Military folks

**Curlingcadys** · 05-12-2011, 06:25 AM

Question for some of the military guys/gals on the board, how did you maintain a decent diet short deployments? When we went over the first time it wasn't that bad, but did end up taking more whey sups than desired as we all know our portions of the actual good food is not decided by us however I have a short one coming up, spending a month in Germany and I know trying to fly over with baged powders will probably be near impossible this day and age, and so it'll mostly be wonderfull chow hall food..(insert sarcasm) I've allready started stripping down MRE's for every meat product I can get my hands on, and usually the veggie side we have free reign on in the chow hall so that shouldn't be bad, good carbs? eh...good luck. Just curious to what others have done on these short tours, on the big ones its not to bad like I said chow halls are better, and access to sups if need be are there when you visit the main bases/fob's. Just looking for ideas thats all, calories as a whole are easy to come by they just aren't "great" calories.....hardly even good calories. May just have to deal with a bit of fat to maintain muscle, but it is only 4wks I'm going to be in scavenger mode for diet. I'll be mostly relying on body weight, weapon weight, ammo weight to be creative for work outs as it is- no gym, so its going to be tough as it is.

Thanks

**gt55yw** · 05-12-2011, 09:26 AM

On the diet, not sure, but a buddy of mine talks about all the crazy things he did with his equipment to give himself weight to do exercises. I can ask him a few things if you're interested.

**CPTBS** · 05-12-2011, 09:54 AM

Just got back from a year tour in Iraq. I gained 20lbs of muscle during that time. Yes the DFAC food is limiting. I used EAS Myoplex. It is a perfect meal in a package. They fit in my bags and are labeled so they will go through customs. I ate the best I could at the DFAC for three meals and supplemented the others with Myoplex. Worked great. If you know your company's APO in Germany you can order from Bodybuilding.com and have it sent in advance. You can stuff your packed boots, shoes and side pouches with Myoplex. I did and it worked out for me. Good Luck

**Curlingcadys** · 05-12-2011, 03:55 PM

Originally Posted by CPTBS

Just got back from a year tour in Iraq. I gained 20lbs of muscle during that time. Yes the DFAC food is limiting. I used EAS Myoplex. It is a perfect meal in a package. They fit in my bags and are labeled so they will go through customs. I ate the best I could at the DFAC for three meals and supplemented the others with Myoplex. Worked great. If you know your company's APO in Germany you can order from Bodybuilding.com and have it sent in advance. You can stuff your packed boots, shoes and side pouches with Myoplex. I did and it worked out for me. Good Luck

Completely forgot about the myoplex pouches, that maybe the ticket there. Just need to get by for a month, if we were going over for a real deployment I'd be set mailing shit ahead of time and the PX's were usually stocked with the basics so we had a good chance to stock up prior to going out to our FOB.

I'm good on the working out gt55, we were pretty inovative on the last deployment when we were out on mission crashing at someone elses FOB with no gym. It's amazing what you can do just with weapons, full ammo cans,550 cord,maybe an engineer stake or 2, and MRE boxes as a bench. I distinctly remember "50 meters of death", lunges with a .50 or MK19 on your shoulder for 50 meters

talk about legs on fire but it worked.

Anyway thanks for the input guys.

**dirtbiker666** · 05-13-2011, 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by Curlingcadys

Completely forgot about the myoplex pouches, that maybe the ticket there. Just need to get by for a month, if we were going over for a real deployment I'd be set mailing shit ahead of time and the PX's were usually stocked with the basics so we had a good chance to stock up prior to going out to our FOB.

I'm good on the working out gt55, we were pretty inovative on the last deployment when we were out on mission crashing at someone elses FOB with no gym. It's amazing what you can do just with weapons, full ammo cans,550 cord,maybe an engineer stake or 2, and MRE boxes as a bench. I distinctly remember "50 meters of death", lunges with a .50 or MK19 on your shoulder for 50 meters

talk about legs on fire but it worked.

Anyway thanks for the input guys.

I don't know about you but the defact is like my home I love all there food an spend alot of time in.I don't get why you would have probs in germany tho? And I used to hoard alot of PB when I would deploy ...

**Curlingcadys** · 05-14-2011, 11:59 PM

Originally Posted by dirtbiker666

I don't know about you but the defact is like my home I love all there food an spend alot of time in.I don't get why you would have probs in germany tho? And I used to hoard alot of PB when I would deploy ...

I'm sure Germany on the main side will be fine but I know 90% of the time we'll be out in the field so I know they'll be meal oportunities missed. PB is good to a point- in addition to some meals on the condement level, the MRP route will be the ticket for maintaining though, all I need is water and thats easy enough to come by. Yes the DFAC wasn't too bad, but you could never get the quanity of the "good" food you should be eating but hell they were always willing to double up your tray with fuckin french fries though....go figure. That was always pretty much in the lands of "milk and honey- is there a war going on?" AKA Bagram/Kandahar, DFACS change quite a bit when you get out to the FOBs so you need back up plans. But like I said this is just a month so its not a big deal considering to maintain just needed some other diet brainstorming.
Apreciate it.

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