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Originally Posted by Speedy1975
Cool. Glad to hear I wasn't too far off.
I can eat anytime I want at work. I work in IT so it's meetings and typing at my desk. Folks around here are used to me coming in to meetings with protein drinks or whatever.
I get up weekdays about 6:30am. I'm at the gym by 7:30am on M W F.
On T and TH I get up about 7:30am.
I normally go to sleep about 10:30 or 11pm.
Thanks for the help in advance. I had been considering a meal something as small as fruit and yogurt. Is that not accurate? It would be around 120 cals give or take. Or a scoop of protein and some peanut butter at about 200 cals.
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Hi, that wouldn't be a meal it's a snack. For the most part all meals should consist of carbs, protein and fat. Combinations in the right ratios are thermogenic and are fat burning and muscle building, the reasons are complex but here are the basics. Firstly excess carbs are almost always stored as fat, proteins cannot be stored. In order to breakdown and digest food you need amino acids, amino acids are found in animal proteins, they are also stored in muscle. If you eat carbs by themselves your body needs amino acids to break them down, so if you didn't eat protein with the carbs where do you think the amino's come from, yep you break down muscles to get it, definately don't want that. Ok now to get the protein (amino acids) into your muscles you need insulin, insulin is secreted as a result of eating carbs so eating carbs with your protein supplies insulin which allows the proteins to be absorbed by the muscle. Eating protein without carbs doesn't allow for efficient absorbtion. Where as protein cannot be stored in order to provide a steady supply of protein (absolutely necessary for muscle building)you should eat every 2 1/2-3 hrs. Thats how long it takes to digest reasonable sized meals. When you eat carbs protein and fat together the protein and fat slows down the absorbtion of the carbs so you don't have insulin spikes it keeps the nutrients and insulin flowing at a steady even rate. All this eating and "DIGESTING" food is thermogenic and increases your metabolism so now by eating more often and the right foods you burn calories just to digest, now add a calorie burn by exercise and your body becomes a fat burning machine. If all else fails always eat your protein, some of it will be absorbed none of it will be stored as fat, if you eat carbs without protein any you don't burn will without a doubt be stored as fat. Eating carbs without protein spikes insulin followed by rabid decreases in insulin (hypoglycemia) this always causes cravings, hunger and fatigue so you eat more carbs and the cycle goes on, instant disaster for fat loss and muscle building. I have to run now, hate to leave you hangin' but either later tonight or tomorrow I will post some sample meals that can be used as a template for making meals with the foods you like, earlier in this thread I posted a food chart of the foods you SHOULD be eating and their nutritional break down from the samples I post later using the food chart you will be able to create perfect meals that meet the guidlines I suggested for fat burning nutritious meals. Hope this isn't too much to understand.