photoshoot prep help needed, diet with macros included.

[tbody66]

All good advice on the diet side, post up your lifting/cardio routine and schedule, also what's the photo shoot for? Clothing/underwear/adult film/hand model?

[Sgt. Hartman]

Your diet looks a lot better than most of those I see posted here, but I couldn't help but notice that sometimes you're consuming more than twice as much protein at a time than what your body can even absorb. Consequently you have some fairly expensive bowel movements

Just for the sake of saving money I would recommend reducing your protein intake per meal. Also I notice that you have a serious lack of legumes. Legumes are high in folate (folic acid), which is essential in the creation of new cells, muscle tissue being the cells of particular relevance here. The great thing about legumes are that they are so low in protein, calories, carbohydrates and fat that adding them into your preexisting meals will not disrupt your macros enough to be of concern.

Here is a great list of legumes that you can find at your local grocery store:

Adzuki Beans
Black Beans
Black-eyed peas
Broad Beans (Fava Beans)
Butter Beans
Calico Beans
Cannellini Beans
Chickpeas (Garbanzo Beans)
Edamame
Great Northern Beans
Italian Beans
Kidney Beans
Lentils
Lima Beans
Mung Beans
Navy Beans
Pinto Beans

Finally I'd like to recommend trading all of that extra protein for a quality casein protein supplement and consuming around 40g of protein just before bedtime. This is an excellent way to avoid allowing your body to reach a catabolic state while you sleep, thus adding even more lean muscle tissue to your bulking phase.

^^^That's complete broscience. This subject has been beaten to death on here but there are many studies that prove it's not true. Look into intermittent fasting.

All good advice on the diet side, post up your lifting/cardio routine and schedule, also what's the photo shoot for? Clothing/underwear/adult film/hand model?

^^^LMAO! Sholva is gonna have a new man crush......

[BBrian]

^^^That's complete broscience. This subject has been beaten to death on here but there are many studies that prove it's not true. Look into intermittent fasting.

Heh, I have a hard time referring to something as broscience when its information obtained from numerous published scientific journals, but on that subject we discover new things about the body and counter information that was previously believed true on a daily basis. No doubt what we find to be true today can be found to be otherwise tomorrow. Still, I didn't get this information from the back of my toilet seat. Excess consumption of protein is a very well studied process. For example, as concluded in the 1992 study "Evaluation of protein requirements for trained strength athletes" from the Journal of Applied Physiology, we find that when a high protein intake is consumed, there is an increase in urea excretion, which suggests amino acid oxidation is increased. High levels of protein intake increase the activity of branched-chain ketoacid dehydrogenase. As a result, oxidation is facilitated, and the amino group of the amino acid is excreted to the liver. This process suggests that excess protein consumption results in protein oxidation and that the protein is excreted. The body is unable to store excess protein (also concluded in the 2007 journal "Absorption Kinetics of Amino Acids, Peptides, and Intact Proteins" from the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism). I could literally go into this all day if I wanted to, and explain how it is found that excess amino acids are converted into usable molecules by the liver which in turn converts nitrogen from the amino acid into ammonia, which is then converted by the liver into urea, and I'm sure you know where that ends up. The bladder. The body will also produce fat from excess protein, turning it into fat cells, thereby reversing the desired effects of a cutting cycle. Furthermore, many researchers have found that excessive protein intake increases calcium excretion in urine, which can lead to a calcium deficiency. And yet another problem created from excessive protein intake is that of kidney stone formation. It has been found that high animal protein intake in the healthy increases the probability of kidney stones by 250%, published in "A Report of the Panel on Macronutrients, Subcommittees on Upper Reference Levels of Nutrients and Interpretation of Uses in Dietary Reference Intakes, and the Standing Committee on the Scientific Evaluation of Dietary Reference Intakes" in 2005. Perhaps the subject has been beaten to death for good reason.

At any rate, forgive my rant but I want to make very clear that this is not "broscience".

I've been reading about Intermittent Fasting and while I'm having a difficult time making the connection, and I don't doubt that you have made some interesting finds in this regard, I have to ask; is this person fasting intermittently? If not, would this be relevant? I'm interested to learn more about the subject.