Depends on what you aim for.
1) Depending on bodyweight, occupation and trainingtype/frequency, find out how much calories you burn on average per day.
2) decide wether you'd like to say on this weight, or drop/increase the weight. Dependong on that, take the calories from 1 and remove or add 200 to 500 kcal.
3) split the kcal into 40% for carbs, 40% for protein and 20% for fat
4) know that 1 kcal of fat is 9grams, and 4 grams for protein and carbs.
5) use 4 to turn 3 into grams. You now know how much grams of carbs, protein and fat you should eat
6a) try to spread these over the day. Only use the protein value of meat, eggs and whey as the others (like pasta) have incomplete profile and shouldnt be counted)
6b) try to not use carbs the last 4 houres before you sleep. Try to use complex carbs like oats, pasta, rice and potatoes
6c) use nuts, eggs and cottage cheese (with whey ofc) to get to the neccecary grams of fat. Use low fat meat. There ared low fat red meats, know them ! Bake meat in olive oil, not fat (exception for red meat, but with tiny amount of butter).
6d) dont use over 2 fruits per day, they are fast acting sugars, bad for insuline levels, but handy if you have a period where you lack energy.
Complex carbs
- oats
- rice
- pasta
- potatoes
- brown bread types
protein sources
- chicken
- everything that flies and isnt red-ish meat
- red meat with low fat (example : chateaubriand=yes, T-bone steak or entrecote=NO)
- various kinds of protein powder (whey, casseine, blends, (i use a blend))
- fish not more then twice per week
* if you are vegetarian, sod off*
fat sources
- pretty much any nut out there
- eggs, cause if you dont exceed your daily fat intake, you'll benefit from the direct cholesterol. dont listen to diet bitches. eggs are bad if you exceed your fat intake, but they are excellent for those who got a proper diet.
- cottage cheese(add whey to this and eat before you go to sleep. 250g takes many houres to digest meaning you'll be gifting protein to the body all night. every serious musclebuilder or strengthathlete does this)
- use of oils.
But zach, what about vegetables. Vegetables are expensive options that can be completely replaced. The listed products can cover 95 of all daily vitamin intake easely. But since you are working out, you should allways grab some vitamin blend to make sure you are loaded on vitamins all the time,
and never low on vitamin C. Advanced athletes can consider ZMA and THE
vitamine D in higher then normal concentrations. (zma is cheap and good for sleep/recovery tho).
So next time them bitches go like "amawgawd we are so healthy we ate only salad xoxo", you can reply "fucking bitchwhore please, you are eating filler with 0 nutrition value, its as useless as your brain."
Now if you excuse me, i need to ice my lower back and left quadriceps tendon. cheers
