One thing that I did forget to mention. Now as the years went by, I realize that I did have long term symptoms or what they call “long covid.” May of 2022 I was out drinking in Warsaw and woke up in the morning with a broken ankle on the train tracks of all places. A pin in my ankle and a few years later I was finable to break quck job/sprint with mininal pain. I gain weight during that time one and off. I do feel an inbalance on my right side in my hip flexor, glutes, thigh and ankle. Even my foot even fits just a tad more slightly in my right shoe after this. I do want to put a little more emphasis into my legs for this reason. After doing some research I have few plans that I am looking at and the majority of them resemeble the 5x5 strong lifts. The above mentioned workouts recommended to me, can I find them free on this site? I am attaching some pictures to give an idea where I am at this moment. A 3/4 months of the most sedentry lifeystyle have me looking as such. I know that I can make leaps and bounds of progress in 3 months. I did my best with pic due to shitty lighting/broken camera on phone.
I have access to a gym down the street. Other that really not much else. The door frames where I live do not suit a pullup bar, so I have a yoga mat and some push up handles that lock in my wrists and extrend my ROM a little bit.
What equipment does that gym have?
Every contest diet that I ever did, the first step was to “clean up” my diet. That included dropping all dairy. Dairy was never a component of any contest diet that I ever did.
Much of the calories of dairy is carbohydrates, and I sure wasn’t trying to see how much dairy fat I could ingest via heavy cream.
Example: 2% Greek yogurt: 3/4 cup of yogurt has 130 calories, 32 of those calories is carbohydrates (or about 25% of the calories is carbohydrates)
4% Greek yogurt: 1 cup has 200 calories, 40 of those calories is carbohydrates. 10 grams of carbohydrates
I feel like people keep saying “dairy” when they mean “milk”. There are VERY few carbs in cheese and butter, for example.
Maybe I am just too old, but I cannot imagine anyone believes that milk is included in a diet to optimize body composition.
I think dairy likely should be used minimally considering our digestive tracts but I LOOOVE Fairlife whole milk
Once again, I feel that you and I are having 2 different conversations
I feel that the only thing I have to offer this forum is my experiences. If my experiences conflict with your beliefs, it is okay with me.
I am not saying that at all. I don’t even know how you got that from what I wrote.
Fortunately for the consumer, modern science has joined forces with American ingenuity to overcome this problem in a variety of ways.
Hah! Yup. “American singles” and “I can’t believe its not butter”. Why do we make everything worse?
It basically has almost everything. A gym can never have enough squat racks though.
Ah man, I didn’t intend for you to dox yourself. Just a description would have been enough.
I would check out the Jim Wendler article “Help a Friend Get Stronger” or the Dan John book “Mass Made Simple” to start off
I don’t see how anyone can consider milk as a portion of a diet to optimize body composition. You said:
From what I said above and what you said, why would anyone consider saying “dairy” to include milk, unless they believe milk is a vital component of a diet (whether it is on a carnivore diet or not).
Can you explain "I feel like people keep saying “dairy” when they mean “milk” so that I can understand what you mean?
I do not know the answer to this question. Nor was I claiming
I would love to, and thank you for taking the time to want to understand me.
I was replying to THIS statement.
Because the only instance I could think of where that was the case was in the instance of milk (and, of course, processed dairy, like ice cream). I then provided my examples where it wasn’t the case: cheese and butter. Another great example would be in the instance of dairy based protein powders. Heavy cream, as noted, is another solid example where much of the calories are not coming from carbs.
To me, it appeared people were saying “dairy” and meaning “milk” when it came to looking for a carb source.
And again, show me examples of people who have put on 20+ pounds on a real carnivore diet. It does not happen. All before-and-after photos are of overweight people who lost weight. That is why dairy is often recommended.
Carnivore “guru” Shawn Baker himself says he only uses it when trying to gain weight. Other than that, he only recommends it if you can tolerate it, but he goes out of his way to mention all the drawbacks of dairy
Trace? Milk is 30% or higher in carbs and is very insulinogenic.
But that is beside the point. I said, “You are not going to gain or bulk on a carnivore diet—not unless you use dairy, which is not part of a carnivore diet.” I made no mention of carbs.
Carnivore is animal flesh, not animal based or animal product.
Whar about organs, glands and the like?
Not that I am a carnivore diet specialist, but I assumed it meant that the person eats like a carnivore where many eat the entire animal that it kills.
The body compistion you have in your profile picture, did you attain that thorugh an animal based diet?