Anyone on diets?

Just wondering. I'm on a hardcore one that kinda controls my life. But it keeps my ulcerative colitis under control so that's nice. It's pretty similar to the paleo diet

* No grains (bread, rice, etc)
* No dairy except for some lactose free cheeses (yay cheddar)
* No added sweeteners except saccharin or honey
* No canned vegetables, only fresh or frozen

And a bunch of other shit, a more full list is here: Legal/Illegal List - Breaking the Vicious Cycle

Basically I have to do all of my own cooking because instant meals and whatnot always have sweeteners and wheat starches. At restaurants I can eat salad with oil & vinegar and that is generally everything on the menu that is allowed. The best restaurant for me is the Japanese steak house after I tell them to skip the rice and soy sauce. So basically it ends up just being some unseasoned meat and cooked veggies. It's hard for me to get enough calories because I need ~3700 calories per day to maintain weight (bike 30 miles per day for university) and most calories in a normal diet come from grains and starches. I eat a lot of nuts for the calories. It sounds shitty but it's better than shitting blood 20x per day and feeling like people are stabbing me in the gut.

I devour everything in sight and intake over 150gs of protein in shakes a day lol

I just try to lay off the sweets and burn off whatever I ate.

I do a relatively Paleo diet eating normally, although I occasionally eat grains.

Planning to start a new diet for gaining muscle mass as an ectomorph.

The list of foods I'll be cycling through is pretty long, but as far as protein goes.

* Chicken Breast
* Cottage Cheese
* Turkey Breast
* Salmon
* Tuna
* Ground Beef
* Whole Eggs
* Egg Whites
* Shrimp
* Halibut
* Swordfish (although hard to get)
* Isopure Zero Carb Whey Protein
* Optimum Nutrition Whey Protein
* Myoplex Meal Replacement Packets
* Designer Whey Protein

All of this stuff has a lot of protein, and especially the whey protein has a shit load of calories.

Will be trying to do 5 - 6 meals a day with protein bars in between.

Then I have complex carb foods (rich, potatoes, beans, yams, and yogurt), complex carb vegetables (asparagus, cucumbers, eggplant, onions, tomato, and peppers), simple carb foods (grapefruit, mangos, plums, rasperies, oranges, grapes, and kiwis [<3]), and then high fat foods like peanuts and oils.

No grains. Fruits, vegetables, meats, nuts, and oils mainly.

I'm cutting now.. these are my rules.

-Don't drink calories
-No-Low Sodium
-50g carbs or less
-No dairy. Cheese, milk, etc
-Protein Shakes are okay, mixed with water.
-No-low fats
-Consume 150g of protein a day
-No sugar
-No starchy vegetables (peas, corn, etc)
-Gallon or more of water a day
-No carbs after 6
-No fruit

http://i.imgur.com/MgTLbAQ.jpg

Every meal is like this. Intaking 5+K cals a day. Macros are 40/40/20, as usual.
Lunch is post workout with lots of carbs.
I put on an average of 2 lbs a week. Mainly lean mass.
Intaking over 350gs of protein a day.
750 cal shake and 55gs of protein after I work out, plus lunch.
I also intake creatine and other supps

Starting gallon of milk a day for a month or two once I'm back stateside, should gain 15-20 lbs in first month.
Starting dirty bulking until 210 lbs, then cutting to sub 10% bf again.

For you guys focusing on no break or grains, why? Shit's stupid, just work out and keep a 40/40/20 diet and you will cut all the weight just fine.Don't starve yourself by making deficit cal intakes or watching what you eat by only eating salads and shit. Get your 40% protein, 40% fats, and 20% carbs a day

Protein for muscle growth and recovery
Fats for hormone balancing and creation (testosterone, etc)
And carbs for energy

I mean, unless you're a fatass that doesn't burn any of the carbs and fat, then yea. But if you're actually working out and active.... lol eat that shit. lol@low/no fat
brb low T levels


If it fits your macros, eat it.
IIFYM — | If It Fits Your Macros

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Why does your calculator tell me to eat so many calories?
The numbers or IIFYM Calculator spit our, are based on the numbers you input for your body and energy levels. Most people think these numbers are high for one of two reasons.
1. They really have no idea of how many calories they really do eat to begin with because they have never accurately tracked their calories or macros.
2. They are brainwashed, and believe that men should eat 1800 and 1200 calories respectively. These numbers are old logic that doctors used in the 1950′s to help the morbidly obese people of that generation lose weight.
When people think of dieting, they thing of calorie restriction. When people think of calorie restriction, they think of starving themselves. When they think of starving themselves, they think about not dieting.
The calories and macros our IIFYM calculator gives you appear to be high, you don’t need to create a 50% caloric deficit to lose weight. 15% is perfect, yet still, people always feel that more is better, so they increase the deficit and do their best to sabotage this simple program.
Hit your macros, and stay out of your own way! The program works, but you have to let it!

