I save a lot of posts for reference, this was on the board last winter:
Eat plenty of food ignore caloric intake altogether. I eat canned Hereford canned roast beef with gravy and libby's canned corned beef.
Corn beef 15 grams of protien per can $2.95 ea.
0 carbs 7 grams fat 120 cals per serving 6 servings
Total protien 90
roast beef 2.5 grams fat 3 carbs 29 protien
servings 2.5. Total protien 72.5
I'm keeping almost all carbs out of my diet. I give myseld carbs at intervals.
Keeping the blood sugar low trains the body to use stored fat throught the day. I train mornings early I get up an hour before I go and eat 2 bananas to raise blood sugar before workout.
I have not yet felt tired after about 3 weeks of training my body to adapt. I've had this routine for about 7 months and I gained 13 pure pounds of muscle from my last cycle. The only thing with high protien diets is all the sodium. Keep salt levels low with 2 gallons of water per day on gain cycles and 1 gallon on cutting cycles. I take 1/2 the recommended dosage of Taraxatone to help flush water out. Any thermogenic will work. On cheat days alcohol can be consumed and also is a good dieretic. Beer works great. Your body has a limit to how much fat it can store in short periods of time. Large quantites of beer will not make you fat if they are taken in large doses for short periods of time. Say like on Friday night. 1 thing to remember is to not drink till the point of hangover it will weaken your immune system and ruin your workouts. If you use alcohol on your cheat days you still have to eat clean.
It's ok to eat fats while on and off cycle, as long as they are the right ones remember fat has 9 calories per gram so you can get your cals up by eating good fats.
Foods with "good" fats
Natural Peanut Butter (not a bad source of protein)
Almonds
Walnuts
Pecans
Flax Oil
Fish Oil
I eat good fats at anytime during the day.
Foods with "good" carbs:
Sweet Potatoes
Flourless bread (carried by some grocery stores and organic food stores)
Small new potatoes
Fiberous veggies like green beans, asparagus, etc.
If you are worried about carbs then just eat them in the AM.
You can make a trip to the grocery store a hell of a lot better than those weight gainers with a bunch of maltodextrin in them.
For proteins, of course:
Chicken
Fish
Lean red meat
Eggs
I also eat protein at any time during the day.
Basically just keep it simple, with foods that give you the most bang for your buck, especially if you are on a budget.
A typical daytime meal for me is:
6oz. Chicken Breast
4oz. Ground Sirloin
1 bag frozen mixed veggies
1 small new potato
5 or 6 almond
5 or 6 pecans.
Hope this helps a little.
Meal 1:
6egg whites 2 yellows
1/2 oat meal uncooked(dry)
5 oz. 93% lean beef or chicken
Meal 2
rotein shake-->mixed in water with
{17grams protein, 3 grams carbs (2 sugar), 4 grams fat (.5 saturated)} per serving I use 2 servings.
2tbls natural peanut butter (smuckers) After settled oil has been drained.
1 table spoon of jello fat free sugar free bannana pudding mix.
Meal 3:
8oz. chicken breast pre cooked
6 oz. sweet potato
1 cup of raw veges(broccoilli cauliflower carrots)
Meal 4: Protein shake (after work out) powered whey only 1 serving 20 grams protein, 2g carbs, 2g fat immeadiatly after work out.
Meal 5: (about an hour after meal 4)
protein shake --40 protein, 3 fat, 8 carbs
2tbls of natural peanut butter
Meal 6: 10 oz. chicken or 93% lean beef (2 days out of the week fish and sirloin steak 2days also)
2cups veges(broccolli ,carrots caulliflower)
*also depending on how long it is before I go to bed after the last meal I may eat 1 cup nofat cottage cheese lke an hour before bed.