also… drink olive oil? wat about sunflower oil?
Sunflower oil is mostly Omega 6 and you don’t need more of that. (High oleic sunflower oils exist but they are not common) Olive oil is mostly Oleic Acid and it’s helpful for a number of things. You also need fish oil for Omega 3.
Olive oil is better over your salads and veggies than drinking it straight. You do eat veggies don’t you?
not the biggest fan of veggies…
to be honest the only ones i actually like are canned varietes like mushy peas, beans, corn, etc
i used to put onions and peppers into things like stirfrys etc, but ive stopped eating them as the noodles have a ridiculous carb content.
i sometimes bulk up a plain meal with some salad but i never added any dressing to it because of the “carb fear”… so therefore it often stayed on my plate because dry salad is a bit rotten. i will buy some olive oil and see what its like over salad.
Also when im cooking up some meat should i do it in olive oil?
What should i look for in olive oil and how much a day on workout/non workout days?
Roughly how many grams of carbs should i eat a day?.. im definatly going for as few as many apart from porridge on workout mornings.
but ive just read my promax tub and it says it has 3g per 35g serving… and i sometimes have up to 4 of these a day if im busy at school… so thats 12g of carbs. and sometimes a packet of chewing gum which ive read on here from Christian has loads of carbs too…
Basically for my goals of power, and my weight 286 pounds… whats a “low” amount of carbs?
Cheers
Scott
If you get a salad dressing that is mostly olive oil and vinegar then you don’t have to worry about the carbs. I have a nice bottle of basalmic vinegar dressing that is very nice and has only 1g of carbs. Just stay away from the low fat variety.
When counting carbs, don’t worry about fibrous veg. Most are low in calories and don’t add to a substantial amount of carbs. Veg has the nutrients you need to turn protein into muscle. As well it provides bulk to your meals and fills you up. It should account for about half of your diet by weight. Most of the calories will come from protein and fat though.
“i used to put onions and peppers into things like stirfrys etc, but ive stopped eating them as the noodles have a ridiculous carb content.”
You should have cut out the noodles and kept the onions and peppers.
For Olive Oil, get extra virgin because it tastes better. Add a tablespoon or 2 to each meal with your veggies.
Stu
Stuward, who is that in your avatar? He looks familiar.
He the cover model of “Growing Old is for Sissies”. His name is John Turner and he’s 67.
so i shud do stirfrys in olive oil, throw in 250g of chicken and loads of veg. i tink im going to go do that now… ive started up a log kinda thing here http://www.T-Nation.com/tmagnum/readTopic.do?id=1950506
it has a basic rundown of my diet and weights regime… theres alot more info there and links to fotos.
how many carbs is low for me? i think today ive roughle had 12g and i got 2 meals to go.
cheers.
Scott
That’s right. Try a variety of veggies. Every meal can be different just by mixing it up. If you’re on a high carb cycle you can turn it into a weight gainer simply by adding some brown rice or pasta.
With your stir fries, experiment with different herbs and spices. The add additional nutrients hard to get elsewhere and add pleasant and different flavors.
I don’t know how low is low. It’s results that count, not numbers but 12g are certainly not going to bother you too much. I think under 100g/day is considered low-carb. I could be wrong on that.
Stu
under 100g/day is low, under 35g/day is ketosis. Ball park figures of course. And it assumes you don’t get any carbs from your post workout shake. But yeah, 12g is not a big deal.
Spices and herbs are your close friends. That’s one thing I’m not very good at mixing up, but they can really help the “blandness” factor. You spice anything up enough it gets hot and very tasty.
[quote]Aragorn wrote:
Spices and herbs are your close friends. That’s one thing I’m not very good at mixing up, but they can really help the “blandness” factor. You spice anything up enough it gets hot and very tasty.[/quote]
Part of the fun in cooking is trying to get it right.
