Please critique my diet/workout goals

[The Good Life]

Ok guys, I guess you could say that even though I know quite a bit about what food is good, how often to eat, what lifts to do I still need to make a good schedule, make it habitual and stick to it.

Here's where I'm at right now...

I'm 22, 6'6 260 with I'd say 20% bodyfat or so..

The only place I look even chubby is my beer belly, it's got to go...

My goal is to be 250 or so, strong as hell, with single digit bodyfat


The problem is I work very hard at my job so my schedule has to be set and worked around. I want to eat 7 meals a day...

I wake up at 5 so what is the best timing for each meal? Also, how can I make shit in advance so I'm not cooking throughout the day?

What kind of advice do you have for me? i'll give more details I'm being lazy right now though and don't want to say my workout schedule and all that. Help me out though guys..

 

[The Good Life]

Oh yeah, I have plenty of protein powder, flax oil and all that shit. I need to really get my metabolism stabilized and quit eating out so often. HELP!

 

[beefybull]

Make sure you have all of the following in check:
- Training
- Nutrition
- Rest

My suggestion is to run a CKD (cyclical ketogenic diet) until you reach around 225lbs. In case you're not familiar with the diet, it's basically an Atkins-type diet in which you eat minimal carbs every day until it's carb-up time (typically the weekend). The carbs you absorb during the carb-up will give you enough energy to get thru the next week's workouts.

The best info on this diet is available here on the site in Mr. X's CKD manual, but you can find out more at http://www.C-K-D.com/

After you've hit 225 or so, or you're satisfied with your BF%, you could change your diet & training to make big gains by eating lots of carbs and increasing your training volume.

 

[The Good Life]

Bump

 

[Millie]

well, you should post info about your current diet and work out schedule. otherwise you will just get general suggestions which might not work for you or be detailed enough.

here is one suggestion though - you can save time by precooking your food for the whole week on sundays for example. that's how most of us with busy schedules do it.

 

[corvettedudeman]

well it seems as though you are somewhat like me. Probably the carbs really do it to you...

The CKD diet will work for you, however i am not a big fan of it... I have used it, and i lost alot of muscle, i looked flat and i felt like shit...

When i was in highschool i was really fat, when i first started to diet... I ate all clean foods and had the right proportions of them... Needless to say i lost around 70lbs in one summer.

Okay, then i went back up to about 220lbs at 12%bf... I started hitting a solid diet with solid training about about a month ago, and i am now down to 8% and dropping everyday...

This is what i do, and i recommend you to try it...

Morning Cardio is probably the most beneficial thing you can do as far as training goes... Hopefully you can fit that into your day because the benefits are tenfold.

As for diet... You wake up at 5 so...

5am: 6 egg whites, 2 packets of oatmeal, tblspn flax oil
7am: apple and beef jerkey
9am: low carb prot shake
11am: salt free nuts and low carb prot bar
1pm: 8oz tunafish w/ fat free cheese
3pm: low carb protein shake
5pm: lean meat w/ flax plus green veggie
Before bed 0 carb prot shake
Post workout carb shake

This does it for me

If you really want to do a keto diet do this:
5am: 6 whole eggs, flax oil
7am: 0 carb prot shake
9am: bag of pork rinds
11am: tunafish and cheese
1pm: low carb prot bar and beef jerkey
3pm: bag of pork rinds
5pm: any kind of meat and a green veggie
prot shake before bed

I just dont like that diet because muscles will be flat, energy will be down... The big thing i noticed was when i came off and started eating carbs again, i gained alot of fat back. Thats why i like the first diet better because i can be on that year round and either lose weight with supps and cardio and maintain weight when i want to maintain, and when i wanna bulk up, i just increase the amount of food.

Just make sure when you are losing weight cals in are less than cals out

maintaining weight cals in = cals out

gaining weight cals in are more than cals out

Also am cardio(interval training, jogging, walking on incline)helped extremely... Also NYC+, r-ala, and yohimburn help do the trick.