yeah i am actually feeling a bit better now (harder). I think it's the diet, i've been lower on fat than usual and higher on carbs than usual for bulking and not the greatest success visually.
I think I'm going to try to nail down a diet plan that only uses significant amounts of carbs in the first 3 meals. Here's what i'm going with right now
1) PRE-WO: cereal, 1cup milk, 1 scoop whey, 1 protein/energy bar
2) POST-WO: 2cup milk, 2 scoops whey, extra food depending on how hard my workout was (very little extra food on cardio days)
3) 8 oz ground beef + 1 cup brown rice (going to replace brown rice with buckwheat)
4) 2 cans tuna + 2 tablespoons mayo
5) MEAT (beef, steak, fish, chicken, turkey, etc), veggies, 1 cup milk
6) 1 cup cottage cheese, 1 scoop whey, 1 handful peanuts, splash of milk to mix together
one of my problems is meal 4. It's been changing around so i decided to make the tuna permanent. My problem is the mayo. I'd rather have olive oil in here... however olive oil + tuna is inedible for me. Tuna straight out of the can is inedible to me. It's too fibrous, chewy and nasty, my body doesn't recognize it as food and so it's difficult to swallow. I need to mix it with something to get it down. Mayo lubricates it so it's actually edible, but that's not my #1 choice for fat... so my question is, how do you guys get your canned tuna down the hatch? I want to work olive oil in SOMEHOW i'm still low on fat.
In other good news... yes i don't get along great with carbs BUT i'm getting some help there. I've got two great products to run during the recomp portion of the cycle. Needtobuildmuscle brand "Need2Slin" and Lean Body Formulations "Recompadrol." I'm excited to have them and obviously my diet is going to get tweaked up a bit when I hit the recomp part of my cycle.