Hey chobbs, been meaning to get around to this. i naver stoped eating like an athlete, even through my bad years, I only get out of shape because I add in junk food around my other clories, and I do less. I’ll throw out my nutrition guidlines, that I preach to my kids, and then my own day in the life.
Number one, and most important, I believe in trying to get half your days calories by 10 am, 2-3 meals by 10-11.
Somtimes this is hard, and you have to force yourself to eat, but it makes the rest of your day easy. other than that guid lines are simple protien, fruits, and veggies. Thats it man, we don’t count calories, just have a rough idea how much you take in a day, try to get half that by 10, protien, fruits, and veggies, don’t ever get hungry, and don’t ever get full.
i beilieve for a diet to be sucessfull it has to be easy to follow. I don’t work with BBer’s, my clients are mainly young athlete’s, and average people. My diet sugestions make it easy to get to and maintain around a 15% bf level. i don’t use gauges, this is where most people look good, can gain muscle, and maintain fairly easy.
Now as far as I’m concerned. i don’t need variety (atleast through the week) So I eat a dozzen eggs a day. i eat the same thing every day from wake up till dinner 4ish, I eat my eggs, a bag of frozen mixed veggies, and fruit as needed. dinner i’ll have meat ( chicken, beef, pork) with some fresh vegitables, and mabey a pineapple, or water melon for desert.
Where I have trouble, and why I’ve gotten fat, is in the evening. I’ve been on house arrest for the past 18mths, and all my bad eatting goes on after 8 at night. I’ve stopped this the last couple months, and I’m slowly tighting back up.
The biggest trick is having the right stuff in the fridge, if your fridge, and drawers are full of protien, fruit, and veggies, then thats what you’ll eat. I also have a trick, where every Sun. I’ll cook (boil) up a couple pounds of either chick peas, or navy beans for the week. Having navy beans pre cooked is a live saver. In the morning I can mix them with plain yogart, and fruit. For lunch, dinner, and snacks I can mix them up with some olive oil, garlic, and spices, even some ranch dressing.
If my family is having spaggeti, I’ll forgo the noodles, and put the sauce over the chick peas, or beans. I eat a couple pounds of these a week, it fills in any cravings for carbs. I do drink a couple litters of milk a day as well, mainly around workouts, but I plan to switch this up for whey in the future, as I get leaner.
Thats about it no real tricks, I take a handfull of fish oil twice a day, I take a multi, I take ZMA at bed, and whey here and there as needed. When training for strength, and size it’s a balancing act to get enough quality calories, with out getting fat. keeping your self in that 15ish % area is key, and I like once a year to diet down, and get real lean to see what progress you’ve made.
As with weight lifting, i think people over think things somtimes, for strength purposes a gram of protien, and 15 calories per pound of body weight a day through the foods I’ve mentioned is fairly easy to do, just watch the late night snacking like i do, and don’t count on (believe) suplements will fix a bad diet. Latter
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