I am having massive problems keeping my carbs under 100g on workout days while using Surge. Quick breakdown of a typical day:
6:00am
Meal 1: Surge (4 scoops of Surge = 61g carbs)
Workout
8:50am
Meal 2: Protein shake w/ 1/2 cup oatmeal and a piece of fruit (usually an apple or orange). 34g carbs
11:00am
Meal 3: 2 cans of water-packed tuna. 0 carbs
1:00pm
Meal 4: 250g chicken breast + 175g mixed green salad. 5g carbs.
3:30pm
Meal 5: Protein bar. 11g carbs (but 45g of oh-so-good protein)
6:00pm
Meal 6: 250g chicken breast 0 carbs.
8:30pm
Meal 7: Fish or t-bone + plus some more salad. Another 5 carbs.
That is about 116 carbs for the day, completely blowing out the T-Dawg.
Being a FG, I am going for about 3000 clean cals/day meaning roughly 430cal/meal. I could replace meal 5 with a protein shake, but that is a whole lotta shake to get to 430cal.
I have been on the T-Dawg for about a month and the results are pretty good, but I want to make sure that there are no sticking points.
[quote]ChrisKing wrote:
Why worry about minutia if your making progress?
You’re worrying about the diet for the sake of the diet – a complete waste of time.
Worry about the diet when you stop seeing results.[/quote]
Agree 100%
On a site like this, there is information out there for all levels of lifters. It’s easy to get caught up in fretting over details when you read some of the things written for more advanced lifters, sorta like focusing on keeping the chrome polished before you fix the crack in your engine.
Use this time to learn about your own body and what it can do. The information can be useful, but it should only serve as a template at best. As you progress you’ll rely more and more on your own experience, so focus on how you respond to different stimuli. That’s more important than worrying about following a diet or program to the letter.
[quote]DQuinlan wrote:
That is about 116 carbs for the day, completely blowing out the T-Dawg.
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Unless you are already at a very low BF%, there is no need to be this anal. 16g of carbs over your target is nothing. You are certainly not “completely blowing out” the diet.
This way of thinking – that you have two options: perfection or failure – is TOXIC. Since human beings can’t be perfect, it GUARANTEES failure every single time, eventually. Learn to give yourself a break, and you’ll see much better results.
You don’t have to get all those calories from a shake. Two scoops of MD and two tbsp of natural peanut butter (or a handful of peanuts) is pretty close to that in terms of protein and calories, with more fat and less carbs than the protein bar.
[quote]eengrms76 wrote:
The new Surge serving size is 4 scoops for people who weigh over 200 lbs. Not sure if his carb count is right, but his scoop quantity is.[/quote]
Ooh… thanks. I havent bought Surge in about 4 months.
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
eengrms76 wrote:
The new Surge serving size is 4 scoops for people who weigh over 200 lbs. Not sure if his carb count is right, but his scoop quantity is.
Ooh… thanks. I havent bought Surge in about 4 months.[/quote]
You should try the new stuff. Whatever they did to made it about 250% more angel-food-cakey. It’s better than ever!