Captain Glanton said:
Are you trying to go up or down? What are your strength, bodyweight, and bodyfat goals? And can you give us an honest breakdown of your daily eating habits?
I'm 100% not sure right now whether I should go up or down. I've been trying to go down and it has not been working. I have neither strength nor bodyweight goals. My bodyfat goal is 10%. Assuming 18% right now, I have 29.7 pounds of fat. To hit 10%, then, I would need to drop to 150 and ensure that every single pound lost was fat. Since that seems unlikely(impossible?), we're realistically talking going down to 140 or so which seems tiny at 5'10. This is all assuming that I can somehow manage to budge the scale again and keep it moving for a full 25 pounds.
Honest breakdown of my eating habits? Sure. Here is what I would currently eat were I targeting 2k cals.
Morning: Two cups of raisin bran + 1 cup milk + 1 serving whey = 600 cals.
Split lunch(Three meals): 16-18 oz. chicken + 3 oz. almonds = ~900 cals.
Dinner: 2 eggs, 1/2 cup egg whites, 1/2 cup cheese = ~400 cals.
Add in plenty of fish oil for ~50 calories and maybe some spinach somewhere or something and I'd hit my 2k. Usually I'd adjust portions up and down to have more on workout days(maybe 2200 calories) and less on non-workout days(maybe 1800 cals). Perhaps I'd shoot for the full 6 meals, which would probably involve cutting one serving of almonds and one cup of raisin bran and inserting those calories(~300) elsewhere. Irrelevant, though, since I'm not going to be spiking insulin and studies have repeatedly shown that eating 6 meals per day has no real effect on fat loss over 3(or 1 for that matter) meals per day.
I've tried this different ways, though. I've eaten less carbs in the morning(i.e. none). I've replaced raisin bran(which is, honestly, fairly healthy) with oatmeal and whey with whatever. I've replaced cheese with lowfat cheese or non-fat cheese.
Really, though, I think that a high protein, low carb, moderate fat diet works best for me. My carb sensitivity is, as far as I can tell, terrible. A huge number of carbs induces general lethargy and, occasionally, headaches.
Anyway, this is probably more than you needed. My point is that I'm good at calorie partitioning(Strict FitDay.com user) and VERY good at sticking to my diet plan, and I've done just enough research on the whole thing to be dangerous. Let me know what you think. Thanks!
EDIT: Ratio of above according to fitday is about 46p/20c/36f. This seems reasonable to me.
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