DieselPump

Hi guys,

I'm hoping you guys can give me some tips on tweaking my cutting diet.

My stats are as follows
Male, 21
5'10"
213lbs
about 17% bf

I work out intensely 5x a week with weights and do cardio for 4-5 45 min sessions, at a seperate time from weights.

A typical diet for me looks like this:

Meal 1:
Breakfast is a wholegrain bagel, with 95% fat free cream cheese, and 3 scrambled eggs

Meal 2: is usually pre-workout and consists of
1/2 cup of slow cooked oats
scoop of ON whey
1 cup skim milk

BCAA's during workout

Meal 3:
Post workout is 3/4 cup of quick oats
1.5-2 scoops of ON whey
1-1.5 cups of skim milk

Meal 4:
Next meal is a lean meat, chicken, extra lean beef and green veggies, (asparagus, broccoli or green beans)

Meal 5:
Next meal is 1/4 cup of almonds (or equal amount of efa's coming from walnuts or olive oil etc) scoop of whey in 1 cup skim milk and sometimes about 4oz fat free sugar free yogurt.

Meal 6:
Pre-bed meal is 1 cup fat free cottage cheese, 2 tblspns natural peanut butter and 1 tblspn sugarless jam.

I easily drink 2 gallons of water a day, probably more.

Current supps are Multi, 8 grams of fish oils a day, sesamin, vit C, E and B-Complex, Glucosamine, Chondrointin, MSM

According to fitday.com my calories are around 2600-2700 calories.

Is this a good range for someone with my stats to be aiming for?

Thanks in advance for any help given

b-boy

calorie wise i will leave that up to you cause i don't really know your activity level, but to me looks like your AMR is around 3400 cals, so you subtract what you want from that to get your calorie defi. the thing i don't like about your diet is for me thats low on the protein side, and you have too many protein powder meals in there, stick to whole food as much as possible, eating whole food will speed up your metabolism more.

o yea your not me but when i get in serious diet mode the first thing i drop is all dairy products... good luck!

Hybrid

Yes, drop all the dairies.

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DieselPump

How come no dairy? Gives the soft look?
Or will it actually help keep a steady fat loss pace if I drop it?

Also, does that mean no cottage cheese before bed either??

Thanks guys

b-boy

one reason is that a large percentage of people have certain small allergic reactions to milk that you don't even realize and may impede fat loss and cause a small water retention, there all many reasons, that i would have to actually look up cause i can't even remember them all. hopefully someone who's memory thats greater than mine can chime in on the rest, maybe EME???? hell i haven't been ask that question in so long that i had to really think just to give my shit of an answer above..LOL :whorepost