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Thanks for the tip! I was being told the same thing alos regarding low carb intake... I've setup this coming week as a stabilizing diet to see if a regular carb intake will revitalize my muscles ( i was below minimun i believe). It has been around 4 days and my calves still feel depleted and hurt :(. Even so, I feel very…

Im going with this for a week. Kind of felt it was the way to go as well! thank you!

Hehe, well it is somehow advice. :P

My bad! I forgot to include that the 9lb loss, that you can see in my sig, was once I started to log in MFP. Before I was using my own calculations through a simple excel sheet. I believe I started logging in MFP when i was around 18.5% BF. I believe this would make the numbers a bit more real. These past days that I…

Oh and btw, fro mthe 1600 diet ive bumped it up to 2400, or so MFP tells me as well as IIFYM. You guys recommend this calorie leap or using the maintenance diet before jumping to a calorie surplus? Getting ahead, the 2400 diet is around 200 more than my maintenenance (2240). Any thoughts?

Well I searched some other threads and some people do recommend other calculators for trial and error. IIFYM was one of them. Got into an argument with my doc because of the results with all the calorie tracking I was doing so far. I started searching for other advice from friends in the nutrition field and some have…

Ive been lifting for the past 2 months as well. Doc recommended I should. It worked fine the first half, then it slowed down and finally ended up with what I mentioned before.

Found this thread thank god. I was on a high protein ratio with a little over 40% protein (150gr), can't remember what I had on carbs/fat. I did recently switch it up to 35 carb/30 prot/35 fat on a 1530 diet (500 calorie defecit). I'm going to experiment on this ratio for a week, but I would like to hear other people's…

Is this considering the recommended macronutrient bump that MFP does when you register exercise?

You might want to look up the calorie distribution per gram of each macronutrient. Your hint is on the right track I believe, there is a different calorie distribution depending if it's from a carb/prot /fat. What is your goal? When you say lean out, are you reffering to losing weight? (bodyfat?) Maybe, gain lean muscle?…

Thanks for the quick response. Am still leaning towards maintaining my current habits which is what I posted to begin with, some carbs pre workout and protein with carbs post work out. Maybe others can give a shout or two about waht they think.

This! Had a discussion today with work buddies and they were all convinced that "rice is bad". My nutrionist for example recommended I eat brown rice but didn't go crazy in negation towards white rice. Like everyone is saying, everything in moderation works well, you need to find out how many grams of carbs you need a day…

From my research, high intensity has more (different?) benefits, mainly because these type of exercises make your heart work more, therefore requiere more energy due to the increased blood flow to your body. Plus, it is a fact (i'll try to find some articles) that high intensity interval training (HIIT) continues to bump…

hahhaha, poor cavemen! Kyri, you would need to consider your goals and eating habits. If you want to build muscle, then proper dieting and resting should be a must. Also, the intensity mandates how much you should rest I think. Take in some carbs after working out according to your needs so that the amount and intensity of…

Nice! Do you take your carbs with protein always? I'm taking in some whey with a banana or some baked taters after working out. I am though going to try to switch out potatos and see what kind of results that gives me.

I've always heard the comparison regarding marathon runners and high intensity athletes. Saw this picture once showing a skinny marathon runner vs a built/lean/not bulked high intensity athlete. He should concentrate more on what he eats rather than what exercise to do. Someone (or a lot of people) already said to take…

Yes yes! This!

Matrix, dude.. you really need to jump on google and start looking form some stuff on your own. All these things they are mentioning and that you do not understand are defined throughout a numerous amounts of web sites, all with different professionals (assuming they are lol) explaining, other forums, etc. I also took my…

Thanks for the comments! Idealy carbs around 200g is a good round number, so they say. Even so, would you say at least 100g with cardio and weight training? How much should it be varied on work out days? (consider that MFP recalculates the needs if you jot in cardio activity in the day)