What Diet has Worked Best for You?

[quote]pumped340 wrote:
waylanderxx wrote:

haha no I hate eating which is why I use a lot of shakes. The eggs and oats takes me a little over an hour of constant eating to finish. I can down the eggs pretty quick, but damn that oatmeal is tough.

Thats too bad, I guess you just have to do what you can to make it taste good. I don’t know how you make your oatmeal but I think it tastes great with stevia and cinnamon added and twice as good with vanilla or especially chocolate mint protein powder added. Currently I just started adding 1tbsp of sugar free maple syrup to mine making it even better and that only adds like 10 calories so its all good.
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Yah I don’t make much effort to make my food taste good lol, never have. My favorite though is making it with the vanilla soy milk, that’s great bu usually I just make it plain with skim milk.

[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
pumped340 wrote:
waylanderxx wrote:
By far and away the best results I have ever gotten from a specific diet would be HIGH protein, moderate fat, and med/low carb.

Oatmeal with breakfast, waxy maize pre/during/post workout and then the rest of carbs from veggies and some cottage cheese before bed.

Also making sure I only pair P+F or P+C, never all three or just F+C.

From 268-280 in 4 months with no visible increase in bodyfat.

And this is what you have done recently correct?

Any idea what your total breakdown of calories/protein/carbs/fat was? And were you only consuming carbs breakfast and peri-workout?

Yes I’ve been doing this loosely for about 3 months now,but been really strict with it the past month and a half though, and the muscle has been piling on. Here’s what I’m eating.

50g whey 5g leucine
10 whole eggs +1 1/2 cups oats mixed with skim milk
75g whey +4 tbsp EVOO
Pre W:50g whey +30g waxy maize +5 leucine +5g creatine
Peri W: 25g whey+30g WM+5g leucine
Post W: 75g whey +60g WM +10g leucine +5g creatine
1.5 lbs ground sirloin +handful spinach leaves+salsa
75g whey +4 tbsp EVOO
2 chicken breasts +handful spinach leaves
4 tbsp natty PB +1 cup 4% cottage cheese
50g whey +5g leucine

Very high protein, pretty high fat, and a decent amount of carbs. Not really sure on the calories/macros and I don’t feel like figuring it out haha sorry [/quote]

That is shitload of protein.
Is that ~600g of protein, maybe I should try that.
268 to 280 is amazing.

[quote]waylanderxx wrote:

haha no I hate eating which is why I use a lot of shakes. The eggs and oats takes me a little over an hour of constant eating to finish. I can down the eggs pretty quick, but damn that oatmeal is tough.[/quote]

Just a thought, but have you tried blending it? I find it difficult to eat solid food in the morning, plus preparation takes longer than I like, so I just drink a shake each morning consisting of 400ml whole milk, 100ml soy milk (for the taste mostly), 10gr flaxseed, 100gr oatmeal, 2 raw eggs and some blueberries.

I guess if you increase the milk in there you can also increase the eggs to 5 or 6 (not increasing the milk would make it very disgusting I imagine) and you’d only have 5 or 6 whole eggs to down next to that. Maybe this will prove usefull to you, maybe not, but I find this shake quite tasty and it may definetely save you some time in the morning.

Hey this is the featured thread of the week in the T-Nation “Weekly Dose”! lol…

I’m currently only consuming carbohydrates from fruit, veg and in pre and post-workout shakes, the rest of my nutrition is in the form of plenty of protein from meat, fish, nuts, eggs and whey/casein shakes and fat from olive oil, fish oil, meat, nuts, etc.

It’s helped me put on around 13-15lbs since around january with no noticeable fat increase.

[quote]waylanderxx wrote:

50g whey 5g leucine
10 whole eggs +1 1/2 cups oats mixed with skim milk
75g whey +4 tbsp EVOO
Pre W:50g whey +30g waxy maize +5 leucine +5g creatine
Peri W: 25g whey+30g WM+5g leucine
Post W: 75g whey +60g WM +10g leucine +5g creatine
1.5 lbs ground sirloin +handful spinach leaves+salsa
75g whey +4 tbsp EVOO
2 chicken breasts +handful spinach leaves
4 tbsp natty PB +1 cup 4% cottage cheese
50g whey +5g leucine
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how do you manage to eat quantities like this? i know its alot of shakes but did you have trouble downing it all when begining this diet?

