Do you worry about your Diet?

Matutu

Matutu

Matutu

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Hey Guys,

As some of you know I am well into my swimming, I train for 90mins 6/7days a week doing laps, routines and drills. Now I am eating 5500Kcals a day as Im trying to put on some size and this is giving good results of 0.5-0.7lbs per week! which im really pleased about (Also having a VERY good effect on the swimming times!). However with this amount of activity and the amount of things I do, I generally eat as I wish and eat what ever I want, I only concentrate on getting my 200g Protein as a minimal etc.

The other day my Mrs was going on about MyFitnessPal and how amazing it was, so I decided to input all my food for a typical day. I was pleased that it confirmed by Protein input etc however some of the figures were a shock in terms of Sugar and salt...... lol.

For others who are very active etc do you worry about Macro's to this level? or do you consider you are that active you can just eat what you want?

Thanks.
 
No.

However, I don't normally eat any sweets or processed anything, eat plenty of meat and peanut butter.

Am I as lean as I could be? No.

DILLIGAF? Certainly not. Life - for me - is too short to worry about this sort of thing.
 
Surely this depends on your goals, if your eating 5,500 calories a day and meets your activity needs then fine. Physical appearance on the other hand is something else.

You should remain fairly lean swimming for his duration this many times per week. Even with the attitude eating junk from time to time.

I know the breakdown of each food i eat as it's weighted and controlled very strictly. It come's down to how strict you want to be and your end goal.
 
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I make sure I eat the same, well structured meals 6am - 6pm, Monday - Friday. This gives me a solid base of macros to work with. Dinner each night is different and I don't count the macros here, but it's generally meat with some carbs. On the weekend I relax and generally have a couple 600 cals shakes and whatever I fancy for lunch and dinner. I don't have the desire to get super anal on diet, it's just not worth it for me, it would affect my lifestyle too much and I do fine my way.
 
Not as much as I should. I'd be a much more effective runner if I could stop eating so much (my diet itself is good, I just eat too much) and lose ~5 kilograms.
 
To be fair, I think eating 5,500 kind of skews the sample a bit.

I eat healthily and get 2500 ish. If I need to eat double that I'd probably start throwing in some sugars too.

kd
 
Don't really care about sugar/salt etc. just cals & f/c/p. With the kind of macros I need to hit you can't really resort to properly dirty food anyway so micros take care of themselves. 5500kcal of 'clean' food would be bloody hard though.
 
No. But I don't eat processed food or sweets. I eat instinctively as well. But that's owing to years of "getting to know" my body and eating good quality foods that I enjoy. I'm not your typical gym rat when it comes to diet and lifestyle. I don't bulk or cut. I just eat well and eat what I need and enjoy my food and what I eat. :)
 
I don't worry about my diet at all. I eat pretty much whatever I want, but by and large whatever I want is healthy. So while I don't "worry" about it, I think I'm pretty good at eating healthy food most of the time, with enough junk from time to time that I get to enjoy myself eating rubbish.

And hey, I'm losing weight and building some muscle, so I must be doing something right.
 
Well these replies make me feel a lot better!! :D

Thought I would get a load of replies saying "I only eat clean" etc lol. Good Good ill keep munching my cookies :D and lots of chicken :P
 
Matutu said:
Well these replies make me feel a lot better!! :D

Thought I would get a load of replies saying "I only eat clean" etc lol. Good Good ill keep munching my cookies :D and lots of chicken :P
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You should try and eat as well as you can 99% of the time - and enjoy some **** processed crap emulsified pig fat cookies from time to time if you're that way inclined.

We all have our weaknesses. It's making sure they become the treat and exception to the rule, rather than something you have regularly.

I'm probably overly fastidious about what I eat - so am a poor example for a role model. I'm not the leanest out there, but that's not to do with what I eat, but with quantity. My insulin sensitivity however, and metabolism is bang on the money.

it's entirely down to what you're after. For weight training and pushing myself I could get away with more foods, and more varied foods - but I don't as I like my diet/nutrition as it is. I don't feel I'm missing out on anything. :)
 
5500 cals and only 200g protein, thats gonna be a shed load of carbs and fats. Would be interesting to see your diet broken down in a speardsheet of somekind (but thats just me being geeky)

As far as worrying about diet, i dont. I stick to a protocol at the moment, and i use the mirror to tell me how i am doing. Currently feeling a little soft so i am just going to be a little stricter with what i eat. I know quite closly how much i am eating daily, as i am a bit OCD with my spreadsheets but i dont have a "hit x cals and no more" limit.
 
Subdermal fat is nothing to be worried of really in terms of health. Visceral fat is the bad boy you want to keep in control. You need some for organ protection/insulation but too much and it starts to "choke" your organs and effectively this is what can lead to diabetes, but also further conditions.

Visceral fat's function is to be like a storage of fat (lipids) - so that these can then be burned to give energy as and when the body requires it, as well as protecting the body from excess glucose (usually from carbs), by storing triglycerides (remember MCTs - that's why they are thermogenic and give you energy instead of relying on carbs. :)). These triglycerides are (I think) produced by the liver from sugars we ingest. However, I believe having spoken to someone about it recently (can't remember who, was it someone here?) that there is evidence to suggest that actually most lipids that are synthesized from carbs, actually happen within the adipose tissue itself...

Adipose (fat) deposits itself in different parts of the body (this is hugely influenced by hormonal profiles, oestrogen/test etc....) and they all have different profiles chemically speaking as to how they react with the body. Generally/normally, this provides your brain with information and feedback on satiety and diet.

Irrespective of what you eat, visceral fat is mainly used/depleted during bouts of high intensity exercise - sprinting, skipping, playing squash etc... however, is also much more likely ot be stored as fat depending on your diet and homonal profile.

Just something to be aware. Most of us in here I doubt this is an issue - but often I hear people saying, I'm really skinny lalalalala. Yet stuff their faces with doughnuts and other crap and doing untold damage to their bodies.
 
I cry myself to sleep if I miss my macros

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Not as much as I should. I'd be a much more effective runner if I could stop eating so much (my diet itself is good, I just eat too much) and lose ~5 kilograms.
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+1

My other half is dietician. So plenty of food knowledge "in-house" and we eat reasonably healthy but she also makes damn good cake :D
 
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