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cheers for the really detailed reply…
explained a few things to me and you seem to know your stuff.
farmers walks?? basically deadlift the weight and walk about with it untill i cant anymore???
wat do you think about the 4 minute to fat loss squat article… of sqauting for 20 secs, 10 secs off… should i giv this a spin?
wat sporta foods should i be eating… ive completly cut out all white bread, biscuits and savory things like that.
money is also tight at the moment so im going to go T total for a month at least.
in the fridge/frezer at the moment i have 48 4oz 80% beef burgers from costco, 6 bags of precooked chicken breasts (500g a bag),12 pork chops, 3 fillits of cod, some pasta/noodles, tinned peas and tuna, 4x 1.25kg tubs of promax (only cost £95), half bottle of HOT-ROX Extreme, 3/4 bottle of norateen, roughly 200 multivitamin tabs… ive been cooking everything in the old george foreman…
something similiar to this every day.
how long should this kinda stock last me and wat crucial things am i missing?
diet at the moment is basically:
wakeup: 2 HOT-ROX Extreme, 2 Norateen, 1 multivit
Train
Shake with water
2 plain burgers cooked in george… no sauce no bread no nothing.
2 norateen and 2 HOT-ROX Extreme
4 egg white ommelete with a chicken breast in it
shake with milk before bed
ive been trying to eat more and often… but its tough with uni… so sometimes i just have a shake or two in uni but i hear too many protein shakes a day aint good…
also can anyone recommend a low carb protein shake that is better than promax. i only got these 4 tubs cuz they were on special offer…
but there is 3g of carbs per 30g serving…
cheers
Scott
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Yeah thats about right for farmer’s walks–generally your grip will give out first though. That’s to be expected.
The “4 minutes to fat loss” article on the Tabata method may work for you, but it will likely be excruciating. Bring a puke bucket. I’d say stay away for now as a ‘beginner’. Basics will more than likely be enough with a proper diet anyway. Still, it wouldn’t hurt to experiment with it once this month.
Freezer is really well stocked as far as meat goes. Need more green veggies, could use some nuts in your diet as well–good source of fat and protein–walnuts, pecans, are my favorites. Can toss them on salads for a change in texture too. How long your stash last depends on how much you’re eating every day. I’d say get your total calorie needs nailed down first and then just see how long it takes to deplete your food stores.
Your diet as listed is really really horrible. Really horrible. You have 2 meals a day and a shake before bed. I’m not counting your post-training shake because it’s probably not going to be the size of a full meal. Even if it is, you’re only at 4 meals. You need another 2 full meals in the day. Bare minimum is 5, but I’d suggest 6. I don’t have the numbers in front of me, but I estimate that your “2 burgers” meal is between 500-700 calories.
Your “4 egg white omelette w/chicken breast” meal is only probably 400 calories. So without your shakes you’re running a mere 900-1100 calories. With shakes it may come to 1800-2000, but that’s not enough to run both practice and training on unless you are morbidly obese. No wonder your tired in training. Porridge in the morning could count as a meal as you mentioned you were doing. But it has to contain an appreciable amount of calories to be considered a “meal”.
You either a) left out olive oil/other oil calories, which can be substantial, b) are adding stuff in throughout the day, or c) are not getting enough calories. My pick is c.
If you’re worried about class getting in the way, take a small cooler or tupperware container with meals packed and eat during/between class. Most of the people on this board have had to do that sort of thing to make sure they get meals in.
Kinds of foods–just the basics as people on this thread have mentioned–protein, veggies, fats. Fats will come mostly from olive oil or cooking oils, omega 3 fish oils, and nuts. Need the veggies for nutrients and fiber.
EDIT–your diet in the other thread looks better on training days, but you need a minimum of 5 meals regardless of whether you are training or not that day. Also, your “burgers” meal needs veggies of some kind. I don’t know what the calories are in your Promax shakes, but that could be a concern (what are the calories in each shake?). I’ve got nothing against shakes in general though. You need to make sure you’re getting your vitamins because I don’t see much in the way of veggies.
[quote]stuward wrote:
Aragorn wrote:
Spices and herbs are your close friends. That’s one thing I’m not very good at mixing up, but they can really help the “blandness” factor. You spice anything up enough it gets hot and very tasty.
Part of the fun in cooking is trying to get it right.[/quote]
Probably right, but I’m not very talented if there’s not steak involved. And I hate screwing up :). Patience is not one of my virtues when it comes to cooking.