I am new to this website, and I have a few questions.
My first questions relate to the T-Dwag diet: If my math is correct, at 200, I would be eating around 212 grams of fat per day. That seems high to me. Does that number sound correct? If it is, isn’t that excessively high?
Also, would eating a high carb breakfast in addition to a high carb post workout meal impede the results?
Well, if you want to get 3000 kcal based on only protein and fat, then yes. But you’re gonna have some carbs (veggies!) plus a post workout shake, so that will reduce your fat requirement. As well, you could up your protein intake too, to say 2 x body mass, couldn’t hurt (except the wallet). And remember, that is just the intake in the first week - next you’re going to drop down to 2500 kcal, and you WON’T decrease protien, and your carbs should be at a minimum already, so you’re going to lose some fats from the diet. Basically try to keep your protein at least at 300 g (you’re 200 lbs right?), your carbs at 100/70g (workout/off day - I believe those are the recommendations) and then make up the rest in fats, whatever the total may be. Good luck.
Thanks for the advice. I thought, however, the artcle recommended a protein intake of .6-.8 times body weight. That would be between 120-160 grams, which is only around 480-640 total calories. Then 70 carbs would equal an only an additional 280 calories (even less on non-lifting days), leaving around 210 grams of fat.
I thought the protein recemendation was low.
Take a look at T-Dawg 2.0. They made some improvements in this version and one of those was increasing the protein requirements to 1.5 grams of protein per lb. bodyweight.
Your math is wrong. It appears that you divided your fat calories by 4 instead of 9. Assuming you need 840 calories from fat, you need only 93 grams of fat to accompish this.
As has been said though, check out version 2. It may fit your needs better.
I’m using the T-dawg diet ver.2 right now. I took in 300g of protein and 100g of carbs on workout days for the first week, so that leaves 100g of fat to get to 2500cal/day (I was getting 3000cal/day the week before in a “priming” phase). It seems like a lot if your used to getting your energy from carbs, but it adds up fast. Just have a hand full of nuts a couple times a day with some low-fat cottage cheese and a steak in there somewhere and you’re there faster than you know it. Olives and avacados are good sources too. I’m in week two right now so I’m only doing 2000 cal/day and it gets easier to get there, but harder to not overshoot and the cravings start to stack up. I’ve lost 4lbs to date though and hope to take off 2-4 more before the end of week 3 so that is my motivation.