Thursday, November 5 2009
OFF
My Diet Briefing:
I guess i could ramble about my diet to try and keep people interested through this boring phase right now. I'll keep it short though. My diet changes depending on what i'm doing activity wise. I eat only 5 meals a day on off and most training days (i just find it easier to eat and time the meals when theres less of them). I typically stick to lower carbs, low enough to just control my blood glucose (except first thing in the AM, Pre workout -most of the time- and Post workout. At these times I'll go higher carbs with low fat. As i feel these are times where the body can handle an increase in Carbs the best.). Off days I range from 125-150g of carbs (mostly coming from nuts, and vegetables, with the exception of the first meal); Training days are closer to 250-300g. On off and most training days i get around 200-225g of protein. Fat is where i make up the rest of my Calories and it depends on my goals how high i go with it and its almost entirely from descent sources (i avoid hydrogenated oils and saturated fat as much as possible, and am sure to supplement with omega-3s). ~2 times a week (depends on what my training looks like for the week, this week i'm only having 1 for example) I'll have a high carb day where most of my Calories will come from Carbs (~450-500 atm), protein is lowered to 1g/lb, fat is kept as low as reasonably achievable, and i increase the meals by 1. I could ramble on and on about my diet but this is the jist of it.
I avoid alot of foods out of habit but have been trying to be more open to ideas recently (trying to get my wife to start eating healthy and she doesnt want to eat the same **** over and over again.... i guess).
Off Day Diet Example:
Today as an example of an off day:
0930 -upon waking - 400mg ALA, 5g creatine, 7g leucine (i'm out of bcaas at the moment)
1000 - 4 egg whites, scoop of eas protein (23g protein), 1.5cups of oats ( i mix the eggs and oatmeal together and cook it i nthe microwave then add the protein and some water its a quick breakfast. I eat this almost indefinitely every morning)
1330 - 2 cans of tuna /w relish and real mayo, whole grain cracker things.
1700 - 2 scoops eas protein, 1tsp guar gum, 28 almonds (i think thats 1/4 cup), 5g fish oil. (this is a daily meal when i work, we dont have set times to take breaks at work. if we're busy we just dont get them. So this is something i can get down in less then 5 minutes in between my work.)
*The rest is what i plan on eating, and when i plan on eating it. I doubt the times will change i'm pretty consistant although the next one is at work so it may vary 15 minutes or so.*
2130 - Ground turkey (43g of protein worth not sure the amount, flavored with southwestern mrs dash and red peper flakes), brocolli (enough to finish filling the container containing the turkey, not sure on ammount), 20 almonds (another meal i can get down pretty damn quickly)
0030 - Low carb Cakesque thing i make from scratch (in the future i'll just call it the blob). I'll just list the ingredients before you jump to conclusions. (mealed flaxseed, oat fiber, wheat protein isolate, whey protein, cocoa powder, splenda, eggwhites) with natural pb on top. Ends up being around 45g protein 25g of fat, and 20g carbs (like 14 of it is fiber). I eat this thing like every night its actually really good and probably not awsome for me but its what i plan on eating so i'm not going to lie.
I drink between 1.5 and 2 gallons of water a day.
Wow i'm bored just typing that. The macro count stays pretty much the same with very little diffrence but the food changes some (although its always along the same lines). I'll do an example of a medium carb training day next week. Tomarrow i plan to lift again and will do a high carb day since i havent had one this week. | 
