Pre-Cycle BLOODWORK: HELP!

[cousinmuscles]

Agree with Chris. Lots of natural potential, 171 lbs is light. You may think your diet is good but truthfully there is a lot of room for improvement. Your overall food protocol is good for the average young adult wanting to be healthy. From a bodybuilding and fitness perspective, it's mediocre at best.

- Having a snack that's also a preworkout meal doesn't make sense
- Looks like 40-45% of your protein is coming from powders
- breakfast is poor
- doesn't appear to be a meal before bed unless its snack#2

How do you know you don't need calcium? Do you have bloodwork? If you don't need calcium supplementation why are you taking it ?

Your water intake is a huge range - why isn't it consistent or have a smaller delta ? Your maximum is literally double your minimum.

Not to mention the portions are miniscule. Either its a protein shake with some oil and a sprinkle of oats and a fruit. Or one (only one lol) chicken breast with some salad. Or a handful of nuts.

A normal meal is more like 8+ ounces of chicken, 4-6 ounces of brown rice/quinoa/bulgur (weighed uncooked), some veggies and some healthy fats. A variation would be 6 ounces meat, 4-6 ounces grain, 3-4 ounces beans/legumes, some healthy fats... your calories go up by 500+ per meal. 3 of these kind of meals per day minimum. Make the breakfast something for a man, not your 90 year old grandma. Some eggs, a cup of oatmeal and a fruit in the oats. So now you have 4 meals. Depending on your calories so far add one or two more meals where you can supplement with whey, but make it more meaningful, you can make some homemade protein bars with peanut butter, or whey and a sandwitch, or whey and fruit and nuts et.c.

[Windex]

Not to mention the portions are miniscule. Either its a protein shake with some oil and a sprinkle of oats and a fruit. Or one (only one lol) chicken breast with some salad. Or a handful of nuts.

A normal meal is more like 8+ ounces of chicken, 4-6 ounces of brown rice/quinoa/bulgur (weighed uncooked), some veggies and some healthy fats. A variation would be 6 ounces meat, 4-6 ounces grain, 3-4 ounces beans/legumes, some healthy fats... your calories go up by 500+ per meal. 3 of these kind of meals per day minimum. Make the breakfast something for a man, not your 90 year old grandma. Some eggs, a cup of oatmeal and a fruit in the oats. So now you have 4 meals. Depending on your calories so far add one or two more meals where you can supplement with whey, but make it more meaningful, you can make some homemade protein bars with peanut butter, or whey and a sandwitch, or whey and fruit and nuts et.c.

Agreed