low carb power lifting diet tracking

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Ok. I will have to dig up info on potassium content of the food I eat and see where it is. I have wtitten down everything I have eaten for the past two weeks so I will have no problem figuring it out. The mainstays in my diet are lots of eggs, lots of high fat red meat, spinach, protein shakes and cheese. I have no idea how much potassium those items contain, I will check it out later and post. I know some people say that protein bars are not a good thing to eat, why is that?

 

[Deleted member 33117]

The red meat and spinach are high in potassium. Large eggs have I BELIEVE around 60 mg per egg. Cheese is very low in potassium, although alot of dairy products are not. Protien bars suck. They are basically candy bars with half a scoop of protien powder added in. Just blend a snickers up in your protien shake. Read the ingrediants. Even the "good" brands contain crap. Not to say you can't occasionally have one without messing up your diet. I've done tests on several brands with my glucometer and posted them up some time back... back when flexy girl was new to EF. She took a great interest in the thread as I recall and asked ALOT of questions. The carb solutions one's are about the best thing you can eat while in keto if you must have a candy bar. Throw the met-rx and muscletech one's in the garbage if you have them, or just save them for a cheat day.

 

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I found a table listing miligrams per cal of potassium in foods. Going by that it looks like I am getting around 4000mg of potassium a day. Think I should up that some?
It is a bad excuse, but I was eating the protein bars to stuff some cals in between meals. I was eating the carb solutions brand, maybe beef jerky would be better?

 

[Deleted member 33117]

4000 isn't bad on those lower cals. How is your strength?

 

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My strength is still going up, this may sound funny, but I know my chest and back are gaining muscle. My stretch marks have gotten larger and hurt sometimes when I wake up in the morning. Not that I like the marks, but I have them so I have to deal. So far I feel no ill effect in the gym at all, my energy levels are good, can get through the hole workout without a problem. Muscle recovery seems to be the same as it was also. No extra soreness and I seem to be fully recovered from a workout in the usual time period.
I can visually see that some fat is leaving. I can check my abs. I am too fat right now so I really only have the top ab showing, but the second and third are starting to peak out.
My last carb up day I only got in about 400 grams of carbs. I feel fine this week so I was thinking I would leave it at that level. But many things I read say with a one day carb up I should be a lot higher than that. What do you think?

 

[Deleted member 33117]

I would go alot higher on the carbup. 3 grams per ibs of bw, more if you don't begin to feel bloated from it. If you're strength is going up, and you can see fat disappearing, you are NOT lossing muscle, your are just dropping bf. You're on the right track.

 

[AlbinoAssassin]

i won't take it the wrong way.when i competed in may i broke the state record and hit a pr on the bench.what i mean when i say i could walk on stage is that i'm extremly ripped.i understand what BB's look like the day of the show.i trained side by side with a friend that did the lakeland BB show in june.my point is that i don't look like most powerlifters.i know that i would have to take it further to step on a stage.you know what i mean?i'm not taking away from BB's anything.it's cool man,not offended.as for my bodyfat,no idead what it is.but i do know that when i show up at a powerlifting meet,i do like like most BB's,and i have the strength to match.your thinking in terms of dehydrated,carb depleted,etc.....no thats not what i mean.i compete ripped though.it's not that your wrong.i respect what you say.

I got you. Thanks for not taking it the wrong way. You were speaking in terms of relativity to other powerlifters and that you didn't look like them. I understand now. You look like a bodybuilder but you are a powerlifter. Big props on that man!

 

[AlbinoAssassin]

and that is exactly what i do.i'm not saying i compete at 4% and dehydrated.i'm saying that at almost all the meets i've done,it's rare to see a powerlifter with abs.i keep my bodyfat like you at a point where i'm competitive .i watch what i eat,i train heavy,etc.sorry if my phrase was mis leading.i correct that as to not take away from anyone.

I got you man, it's all relative. Stay lean and mean bro!

 

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aug 7

cals: 2121
pro:203
fat:134.5
carbs:20

 

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Checked the weight this morning and it looks like I am at 192. That means I lost three pounds in the last seven days. I wanted to keep it closer to 2 a week, but 3 is not bad. My strength is still fine so I am not going to worry about it. Caliper did measure lower, but not low enough to get into the next lowest percentage of body fat so I will still say it is around 20%. I was real slack on the cardio this week, did not do any at all. If I start I am going to have to increase cals some or the weight may come off too fast.