I really don't care what I eat, at all. I like eating, but I guess the only things I really don't care for are olives and lamb. Just about EVERYTHING is fair game. I know some stuff(lol iceberg lettuce!) but(and no offense to you experts, I have so much respect for you guys and your seemingly-infinite knowledge) I'm just really not concerned with learning the finer points of dieting, being new to the whole "Don't be a fat slob" thing that I've just started five days ago.
So here's me:
Before five days ago I lived a very, very sedentary lifestyle. I work from home, don't go out much, etc. etc. I have definitely gone on 4-5 day stretches without leaving the apartment or showering etc.
I'm 24, weigh about 180 lbs(depends on what time I step on the scale, water weight etc) and for the last five days have done some type of muscle training(legs, biceps and back, triceps and chest) along with 25-32 minutes of cardio right after.(Gradually adding 1-2 minutes each day depending on how worn out I feel after) I don't smoke ever. Don't drink alcohol, ever. I don't touch caffeine. If I do have a diet weakness that is somewhat inflexible it would certainly be diet soda. It's not that I hate water it's just that Diet A&W is the best tasting thing on earth and I feel like I'm getting a "free dessert" out of it. If you guys tell me aspertame is going to eat my pancreas by the time I'm 80, I can deal with that, if you tell me it interferes with dieting or physique I will do my best to limit it severely.(I probably drink 50 ounces of it a day, supplemented with water when I'm at the gym)
I typically do this at night but from what I understand I am better off doing this in the morning. The effects are somewhere between marginal and astronomical depending on which link I happen to click on, but there's a positive effect it seems, so that's fine.
Honestly, at this point I'm just a straight up slave to all of this. I'm not worried about getting burnt out, because it's not like I feel any of this is a huge inconvenience. I like going to the gym and enjoy my time there.
So if you guys tell me to eat 11 raw eggs a day and follow it up with 3 snails, I will do that. I can completely understand someone's unwillingness to write out 3-4 different recommended options for each of the 5 meals in a day, so if there is a book out there that simply has a list of optimal meals to eat at optimal times, I will buy it and follow it to a T.
It really doesn't bother me, switching from eating a steak 3 hours before bed to eating a salad with low-fat(or high fat, or no fat, whatever) dressing 2(or 4) hours before bed makes no difference to me. I'm completely flexible, it's just that when I read the nutrition 101 sticky I felt really, really overwhelmed.
I read the stickies, and do have some questions: In the nutrition 101 it says that protein bars and health bars are bad for you.(I assume he meant legitimate health bars like cliff etc and not Kudos or that crap)
What about them makes them so bad? I'm not a big "fortified nutrition guy"(But I totally will be if you guys say to!) so it's not like this would effect me I was just curious.
So, this is long and I'm sorry about that, too. I'm not afraid to learn and don't think I'm better than anyone else(at all!)
there's just a LOT more to nutrition than I ever imagined.
EDIT: One last thing. I did the calculator, I'm 24, 5'11" and I weigh 180 lbs, I came up with 1,913 calories for an average daily burn, I used a 1.0 multiplier, I realize I should adjust it seeing as how I'm burning 300 calories on the eliptical + whatever I burn on weights, but does this still seem... curiously low to anyone else?
So here's me:
Before five days ago I lived a very, very sedentary lifestyle. I work from home, don't go out much, etc. etc. I have definitely gone on 4-5 day stretches without leaving the apartment or showering etc.
I'm 24, weigh about 180 lbs(depends on what time I step on the scale, water weight etc) and for the last five days have done some type of muscle training(legs, biceps and back, triceps and chest) along with 25-32 minutes of cardio right after.(Gradually adding 1-2 minutes each day depending on how worn out I feel after) I don't smoke ever. Don't drink alcohol, ever. I don't touch caffeine. If I do have a diet weakness that is somewhat inflexible it would certainly be diet soda. It's not that I hate water it's just that Diet A&W is the best tasting thing on earth and I feel like I'm getting a "free dessert" out of it. If you guys tell me aspertame is going to eat my pancreas by the time I'm 80, I can deal with that, if you tell me it interferes with dieting or physique I will do my best to limit it severely.(I probably drink 50 ounces of it a day, supplemented with water when I'm at the gym)
I typically do this at night but from what I understand I am better off doing this in the morning. The effects are somewhere between marginal and astronomical depending on which link I happen to click on, but there's a positive effect it seems, so that's fine.
Honestly, at this point I'm just a straight up slave to all of this. I'm not worried about getting burnt out, because it's not like I feel any of this is a huge inconvenience. I like going to the gym and enjoy my time there.
So if you guys tell me to eat 11 raw eggs a day and follow it up with 3 snails, I will do that. I can completely understand someone's unwillingness to write out 3-4 different recommended options for each of the 5 meals in a day, so if there is a book out there that simply has a list of optimal meals to eat at optimal times, I will buy it and follow it to a T.
It really doesn't bother me, switching from eating a steak 3 hours before bed to eating a salad with low-fat(or high fat, or no fat, whatever) dressing 2(or 4) hours before bed makes no difference to me. I'm completely flexible, it's just that when I read the nutrition 101 sticky I felt really, really overwhelmed.
I read the stickies, and do have some questions: In the nutrition 101 it says that protein bars and health bars are bad for you.(I assume he meant legitimate health bars like cliff etc and not Kudos or that crap)
What about them makes them so bad? I'm not a big "fortified nutrition guy"(But I totally will be if you guys say to!) so it's not like this would effect me I was just curious.
So, this is long and I'm sorry about that, too. I'm not afraid to learn and don't think I'm better than anyone else(at all!)
there's just a LOT more to nutrition than I ever imagined.
EDIT: One last thing. I did the calculator, I'm 24, 5'11" and I weigh 180 lbs, I came up with 1,913 calories for an average daily burn, I used a 1.0 multiplier, I realize I should adjust it seeing as how I'm burning 300 calories on the eliptical + whatever I burn on weights, but does this still seem... curiously low to anyone else?
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