1. It depends on your goals
2. Total caloric contribution for each 'macro'
3. Exactly, refer 1.
4. CKD requires no change at all if it works well for you. If you're on bulking/cutting/bulking/cutting, I'd do it like Layne Norton does it. 6 weeks bulk 2 weeks cut.
5. Visual inspection, recovery rate, growth rate, performance at the gym.
6. Total definitely.
7. Low GI. When I was on a strict diet all I took for carbs was oats. GI is not that important a factor as Alan Aragon stressed many times already. What's more important is that your carbs be complex.
8. I've been tested before 3 years ago to be fine. I may test again soon.

I should get paid for this

1. You wanna bulk 40/40/20 looks good. I had like 42.5/42.5/15 roughly. Cyclic ketogenic diet (CKD) can comp you (clean bulk) so the macros go way off to like 50/0/50 but of course you can get in a low amount of carbs daily.

2. Carbs is carbs. Making it complex would only be better for your bulk. Having natural fats would only be better for your bulk.

4. Trial and error. CKD is cyclic ketogenic diet. I should be less ambiguous, sorry.

5. Recovery and growth rate is proportionate to performance at the gym.

7. I haven't had a sugar high in a while. But everyone gets it. The reason why I haven't had a sugar high is simply because I don't take that large amount of sugar (only 35g after gym)

8. Scared of needles.

9. Never puffed a cig.

10. A lot is not 1 mug. A lot is exceeding your weekly allowable 'units of alcohol'. A pint of beer is ~2 units. Weekly allowance for male is 21 units and female 14 units. Back to the point, I don't drink unless I have to (friend's birthday he's feeding me champagne, girls wants to get drunk so we can get jiggy with it, etc).

I should stress that my replies are my opinions and what I gather from reading around.

Other people will have their opinions, so take mine with a pinch of salt.

@CoFactor-3:

I'd hate to jump to conclusions, but are you taking the piss at us?

@myremi:

To answer your question again, the convention of counting macros (at least on BB.com) is to use kCal instead of gram. Scientific publications would use different units of measurement depending on their purpose of research. Read 'methods' that come along with the article to find out why they used grams instead of kCal.

If you're counting kCal of meat. There is fat in meat, you have to break it down to protein, fat, carb (chicken breast has 0 carb if I remember correctly), and then following that find out your macros.

I would say counting macros is really not necessary. It's good to get a rough idea of how much kCal you're getting in a day but to be so specific about things doesn't get you anywhere. I'm sure pizzaboy has told you the same thing that counting macros for everything is just silly.

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This post has been edited by mofonyx: Apr 13 2009, 09:14 AM