Hye guys. Just sharing my post workout meal whilst I'm on low-carb diet.



Ingredient + Nutritional Info:

200 gram minced meat
100 gram chicken breast
3 L size eggs
2 slices of Beqa Cheese
15 gram butter

Calorie = 1,048 kcal
Protein = 64 gram
Carbohydrate = 12 gram
Fat = 58 gram

Wow, your injury is that bad? I'm guessing that you need more than 3 weeks to recover no?

Imo, you should stop a while on your bulking diet. Since you are not going to do any workout, your muscle ain't got any 'minor trauma' thus it is impossible to grow (you have proper diet, enough rest but no workout = muscle not increasing). Therefore, I'm suggesting that either you eat you maintenance calorie to maintain your muscle or you can drop your calorie for cutting purpose. But then, cutting will going to reduce your muscle mass as you cannot workout to maintain your muscle (one of the main reasons to workout during cutting). So, it is better to maintain what you have atm by eating your maintenance calorie.

Anyhow, goodluck on your recovery and try not to push yourself so much. Let the injury heal.

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Added on April 21, 2012, 3:47 amWhen you say that you've been eating a lot, expert will say that you aren't. How is your diet? Maybe you can post your daily food intake here and we will tell you if you are eating enough or not.

But on the other hand, you might try GOMAD which is Gallon Of Milk A Day if you are not lactose intolerant.

This post has been edited by alien9: Apr 21 2012, 03:48 AM

Pedro, would you mind sharing your macro for cutting with me for comparison purpose? I'm 204.6 lbs with 126.72 lbs lean body mass at 38% body fat and 1987kcal calorie needed for cutting . Right now I'm taking 1.55g protein per lean body mass, 0.8g fat per lean body mass and the balance will be carb. Although I have 90g++ for carb, I tend to take around 30++ and replace them with protein.

So, this is my daily macro intake: 197g protein, 101g fat and 73g carb. But then, I would reduce the carb intake (low-carb and low-calorie diet) thus my daily macro intake would be 233g protein, 101g fat, 27g carb.

So far, I've seen the effect. Manage to rid a lot of fat in my body but if there is a better way, why shouldn't I try right?

So, how is your cutting phase going? How much fat do you managed to lose a week?

Yeah, I forgot to play around with the carb thingy. High protein and high carb on training day, high protein and high fat during non training day.

Pedro, can you tell me what do you eat to achieve that 60g/180g fat? I used to get my fat intake through butter, eggs, and fat from minced meat and I just learned from my friend that animal fat is saturated fat and it is bad for our body. Is it right?

The thing with lots of lean muscle mass is that you need lots of calorie to maintain it. If you need 4000kcal for calorie maintenance, you had to eat 4000kcal. Below that, you will start losing weight; either from fat or muscle or both. You eat more than your calorie maintenance, you will grow your muscle or fat or both; usually the latter.