Nutrition Questions

[cuzza]

Let's start by saying that my diet is shocking. Not masses of fast food, just nowhere near good enough for putting on muscle - minimal protein, massive carbs, lack of veg, etc. Which brings me onto...

Obviously, calories over maintenance = weight gain + muscle gain, calories under maintenance = weight loss.

However, if I'm currently getting in say 50g protein a day, and I up this to 150g, will it make any difference on muscle building, or will it simply decrease the recovery time needed? To gain any form of added muscle, will I definitely need to bump up the calories?

 

[wolf116]

still not enough!!! that's my breakfast. read the sticky.
Especially threads by EFFORT and Warboss Alex

 

[simon]

Any caloric surplus will lead to weight gain. The average person's caloric surplus leads to weight gained in the form of fat. A caloric surplus with the minimum protein requirement for building muscle in conjunction with a decent weightlifting program, will build certain amounts of muscle and certain amounts of fat. Getting more calories from protein and less from carbs skews the weight gain in the direction of muscle instead of fat.

Some body types are more prone to fat gain than others, and for these people, lowering carbs whilst increasing protein and fat will put on more muscle than fat. Your diet should provide you with enough calories and protein to build muscle, with as many carbs as you can tolerate without getting fat. What is your body type?

 

[Quagmire911]

http://www.sosuave.net/forum/showthread.php?t=134782

 

[cuzza]

You have 150g of protein for breakfast? **** me.

Also, none of you guys really answered my question, although Simon gave some decent information.

What I'm asking is (may have been unlear earlier), if my calories stay at a maintenance level, but I get in a solid amount of protein that I previously wasn't getting, what will happen? Faster recovery? A bit of muscle growth? What?

 

[wolf116]

No not really. But close to it some days

 

[Axcell]

No not really. But close to it some days

How can you consume 150 grams of protein in one meal?
The most I am able to consume is 50 grams per meal, times 4 meals = 200 grams. (1-2 grams per pound of body weight is recommended, so this is fine for me.)

Also, if your body is not used to you eating that much, do you just force foods down, or start selecting foods that are very high in protein, and only eat those? I tend to fill myself up rather fast.. it's a problem.

 

[wolf116]

How can you consume 150 grams of protein in one meal?
The most I am able to consume is 50 grams per meal, times 4 meals = 200 grams. (1-2 grams per pound of body weight is recommended, so this is fine for me.)

Also, if your body is not used to you eating that much, do you just force foods down, or start selecting foods that are very high in protein, and only eat those? I tend to fill myself up rather fast.. it's a problem.

I am supposed to eat 60g's for each meal at 6 meal each day, thats 350g a day. But I have been slack/poor lately and just have a massive breakfast and skip morning tea.

 

[navyseal2101]

wel lthats not close to 150g, that would be double what ur supposed to eat basiclly. Plus my friends personal trainers who were both bodybuilders say that your body only processes 42g a meal, idk if theres any truth to that but thats what they say.

 

[Quagmire911]

wel lthats not close to 150g, that would be double what ur supposed to eat basiclly. Plus my friends personal trainers who were both bodybuilders say that your body only processes 42g a meal, idk if theres any truth to that but thats what they say.

I was sure it was 34.5678g...