For an intermediate post today, I’ve been playing around a bit more with my templates and decided to go through a brief exercise that I also did years ago: Create a sample “bulk” week food log. Sample weight was 170±5 lbs, gross calories should be 2100 for me. Protein is 1 gm per pound of bodyweight, fat is 0.4, and carbs make up the balance in calories. That gave me 68 gms of fat, 202 gms of carbs, and 170 gms of protein to work with. Granted, it may be a bit high in carbs, bit low in overall calories, but I’ve never done this so I don’t know what works for me. Moving on…
I could eat so much food!!!!
Okay, more seriously, it’s not like it’s a pig-out, but a sample day would be a salad with chicken breast, chicken biryani for dinner (heavy rice dish), my “healthy” pasta salad, cereal, almonds, a quart of popcorn(!!), half-pound of grapes, and a protein shake. That day would be about 2000 calories (so a bit low), 63 gms fat, 191 gms carbs, and 173 gms protein.
Or, Doughnut Friday: Salad with chicken breast for lunch, biryani for dinner, pasta salad, half-pound of grapes, protein shake, and two doughnuts. 2220 calories, 76 gms fat, 223 gms carbs, 173 gms protein (so a bit high).
And the thing is, if I can actually stick with my plan this time, I could be doing that by the time of my birthday next year.
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