Bro learn how to cook
I can cook, just very horribly 
I can cook vegetarian stuff actually reasonably well (since my family is vegetarian and thats what I learned from them).
I just cant cook meat for shit
Learn. It’s so easy to cook ground beef and ground turkey in a skillet.
I forgot miracle noodles. whole bag zero calories.
I make it into Pho, spaghetti, chicken noodle soup, chicken alfredo
My meal prep involves buying pre packaged and pre seasoned turkey tenderloins. Open package. Put in oven. Done. For carbs I do microwaveable jasmine rice cups and cook sweet potatoes in the microwave. Don’t even do anything to them, just eat them whole. I do more but that’s the main parts. Breakfast is “kind” brand oatmeal and a double protein shake. Snacks like peanut butter and almonds etc
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Nice list, I will add nuts and stuff into the diet for sure.
I’m at 2600-2700 calories/day right now, let’s see what changes this brings
Bro lower the weight. Supercar sometimes I feel like you go in circles with complaining.
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Do you have a crock pot (aka slow cooker)?
I dump 2lbs chicken thighs and one can of salsa in the morning, put it on low, in 8 hours ready to eat. The leftovers are good too.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen these. I’m going to keep an eye out though. That is an easy and delicious meal.
They are so moist and easy. The first time I had it I heard soft sweet music. Now, 50 million loins later it’s bleh. But soooo much better than ground Turkey and worlds easier.
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Can you do the same for veggies? This seems like a great option.
Yes they make microwavavmel steamed veggies that are amazing.
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For anyone who uses an Apple Watch, how accurate are:
- Resting Energy Expenditure
- Active Energy Expenditure
I wonder if these are your real TDEE?
Mine says:
- 808 calories active energy (walks, workouts, …)
- 1762 calories resting energy
Total is 2570 calories, seems in-line with what I thought my maintenance was around, but if this is accurate then thats… pretty awesome as a tool to use
Counting calories seems like something that might wind up stressing you out.
Jshaving has arrived
Haha, I’ve followed off and on. More experienced people than I have given good advice so I don’t have much to say.
You cannot stress this much day to day. Maintenance calories, for instance, are pretty elastic. I’ve noted before, for myself, I don’t lose weight until I get below 2000, but I don’t really seem to gain anything until over 2600. That’s a large window of “same”. Same with your workouts; many of us that have been doing this for awhile probably have two months of “bad” workouts in a row sometimes. That’s just how it goes. Part of the “I want this really bad” is the patience to just grind it out. Do big, strong people really seem like a bunch of data crunchers to you?
Oh, and obligatory Tom Brady reference (I’m just praying eventually he notices my fandom online and realizes I’ve been the missing link to his championship teams all this time): that dude has been throwing the same drills for 35 years. All the other QBs, from middle school, run these exact same drills. The magic is not in the drill.
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You nailed it.
@supercardrives
Training for strength or building muscle is like investing in the stock market. Trading stocks and micro-analyzing day to day is not the way to make money for the majority of investors. Instead, keep contributing and building the base layer and eventually the gains will come.
Also, I would not really trust my apple watch for anything other than distance traveled throughout the day. Even the heart rate monitor has been shown to be pretty far off during exercise. (Sweat really interferes with the optical sensor).
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Yeah I guess its a lot of trial and error but consistency.
I’m staying around 2600-2700 calories now and seeing how training goes and weight changes so let’s see.
Legs/Abs
Tuesday November 23rd 2021 23/11/2021
Pretty decent so far
General stuff:
- Weight: 78.0kg (weird… I hope just water moving around, no way I can be losing weight at 2700 calories lul)
- Sleep: 6h5m
Legs/abs workout:
- 3x6 - 195 lb squat
- 3x8 - 150 lb romanian deadlift
- 3x12 - 135 lb barbell hip thrust
- 3x12 - 195 lb leg extension machine
- 3x12 - 150 lb leg curl machine
- 3x8 - 300 lb standing calf raise machine
- 2x12 - 60 lb machine ab crunch
Calories 2700, lets go…
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