My Job - Do I need to Weight Lift

[Go HoosGo]

I have a question about fruit. It seems that fruit is very high in carbs. Does this mean I shouldn't eat a lot of fruit?

Banana - 28
Pear - 25
Apple - 21
Orange - 15
Pineapple - 10

[Wolfram]

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Thanks JammyDodga and Wolfram

Coming out of high school (2 years ago) I could bench 300 and squat 700. I think I'm relatively strong but there is no hiding it, I'm also fat. I'm prob around 45% fat.

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Yw. It looks like you've got a lot of muscle hiding under there so you should probably go with 2500 calories. If you don't see results then decrease it.

Fruit is fine and one of the good sources of carbs. Just don't go nuts with it and try to stick to 33%-33%-33%.

Check this link out for a good overview of the good, the bad and the ugly in the food spectrum:

http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=460638

[Go HoosGo]

My protein and carbs are insync but I can't get my fat up. What foods do you recommend to get this up w/o blubbering me more up lol.

[thirddan]

good sources of fat > fish, olive oil, flaxseed oil, walnuts, almonds, natty peanut butter, fish oil, avocados...

[Wolfram]

And dairy:
Yogurt, cottage cheese, milk.

[Go HoosGo]

but cottage cheese has the same fat as carbs so i can't really balance it out like you said

[Wolfram]

Yeah, but if you switch out some of the high carb stuff for cc you'll up your fat and protein ratio.

Here's a sort of general day for me:

breakfast: oatmeal + milk, scoop of whey w/water

mid-breakfast: piece of fruit or berries (they have those fresh at work which is very convenient) or plain yoghurt + natural muesli

lunch: dead animal + dinner starch + rabbit food

mid-day: yoghurt+muesli or a handful of nuts+fruit

pre-workout: scoop of whey and sometimes some form of carbs

post-workout: dead animal + dinner starch + rabbit food

before bed: scoop of whey mixed with milk


I modeled this after the SS faq and it usually works out to about 40% protein, 30% carbs, 30% fat. I use olive oil for cooking and sometimes as dressing. If I get low on fat or just calories I add a banana, some ice and natty peanut butter to my protein shake w/milk (and lots of ice).

Btw, I don't eat that much cottage cheese, but i often replace the yoghurt+muesli with Skyr which is a local dairy product. It's made from milk and some kind of germ that creates this kind of tart, smooth pudding which is actually very good and has about the same macronutrient properties as cottage cheese (22g protein in a 6oz container) but it's 0% fat.

http://www.skyr.is/Products/Plain/