Critique my diet!

[bigrig44]

I'm needing some tips or advice or anything on my diet here. I'm about to start bulking since the summer is pretty much over. Here is what my diet is looking like. I haven't run numbers yet. Might do that today.

Meal 1 - 5egg whites + 3 whole eggs
1cup oatmeal
1 scoop of optimum proteing
2tbsp of natural peanut butter
these ingredients are blended up and then cooked on the stove like a pancake. It makes about 3 good size pancakes.

Meal 2 - Tuna Sandwich
1can tuna
2 slices of wheat bread
2 slices of cheese
some pickles and mustard for taste
1/2cup brown rice
1cup Broccoli
1/2cup cottage cheese

Meal 3 - 2 pieces of steak, not sure what kinda cut. some help here would be good. I don't know about the good and bad cuts of beef. Preferably something that is affordable.
1 yam
1cup Broccoli
3-4 fig newtons or other flavors

Meal 4 - 1cup pasta
8-10oz of ground beef with tomato sauce
1cup broccoli
3-4 fig newtons or other flavors

Meal 5 - Pre-workout
Weight gainer shake
either homemade or cytogainer
homemade will be made with milk
2 scoops optimum protein
2tbsp peanut butter
a little honey
1/2cup of oatmeal

Meal 6 - Post-workout
2 scoops of Nectar protein
2cups of fresh fruit - stawberries, blueberries,
blackberries

Meal 7 - Not sure quite yet. I need a whole food meal though. Going to be something with some meat though. I might make a hamburger or something. Have some more veggies on the side and maybe some macaroni and cheese.

Meal 8 - 2 scoops of muscle milk
1 scoop of optimum whey protein
2tbsp of peanut butter

I may add cottage cheese to my 3 and 4 meals. Let me know what you think. I'm off to run the numbers now.

[prolangtum]

Id drop the fruit, and opt for a dextrose or malodextrin carb source postworkout.

Id also drop the carbs out of meal 7, just fat and protein is fine.

As far as beef, make sure the ground beef is at least 90-94% lean beef, and the good cuts are anythign with round or sirloin in them; eye of round, top round, bottom round, top sirloin, sirloin, london broil, etc.

[bigrig44]

Originally posted by prolangtum
Id drop the fruit, and opt for a dextrose or malodextrin carb source postworkout.

what do you suggest as a good source?

[prolangtum]

either malodextrin or dextrose powder, check out 1fast400.com.

[bigrig44]

thanks for the help!

[playthegame]

Originally posted by bigrig44
what do you suggest as a good source?

You can get 11lbs of dextrose from www.supplementdirect.com for $10.00.

[bigrig44]

well...here is a slightly revised diet with the number totals at the bottom.
Meal 1 -
5egg whites + 3 whole eggs
1cup oatmeal
2tbsp of natural peanut butter
these ingredients are blended up and then cooked on the stove like a pancake. It makes about 3 good size pancakes.

Meal 2 - Tuna Sandwich
1can tuna
2 slices of wheat bread
2 slices of cheese
some pickles and mustard for taste
1cup Broccoli
1/2cup cottage cheese
Soy Crisps

Meal 3 -
1/2 pound of beef
1/2 cup brown rice
1cup Broccoli
3-4 fig newtons or other flavors
1/2 cup cottage cheese

Meal 4 -
3/4 cup pasta
1/2 pound ground beef with tomato sauce
1cup broccoli

Meal 5 - Pre-workout
Weight gainer shake
either homemade or cytogainer
homemade will be made with milk
2 scoops optimum protein
2tbsp peanut butter
a little honey
1/2cup of oatmeal

Meal 6 - Post-workout
2 scoops of Nectar protein
1 banana
1 cup of berries
also I have some orange candy slices right after my workout until I get some maltodextrin powder. These total about 50g of carbs

Meal 7 -
1/2 ground beef for a hamburger
1 cup broccoli
1/2 cup cottage cheese

Meal 8 - 2 scoops of muscle milk
1 scoop of optimum whey protein
2tbsp of peanut butter

This totals up to be 5457 calories, 177g fat, 457g carbs and 486g or protein.

[prolangtum]

Wow, 5500 cals is a lot, how much do you weigh?

[bigrig44]

I weigh 230 right now and I am 6'4"

[alwaysgrowing]

the amount of cholesterol you are bringing in is enormous. drop some of the whole eggs or beef.

[triplej]

1/2 pound of beef post cooked seems like alot for one sitting, i would substitute some of the beef for chicken breasts.. JMO

[promatrix]

Originally posted by bigrig44
I weigh 230 right now and I am 6'4"

Whats your bodyfat %?

The eating protocol is a little to high in calories and a tad bit dirty for me, but I am a frim stickler on clean foods and staying within my caloric range.

I do a lot of guest apperances and I must stay lean without getting my waistline to big>LOL

Of course if your goal is to just eat good foods then you will be fine. At least your eating, a lot of iron brothers skip meals and stay the same year round without really acheveing any goals at all and waste a lot of money and time on AAS and complaine about little to no gains at all.

Good luck and train hard my friend-