My diet is primarily peanut/nut butter/sunflower butter based…
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If we slept a little better, ate a little better and trained a little smarter would we be 30% more jacked?
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I have a theory/approach to nutrition: look at ingredients but not nutritional facts. A handful of raw almonds or a scoop of nut butter might look “bad” if you look at the nutritional facts, but they are whole foods. A “nutrition bar” may look good in terms of nutritional facts, but look at the list of ingredients: brown rice syrup, chicory root powder, soy protein isolate, fillers, artificial sweeteners… literally nothing you would actually eat. But put some fake chocolate over it and suddenly its “edible” and “healthy”.
If you only allow yourself to eat whole, real foods to support your training and health you will not get fat. You will not eat too many grapes, blueberries almonds, whole milk yogurt, whole eggs, fish, etc… Also, your body, I’m convinced, handles these foods completely differently than frankenfoods and fractionated ingredients.
If I’m hungry in the late evening, pull out the almond butter, drizzle some raw honey over it, and add some raw cacao nibs. Perfect snack. Eat all you want.
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Squirrely!
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Might be worth a shot. It all just sits in our pantry and the pantry door never seems to be closed…
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The math holds up in my view
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Maybe, but it’s hard to imagine myself being 30% more jacked tbh; my diet is okay, sleep is consistently shit.
I guess I do train smart though 
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Thank you for the most alpha comment of the thread
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For me it’s the Lack of Planning and Alcohol.
I plan well for the days when I work and am in my routine. The minute the routine changes my plans go down the drain. That said, I’m pretty good at being disciplined enough to illicit the body composition changes desired. But I could be way better if I could plan for the 3 days a week I’m out of my routine.
As far as the alcohol goes, well, so far I’ve been able to out-train the effects of the amount that I drink, but it definitely has reduced my outcomes, I have to believe. My problem is that I don’t ever drink out with my friends on the weekends; I do almost all of my drinking at home. It’s just every night. And I don’t see that stopping.
Was actually having a hard time writing that because I don’t like to self-brag. I’m just thinking “17.5in x 1.3 = 22.75in arms”… I’d be hyooooge. Like turning sideways through doors hyooge.
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Well now you just undid all of it with your calculations anyway
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Trained Arm Size - Untrained Arm Size = Jackedness
Jackedness x 1.3 = Potential Jackedness
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My biggest nutritional challenge has hands down been the time and effort it takes to eat enough to gain weight. I try to stay as close to whole-food based as possible, unless I’m having a very tough time putting weight on. Then I’ll eat pretty much whatever. It might not be good for my waistline, but the strongest I’ve ever felt was after building the monolith and eating a stupid amount of food.
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