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Question about building muscle
I'm taking a break from counting calories and loosening my diet standards for a little bit. If I continue to do a lot of strength training in the 8-10 rep range this would be a good time to build a little more muscle and bulk up a little bit, right? I mean you really need to consume more calories than you burn to really…
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%Carbs, protein, fat suggestions
What are good percentages of Carbs, proteins, and fats? Mine are set at the default 55%carbs, 15%protein, 30%fat. I'm trying to lose a little bit of fat but I don't have much to lose. I do P90X, Insanity, and Asylum workouts, and just a little bit of running. I'm not really trying to build more muscle mass, but I want more…
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How often do you go over your calorie limit?
I'm just curious because in the almost four weeks that I've been using MFP I have never gone over. I hit my goal this week and I'm thinking about getting going to the Chinese Buffet tomorrow.
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I'm confused
At work today we had a birthday and birthday cake. I haven't had birthday cake in a while and I usually eat a protein bar instead, but this birthday cake looked like it was definitely worth the calories (and it was). I went to log the piece of birthday cake(Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting from Jewel) and found out…
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Cheat Meals
I've been using MFP for about three weeks and I really love it. I have a question though, what do you guys do if you have a 'cheat meal'? Do you log it as acurately as you can and still try to stay under your calorie limit for the day or do you just let it go and make up for it the rest of the week? Before MFP I would log…
