I’m worried I will be gaining too much fat with my current eating and am lacking variety and not eating all of the right things
In the past I ate poorly, and then dieted and lost about 32 pounds putting me at 182 and 6"1 a couple months ago. Now I am eating normally and strength training-I am lifting very hard sessions right now and am ravenously hungry on lifting days, but also using a progressive overload program this month and eating a lot more than in the past.
Now I’m beginning to think I need to question what I eat. I weigh 187.5 now but I was 183.5 3-4 weeks ago. I want to gain muscle but I think I’m gaining too fast the past couple weeks to just be muscle. My BF is 15-18%, I don’t know. Goals are maximizing strength and eventually lowering BF% to under 10 but that isn’t a priority.
supps are BCASs, beta alanine, HRX, glucosamine/chondritin
Here is my diet from a couple days ago, a pretty normal day.
10:30-11am
wakeup
30 minute walk dogs
2 scoop Metabolic Drive
1 tbspoon milled flax
4 oz blueberries
6 strawberries
3 cups milk
1 cup total cereal
4 Flameout
1pm
lifting 2-3 hours (usually 2-2.5)
2 serving Surge
4:00 pm
12 oz chicken breast w/tomato cooked in olive oil
2 cup rice/margarine or pasta w/olive oil
1 serving veggies
flexibility and abs
6:30pm
8 oz steak
1 serving veggies
1 sweet potato
9pm
4 eggs
2 oz smoked salmon
onions and tomato sauce
11pm
2 scoop Metabolic Drive
2 tbs peanut butter
4 Flameout
12:30-1am- sleep
this looks like:
105g fat 364g carbs 378g protein 3800 calories
On one of the shorter lifting session days, I eat around the same amount of fat, a little less protein and less carbs, probably 3200-3500 calories in total. For non lifting days I am eating 2800-3200 calories with much less carbs, under 200 I’d say.
I don’t cheat but there are days where I will have extra fat, maybe have steak or beef w/pasta or something PWO meal instead of the carbs and protein. I also have a PB and J sandwich either before lifting or PWO many days.
Also some days everything gets pushed back a little and I end up eating a little more carbs in the morning and just having surge + 3 meals PWO. I also don’t have chicken or a large fish serving every day.
Could these little things be problems? I feel I’ve gained a few pounds of fat lately and I’m just worried im deviating from a normal diet too much and getting caught up in eating to get bigger and stronger, before I was v dieting and eating very small, structured meals so this is a big change over a couple of months.
thanks
-Jeff