Thread: will this diet get me shredded?

How much you weigh?

210
All I drink is water at least a gallon a day.
No junk food (now that I locked it up & don't sleep eat it)
Once a week I double my carbs.

I don't know very much about loosing weight, but that sure isn't a good bulk plan so it looks ok to me lol.

Originally Posted by ihateschoolmt

I don't know very much about loosing weight, but that sure isn't a good bulk plan so it looks ok to me lol.

lol...that's one way to go about it!

If you have your diet down to exacts like it sounds, seek out "BUILT" she seems to be the concensus diet guru and she has been xtremely helpful for me. I'm still getting a log of exacts for her using fitday but I'd say run by her. Heres some links from BUILT. great info.

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Originally Posted by jlee738

Breakfast 1 cup oatmeal 26g whether shake
Snack 2 carbmasters yogurt 1oz almonds
Lunch turkey sandwhich on whole wheat
Snack 1 can spicy Thai tuna 1 Apple
Pre wo 26g shake
Post wo 26g shake
Supper 8oz chick/fish/steak sweet pot veggies
Protein 235g
Carbs 140 w/o potatoes 160 w/potato
Fat 58.5g
Calories 2100
Fiber 25g
My weight 210
Bf % 20 ( thought it was 15 but was just guessing) I want to get to 12 to start
My first cycle any critiques on this diet will help. I for my night eating on lock now. No eating for a week in the middle of the night.

Originally Posted by jlee738

Breakfast 1 cup oatmeal 26g whether shake
Snack 2 carbmasters yogurt 1oz almonds
Lunch turkey sandwhich on whole wheat
Snack 1 can spicy Thai tuna 1 Apple
Pre wo 26g shake
Post wo 26g shake
Supper 8oz chick/fish/steak sweet pot veggies
Protein 235g
Carbs 140 w/o potatoes 160 w/potato
Fat 58.5g
Calories 2100
Fiber 25g
My weight 210
Bf % 20 ( thought it was 15 but was just guessing) I want to get to 12 to start
My first cycle any critiques on this diet will help. I for my night eating on lock now. No eating for a week in the middle of the night.

Okay - let's have a look here. You're carrying about 170 lbs lean mass if your bodyfat estimate is true; this means you'll hit 12% bodyfat at about 195 lbs if you don't drop muscle on the way down.

Your protein is adequate; I'd bring the fats up to at least 80g unless you're on gear. Drop the carbs down to around 100 to pay for the extra fat. Fibre looks great.

Now, these are some LOW calories you're planning to run. Your maintenance is likely over 2800, I'd guess, right? I'd ditch the oatmeal and sub in something with more protein for breakfast, personally. I hate carbs in the AM, they just make me hungry, but you may be different. Likewise a sandwich for lunch would make me insanely hungry by two in the afternoon, but again, if you're comfortable on this, you'll be fine. It all comes down to comfort. Personally, I like to eat a lot of my food late at night, so I skimp on my eats in the daytime.


What's your training looking like?

I figured my bf the way the military does with neck waist at belly button & height. Not the best way but not the worse either. My training is push pull legs Mon weds Fri as of now on training days I do 20 mins intense cardio (not hiit) in the a.m. before breakfast then 15 to 20 mins little less intense after workout. On Tues Thursday brisk walk in the a.m. & depending on how I feel in the p m too. Sat I push mowe the lawn takes about an hour. Might take kids swimming but nothing super strenuous. Rest Sunday. What if I cut oat meal to half cut out potatoes. Add cup of cottage cheese & some natty on for bedtime snack? That would give me around 200 more cals & put me in the carbs 100 fats 80g category. No I'm not on gear but trying to get bf down to start my first cycle.

Also one day a week I do a high carb day kind of a cheat day ill eat out mexican Chinese or somet&ing maybe once a month ill take my wife out for hot fudge cake. Is this recommended? That's what I've read to do. But seems everything u read u can find something saying just the opposite.

I mean a cheat day recommended. Lol not taking my wife out I do that every weekend. I know that's highly recommended.

bro, diet is a easy mathematical equation. if you eat more calories then you need you'll gain weight. if you eat less you'll lose it. do this: record your current body weight. then write down every thing you eat for 2 weeks. did you gain weight, lose weight or stay the same. if you gained, you're eating to much...maybe bump your cardio up, if you want to keep your calories the same. if you lost...reduce cardio until you level out. if you stayed the same...then this is your calorie needs. subtract 500 calories a day from your menu..or in most cases one meal, and you'll lose weight with even using cardio. it's pretty easy, it's not until you get down to the single digits does it start to get tricky. but unless you have a photo shoot or competition coming up...does it really matter?

Originally Posted by weightslayer

bro, diet is a easy mathematical equation. if you eat more calories then you need you'll gain weight. if you eat less you'll lose it. do this: record your current body weight. then write down every thing you eat for 2 weeks. did you gain weight, lose weight or stay the same. if you gained, you're eating to much...maybe bump your cardio up, if you want to keep your calories the same. if you lost...reduce cardio until you level out. if you stayed the same...then this is your calorie needs. subtract 500 calories a day from your menu..or in most cases one meal, and you'll lose weight with even using cardio. it's pretty easy, it's not until you get down to the single digits does it start to get tricky. but unless you have a photo shoot or competition coming up...does it really matter?

This.

Originally Posted by Built

Personally, I like to eat a lot of my food late at night, so I skimp on my eats in the daytime.

I dont mean to hijack this thread but i have a question for Built. I just started cutting my carbs down after 6pm because i "heard" that that puts on more weight. And i actually prefer to eat more at night then during the day. Yesterday i ate during the day around 900 calories and 1400 for dinner.

And i have cut out my sweet potatoes and brown rice at night that i love.

right now i am on the end of my cycle and i am taking some winny (and test of course), so i was taking advantage and cutting right now until PCT that i start eating about 500 calories above maintenance.

So my question:

Do i have to cut carbs out at night to help lose weight? or is that a myth?

Originally Posted by djflipnautikz

I dont mean to hijack this thread but i have a question for Built. I just started cutting my carbs down after 6pm because i "heard" that that puts on more weight. And i actually prefer to eat more at night then during the day. Yesterday i ate during the day around 900 calories and 1400 for dinner.

And i have cut out my sweet potatoes and brown rice at night that i love.

right now i am on the end of my cycle and i am taking some winny (and test of course), so i was taking advantage and cutting right now until PCT that i start eating about 500 calories above maintenance.

So my question:

Do i have to cut carbs out at night to help lose weight? or is that a myth?

Things like "don't eat after 8 pm" , etc. are more guidelines to keep dieting simple and help avoid the tendency to eat junk later at night. Just because its later at night doesn't mean you are going to get fat. The more appropriate question is are you going to use it? Specifically to carbs, much later at night, they may tend to give you a little sugar spike and subsequent crash, as well as burning up quicker than e.g. fats over the course of the night, thus leaving you going longer between meals (last meal to breakfast) or equivalently longer between refueling your body - so people who are aware of dieting tend to reduce carb intake later at night in favor of a last meal of e.g. casein (slow-digesting protein) and / or fats that are generally digested slower and won't cause a sugar spike, if that tends to make it harder for you to fall asleep.