Okay, I guess I’ll give some backround. Probably more than necessary. I apologize in advance.
I am 20 years old, 6’o" tall, 208 pounds, no clear idea on BF% though I think it’s probably 16-18% (I can barely see abs and only higher up, those around the waist are buried well).
I have posted a few other questions where I described the kind of program I’m on but I’l go ahead and do it again.
I eat between 5-6 meals a day, 5 meals for two weeks, 6 for the next two weeks, and so on. I run a mile 6 days a week, I jog parts and sprint parts. I am in the gym four days a week, 2 of the other days I add a couple more miles of the interval running and do abs. Sunday is a complete rest day where I don’t really do anything.
I just weighed myself yesterday for the first time in 2 weeks as I’m not really interested in losing weight. I was hoping to maintain weight and drop bodyfat, and I understood that was going to take a while, but I guess I was kidding myself thinking that I might be able to gain more muscle than the fat I was burning off. No problem though, I am still gaining strength and endurance and looking better nekkid. I guess that’s still healthy, though I’m a little worried in the past 2 weeks I may have lost a bit more than should have.
I went from 214 morning weight to 208 yesterday afternoon. Part of this could be because I;ve cut down on creatine since I banged up my knee and haven’t been working out as much, so maybe I’m retaining less water, and maybe the knee problem and not working out for almost 2 weeks has had an affect, but really this isn’t what I’m asking about. I guess I got a little sidetracked.
I eat a breakfast shake that has 70-80g of protein, oatmeal, 1/2 banana, 1/2 an orange and creatine at about 7:15 or so. With that 1000mg of Vitamin C, 1 fish oil softgel, and a multi, along with a chromium picolinate.
10:30 I usually have another shake and a handful of mixed unsalted nuts, almonds, cashew, peanuts, and pistachios. Sometimes I’ll replace those with a chicken breast.
1:30 I have a chicken breast, most times some brown rice, lots of raw veggies like salad and spinach(my favorite) and another vitamin C and another fish oil.
3:30 another shake and more nuts or a chicken breast.
Then Tues.-Thurs. I have classes, so I take even more nuts and a protein shake to eat when we get a short break.
I’m pretty sure that’s adding to the weight loss, but it brings up my REAL question that I’ve taken so long to get around to.
You’re probably thinking, “Holy crap that guy eats alot of nuts!” Yes, I do, so I’m wondering if I need to be taking more of the fish oil.
I hear alot of guy taking 12 fish oil “caps” a day or more. I don’t know if I have the same “caps” as they’re talking about, each one of mine has 10 calories, 1gram of fat, of which half is saurated and the other is unsaturated. I gram of fat doesnt seem like very much to me, but considering that I eat tuna or salmon at least once or twice a week and I eat a TON of nuts…
Do I need to take more fish oil?
Sorry how long-winded I can get.