With everything that Biotest provides, I find myself often getting my meals with FINiBARs, MD with Superfood, FA3, Flameout and MAG-10. On many occasions, I find myself eating just one sitdown meal a day. Not that I was planning this, but just due to being busy and the convenience of having a shake or grabbing a bar. I’m wondering how important is eating whole foods? If the macros and calories balance out, is it a bad idea to be using mostly supplements?
Bad idea, in my opinion. Supplements are just that, supplements.
Our bodies are meant to consume, digest, absorb, store, and use whole foods.
A couple shakes/bars per day is fine.
Sounds like you need to plan ahead more efficiently…it’s usually the missing link in inconsistent nutrition plans…that, or simple laziness. I’m not saying you’re lazy 
Besides, whole foods work better (for me, and I would guess for most) for appetite and “crave” control.
It’s very satisfying to chew and swallow food…been doing it your whole life.
Some have also commented on it leading to better body composition, myself included…especially if fat loss is your goal.
I suppose if you’re using the Anaconda Protocol, you could get away with less overall whole foods during the day, but I think it would be based on the individual.
Just my 2 cents!
I’d be curious to hear what CT’s has to say about your question
I completely agree with what synergy93 said above.
How busy are you really? Not trying to suggest you’re not, but plenty of people here are very busy but have found ways around it to get some “real” food in and use supplements to fill in the gaps. It’s a matter of preparing food in advance if you won’t be able to do it during the day.
For example, I tend to cube my turkey, spice it up and fry it 1-2kg at a time, then stick it in the fridge and eat it during the week with some nuts, spinach, carrots and (if I’m doing carbs during that meal) rice or buckwheat. Once it’s fried, cooled down and in the fridge it takes me 2 minutes to put it in a plastic box that I can take to the office and later 5 minutes to eat it. You can add FA3/fish oil on top of that.
You can spend an hour or two on sunday making several different meals (at the same time - turkey frying in one pan, steak in the other, rice in the rice cooker etc.) that you later stick in the fridge/freezer and use during the week.
B.
FINiBARS are solid food. However, the rest of the stuff should SUPPLEMENT your daily intake. Sure supps are convenient, but do your best to get in some meat and veggies (along with rice if you’re eating more carbs). I agree with B. in that you should find one day of the week that you have less going on (which in his example was Sunday) to put together some meals. The only thing that takes a while is preparation and clean up. Everything else is a breeze.
Some quick go to items for tupperware storage:
-lean meats or canned tuna
-green leafy veggies (heck, spinach comes in the bag already to go anyway!)
-beans (cooked yourself or canned)
-rice
-nuts (get cashews if you want more calories)
Otherwise, keep the FA3 and Flameout in your diet.
Looking at all those supplements you mentioned, you really don’t need that much solid food. Just throw into your diet a bit of healthy meat, various fruits, and various dark green veggies.
Thanks everyone for your response. I definitely can create time and prepare food in advance, that’s not an issue. My question was more on the importance of whole foods. I’m not suggesting eliminating whole foods completely. I was just wondering if eating one whole food meal a day and using supps for the rest of the day would be just the same as eating all whole foods for every meal if the macros and calories balance out. Here’s an example of a typical day:
Mix 4 scoops of MAG-10 in 2L jug which I will sip on throughout the day
7:30am 2 scoops of Metabolic Drive, 2 scoops of Superfood, 1 scoop of L-Leucine and 4 Flameout, multivitamin, probiotics
10:30am 1 FINiBAR, an apple
noon 2 scoops of Metabolic Drive, 2 scoops of Superfood, 1 scoop of L-Leucine and 3 FA3
4pm ANACONDA Protocol 1 - 3 FINiBARs, 2 scoop of ANACONDA and 2 MAG-10
4:30 Workout
6:30 12 oz steak/chicken/fish etc, steamed veggies
9pm 2 MD, 4 flameouts, 3 FA3, 3000 units of vit D, 2 Z12
Time again is not an issue. I was just curious if this type of diet is not advisable if I keep it going for an extended period.
We, “bodybuilder”, as by nature very obsessive and compulsive. When questions like this happen to me, I usuaaly ask my self one question:
“Could I do this for the rest of my life?”
Even if the answer is no, I may do it, but at least, I know I have to have a good purpose or I’m in the wrong direction.
Overall this looks pretty solid. The only suggestion I would have is to change up your noon meal every other day. For example:
noon 2 scoops of Metabolic Drive, 2 scoops of Superfood, 1 scoop of L-Leucine and 3 FA3
CHANGE TO:
noon lean meat, 2-4 cups green leafy vegetables, beans, 3 FA3 and/or Flameout
(or heat up whatever you may have prepared ahead of time along with the fat supps)
-Eric
[quote]tomkade wrote:
Thanks everyone for your response. I definitely can create time and prepare food in advance, that’s not an issue. My question was more on the importance of whole foods. I’m not suggesting eliminating whole foods completely. I was just wondering if eating one whole food meal a day and using supps for the rest of the day would be just the same as eating all whole foods for every meal if the macros and calories balance out. Here’s an example of a typical day:
Mix 4 scoops of MAG-10 in 2L jug which I will sip on throughout the day
7:30am 2 scoops of Metabolic Drive, 2 scoops of Superfood, 1 scoop of L-Leucine and 4 Flameout, multivitamin, probiotics
10:30am 1 FINiBAR, an apple
noon 2 scoops of Metabolic Drive, 2 scoops of Superfood, 1 scoop of L-Leucine and 3 FA3
4pm ANACONDA Protocol 1 - 3 FINiBARs, 2 scoop of ANACONDA and 2 MAG-10
4:30 Workout
6:30 12 oz steak/chicken/fish etc, steamed veggies
9pm 2 MD, 4 flameouts, 3 FA3, 3000 units of vit D, 2 Z12
Time again is not an issue. I was just curious if this type of diet is not advisable if I keep it going for an extended period.[/quote]
I find that preparing a few meals on the weekend and freezing them individually can really help, as well as portioning all of your veggies and such right when you by them or the next day. I used to make huge batches of chili so I always had like 10 servings to freeze.
That way I knew that if time was tight I had real food, you can do it with a lot of stuff. Try marinating a steak and freezing it as is. When you need to cook it it’s already flavored. I was a chef before a PT so I picked up a few ideas.
[quote]Eric Buratty wrote:
FINiBARS are solid food. However, the rest of the stuff should SUPPLEMENT your daily intake. Sure supps are convenient, but do your best to get in some meat and veggies (along with rice if you’re eating more carbs).
I agree with B. in that you should find one day of the week that you have less going on (which in his example was Sunday) to put together some meals. The only thing that takes a while is preparation and clean up. Everything else is a breeze.
Some quick go to items for tupperware storage:
-lean meats or canned tuna
-green leafy veggies (heck, spinach comes in the bag already to go anyway!)
-beans (cooked yourself or canned)
-rice
-nuts (get cashews if you want more calories)
Otherwise, keep the FA3 and Flameout in your diet.
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Concerning the tuna, you can even get tuna in smaller portion cans with flavoured olive oil. makes a great quick snack.
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