Alrighty, I've got a few things going on tonight though, so i may or may not have speedy replies. I'm always up for nutrition talk. It's an ongoing struggle for me because at my work, I don't always control the food, so sometimes I'm eating bacon cheeseburgers, and I have to somehow make that work. This is why I usually volunteer to cook!
ok!!
so lets take this one step further..
do you believe that the IFFYM or IF system will ever be something that pro olympian bodybuilders will use to prep for a show?? lets say they can use the iffym for the off season.. what about 20 weeks out or less?
No offense to either of you but I don't think IIFIYM is a solid dieting plan.
I've tried it and it didn't work so well for me.....maybe for others but all in all I think it's piss poor dieting advice.
my dailey maintnance calorie is right at about 3500 cal's per day. Under the "If it fits in your macros" theory I can eat whatever I want as long as i stay in those peramaters because a calorie is a calorie.....theoreticaly.
So lets say I eat 3 meals a day consisting of healthy foods, chicken, rice...whatever and after those 3 meals I have approx. 1500 calories, 200 grams of protein, 100 grams of carbs and so on......that leaves 2000 calories left for me to go have a double burger from McDonads and i'm hitting all my dailey needs, but whay am I not losing wieght.....or better yet why am I putting on fat?
Now lets say I have the same senario.....3500 cal's a day is my maintnance level. Say I eat 6 meals a day of lean chicken, fish, steak, brown rice, seet potatoes and such, and I end up eating 4200 cals a day.....but still lose weight.....or let me rephrase that, still losse body fat.
I've done both of these senarios and I can tell you no doubt that the second option has worked brilliant for me. For me at least.....it's not about caloric intake so much as it is about the foods i choose to eat.
IIFIYM is a fools diet IMO.