High fat, high protein, low carb ( less then 50g a day average) worked great for me when I got serious. After 4 weeks,starting in May, I gained 6 pounds and lost 3/4 of an inch around my waist (dont know bf %'s but it was low to begin with), that got be past the 200lb mark finally (202), not real impressive but if I wasnt so broke ass and kept that up for a few months id imagine my results would be very satisfying (im 6’4" so I still look slim). I was consuming about 4-5000 cals a day, lots of mixed nuts and cream, no fruit lots of veggies. Supps where whey protein and fish oil, about 10 of the cheap pills a day.

Note: Last I weighted in at I was 207, and since about the middle june of been following what I would call my usual diet with no supps.

The diet where I burn more calories than I take in.

[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
By far and away the best results I have ever gotten from a specific diet would be HIGH protein, moderate fat, and med/low carb.

Oatmeal with breakfast, waxy maize pre/during/post workout and then the rest of carbs from veggies and some cottage cheese before bed.

Also making sure I only pair P+F or P+C, never all three or just F+C.

From 268-280 in 4 months with no visible increase in bodyfat.[/quote]

Some strength coaches believe that strict meal combining is not really necessary because the effects of a meal last longer than just a few hours and insulin is not required to cause fat intake to lead to fat storage.

Have you always followed the P+F and P+C approach? Maybe you don’t need to go to such lengths.

I’m interested because I have also eaten this way pretty much since day one and I’m now considering being less diligent with my meals as I’m not entirely sure it’s necessary.

[quote]HerbertNL wrote:
waylanderxx wrote:

haha no I hate eating which is why I use a lot of shakes. The eggs and oats takes me a little over an hour of constant eating to finish. I can down the eggs pretty quick, but damn that oatmeal is tough.

Just a thought, but have you tried blending it? I find it difficult to eat solid food in the morning, plus preparation takes longer than I like, so I just drink a shake each morning consisting of 400ml whole milk, 100ml soy milk (for the taste mostly), 10gr flaxseed, 100gr oatmeal, 2 raw eggs and some blueberries.

I guess if you increase the milk in there you can also increase the eggs to 5 or 6 (not increasing the milk would make it very disgusting I imagine) and you’d only have 5 or 6 whole eggs to down next to that. Maybe this will prove usefull to you, maybe not, but I find this shake quite tasty and it may definetely save you some time in the morning. [/quote]

Well I don’t have a blender, but I have done something like this when I go visit my parents. I only did it twice, but I did 15 tbsps of EVOO, 6 eggs, 2 cups oatmeal, 5 tbsps PB, 3 cups skim milk, 1 cup mixed nuts and I threw in some veggie complex pills and glutamine just for the hell of it, along with some vanilla extract for taste. It was fucking good lol.

I typically like to have a solid breakfast though.

[quote]michaellongo14 wrote:
waylanderxx wrote:

50g whey 5g leucine
10 whole eggs +1 1/2 cups oats mixed with skim milk
75g whey +4 tbsp EVOO
Pre W:50g whey +30g waxy maize +5 leucine +5g creatine
Peri W: 25g whey+30g WM+5g leucine
Post W: 75g whey +60g WM +10g leucine +5g creatine
1.5 lbs ground sirloin +handful spinach leaves+salsa
75g whey +4 tbsp EVOO
2 chicken breasts +handful spinach leaves
4 tbsp natty PB +1 cup 4% cottage cheese
50g whey +5g leucine

how do you manage to eat quantities like this? i know its alot of shakes but did you have trouble downing it all when begining this diet?[/quote]

Not really, I always eat this much or more on average. Obviously I didn’t start out like this, I added to it over time just like you would add weight to your bench press over time. This is fairly easy for me at this point

[quote]pumped340 wrote:
Hey this is the featured thread of the week in the T-Nation “Weekly Dose”! lol…[/quote]

haha nice, don’t mind it!!

