Questions tagged [diet]
What you eat, when and why.
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Question about the time needed for carb loading in bodybuilding
I am preparing for a photoshoot on Sunday, and have been depleting my carbohydrates and drinking a lot of water while doing glycogen depleting workouts this past week, as I see is often suggested ...
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Re-gaining strength at calorie maintenance
So from 2013-2017 or so I ate a lot of food and did strength training. I got a lot stronger and bigger. I did not count my calories. I'll call this point A.
Then I got a DEXA scan, saw that I was 19% ...
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Best diet for lots of cycling and 3 kettlebell workouts a week?
I cycle 140 miles a week and do a high, medium and light intensity kettlebell workout.
It seems to me like I need a high carb and high (ish) protein diet to sustain this. Currently I eat anything but ...
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Is it true that you do not lose ANY muscle mass if you're in a conservative deficit, eat high protein and do resistance training?
We are talking about people who are novices or early intermediates. There's no question that if you are advanced (i.e you are close to your genetic potential), you will lose muscle unless you take ...
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Improvements to a Size and Strength Meal Plan
23 year old male, 84kg, 20% B.F. Currently training for size and strength.
I've linked my proposed training and rest day meal plans here.
All the weights I worked out myself and inputted everything ...
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Can't go below 16-17% body fat. What is wrong with my diet?
I started to loose weight 1 year ago, when I began to practice MMA. Few months ago I realized I lost too much weight so I began weightlifting. I was around 79 kg ( 174 pounds ) last year and my ...
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Bulking up in maintainance calories
As an intermediate individual in fitness with decent bit of muscle definition and body fat, I was hoping to bulk up. However, I fear that with with a surplus I might end up gaining unnecessary fat ...
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Can 3000+ callories cause diarrhea?
I'm eating over 3000+(eat mostly buckwheat, rice, pilaf, pork, pork chops and boiled eggs). And I'm taking a few supplements(nitrobolon and hmb by Trec).
Can something in my diet cause diarrhea or ...
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Protein diet meal help
I'm trying to add muscle (from weightlifting) whilst getting rid of fat (from long walks cardio). I've been advised to consume 300g of protein a day.
I usually have 3 meals (breakfast , lunch, dinner)...
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Impossible to naturally build muscle steadily without gaining fat?
I know there are other questions around that are similar to this one, but read on and see that mine has more concerns regarding muscle building vs. fat building.
It's a common thing in bodybuilding: ...
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Recovery lifestyle such as training scheduling and dieting for gluten-intolerant endurance runner?
Gluten-intolerance has surprises such as supplements with gluten, non-gluten products with gluten-contamination and non-absorption of necessary building products such as proteins and vitamins to the ...
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Please help me with the diet plan plan
I am gym beginner and my trainer suggested to me the following diet plan with about 400g protein. I am 210 lbs and 6 ft tall guy
07:00Am - 1 Scoop Protein, 60g oats, 10 Almonds, 4 Walnuts
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Is casein suitable for long hours of fasting?
Say I’m doing an intermittent fast of 6-8 hours. What should I have just before the fast? The assumption is that casein will take a while to digest but will it make the fasting any easier? If so, how? ...
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Trouble losing weight, need help creating a diet and workout plan
I am a 20 year old male and have been at my current height and weight, 5'8" and 190 lbs, since I was 16. I have tried dieting and exercising but see no results. This past summer I spent 3 months doing ...
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What's my GDA to lose weight?
I'm 5 feet 11 and I weight 189 pounds, I'm trying to lose some weight to reach 176 pounds. My calculated GDA (with online tools) should be 2800 Kcal/per day. My question is: if I lower this value to ...
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