Is your diet REALLY in check? is it?
Im posting this as Im sure there are others that are guilty of doing the same things I used to do regarding my diet.
"eye balling it" , "ballparking it" , "estimating" , "winging it" and just plain guessing.
This is how I used to go about my diet, occasionally I would pull out a measuring cup for something liquid but that was about it. This was a HUGE problem with my diet and surely limited my progress.
Get a scale, WEIGH EVERYTHING!!!!
You may be surprised what 8oz of chicken breast, 250g of cottage cheese or 6oz of sirloin looks like.
When it comes to your fats , like natty peanut butter or extra virgin olive oil. Be sure to measure these. I used to grab a soup spoon and just take a scoop of pb and call it a tbsp, or just drizzle what I thought looked like a tbsp of olive oil onto my food. How wrong I was.
Carbs are no different, be it oats, sweet potatoes or pasta, weigh it!!! I find carbs to be very easy to under estimate your actual intake.
Whey protein powder
You have probably noticed on the nutrition label of your protein that it give info for "1 scoop" which has a weight listed beside it, usually in grams. I highly recommend weighing your powder as well and you may be surprised what "1 scoop" really looks like. In my experience it is usually a heaping scoop that is required to hit the weight on the nutrition label.
Bottom line, if you are not being as precise as you can be with your diet, you are only cheating yourself. This is the first cycle I have truly had my diet dialled in and the results are my best thus far.
Measure and/or weigh everything you put in your mouth!!
Just some food for thought, pun intended.
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i couldn't agree more. i have talked to many about their diets and all claimed to be great and have x amount of protein, carbs, etc. once i have them break it down for me it is a lot less than they think. diet will be key all around. when i first got into bodybuilding the first thing i researched was diet. i followed a good training routine until i figured out what works best for me and then started researching AAS.
Looks like a good diet.. How long have you been on this diet? Whats the total calorie intake of this regimen? What times do you eat what food? Have you lost weight with this? Just curious..im 6ft4in 275 23 percent BF and would like to get down to 15% to 18% range. I definitely need to tighten the reigns!
Terephthalic Pt...Well it's not like you need to be super precise. Calorimetry can have up to a 10% error anyway. I just make sure to overestimate rather than underestimate since I'm a hard gainer and I'm fine.
It's not like you'll ever be able to accurately say how much energy you use during each day anyway.
True, but keeping very consistent nutrition and routine allows you to figure out how much , of what, you need to reach whatever goal you are after. Lots of people arent as lucky as you to be able to just overestimate everything, if I personally do that, I get really fat really quick......
Terephthalic Pt...Yeah I can see how that would be a problem. Being a hard gainer sucks balls, but I can see where the reverse is true as well.
It can be a chore writing everything down at first because you always have to look up the nutritiion content of the foods. After doing it for awhile you remember the nutrition content (protein, carbs, fat, calories) and it becomes second nature then and doesn't take any time at all.
exactly, it gets easier everyday.
Chaz32621What does ur diet look like??? Cutting or bulking??
currently neither cutting or bulking but recomping. My daily nutrition currently consists of:
750ml egg whites
4 whole eggs
2/3 cup oats
8oz of chicken tenderloin
250g 2% cottage cheese
80g whey
1 can of tuna ( can remember the weight off the top of my head)
1tbsp natty pb
1/2cup mixed beeries
and a lot of water, i use a lot of sauce, mustard and mrs.dash for adding flavour. Pretty bland diet but its easy for me to stick to. Occasionally I swap the chicken for basa or tilapia and sometimes a littlentop cut sirloin.
Thats mon-sat , sundays look different as thats my high carb day with 450g of carbs.
sgtstedankoboom! Yup Yup, weigh everything. & write everything down as well. Nice post, brother...