Eating 'Right'

[DBCooper]

All right what's everyone's views on eating a balanced muscle building diet(not skinny diet just what you eat kinda diet), I have talked to BB's around my area which like a 60% protein intake in their diet while around 4-5000 calories. I understand the reason behind high protein/low carb diets and was thinking in a few months to start changing my eating habits to the better. I am at the limit of my weight class and have plenty of fat to spare(which I think saves you from injury) and want to lean up while still training for strength-so no wussy diets just to drop fat and be weak please. Opinions please-on foods-%'s and such. Currently I eat whatever is around-alot of water/beer/hotwings pasta etc.

 

[spatts]

I eat a clean diet, with lots of food, and carb rotate.

The food choices look like this:

http://www.asylum-strength.com/spat-bulking.htm

I don't train at 6AM anymore, and I don't take most of those sups, but the rest is pretty accurate. I eat a lot of meat and veggies...and I mean A LOT. Most of the time, my protein is actually closer to 60%, with training day carbs at 150g, and non-training day carbs at about 50-75g (figured AFTER fiber).

I've had a clean diet most of my life, and have always responded better to protein as a fuel. Someone recently told me this could be becuase of my bloodtype...whatever. I just do what works for me.

 

[DBCooper]

The good thing is protein food never bloats me-I can eat a crap load of it, but pasta-noodles and the such makes me full quicker and sleepy.

 

[spatts]

Yeah....that's pretty much the nature of carbs.

 

[DBCooper]

So you would agree with the 60%protein Spatts? what do you think my calorie intake would look like?

 

[spatts]

I keep my calories high, and rotate the carbs specifically for the purpose of preserving strength while controlling the fat. So, yeah, it works for me, and I suggest trying it. Personally, when I eat carbs, I blow up with water and almost instantly want to fall asleep. There are a select few carbs that don't do that to me. If I eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (which I LOVE ), I will put on about 5 pounds of water and take a 2 hour nap. lol

 

[PolishHammer1977]

I actually just posted a thread about MY diet today. check it out.

very basic like its owner.

 

[spatts]

I love PB and nana!!!

 

[PolishHammer1977]

If I eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (which I LOVE ), I will put on about 5 pounds of water and take a 2 hour nap. lol

how about my favorite peanut butter and banana? That blow you up too?

 

[jeremys]

i'm in the exact same situation

i was thinking what you guys mention, high protein, high quality carbs, and im going to throw in HIIT/wind sprints on most of my off days

 

[Zander1983]

I don't count anything, just eat a balanced diet, Massive Eating style (ie. protein + fat or protein + carb meals). First thing I always ensure is that I have a good protein source. Then I worry about filling out the carbs or fat... Some days I eat a lot of carbs, others I eat a lot of good fats.

If I'm cutting I tend to do it by making sure I don't eat junk (which I often allow when bulking) and reducing the size of my meals (eg. cutting out a tub of yogurt from a protein + carb meal, or not having a handful of almonds along with my eggs).

After a while you learn a good way for YOU, and it just clicks. Its like I can count calories without having to think about it. I used to be religious about numbers, but it becomes second nature after a while.

At the moment I am bulking. I'm training really hard and it would be a waste to try and drop fat when I don't really need to. Come pre-season for gridiron next Feb-March, I will have gradually lost the excess fat I'm carrying by simply moderating my diet and the running sessions I will have to add to be able to play football.

My diet is supplemented heavily with DIET COKE (I'm digging Vanilla at the moment) and STRONG coffee

 

[Legion Kreinak2]

I hear that Zander, about the counting calories becoming somewhat of a second nature. I can pretty much figure how many calories I've eaten in a meal, because when I did count and was, as you perfectly put it, "religious about numbers", I recall all the calorie/protein counts of the foods.

Only thing I can't figure is homemade meals, and restaurant food. Oh well.