[AldrichAStern]

Please critique my 40/40/20 for cutting. I'm new to non-keto cutting diets, so I just want to keep it as simple as possible until I learn more (ie: the whole debate between low GI/high GI in your pw shake... I'm putting that off for now)

Anyway, my stats are:
5'10, 200 lbs, about 170 lbs lbm.

Diet:

Meal 1 – Breakfast

1 cup skim milk

1 scoop whey protein

AND

4/5 cup Kashi (GoLean) or ½ cup Quaker Oats

~351 calories, 38g protein, 43g carbs, 3.5g fat

Meal 2 – Lunch

One from list A

One from list B

~340 calories, 36.3g protein, 35g carbs, 5.3g fat

Meal 3 – Supplements

Flax oil/Supplements

~180 calories, 20g fat

Meal 4 – Mid-day

One from list A

One from list B



~340 calories, 36.3g protein, 35g carbs, 5.3g fat

Meal 5 – Dinner

One from list A

One from list B


~340 calories, 36.3g protein, 35g carbs, 5.3g fat

Meal 6 – Post workout OR milk

Post workout shake

~370 cals, 35g protein, 54g carbs, 2g fat



2 cups skim milk

Piece of fruit

~250 calories, 18g protein, 44g carbs, 0g fat

Meal 7 – Bedtime Meal

1 tbsp peanut butter

1 cup cottage cheese

285 calories, 32g protein, 5g carbs, 8g fat







LIST A (measure cooked)
¾ cup brown basmati
1 cup spaghetti
¾ cup brown rice
Anything 35g c


LIST B (measure raw)
1 can tuna
5.5 oz chicken breast
5.5 oz salmon
Anything 38g p

Totals:



Workout days– 2128 calories, 213.9p, 207c, 49.4f 40/39/21

Non-Workout days– 2007 calories 196.9p, 197c, 47.9c 39/39/22

[Kruger]

The first thing I looked at was calories and they are way too low.

[AldrichAStern]

Ok, going to try to redo this to bump it up to 2400. maybe I could add a 300 calorie meal in a 40/40/20 ratio? Seems like it'd be the simplest thing to do without having to recalculate everything...

Btw, just curious, what's your education background? Been reading a lot of your old posts... some pretty impressive/interesting ****. Trying to digest it all and reformulate my ideas after having all these absolutes in my system

[Kruger]

I would go higher than that. 2400 is still too low.

My backround is a couple degrees, too many classes, too much still left on student loans. My degrees have nothing to do with nutrition but I took mostly all Exercise/Physiology/Nutrition as electives for many years (including grad level courses).

[AldrichAStern]

yeah man I feel ya... I'm going to have a ***** time paying off my loans. In college right now. I honestly have had 0 interest in science since I started bodybuilding, and now I feel like I'm trying to read through pubmed studies but am having a hard time. Luckily there is light at the end of the tunnel and you don't have to major in nutrition to be knowledgable about it. Going to try to take as many nutrition electives as possible and we'll see. Man bobo, you definitely just confused the **** out of me. Thought I had this **** figured out from reading as much as I could from bodybuilding.com, muscle mags, and the like. Back to square 1.