About a year ago now, i was following the basic weight gaining diet out of Arnold's encyclopedia just for kicks. Well it wasn't enough, i got quite cut after using it for a while actually. It was loose though. Bread with butter, potatoes with butter or sour cream. Still, i got cut. I added cheese to my eggs and beef patties too.
I allways think back to this diet and remember how much i actually enjoyed the food i was eating. I love eggs with a slice or two of cheese on them. A beef patty taste SO much better with a slice of cheese melted over it.
For kicks one time i put it all into fitday and saw i was taking in around 2400 calories. I was hitting my 1g/lb of protein, if not a little higher if i remember right, and i was getting plenty of fat, albeight not the best fats. Looking back, i don't think i was taking in any EFA's at all.
I know saturated fats aren't the best, but as long as your calories are the same, does it really matter that much what you eat? I'd like to spice things up with my diet again, some eggs with cheese (and a bit of butter to cook it with). Rice with maybe a little bit of butter in it so it's alot easier to put down.
So basically, if calories are all that matter for weight loss/gain, how much is having a small amount of not 'the best' foods going to change anything?
I allways think back to this diet and remember how much i actually enjoyed the food i was eating. I love eggs with a slice or two of cheese on them. A beef patty taste SO much better with a slice of cheese melted over it.
For kicks one time i put it all into fitday and saw i was taking in around 2400 calories. I was hitting my 1g/lb of protein, if not a little higher if i remember right, and i was getting plenty of fat, albeight not the best fats. Looking back, i don't think i was taking in any EFA's at all.
I know saturated fats aren't the best, but as long as your calories are the same, does it really matter that much what you eat? I'd like to spice things up with my diet again, some eggs with cheese (and a bit of butter to cook it with). Rice with maybe a little bit of butter in it so it's alot easier to put down.
So basically, if calories are all that matter for weight loss/gain, how much is having a small amount of not 'the best' foods going to change anything?