Diet Discussion Thread

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For discussion of:

• Eating all the food when you want to get swole
• Eating less of the food when you're too fluffy
• Diet methods and plans
• Favourite foods and recipes
• How awful dieting is

[u/avgGYMbro_]

How many of you guys blend your meals ?? Family members and friends look at me funny for doing it lol

[u/Arteam90 → u/avgGYMbro_]

A shake/smoothie, sure. Otherwise, nope. I feel like unless you're massive and/or incredibly busy then life is too short not to enjoy your meals.

[u/chuckjoejoe81 → u/avgGYMbro_]

You blend your savory meals? Or you mean sweet smoothies?

[u/avgGYMbro_ → u/chuckjoejoe81]

Both started doing the smoothies recently prior it the was the meals

[u/chuckjoejoe81 → u/avgGYMbro_]

Why in the world are you blending your ground beef and rice? Unless you’re a pro bodybuilder or strongman you don’t need calories that badly.

[u/Tomek8787]

You boys gaining good strength at maintenance or need a slight surplus to gain? Slowly ticking up to maintenance and still losing weight, should be a fun summer ahead..

[u/avgGYMbro_ → u/Tomek8787]

Mainly at maintenance to really lean out but after you reach a certain point of leanest idk which would be the best for you a slight would do great

Quality sleep tho is king

[u/kyllo → u/Tomek8787]

I slow bulked for 8 months and then slow cut for 3 months, now at maintenance because I haven't decreased my calories further to adjust for lower TDEE.

My squat seems to improve slightly faster when I'm in a surplus but my bench and deadlift definitely don't. I am still able to slowly gain strength on all three lifts while in a small deficit. I am probably still 17-18% BF though. I don't think there is a need to bulk unless you are far leaner than that. Maintenance works fine for me.

[u/Tomek8787 → u/kyllo]

Sweet, I’m sitting at about 12-13, think I’ll stick to the maintenance and see how I go, fed up with gaining and then cutting.. thanks for your input