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Every time I've tried to put together a diet I've failed because i get frustrated since I don't understand how to do it. There are all these complicated things that confuse me. So I'd like to make a suggestion...

What if someone put together a standard diet, including what foods to eat and how much to eat, based around a certain number of calories. Then people could tweak it to suit them. Would that work?
 
Wow, you are too lazy to make your own diet?

Honestly, pick up a diet book or read through the stickies. Honestly, dieting is a lot of work mentally (more so than physical) so as Larry the Cable-guy says, "Get hur Done."
 
Check my blog, I've got the calculations to determine what your calorie intake should be and how you should change it to either achieve weight gain or weight loss. Basically, based on this method you can eat whatever you want as long as you are checking the calories. I mean it isnt the best as you may miss important parts of a diet, but it's a good basic program.
 
Trainer01 said:
Check my blog, I've got the calculations to determine what your calorie intake should be and how you should change it to either achieve weight gain or weight loss. Basically, based on this method you can eat whatever you want as long as you are checking the calories. I mean it isnt the best as you may miss important parts of a diet, but it's a good basic program.
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Thanks, but im looking for something a little more precise.
 
So have you read the stickies?
1. Try to keep your caloric breakdown around these percentages 40% protein, 30% carbs, and 30% fats
2. Try to keep your carbs clean/unprocessed. Whole wheat breads, brown rice, potatoes, whole wheat pastas. You need carbs and protein to develop muscle.
3. Try to keep your fas monounsaturated/polyunsaturated as much as you can. Most people here supplement their diets with fish oil pills and/or flax oil pills because they are essential fatty acids (EFA's)
4. If you are trying to lose weight, find the base number of calories your body needs and subtract 500 from it. That alone should lose you almost a pound a week since 1 pound of fat = about 3500 cals. That combine that with calories burned from exercise, and you should be within the safe range of 1-2 pounds of weight loss per week.
5. If you are trying to do a clean bulk (gain weight), then take your base number of calories and add about 500.
6. Eat 4-6 (a good breakfast is very important) small meals a day to keep your metabolism running strong and efficient.
7. There are two very important times when you will want to feed your body carbs no matter what, breakfast and your post workout meal.
8. No matter how many calories you take in, if you eat crappy food, you will get crappy results.

Is that a little more specific? Also, look at ~LV~'s sticky called "grocery list" (or something like that). It had a great selection of clean foods that gives you a good base of what you should be taking in.
 
I've read the stickies. My BMR is 2500 calories so I'm at 2000 to lose weight, I'm spliting the macro's in thirds. So i've worked out everything up until the part where you select the food to eat. I don't know why but I get confused and frustrated...usually i feel 'whats the point of this' and it seems like the diet won't work. Maybe a teenage thing :p

Thanks for the helpful post xtonymarsx.
 
There could never be a generic diet that someone could just tweak. We've got 85lb girls trying to gain weight and 400lbs+ guys trying to lose weight etc! We give you the information you need to make educated decisions about what to eat.
 
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