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RE: how many times a day - 5/29/2006 12:16:23 PM

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I try to get in 5-6 meals a day, several of them being protein shakes, with the timing and composition of them depending on my workout schedule. Typical "carb up" pre-workout meal for me would involve a few tablespoons of raw oats mixed with 1/3 cup of nonfat cottage cheese, add Splenda and chocolate protein powder to taste. Post workout is 1/3 cup of tuna mixed with a tablespoon of flax meal, spiced up wth some hot sauce. Protein powder, water and possibly some glucose might come in mid-workout if I'm lifting heavy and feeling glycogen depleted. Breakfast looks pretty similar to the pre-workout meal, dinner is a piece of meat and some veggies. Maybe a piece of cooked sweet potato after a heavy workout, but usually the evening meal comes in under 10 carbs unless it's a very heavy lifting day and I still feel seriously glycogen-depleted after a post-workout glucose hit. Oh yeah, and a buttload of vitamins, essential oils, etc. Snacks generally involve nuts or berries or both.

I'm currently doing a ketogenic cutting cycle (as per UD2 and Lyle McDonald) so's I can get a better look at some of the muscles I've been working so hard for. So keeping glycogen refilled in muscle tissue without spilling over to glycogen storage in the liver is basically what I'm titrating for, otherwise staying glycogen-depleted in a ketogenic/catabolic state.

Eating sort of sucks when it becomes a science experiment, but the results are nice to look at and feel pretty darn good from the inside.

Off to bang on the weights some more after sucking down some tuna and flax enlivened with hot sauce. Mmmm, mmm, good. Well, not really, but it's quick-absorbing protein so I'll throw it greedily into my face hole to fuel the next workout.

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RE: how many times a day - 5/29/2006 12:28:23 PM

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do u ever buy anything sports drinks or the like from nutrition stores or do u just make everything up from scratch

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RE: how many times a day - 5/29/2006 12:35:53 PM

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Well if I remember, it is about once a day.

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RE: how many times a day - 5/29/2006 12:57:00 PM

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about 6 times, very small meals usually, although I eat a lot sometimes...

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RE: how many times a day - 5/29/2006 1:15:44 PM

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quote:

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do u ever buy anything sports drinks or the like from nutrition stores or do u just make everything up from scratch

Depends on the composition of the shake. I usually mix my own from tubs of protein powder and other ingredients. I keep 10 lb tubs of basic, generic cheapie brand chocolate, strawberry and vanilla, plus a couple of "Muscle Milk" 2.5 lb tubs in other flavors. If I'm looking for a carb-up, I add carbs to the shake, perhaps in the form of fresh fruit or glucose. If I want a slower-digesting shake, I add fat, generally by using the Muscle Milk, or I just eat some nuts or some peanut butter on a bran cracker. I buy protein powders that have very few carbs, so I can control exactly whether the composition of my shake is higher carb or lower carb depending on my needs of the moment.

I buy some ready-made canned shakes for meals on the go or on the job, and I'll buy anything that is a) all protein with very few carbs so that I can control when and where I'm dosing with carbs and b) cheap. It helps if it doesn't taste like leftover ass crack, but when I'm buckling down to do the hardcore dieting/bodybuilding thing, I basically turn my taste buds off and forget that food exists except as muscle growing, fat ripping fuel.

Drinking protein shakes has only two possible benefits over eating whole food, and that is rapid uptake post-workout and being easier to drink your dose of protein five times a day than to take time to eat it. There is no other benefit to drinking protein shakes rather than ingesting whole food. If you have time, eat whole food. The single exception is during a workout and immediately post-workout where the rapid uptake is an advantage.

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RE: how many times a day - 5/29/2006 1:49:13 PM

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I am a grazer. I eat all day, but don't like to sit down for a meal. I end up eating the average amount of food in a day that most people eat in 2 meals.

If I try the meal thing, I forget to eat altogether. So the snacking all day works, and I like veggies and such to snack on.

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RE: how many times a day - 5/29/2006 2:26:40 PM

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gosh.....
<hangs my head low knowing i should know better....but i do it anyways>

i used to only eat when i was hungry...once every 4-5 days....longest i went was 9 days without eating any thing solid. i would drink tea juice or soda and pop a vitamin pill or two.

Master has put His foot down ...now i have to eat something daily

to me....food is more for food fights rather than eating

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RE: how many times a day - 5/29/2006 4:00:39 PM

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2 or 3 times a day, with fruit or something to snack on in the afternoon

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