My Eating Dilemma

riches41
riches41 Posts: 127 Member
edited December 4 in Food and Nutrition
Today for example i worked a ten hour shift and went to the gym. Im on a 2300 calorie diet i also count my steps for im a chef on my feet all day i walked 15000 steps today and went to gym for an hour so now it say i have to eat 2700 calories how do i eat that much?

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  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    I'm not sure what you mean. Have you not eaten at all and you are going to have trouble fitting that number of calories into a short period of time (before bed?) You can always carry some over to tomorrow if that makes it easier.
  • chewyxrage
    chewyxrage Posts: 56 Member
    Eating 2700 calories is a problem? That's easy :)

    Shakes, pizza, ice cream, yum.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    riches41 wrote: »
    Today for example i worked a ten hour shift and went to the gym. Im on a 2300 calorie diet i also count my steps for im a chef on my feet all day i walked 15000 steps today and went to gym for an hour so now it say i have to eat 2700 calories how do i eat that much?

    How is that difficult when you're a chef?

    Rack of ribs and a slab of cheesecake will cover most of it?!
  • riches41
    riches41 Posts: 127 Member
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    riches41 wrote: »
    Today for example i worked a ten hour shift and went to the gym. Im on a 2300 calorie diet i also count my steps for im a chef on my feet all day i walked 15000 steps today and went to gym for an hour so now it say i have to eat 2700 calories how do i eat that much?

    How is that difficult when you're a chef?

    Rack of ribs and a slab of cheesecake will cover most of it?!

    What about healthy?
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    riches41 wrote: »
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    riches41 wrote: »
    Today for example i worked a ten hour shift and went to the gym. Im on a 2300 calorie diet i also count my steps for im a chef on my feet all day i walked 15000 steps today and went to gym for an hour so now it say i have to eat 2700 calories how do i eat that much?

    How is that difficult when you're a chef?

    Rack of ribs and a slab of cheesecake will cover most of it?!

    What about healthy?

    Side salad?
  • riches41
    riches41 Posts: 127 Member
    chewyxrage wrote: »
    Eating 2700 calories is a problem? That's easy :)

    Shakes, pizza, ice cream, yum.

    What about healthy i want to bulk up but lose my stomach
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    What about a roast chicken and a salad with creamy dressing on the side, followed by a mass gainer shake?
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    riches41 wrote: »
    chewyxrage wrote: »
    Eating 2700 calories is a problem? That's easy :)

    Shakes, pizza, ice cream, yum.

    What about healthy i want to bulk up but lose my stomach

    You can't really do both, unless you're going for slow recomp?
  • riches41
    riches41 Posts: 127 Member
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    riches41 wrote: »
    chewyxrage wrote: »
    Eating 2700 calories is a problem? That's easy :)

    Shakes, pizza, ice cream, yum.

    What about healthy i want to bulk up but lose my stomach

    You can't really do both, unless you're going for slow recomp?

    Whats better tone up first or bulk up
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    riches41 wrote: »
    TavistockToad wrote: »
    riches41 wrote: »
    chewyxrage wrote: »
    Eating 2700 calories is a problem? That's easy :)

    Shakes, pizza, ice cream, yum.

    What about healthy i want to bulk up but lose my stomach

    You can't really do both, unless you're going for slow recomp?

    Whats better tone up first or bulk up

    It's winter, bulk
  • Rage_Phish
    Rage_Phish Posts: 1,507 Member
    this thread, smdh
  • aliem
    aliem Posts: 326 Member
    You should not eat back all of your exercise calories. Also, unless you put sedentary as your activity level at the beginning, you are probably double counting some of those steps, because it would have factored in some level of activity during the day. You would also lose the weight more quickly. As a chef, are you making sure to count all of the things you taste during the day? I have worked alongside some restaurants and they calculated that the person that did the tasting for just the day's prep consumed about 2000 calories!

    If you really do need more calories, I would look at adding potatoes (white, sweet, etc.) and rice. You could also eat higher fat foods that are healthy like avocados and coconuts.
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