noob, but I learn new things everyday. Right now my nutrition is the main thing I want to get down and then go from there. I put some pictures up of my progress as of recently, I took almost 4 months off from lifting (worst mistake I have ever made) but have been back in it for about a month, working on getting my form and strength back to par.