[quote]njrusmc wrote:
[quote]BONEZ217 wrote:
Some grown ups learn to cook and buy tupperwares to carry meals in. Try it some time before you hit 30. [/quote]
This. I’m not that big of a guy, and just returning from a combat deployment, I’m even smaller than I was a year ago thanks to shitty eating and a shitty gym. Still, I carry a large cooler filled with tons of food each day I go to work: turkey and cheese sandwich, home made beef and bean chili, greek yogurt, cheese sticks, fresh fruit, and raw almonds. Sometimes more. I drink olive oil before bed. I drink about 2 gallons of milk a week. I make a 4-egg cheese omelet with 2 slices peanut butter toast each night as well. My daily calorie intake is 3800-4000 calories and I’m 5’11 192. None of this is really impressive; this is just a bit over maintenance and soon I will need to increase it again.
It takes discipline and planning to cook your meals and eat them as planned, especially as a young buck. Prove me wrong by being one of the few teenagers that does it. People gave me a hard time when I was doing it at 18 and at 25 they still do. At work, they always have comments about my cooler and that I “eat all the time”. That’s why I’m bigger/stronger than 90% of them, I don’t spend $7.00 every day on some bullshit corner store sandwich … and I’m not even that big.
For supplements, I take 3 scoops whey through the day (75g) and one scoop casein (25g) before bed with milk and EVOO. The other 100g of protein I get during the day is from real food. I always aim for at least 50% of my daily protein intake from food; just a personal thing, not necessarily required for growth. I take Flameout, 4000 IU vitamin D, and a joint support supplement daily. Nothing too extreme. Hope this helps.
EDIT: Just read all the other posts. I’m not going to lecture you, but hear me out. When I was 19-22 I was working between two or three jobs, going to the gym ten times a week (stupid, I know), and attending college full time. I cooked all my own meals once a week on Sundays and had marked tupperware containers with days of the week (M, T, W, etc) so it was easy for me on Monday morning. Life was very hard, I was a poor young man in a poor family. I had girlfriends throughout college and I lived at home. Trust me, cooking meals for a week takes a few hours out of your busy schedule, that’s it. The girlfriend could even help you cook, if she’s cool like that. As soon as you start using “I don’t have time for X” then X will slowly become less important to you as an adult, whatever it may be.[/quote]
Haha. I wish my girlfriend would! But thank you for the advice. Ive been cooking 8-10 chicken breasts every sunday then just carrying them around through the week. But for some extra calories and protein I was just asking for a decent protein shake. But thank you for the advice.