What is the best way to start IIFYM when coming off of a low carb diet?
This can be a tricky one. When you first input your numbers in to our IIFYM Calculator, you will be give a specific amount of carbs to eat. Many people that have been on a low carb diet usually (not always) have developed some sort of fear of carbs. Don’t worry, it happens to the best of us. Even elite level body builders develop this phobia over time. Luckily there are great contest prep coaches out there that are doing an awesome job helping athletes and general population dieters come out of these low carb nightmares and restore their metabolism.
More later…

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I'll just leave this here before you kids starving your body of macronuetrients it needs because of brainwashed fad diets start trying to tell me I'm wrong

The Ultimate Cutting Diet - Devised By Pro Natural Bodybuilder Layne Norton | SimplyShredded.com

I'm on the paleo diet.
It's been quite fun really.
Now when I look back to what I used to eat I get a bit sick.

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Originally Posted by bmlkiddo

I'll just leave this here before you kids starving your body of macronuetrients it needs because of brainwashed fad diets start trying to tell me I'm wrong

The Ultimate Cutting Diet - Devised By Pro Natural Bodybuilder Layne Norton | SimplyShredded.com

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Where would you like me to start on this one? I guess I'll start where is logical:
Every person is different and that means in every way, diet and metabolism included. So the whole idea behind an Ultimate Cutting diet is full of shit. Any diet that claims to be the best for everyone and that it will work for anyone is full of shit.

My diet goes like this:
1 meal a day, usually ramen or a McChicken with McSweet-Tea. (the former around 140 calories and the latter around 750 calories)
12 cigarettes a day
9 hour standing shifts with lifting and constant moving around.
Now I'm down to 168lbs and cutting pretty fast. I'm not saying that this road is for everyone, and I don't suggest it unless you know that you can handle it, and I've been trained to know how to live off as little food as possible for days at a time. So I know how to work with what I am doing. Another person might try and do what I am doing and fail terribly and get sick or it might work perfectly for them.

I have also followed different regimens for when I was bulking to add muscle fast. And my diet consisted of something much different and my workout regimen was intense. Yet I knew how to make it work for me.

It all comes down to knowing your body and shocking your body into a diet is not knowing your body. Its punishing it. If you go from eating 8k calories a day down to less than 2k and change your actual food intake drastically, you will not go in the direction that you want to, and it can even be less healthy to do that. Gradual working into that is what is needed. You can't go from a high protein meat filled diet to salads and healthy turkey and shit. It just doesn't (always) work.

I'm not saying you don't know your shit for your body. What you're doing probably works best for you, and I say kudos for finding out what it is that works for you. Most people give up because they keep trying these fads and these bullshit diets that don't actually work and give up thinking it's not for them. But it is all based solely on the person, and their originating diet.

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Originally Posted by bmlkiddo

http://i.imgur.com/MgTLbAQ.jpg

Every meal is like this. Intaking 5+K cals a day. Macros are 40/40/20, as usual.
Lunch is post workout with lots of carbs.
I put on an average of 2 lbs a week. Mainly lean mass.
Intaking over 350gs of protein a day.
750 cal shake and 55gs of protein after I work out, plus lunch.
I also intake creatine and other supps

Starting gallon of milk a day for a month or two once I'm back stateside, should gain 15-20 lbs in first month.
Starting dirty bulking until 210 lbs, then cutting to sub 10% bf again.

