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Pencil Neck **Joined:** 20 Jun 2009 **Posts:** 403

This was yesterday,but usually how one of my days goes, where are the weak links, if any:

0600: 2 cups Kashi cereal, 1 cip skim milk
0800: 5 eggs, 1 sausage, large banana, earl grey tea
1100: Grits, orange,13.5 oz of mixed vegtables, sun flower seeds, wheat/tuna sandwich
1300: Apple, coffee
1500: protein shake
1700: Beef and noodles, apple
2100: Beef and noodles, 13.5 oz carrots

Total - 3350-3400 cal

Last meal was so late because of football practice. I shoot for 3400 calories per day. Anything need to change?

Pencil Neck **Joined:** 18 Sep 2009 **Posts:** 76

when is your workout?

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Olympia God **Joined:** 03 May 2006 **Posts:** 3086

Umm...at a quick glance more nuts and seeds perhaps and more servings of green veg...spinach, greens, kale, stuff like that!

Also what about variation on the meat source in the evenings...chicken, fish, etc?

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Pencil Neck **Joined:** 20 Jun 2009 **Posts:** 403

snorkelman wrote:

when is your workout?

It varies week to week. This week its after 1:30pm, next week it will be after 4-5pm, week after that, around 10:30 am.

Olympia God **Joined:** 03 May 2006 **Posts:** 3086

I would aim for more servings through the day, rather than eating as much as I can in one sitting. Keep your daily veg intake mixed, but leafy green veg is by far on of the most important.

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Pencil Neck **Joined:** 26 Jul 2009 **Posts:** 397

up veggies
if you can drop the cereals and get a better choice would be better. (oats may be?).
Drink your protein shake with something imo, like a fruit and some nuts (unless its postworkout, then only get a source of carbs).

Pencil Neck **Joined:** 12 Dec 2006 **Posts:** 463

One thing you can do is switch one of your beef/noodles meal for a salad with beef or something. I just make a big batch of salad at one time and eat it over a few days. I can have it on the side, or add a meat to it (surprisingly, tuna tastes great in a salad).

Pencil Neck **Joined:** 20 Jun 2009 **Posts:** 403

HoopinMoni wrote:

One thing you can do is switch one of your beef/noodles meal for a salad with beef or something. I just make a big batch of salad at one time and eat it over a few days. I can have it on the side, or add a meat to it (surprisingly, tuna tastes great in a salad).

Ive tried and the lettuce gets sloppy real quick and ruins everything. I would rather have a spinach salad, but over here raw spinach doesnt even last on the drive home.

Pencil Neck **Joined:** 29 Oct 2009 **Posts:** 21

You seem to really enjoy your breakfast foods...

Pencil Neck **Joined:** 20 Jun 2009 **Posts:** 403

rodawg69 wrote:

You seem to really enjoy your breakfast foods...

Most important meal of the day

Moderator **Joined:** 01 Feb 2007 **Posts:** 4041

Just do what you do, mang. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Are you having things happen on this diet that you're not liking? I'll just add what everone else is saying. Try to get some green things in there.

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Pencil Neck **Joined:** 20 Jun 2009 **Posts:** 403

Domenic wrote:

Just do what you do, mang. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Are you having things happen on this diet that you're not liking? I'll just add what everone else is saying. Try to get some green things in there.

I like it how it is, its been working for me. After New Years Im going to add another 1000 calories a day to the plan.

Olympia God **Joined:** 21 Nov 2004 **Posts:** 4661

you shouldn't just say "I'm going to add 1000 calories".

you should be using this simple formula:

15 calories per pound for maintaining weight. +/- either way based on bulking or dieting. Most people see decent results for dieting at 12cals per pound and 18 for bulking.

It works because you never want to add or take away more calories than you need to. If you are having a successful bulk with minimal fat gain at 16 calories per pound, why add more?

I have no idea how much you weigh, but if you weighed 200 pounds and went 1000cals more a day, that's going from a 15 to a 20...a HUGE GAIN that would probably predominatley go to fat. Too big of a jump.

start at 16, go to 17, go to 18, etc. This way you'll find your "sweet spot". Solid muscle gain, little fat AND the amount of food fits in your schedule/budget.

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Pencil Neck **Joined:** 20 Jun 2009 **Posts:** 403

The Warrior Diet book just arrived. It took about 6 weeks. Im reading it now and I want to start trying it on Monday.