Mr.X, I Have Another Diet Plan For You To Critique...

[Texas Ranger]

I've been speaking to this Personal Trainer from Chad Nicholl's board about losing bodyfat and this is what he has his clients doing. I wanted to run it by you to see what you thought. I'm 270lbs and 20% bodyfat right now, so he said the medium goal for me would be to reach 240lbs and 10% bodyfat before he would make any other drastic changes. My ultimate goal is 7-8% bodyfat. He set the macros using my medium goal bodyweight.

Training Days

240lbs x 1.25 grams of Protein...300 grams(41.25%)
240lbs x 1 gram of Carbs............240 grams(33%)
240lbs x .35 gram of Fat.............84 grams(25.75%)

Off Days

240lbs x 1.25 grams of Protein...300 grams(49.25%)
240lbs x .5 gram of Carbs...........120 grams(19.75%)
240lbs x .35 gram of Fat..............84 grams(31%)

This comes up to 2916 calories on my training days and 2436 calories on my off days. What do you think? Do you think the "T-Dawg Diet" is a better plan?

 

[Mr.X]

I've been speaking to this Personal Trainer from Chad Nicholl's board about losing bodyfat and this is what he has his clients doing. I wanted to run it by you to see what you thought. I'm 270lbs and 20% bodyfat right now, so he said the medium goal for me would be to reach 240lbs and 10% bodyfat before he would make any other drastic changes. My ultimate goal is 7-8% bodyfat. He set the macros using my medium goal bodyweight.

Training Days

240lbs x 1.25 grams of Protein...300 grams(41.25%)
240lbs x 1 gram of Carbs............240 grams(33%)
240lbs x .35 gram of Fat.............84 grams(25.75%)

Off Days

240lbs x 1.25 grams of Protein...300 grams(49.25%)
240lbs x .5 gram of Carbs...........120 grams(19.75%)
240lbs x .35 gram of Fat..............84 grams(31%)

This comes up to 2916 calories on my training days and 2436 calories on my off days. What do you think? Do you think the "T-Dawg Diet" is a better plan?

I think this is a fine plan, it is really a balanced diet that uses the rations I've put forth before: 40%p/30%c/30%fat and 50%p/20%c/30%f

At your stage, you would go good w/ it....

Mr.X

 

[Texas Ranger]

He also said when I finally hit the 240lb mark or when the bodyfat loss begins to stall to drop the Carbs again. This time we'll reduce the Off Day Carbs using .25 gram of medium goal bodyweight(240lbs), which comes up to 60 grams for the day. I'll start out with one of these days a week to see the results. If it's positive, I'll stick with it and maybe add another 60 gram day to increase Fat loss until I reach 7-8% bodyfat. With this diet, he doesn't count any green vegetables(Brocolli, Salad, etc...)toward the Carb total for the day. I can eat as much Salad, Brocolli & Green Beans as I want. His reasoning is they're mostly fiber and passed through you anyway. The Carbs will have to come from Oatmeal(My Favorite), Sweet Potato, or Brown Rice to count towards the daily goal. Sounds simple, but effective, right???

 

[Texas Ranger]

Mr.X, your absolutely, RIGHT!!! It is basically what you been saying all along, even using the same macros!!! I guess it seemed alot simpler because of the way he had it drawn out using the 1.5, 1, .5, .25 gram x bodyweight macros. You know I'm from Texas. It takes us a little longer to catch on....

 

[Texas Ranger]

Mr.X, what do you think about the other aspects of the diet plan? Gradually reducing the Carbs, Green Vegetables not counting toward the daily Carb total, etc...???

 

[Mr.X]

Mr.X, what do you think about the other aspects of the diet plan? Gradually reducing the Carbs, Green Vegetables not counting toward the daily Carb total, etc...???

I think the gradual reduction of carbs would be fine, but some veggies are carbs anyway you put it; thus you take the carb content - fiber = total carbs +/- few carbs. Even 1 carb is still a carb.

Mr.X