Thread: meal and diet help

oops, i forgot to add the baked potato i ate! sorry

this changes the totals to:

3624cal/214fat/183carbs/241protein

Dude, go to the "online diaries" and make your own diary. That way you can post your meals and workouts everyday...then people can come help in the areas they know about...plus you can keep all of your diet, exercise and personal questions together. A lot of people have diaries here. People will want to know more about you before they can help.

i already made an online diary, but i've seen several threads dealing with the same question i asked here. i'm new to the community so i'm sure how it operates yet! thanks for the tip though.

Oh, ok...my bad.

Welcome to IM

You will probably get many views on bulking. Some will say eat, eat and eat. Which is true but you should understand that you may put on fat as well depending on your metabolism.

Here is DP and w8's plan on bulking if it helps. Bulking with Slow burners will help so you don't gain as much fat but if you have a fast metabolism and don't really want to restrict yourself - EAT AND ENJOY AND GROW!!!

Originally posted by Malachor
hi everybody

i've read about half of the stickies and this place just in general has changed my life big time in a weekend!

i'm 17, 6'2 234lbs looking to put on quality muscle.

I have had 4 meals today and 3 snacks. I went to fitday.com and got an account. i guess i'm just a moron, but even when i went to customized foods and added some of the foods, the data wasn't exactly right.. however, it's better than ballpark, give or take some.

here is my meals today and times:

6:10 Breakfast

4 scrambled eggs with some salt, pepper, and tobasco sauce.
6 protein/4.5 Fat/less than 1g carbs with 70 calories

Yes...I'd say it's a bit off still because 4 whole eggs has more like:

309 calories
21 fat
2 carb
25 protein


I'm not quite sure what your question is Did you just want an evaluation of your current diet? If so, we need to know if it's working for you so far? Are you happy w/ the progress, how long have you been training and how long have you been doing this diet/trying to add muscle?

I will say that the penut butter you're using is not the healthy kind You need to get an all-natural sugar -free peanut butter...the one you're using has added icing sugar and hydrogenated oils.

And your fat seems maybe a bit high, carbs a little too low.

Originally posted by w8lifter
Yes...I'd say it's a bit off still because 4 whole eggs has more like:

309 calories
21 fat
2 carb
25 protein

Sorry about that, all the numbers i posted were not totaled up, that was just for one egg or one serving. i didnt add any of the numbers up until the totals.

I'm not quite sure what your question is Did you just want an evaluation of your current diet? If so, we need to know if it's working for you so far? Are you happy w/ the progress, how long have you been training and how long have you been doing this diet/trying to add muscle?

Yes, I wanted an evaluation of my current diet to see if it was adequate enough. Yesterday (Monday) was my first day that i tried to throw together a meal plan. before yesterday i never planned meal times or had 5-6 intentional meals. maybe i posted too soon and i should have waited until the end of the week or so to post my full diet. i guess i figured if i was getting at my target protein and calories i would be fine. i'll be honest when i say i don't know much about diet and nutrition. if it helps any, i've been training for a little over three years, but i never had a clue how much nutrition played in the game. about a year ago i became aware of how important it really was, or so i thought. over this past weekend from reading articles on here and what not is when my eyes really opened to it. pretty humbling experience.

I will say that the penut butter you're using is not the healthy kind You need to get an all-natural sugar -free peanut butter...the one you're using has added icing sugar and hydrogenated oils.

[b]i went to the store when i saw that you said all-natural sugar-free peanut butter was the best. i looked at different peanut butters and the only one i saw like this was Peter Pan Very Low Sodium with no salt or sugar added. I guess that's all-natural?

thanks for the help jodi and w8lifter!

Okay...well let's see what and how you were eating before you drew up this plan, it may change what we do now, in terms of overall calories...if you change too drastically too fast, you may end up gaining fat that might be avoidable.

You may have to go to a health food store to find a natural peanut butter...the ingredients should be only "peanuts"

how i was eatting before was like your typical teenager.

my mom calls me mikey from the cereal commercials because i eat anything and i eat a lot.

my metabolism has to be super fast because i could eat a 16oz steak, baked potato and a few glasses of water and then on the way home i could eat somebody's leftovers and then go through the fridge when i got home looking for food.

i drank about a gallon of milk a day, about 1 or 2 mountain dews, 2-3 cans of tuna with sweet relish and miracle whip, cookies, ice cream when it was in the house, hot wings (tgif brand), cressant rolls from pillsbury(8 of them a day), huge lunch meat sandwiches particularly honey ham with two pieces of american cheese on wheat bread with bbq sauce and mustard, apples, oranges, bananas, whatever my parents cook for dinner or when we go out to eat, pizza, chicken, shrimp, chinese, mexican, anything.

i didn't have all these things all the time, but this is the type of stuff that generally was in my meals.

and when you say health food store do you mean GNC or a store like that?

i drank about a gallon of milk a day, about 1 or 2 mountain dews, 2-3 cans of tuna with sweet relish and miracle whip, cookies, ice cream when it was in the house, hot wings (tgif brand), cressant rolls from pillsbury(8 of them a day), huge lunch meat sandwiches particularly honey ham with two pieces of american cheese on wheat bread with bbq sauce and mustard, apples, oranges, bananas, whatever my parents cook for dinner or when we go out to eat, pizza, chicken, shrimp, chinese, mexican, anything.

*TEMPER TANTRUM ON*

No Fair!!!! I want to be able to eat like that!

*TEMPER TANTRUM OFF*

Originally posted by Jodi
*TEMPER TANTRUM ON*

No Fair!!!! I want to be able to eat like that!

*TEMPER TANTRUM OFF*

DITTO! DITTO! DITTO! No freak'in fair!

*just* about nothing is better than eatting pounds of food!

K...so you've definitely made an improvement on your diet


I still think your fat is too high and carbs too low...I would work on fixing that a bit

Oh...the peanut butter...I'm not sure if they have it there...I mean a health food store, where they sell organic stuff...and bulk foods

half that steak was my total fat. it was so delicious though! the bar/"retaurant" i had it has the best baked potato and steak for that price and it's better than most steaks double the price!

mmmmmmmm, by the way, don't eat any bread or you might feel the Dr. Pain wraith