Critique my diet please.

[Livinlean]

Protein is kind of high but not a big deal. At your stats, 300g is plenty - that's more than 1.5g/lb of LBM. Carbs are excessively high IMO. If both came down, overall calories would obviously come down as well, which I also think are high.

As you already pointed out - meal 1 is ridiculous. 1/3 of your daily calories in a single meal - unnecessary. I'd literally cut the P/C/F in half. I'd drop the almonds and add a whole egg. I'd remove the flax all together, or replace with fish oils.

I don't like all the milk, but maybe you do ok with it, alot of people don't tolerate it well. I'd at least swap it for skim however. I'd completely remove it before bed, and again i'd swap ALL your flax out for fish oils. Flax is not a good omega-3 source despite what alot of people believe.

I'd swap all they whey for a protein blend (i.e. whey, casein, egg albumin, etc) with the possible exception of PWO - even then it wouldn't be a bad idea IMO. Also no green veggies at all.

Hardly any variation in protein sources, i.e. no beef or fish.

Again, if this diet is working as well as you say it is, then I wouldn't change a single thing until it starts to stall. Then consider some of the changes i've suggested.

Well at this point I am feeling that this diet is starting to stall I'm not getting the results I once was. So I will make some of the changes you said.

I didn't add the veggies I eat in the diet, I do eat some but not a lot. I usually have 2 salads a day fairly small. One is usually mid day with the 2 glasses of water and another is with Meal 5. The salads are always different as my mom is a chef and brings home whatever is left over that day.

As for protein variation my meal 5 at 7pm is sometimes switched to a steak or salmon but that's only on days when my mom cooks dinner, when I'm cooking I like to keep things simple.

So I will switch out 1% milk for skim, Buy fish oil instead of the flax seed oil, and use casein in any shake which isn't after my workout.

Why do you say get rid of the almonds and add a whole egg? For my breakfast shake I will take 1 scoop of whey instead of 2 and 1/2cup of oats instead of a full cup.

If I am cutting some of my foods out wont that be counter productive because I am trying to gain weight? I was personally thinking of adding some more food in there lol.

[gbrice75]

Why do you say get rid of the almonds and add a whole egg? For my breakfast shake I will take 1 scoop of whey instead of 2 and 1/2cup of oats instead of a full cup.

Just trying to get the total fat content of the meal down, but adding a whole egg in there for the full spectrum amino's, whole eggs are a wonderful protein source and I never do an egg meal with whites only - not that whites only are bad, but yolks are full of nutrients amd 4.5g fat from a whole egg > some fats from nuts IMO.

If I am cutting some of my foods out wont that be counter productive because I am trying to gain weight? I was personally thinking of adding some more food in there lol.

All depends on your caloric needs. Somehow I doubt you need more than 4000 calories to add weight, but you say you were burning bodyfat on this diet so who knows. Maybe you have a sick metabolism, but people like that don't usually get up to 18% bodyfat so you're a strange case lol!

[Livinlean]

Just trying to get the total fat content of the meal down, but adding a whole egg in there for the full spectrum amino's, whole eggs are a wonderful protein source and I never do an egg meal with whites only - not that whites only are bad, but yolks are full of nutrients amd 4.5g fat from a whole egg > some fats from nuts IMO.

Alright I will take your advice on that. I will cut out the almonds and add a whole egg. Should I add 2 or will 1 suffice?

All depends on your caloric needs. Somehow I doubt you need more than 4000 calories to add weight, but you say you were burning bodyfat on this diet so who knows. Maybe you have a sick metabolism, but people like that don't usually get up to 18% bodyfat so you're a strange case lol!

Well when I was at that high of a BF I was taking weight gainers with absurdly high amounts of sugar and fat probably twice a day thats like 3000 calories right there. I was more into the power lifting scene as I wanted to out lift all my buddies and wanted to catch up to some of my cousins who compete as power lifters. My diet was sh!t I was eating fast food once a day, and thats a minimum of once a day loll. I totally changed my perspective of what I wanted to look like.. I was more into showing off infront of my friends but now I'm more into living the healthy lifestyle, plus my gf likes it better this way lolll!

[gbrice75]

Alright I will take your advice on that. I will cut out the almonds and add a whole egg. Should I add 2 or will 1 suffice?

Depends - how much of the fat in that meal is coming from just the almonds currently?

Well when I was at that high of a BF I was taking weight gainers with absurdly high amounts of sugar and fat probably twice a day thats like 3000 calories right there. I was more into the power lifting scene as I wanted to out lift all my buddies and wanted to catch up to some of my cousins who compete as power lifters. My diet was sh!t I was eating fast food once a day, and thats a minimum of once a day loll.

Got it!

I totally changed my perspective of what I wanted to look like.. I was more into showing off infront of my friends but now I'm more into living the healthy lifestyle, plus my gf likes it better this way lolll!

I like your new style better too.