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brumans Amateur Bodybuilder (Total posts: 55) |
posted June 14, 2000 06:25 PM
  
anyone know? Do you divide the number of grams of protein, by the number of calories or something.. how do you do it? IP: Logged |
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MR. BMJ Amateur Bodybuilder (Total posts: 91) |
posted June 14, 2000 08:01 PM
Uh, I might get a little carrried away here, but hopefully it will answer your question. Get a piece of paper and make 5 columns. 1st column put food type/meal #. Columns 2-4 put carbs, protein and fat. 5th column title it total calories. Then put down the gram amounts of each macronutrient under each of their columns. Then convert them into calories by multiplying the protein and carbs grams by 4. Protein and carbs have 4 calories for each gram. Then take the fat grams and multiply it by 9. Fat has 9 calories for each gram. If you add up all three, it will give you the total amount of calories for that meal. For example, If you have a meal that has 30 grams of protein, 25 grams of carbs, and 10 grams of fat, you would convert them into calories like this: 30 grams X 4 = 120 calories of protein 25 grams X 4 = 100 calories of carbs 10 grams X 9 = 90 calories of fat Total calories = 310 calories Now, to find out the percentage you simply divide the amount of calories for each macronutrient by the total calorie amount of the meal, then you multiply this by 100. It looks like this: Maybe I got a little carried away here, but it gets the job done. IP: Logged |
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brumans Amateur Bodybuilder (Total posts: 55) |
posted June 14, 2000 08:58 PM
ok it took me forever but i did it, now I have got all the percentages for all of my 5 meals, i know the percentage of fat, protein, and carbs, for each meal but i dont know how to combine it into one whole percentage can someone please fill me in on how to do that?? THANKS!! IP: Logged |
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brumans Amateur Bodybuilder (Total posts: 55) |
posted June 14, 2000 09:48 PM
nevermind, i got it, i'm so friggin stupid.. but anyway, does anyone know what a good percentage of protein, carbs, and fat to gain muscle mass FAST?! thanks again, brian bruman IP: Logged |
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