For you guys focusing on no break or grains, why? Shit's stupid, just work out and keep a 40/40/20 diet and you will cut all the weight just fine.Don't starve yourself by making deficit cal intakes or watching what you eat by only eating salads and shit. Get your 40% protein, 40% fats, and 20% carbs a day

Protein for muscle growth and recovery
Fats for hormone balancing and creation (testosterone, etc)
And carbs for energy

I mean, unless you're a fatass that doesn't burn any of the carbs and fat, then yea. But if you're actually working out and active.... lol eat that shit. lol@low/no fat
brb low T levels


If it fits your macros, eat it.
IIFYM — | If It Fits Your Macros

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Every single thing you are saying here is not 100% true. Carbs and fats are needed, this is widely known, and yet people focus on the bullshit of saying that fats are bad, and that just not true. You need carbs and you need fats. Bottom line. There are healthy fats and unhealthy fats, and carbs are carbs. If you want to get to the nit picking in this, then we can go there: polyunsaturated fats are good. Monounsaturated fats. Also good. Anything saturated is bad. SO that statement is misleading
Carbs: you need carbs in your body. Simple fact. Carbs are the engines to your energy machine. Without carbs, you lose energy and focus while you workout. All that can be said.
Milk is good for your body. A gallon a day isn't. It can lead to your natural processes (aka shitting) being backed up. Last thing you need while doing any kind of phase, whether it be cutting or bulking is to be constipated. You can't push the rest of the excess that you didn't use or that your body can't use out of your system, you also can't push the literal shit out. And that stops weight loss, and can cause bloating in the lower abdominal area and build up of secondary nutrients (garbage nutrients)
which leads to belly fat.

There is only one proven method to losing weight. Caloric deficit. You have to burn more calories than you intake. That is obvious. Stating otherwise is ignorant to how the body works. I'm not saying eat like a rabbit or anything, but caloric deficits are the only way to actually burn (bad) fats.

Next note: testosterone is a naturally occuring hormone in the body and it exists for one sole purpose: make men just that, men. It decreases once you get in worse shape and your body is weak and stationary. If that happens to you, production goes down. That much is true. But testosterone can be created in the body by working large muscle groups, like the leg, chest, or back muscles. Working any of these groups to the point of failure then using a protein and a creatine to rebuild and get you ready for the
next cycle.

As for macronutrients, they are a simple little thing people trying to spew some "secret" answer throw out there a lot. fact of the matter is, so long as your nutrient intake is something other than Little Debbie, or McDonalds, and you are getting all of your nutrients, you will be fine. Just do what is needed to stay in shape. Otherwise you're wasting your time.

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Originally Posted by thamanz

I'm cutting now.. these are my rules.

-Don't drink calories
-No-Low Sodium
-50g carbs or less
-No dairy. Cheese, milk, etc
-Protein Shakes are okay, mixed with water.
-No-low fats
-Consume 150g of protein a day
-No sugar
-No starchy vegetables (peas, corn, etc)
-Gallon or more of water a day
-No carbs after 6
-No fruit

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You are right with a few things, but wrong a few others; let me explain:
-No-low sodium is ignorant. Sodium is needed in your body to prevent hypernutriemia. Basically that means you've washed all of the nutrients out of your body, and there is nothing to stop you from overhydrating. And since you are intaking a gallon a day with little-no sodium, it's not far off.And not to mention, everything has some level of sodium in it, even if minutely. So you can never escape it. Ever.
-No-low fats is also ignorant. Just watch the type of fats you eat. Refer to the section above where I refer to good and bad fats.
-Starches are NEEDED. You need starches. Simple as that. Not a fuck ton of them, but you need them, so having basically no starches is just stupid. Starches contain building blocks to muscle fiber, both lean and bulk. So you might want to rethink that
-Carbs after 6 don't matter. They really dont. So long as you aren't falling asleep immediately after eating a carb heavy meal, you're fine. Trust me on this one.
-No sugar is not a good idea. The main amino acids that comprise your muscle fibers have sugar in them. The starches have sugar in them as well, so if you double-cut, you're losing a major ingredient to the muscle recipe. Soda sugar = bad. Fruit sugar = good. Which brings me to my next point:
-Not having fruit in your diet is just plain wrong. They have the natural sugars that curb appetite. And they drive off the cravings for bad sugars (candy, soda, etc). Not to mention the metabolic nutrients that most of them have, specifically blue berries that stimulate your thyroid and helps to release HGH and increases your metabolic rate as well. Fruits are a win-win in the diet area because they are HEALTHY.

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Originally Posted by Isonyx

I do a relatively Paleo diet eating normally, although I occasionally eat grains.

Planning to start a new diet for gaining muscle mass as an ectomorph.

The list of foods I'll be cycling through is pretty long, but as far as protein goes.

