We need to have a serious talk about calories

[Marco Zen]

Ive never counted calories in my life. I've always been a slender/athletic looking mf, high metabolism so I've never really needed to pay attention to my calorie intake. Plus I'm a gym rat so I figured considering the amount of calories I burn daily who gives a shyt how many I consume...

Rewind a few months ago, I decided to tweak my diet a little.. Gyms are filled with "experts" on nutrition and shyt. So one of em was telling me how to increase my daily protein blah blah blah.. This mf yapping about how he eats a whole t-bone steak for lunch 3 times a week blah blah.. So to make a long story longer I decided I'm gonna try that. Drastically increase my protein see what happens. I began to bulk up some and noticed significant gains in my strength level. Lifting, benching squatting heavier weights. But after about a month I noticed I was generating somewhat of a semi beer gut... and I'm like


So then I started to dissect my diet meal by meal day by day to see what changed and why.. The calories


I was consuming at a minimum around 5000+ calories a day. Pizza. Taco bell. Burger king every other day (pleasure eating/ comfort food)... One taco bell combo is like 1500 calories alone. Pizza 1500 calories. Bag of chips 300 calories (×3 a day). A cup of juice 200 calories and on and on..

So 3 weeks ago I went zero tolerance on all junk food. No chips. No pizza. No taco bell. No juice or soda. ..just baked chicken brown rice and water or sparkling water (or the equivalent with other foods low in calories, salmon, Quinoa etc).. measured portions. Eating until I'm satisfied versus eating until I'm "stuffed"

Since then the "beer gut" has vanished and my abs are flat again

I guess this is what people call "cutting"


It works who knew


Watch them calories brehs

 

[Kornball The Conqueror]

wish i knew this 10 years ago my protein intake has always been dirt low

 

[Big Blue]

Counting calories is amazing. I can sell eat junk food but in moderation.

 

[YvrzTrvly]

Mother fukkers talk about calories but don't even realize it is a unit of measurement.

I know what that measurement is...hopefully others do as well. This the reason why we have all these diets, bullshyt unhealthy food, etc.

It's becomes very obvious when logic is applied

Moreover a calorie as it applies to food is simply factually incorrect. I believe it is a smaller magnitude...kCal.

 

[Womb Raider]

Only thing I want to talk about is the ass in your avi


I wants it and I needs it we can do this the easy way or the hard way

 

[Buddy]

Pizza. Taco bell. Burger king every other day

I stopped reading right here.
Gym breh told you he eats STEAK and that was your queue to pig out on bullshyt???





Fitness aside, WHAT THE FUKK would possess you to eat Taco Bell?

 

[Pool_Shark]

I stopped reading right here.
Gym breh told you he eats STEAK and that was your queue to pig out on bullshyt???





Fitness aside, WHAT THE FUKK would possess you to eat Taco Bell?

5 dollar cravings box just came back

 

[Buddy]

5 dollar cravings box just came back

 

[Marco Zen]

I stopped reading right here.
Gym breh told you he eats STEAK and that was your queue to pig out on bullshyt???





Fitness aside, WHAT THE FUKK would possess you to eat Taco Bell?

I be lonely at night

Beefy melt burrito and 2 taco supremes numbs the pain and heartache before I cry myself to sleep.

Plus them Cinnabon delights slap

 

[Elim Garak]

You can't be serious with this thread.

 

[Worthless Loser]

5000 calories a day?

 

[CHICAGO]

IT WASNT JUST THE CALORIES.

YOU WERE EATING PURE GARBAGE.

THAT shyt WILL TAKE A TOLL
ON YOUR BODY EVEN IF YOU WERENT
TAKING IN AS MANY CALORIES.



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[Ahadi]

All that sodium

 

[TheMailMan]

Calories in versus calories out but not all calories are the same. You was a dirty bulk and got fat. Glad u came back down to earth. 3.99 for 12 chicken rings at white castles if u need help getting your protein macros

 

[The God Poster]

Ive never counted calories in my life. I've always been a slender/athletic looking mf, high metabolism so I've never really needed to pay attention to my calorie intake. Plus I'm a gym rat so I figured considering the amount of calories I burn daily who gives a shyt how many I consume...

Rewind a few months ago, I decided to tweak my diet a little.. Gyms are filled with "experts" on nutrition and shyt. So one of em was telling me how to increase my daily protein blah blah blah.. This mf yapping about how he eats a whole t-bone steak for lunch 3 times a week blah blah.. So to make a long story longer I decided I'm gonna try that. Drastically increase my protein see what happens. I began to bulk up some and noticed significant gains in my strength level. Lifting, benching squatting heavier weights. But after about a month I noticed I was generating somewhat of a semi beer gut... and I'm like


So then I started to dissect my diet meal by meal day by day to see what changed and why.. The calories


I was consuming at a minimum around 5000+ calories a day. Pizza. Taco bell. Burger king every other day (pleasure eating/ comfort food)... One taco bell combo is like 1500 calories alone. Pizza 1500 calories. Bag of chips 300 calories (×3 a day). A cup of juice 200 calories and on and on..

So 3 weeks ago I went zero tolerance on all junk food. No chips. No pizza. No taco bell. No juice or soda. ..just baked chicken brown rice and water or sparkling water (or the equivalent with other foods low in calories, salmon, Quinoa etc).. measured portions. Eating until I'm satisfied versus eating until I'm "stuffed"

Since then the "beer gut" has vanished and my abs are flat again

I guess this is what people call "cutting"


It works who knew


Watch them calories brehs

Only one person can eat like that & be in shape. You ain’t him