Just curious as to how you count your intake of food. Do you count protein, carbs, fats, and calories? Or do you just count protein, carbs, and fats? Just wondering what everyone else does haha, that’s all.
[quote]anchor7 wrote:
Just curious as to how you count your intake of food. Do you count protein, carbs, fats, and calories? Or do you just count protein, carbs, and fats? Just wondering what everyone else does haha, that’s all.[/quote]
I count everything. Have all this in a exel program (even made grafs thats show the intake of pfk throu the day… hehe just for the fun of it).
Anyhow i have the plan in my head and have it in the kitchen, weighing the stuff I eat, then I always have control over the intake.
I usually decide how much protein and calories I want, then decide the macro break down. I then only count macros from then on.
who have time to count all that up !?
First… i fill half my plate with salad/vegetables
Second… i fill the rest of my plate with lean meat.
Third… i put some goodies in the space that might be left on the plate (goodies does not mean like candy or sauce or shit its like smoked salmon or scrambled eggs !)
I just count protein and calories. I count protein since it allows me to keep track of the amount I consume daily, its the only nutrient I believe needs to have extra attention paid to.
I then look at the calories, since very few unprocessed foods contain both high amounts of fat and carbs, it’s easy to deduct how much of each macronutrient you’re consuming. Avoiding obviously unneeded foods means that I have to consider nutrient ratios less and less, however, if I decide to eat something processed or high in carbs, all four get taken into consideration.
Besides, my food choices are pretty rigid, I pretty much know the ratios of what I’m eating.
Yeah, I just usually count my carbs and protein. I get around 400 grams of each a day. When it comes time to cut for my show, then I’ll count everything.
Omfg I just typed out a long response and instead of hitting “submit” I hit “reset,” lol. I’m too lazy to type it out again so I’ll just post the website.
Go there, set up and account, type in all the foods you ate for the day and fitday will add everything up for you. Very convenient. I have all my clients use it.
Fitday is very good, I used it for a while, but it just felt too scientific for me so I switched back to the pen and paper.
I use dailyplate, so I “count” everything, but I only have goals for calories and protein.
Fitday, computer version.
[quote]elusive wrote:
I usually decide how much protein and calories I want, then decide the macro break down. I then only count macros from then on.[/quote]
Same here, I’ll count the macros and multiply them at the end of the day.
[quote]anchor7 wrote:
Fitday is very good, I used it for a while, but it just felt too scientific for me so I switched back to the pen and paper.[/quote]
Ive never used that fitday stuff, but if you know how to use exel you can just insert the foods you use to eat and make a function so you just enter how many grams of each you eat and it will count it out.
Its actually quit easy, and you can insert how much kcal total you want, % P F K and it calculate out and then you can fix formulas how indicates if you eat more or less then what you should.
Its like when you have fixed that exel stuff once it done (at least when you eat almost the same stuff just different amount through the year… like I )
I have an excel spreadsheet, and since I eat alot of the same stuff often, I do lots of copy-paste action. I do it more for record keeping so I can see if its enough, too much, or too little in terms of weight gain at a given calorie level. I dont count vegetables on there though.