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Yeah, I did wonder at the calorific content of cashews, it just seems hard to hit 150g protein or thereabouts - cashews just seemed an easy way to do it. Today, I ate peanut butter on toast, a chicken salad (I either eat chicken or tuna usually - unless there's leftover curry/chilli from dinner) with 2 chicken breasts (or…
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Sorry, been absent on here - busy with work and with looking over diet plans! I'm going to go ahead with trying 2k calories, 150 g protein, 100 g fat and the rest as carbs, and log the results for a few weeks and see what changes happen! back to the drawing board if not but I need a benchmark and an idea of what my diet…
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Wow, all of your posts are amazingly helpful, and sort of what I have been seeing doing my research (i.e. a lot of protein and less carbs). I have considered asking a trainer at the gym I'm at for some measurements and insights but I might try something I enjoy for a few weeks and log the results :) So I just input my own…
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Ok, I've been doing this for a week and the eating is going well - sticking to the calories is easy and I'm not feeling hungry or anything like that. I feel I may have used wrong data - i.e. my scales are funky. 6 days ago it told me I'm 17.2 stone, I went on yesterday and it told me I'm 16 st, 6 lb, which is obviously way…
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Ok, a lot of info coming in here. Based on what you said, what should my macros be? According to this site, when plugging in the weight I want to drop (2lb a week) I need 1.6k Calories, 210g carbs, 96g protein and 64g fat. Today, I was 16g carbs over (I'm gonna be teething for a while before I figure out my portion sizes…
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@demorelli the 2.8K figure was from a few other "macro" and calorie programmes, but this app is coming up with 1.6 - 1.9k (1.9K comes up when I enter the calories lost when running). @Stealthhealth I'm moderately active - I have a desk job but i'm at the gym 3 times a week doing cardio and calisthenics, and enjoy walks and…
