Help With Diet and Macros

Diet and Nutrition
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I started my diet Monday and had some questions about macros, food choices, and such. Here’s what I’ve been eating:

Meal 1: 1\4 Cup Grits
2 Whole Eggs
1\2 cup egg whites
2 slices whole wheat toast
1 cup mixed veggies

PWO: 1 1\2 scoop ON Whey

Meal 2: 5 oz. chicken breast
1 cup mixed veggies
2 TBSP Peanut Butter
1 cup brown rice

Meal 3: 2 oz. beef jerky
1 serving mixed nuts
1 apple
1 1\2 ON Whey

Meal 4: 4 oz. Lean Beef
1\2 cup blacked eye peas
1 cup mixed veggies
2 TBSP peanut butter
1 Banana

Meal 5: 5 oz. chicken breast
1 orange

Total Calories= 2570 Cal

Protein: 256g
Carbs: 206g
Fat: 71g

I got the calorie count from Chad Waterbury’s book (lean bw x 12-13). I’m 6’1"-2" ish around 245lbs and I’m trying to lose weight. I’m trying to keep my cars in the 100-150g area because I think that’s what got me to this point.

I’m trying to keep the starchy carbs down, which is why the only time I eat them is an hour after my workout. And I try to keep everything fruit and veggies.

Does my diet look in order for the purpose of fat loss? Should I switch some foods, increase\decrease some of the macros?

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I’ve never had much luck dropping bodyfat when there’s fruit in my diet. That’s just me though. One thing you might want to do is rearrange your carb intake so that most, if not all of it, is taken care of in the first couple meals of the day.

Berardi has made it a point of emphasis many times to only eat meals that are protein/carb or protein/fat. I wouldn’t recommend mixing carbs and fat in large amounts at each meal…read up on Berardi’s stuff for the reasons why but there definitely is something to it.

this doesn’t mean that you need to avoid one or the other like the plague at each meal. Just don’t have 40g of carbs and 30g of fat in the same meal…y’know something like that.

So I would move your fruit intake to the first two meals of the day, then let the veggies, fat, and protein make up the rest.
Everything else looks good though…plenty of protein. So yeah, my only suggestion is to re-arrange your fruit intake and perhaps drop the total amount of carbs if your progress isn’t where you’d like it to be