* Chicken Breast
* Cottage Cheese
* Turkey Breast
* Salmon
* Tuna
* Ground Beef
* Whole Eggs
* Egg Whites
* Shrimp
* Halibut
* Swordfish (although hard to get)
* Isopure Zero Carb Whey Protein
* Optimum Nutrition Whey Protein
* Myoplex Meal Replacement Packets
* Designer Whey Protein

All of this stuff has a lot of protein, and especially the whey protein has a shit load of calories.

Will be trying to do 5 - 6 meals a day with protein bars in between.

Then I have complex carb foods (rich, potatoes, beans, yams, and yogurt), complex carb vegetables (asparagus, cucumbers, eggplant, onions, tomato, and peppers), simple carb foods (grapefruit, mangos, plums, rasperies, oranges, grapes, and kiwis [<3]), and then high fat foods like peanuts and oils.

No grains. Fruits, vegetables, meats, nuts, and oils mainly.

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This literally looks like to was copy and pasted from a body building website. Like...Almost word for word with the list. So To save you the time and the $24.88 per swordfish steak, let me help you:
Gold Standard Whey Protein. Take all of that money you were going to spend and go spend it on a tub of that stuff. There are 2 types of protein that are used in different circumstances: casein (formerly egg) protein and whey protein. Lean why for cutting or just adding some small mass to your muscles, and mass protein for major bulk gains. Casein helps with the same but has a long range of other uses, but bulking is the main thing that sonmabitch is used for. Casein (bulk) and Whey (bulk) will yield the best results.

Everything else with your diet is pretty spot on. Just don't forget avacado and almonds. Two of the best fats and protein sources outside of steak and shakes.





I'm not trying to move you guys away from what you are doing, but you need to think about what you are doing, what you are eating and what the point of it all is. I have a lot of experience on diets and fads and supplements and shit. I've contributed to the physical training of over 140 United States Marines, both in and out of a deployment area. So I have a small wealth of knowledge on the area.

I'm not on a diet yet but I'm planning on IF (Intermittent fasting). Anyone have any tips/experience on how it went?

You're a lower enlisted without a deployment ribbon, didn't read lol

Atkins. Well...kind of Atkins...actually general low carb, because I do not follow Atkin's rules to a 'T'.
-No grains
-No starchy veggies
-Sometimes fruit, but rare and in small amounts
-No going over 25 carbs per day
-No going over 2000 calories
-No going below 1000 calories
-No regular soda
-No sugary snacks
-No cheese products with more than 1 carb per serving
-No milk

These are my basic rules. I will get a bag of cheddar sun chips every now and then, and eat only 15-16 chips, which is about 15 carbs. I will be left with a total of 10 carbs for the rest of the day. And remember, meat doesn't have carbs. I eat a lot of protein. Usually all of my daily carbohydrates come from veggies and cheese.

I mostly just eat chicken, seafood, fruits and vegetables.
I don't eat junk food at all.

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Originally Posted by arcxnine

I mostly just eat chicken, seafood, fruits and vegetables.
I don't eat junk food at all.

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Do you eat turkey as well?

I don't know if diet so much as I try to keep my calorie intake lower, however I will still eat what I want even if it exceeds that.

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Originally Posted by bmlkiddo

You're a lower enlisted without a deployment ribbon, didn't read lol

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How about an Aye Corporal or some shit, motivator. And I do actually have a deployment ribbon doll. ;D

I don't really diet, but I don't eat unhealthily. The best diet is never to start bad eating habits, imo.

I tend to have a different diet, I have like hi carb and bulky food (high protein and such) Im trying to build body mass muscle and such, and having a very fast matabilism doesnt help. So I try to eat healthy but bulking food

I wouldn't say it's really say I'm on a diet, diets don't work but every month me and a friend do this extreme two week detox that kicks our ass. It's totally worth it though and it stopped a lot of health problems for the both of us and a handful of friends~

no

These diets really make me not want to work out haha. I don't diet :P

everyone is on a diet. a diet = what you eat
ie, my diet consists of mostly fruits, veggies, fish, and dark chocolate.

going on a *diet* is typically a very poor decision, if you're looking to achieve a healthier weight. a lot of people think something like "if i eat healthy for x amount of time, i will become healthy" and then they go back to their shitty lifestyle choices, and right back to their unhealthy ways.
health is a lifestyle. it is a lifelong commitment, and there are no shortcuts.

I've been trying to cut out unhealthy carbs and unhealthy fats from my diet. Lots of meat and vegetables/fruits for me. :')