Ok so I calculated my daily calorie requirements as Massive eating outlines and I hit a grand total of about 4000 (3960 to be more exact). So I continue reading and it suggests how many and what type of meals to eat which is great! Now where is there a good free online Food Log that will calculate my calories? or do I have to go buy a book listing every piece of food and its corresponding numbers in it? As for my daily requirements of calories, if I drink a shake that claims to have 1000 calories in it twice a day do these calories really count? Or is this calorie based shake a waste of money?
Thanks everyone!
A free book?? Let me know if you find one. I’ve been using the USDA site that gives you more information than you could possibly want on most foods. The only down side to it is you still need to know your good carbs from the bad - and it isn’t exactly portable as it’s online.
check http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl
Enter any food you want to know about. You do have to recalculate the numbers based on your own portion size but it’s easy math.
If the shake you’re talking about is a “weight gainer”- sugar and poor quality protein- then I’d say it may not be worthless but you’d be much better off and get better results with a quality product or 1000 calories of real food. Shugart has a recipe for a weight gain shake, a quality one you make at home, in one of his last Dawg School columns. Look it up at T-mag.
As for calories and food logs, just read labels. You only need a book or online source for meats, fruits and veggies, and I read somewhere that meats are going to have better labels soon. Read the “missing ingredient” article at T-mag too. It’s about how to keep a food log. I think it’s by Shugs or Berardi. The 'foods that make you look good nekid" article is a classic too. Read it.
Howdy - not sure if it’ll help you much at all, but check out a copy of my food-log on the website I’m putting together - Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos You just plug in the calories you want, put in the foods and calories/macros (check the packet labels), and the spreadsheet I made up calculates the rest. It’s not to everyones taste, but if you want a copy (or anyone for that matter) just send me an E. Cheers.