[quote]CKMAN wrote:
waylanderxx wrote:
By far and away the best results I have ever gotten from a specific diet would be HIGH protein, moderate fat, and med/low carb.

Oatmeal with breakfast, waxy maize pre/during/post workout and then the rest of carbs from veggies and some cottage cheese before bed.

Also making sure I only pair P+F or P+C, never all three or just F+C.

From 268-280 in 4 months with no visible increase in bodyfat.

Some strength coaches believe that strict meal combining is not really necessary because the effects of a meal last longer than just a few hours and insulin is not required to cause fat intake to lead to fat storage.

Have you always followed the P+F and P+C approach? Maybe you don’t need to go to such lengths.

I’m interested because I have also eaten this way pretty much since day one and I’m now considering being less diligent with my meals as I’m not entirely sure it’s necessary.

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I combined all 3 nutrients for pretty much 95% of my lifting career. Separating them is something I’ve only done for the past 2 months or so and the results have been amazing so I will continue to do it.

T-Dawg 2.0 diet has worked wonders for me.

(Its 100g of carbs on workout days, consumed at breakfast and PWO, and 70g of Carbs consumed at breakfast on non-workout days - rest of the calories from fat/protein).

[quote]waylanderxx wrote:

Well I don’t have a blender, but I have done something like this when I go visit my parents. I only did it twice, but I did 15 tbsps of EVOO, 6 eggs, 2 cups oatmeal, 5 tbsps PB, 3 cups skim milk, 1 cup mixed nuts and I threw in some veggie complex pills and glutamine just for the hell of it, along with some vanilla extract for taste. It was fucking good lol.

I typically like to have a solid breakfast though.[/quote]

Holy shit that was one meal??? Thats like 4400 calories

[quote]monatu wrote:
T-Dawg 2.0 diet has worked wonders for me.

(Its 100g of carbs on workout days, consumed at breakfast and PWO, and 70g of Carbs consumed at breakfast on non-workout days - rest of the calories from fat/protein).[/quote]

Thats almost exactly what I’m doing now as a sort of break/change to the typical CKD I was doing

Hi guys i am on low carb diet for first time and i would like to get some advice.
My goal is pretty much to keep my weight but loose some body fat.

My stats are
i started at 100 kg unfortunately i did loose some weight the last month to 94 kg
my protein intake per day is between 210-280 g
carbs between 20-50 g a day
and fats between 150-200 g a day which makes me wonder isnt that too much fats a day.

No, you will need the fat so you got some energy since the carbs are pretty low.

[quote]lmhr wrote:
No, you will need the fat so you got some energy since the carbs are pretty low.[/quote]

Thx u for the respond, but up to what amount of fats should i allow myself to consume. Btw last month i started with 16 % bf and i did it today too. I am 14% now which i would guess is not bad progress for a month and not with the strictest diet.

[quote]waylanderxx wrote:
50g whey 5g leucine
10 whole eggs +1 1/2 cups oats mixed with skim milk
75g whey +4 tbsp EVOO
Pre W:50g whey +30g waxy maize +5 leucine +5g creatine
Peri W: 25g whey+30g WM+5g leucine
Post W: 75g whey +60g WM +10g leucine +5g creatine
1.5 lbs ground sirloin +handful spinach leaves+salsa
75g whey +4 tbsp EVOO
2 chicken breasts +handful spinach leaves
4 tbsp natty PB +1 cup 4% cottage cheese
50g whey +5g leucine

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Every dumbass who says he eats enough but can’t grow should read this. Perfect example of what has to be done to grow.

What has worked best for me is to eat a well-balanced diet 500 calories over my maintenace levels, and bust ass in the gym five times a week. My diet consists of mostly oatmeal, fruit, chicken breast, eggs, and nuts, nut-butters, and steak from time to time.