Diet Awesomeness

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bgates1654

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No real info here... just me being excited about my diet success.

With my new scale, nutrition websites, and a forced analness about weighing everything I have an iron grip on my diet.

I have been hitting my calorie goals within 50cal for the last week and have unintentionally come very close to the recommended 40/30/30 macronutrient ratio and 33/33/33 fat ratio.

However I seem to have estimated a bit high and am only losing about 0.5-0.6lbs/week, so I am gonna drop my calorie intake by 250cal.

I cant wait to start bulking again next cycle in a super controlled manner. I'll also be taking measurements too. Lets see if I can maintain or drop BF% while I bulk.

I am happy
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I wonder if there's a simple way to just use a scale to set up a diet? I'd expect it to be a bit inaccurate, but better than nothing, like eating my wife's cooking and just making suggestions. (the cooking is great; I just don't monitor it or do MATH in order to EAT!)
 
If you're enjoying the 40/30/30 approach - lookout for "the formula" diet book by the mr & mrs Daoust - it has some really tasty recipes. One of my favourites is the jambalaya, the wife'll make a big pot of it, and freeze it in idividual portions which I have thu' the week Mmm...
 
I am not sure I understand what you are saying Quad. What do you mean by just use a scale to set up a diet?

The 40/30/30 wasnt intentional. It was just something that happened. I jsut heard it was a good thing. I will check out hte book however thank you.
 
I actually do use some 40/30/30 recipes. I get the food groups from http://www.nutritiondata.com/
What I meant was that I'd heard of just weighing foods you eat to balance your diet. Of course that would get skewed a bit when a food item has carbs, protein and fats in it, but I think the master plan there was for weighing PCF things like meat, pasta, or high fat foods, and I suppose guessing the rest. I can't remember where I saw that.
 
SFA/MUFA/PUFA

The ultimate would be a scale that autocalculates your totals for you.  You could weigh it and select what the food is from the database or something.  Hell even if it wasnt a standard database and you could put in your own data that would be awesome.  Hmm it would basically be a calculator with maybe flash memory or something like a USB drive that you could edit on your computer. High end models could have a touch screen LCD or something.
 
<div></div><div id="QUOTEHEAD">QUOTE</div><div id="QUOTE">The ultimate would be a scale that autocalculates your totals for you. You could weigh it and select what the food is from the database or something. Hell even if it wasnt a standard database and you could put in your own data that would be awesome. Hmm it would basically be a calculator with maybe flash memory or something like a USB drive that you could edit on your computer. High end models could have a touch screen LCD or something. </div>

That is diet awesomeness to the T.
 
Problem is, every time a geekmeister gets to working on a program like that, he'll end up making it so complicated to use, you'd just rather not. The best program I've found yet is http://www.nutritiondata.com - it has a dozen different things you can do with it, but they're all separated into individual plans.

But, alas, no weight system.
 
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