Thread: Critique cycle, diet, and macros please.

I should have mentioned, the calories, macro breakdown, and food list has only been adhered to for the past 2 months or so.

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Originally Posted by AvidFisherman

Ive read a lot about keto. Ive tried it before but it was short lived. Im more motovated now and I'm fine with trying it again. What carb number should I strive for? You think I should lower my calories to 2200?

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So keto would be no carbs


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I am not as experienced with diet as others, however; I have experienced that AAS and other compounds are not miracles, but rather assistants to proper diet and nutrition.

I personally hate eating on a bodybuilding diet/progra,/schedule, but when I do, I drop fat unbelievably fast and with the help of AAS - I pack on lean muscle pretty quickly.

I have learned that eating right is way more important that the compounds you are running and the exercises you choose to do. It is all in vain if you don't monitor the intake of food and stick to a proper dieting plan.

I keep it simple for myself - call it the "no sugar, no shit" plan. Meaning no sweets and nothing that I consider to be dead calories (donuts, cookies, chips, soda , beer , etc etc). Doing this, I have lost about 10 lbs and I am not even really "trying."

Since I have lost a lot of excess weight, not I can run some fat burners to get that last stubborn bit of fat off my body.

DIET DIET DIET.

First off if you don't eat enough it doesn't matter what you do you will crash your metabolism and at that point the T3 won't help at all.

From the numbers you gave of age weight height bf etc, I added a few points to your bodyfat, and gave the light co efficient for exercise, you need 3818 calories for maintenence.

My suggestion is start by increasing your caloric intake 300 for the next 7 days. If increasing that much causes you to gain then only increase it 100 to 200 each week till you hit 4400. Stay at that for 2 weeks.

Then carb cycle. I ran numbers to carb cycle from 3600 calories to 4200 calories. If you want them. They consist of 45 percent protein 40 percent carbs and 15 percent fat.

And the protein goes from approx 1.25 to 1.5 grams per pound of bodyweight

I think the numbers are a bit high but I got my resting metabolic rate checked in a bod pod last may and it was a bit over 2900 k/cal. So at this point I'm up in the air on what to do and even more confused about my course of action. Lol

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Originally Posted by bulk_cut

With all do respect intended - this is just not good advice at all. OP I hope you don't take it.

With all due respect, can you enlighten us why this is not good advice? Check out my post in member pix titled me close to 370 and me now at 260. This is the exact same advice a professional nutritionist gave me. This is the exact same thing she has me doing. I have proven results. Not eating enough puts the body into starvation mode. Too much t3 in your system and you don't lose weight you gain. I know from taking 50mcg a day and having blood work done that shows exactly what I am saying. I have proven results so how is it not good advice?

Originally Posted by bulk_cut

With all do respect intended - this is just not good advice at all. OP I hope you don't take it.

I have to agree with bulk_cut.

Eating that amount of calories will only serve to help increase your BF%.

Originally Posted by Boulder

With all due respect, can you enlighten us why this is not good advice? Check out my post in member pix titled me close to 370 and me now at 260. This is the exact same advice a professional nutritionist gave me. This is the exact same thing she has me doing. I have proven results. Not eating enough puts the body into starvation mode. Too much t3 in your system and you don't lose weight you gain. I know from taking 50mcg a day and having blood work done that shows exactly what I am saying. I have proven results so how is it not good advice?

Does this apply to only specific people with certain metabolic rates?