My simple diet, please feel free to comment!

[nEwSkIn]

Hi there.

I´m a male, currently about 158 pounds, 15-16% bf wanting to get down to 10-11% bf.

I´ve estimated my maintenance calories to be about 2600 a day, which I cut down to 2100 to diet.

Then, I decided to use the 40p/40c/20f ratio on every meal, from morning to evening, spread in five meals: 3 main meals consisting of 55 grams protein, 55 grams carbs and 12 grams fat, and two snacks consisting of 96 grams protein, 96 grams carbs, 5 grams fat.

3 hours After every main meal or about 2 hours after every snack I have another meal. Sometimes I take longer between meals and I end up eating only 4 meals a day.

Of course, no High GI carbs during the evening.

I believe this kind of diet has helped me curb my cravings for sweets, so will it work? I am doing HIIT and weight lifting to help of course

thanx for reading and thanx for the replies ahead

 

[~SC~]

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you're cutting w/that many carbs?

What "snacks" have 96 grams of carbs???????????

BTW, setting up your pro/carbs/fats in the ratios you have will make you a smaller, just as fat, person.

(meaning, you are set to lose muscle and fat together, not very ideal)

You never even mentioned cardio.......

~SC~

 

[Babyfaced Assassin]

i'm cutting with 30% carbs
depends on ur body and training i guess

try it newskin
if after a couple of weeks u dont see results, drop the carbs

 

[nEwSkIn]

Correction!

Sorry my bad!

the snacks consist of about 24 grams carbs, 24 grams protein and 5 grams fat, and NOT 96 grams carbs! lol

As far as cardio is concerned, I´m doing HIIT for like 20-30 minutes every other day combined with weight training the other days.

I plan on doing a small refeed once every week.

 

[EL GAUCHO]

SC: WHAT RATIOS WOULD YOU RECOMMEND THEN?

 

[ProteinFiend]

try 60 protein, 30 fat, 10 carbs

just eat a lot of lean meat, hit the protein shakes up, and keep cals around 10xBW.

 

[nEwSkIn]

That´s a lot of protein for me mate, even taking shakes...

Also I need the carbs, or else I get sugar cravings which really suck... I can stick to the 40/40/20 ratio, which is a good thing...

I know it would takew longer but probably I´ll have more energy wich is always good. I´m having 13x my BW in calories, I might cut that a bit... After 1 week of dieting (today was my refeed day), I am still at 16%... Hope next week I´ll be 15% :|

thanx

 

[EL GAUCHO]

50/30/20?
Thats what I'm doing now with great results.

 

[variation]

looks decent to me as long as you are loosing, don't worry... be happy..

 

[EL GAUCHO]

Damn right I'm happy.
I'm sitting nicely at 8% BF, and I can still have my carbs!