Question about Diet

[AD1]

Ive been trying to set my diet up and have a few questions. When refering to the percentages of pro/fat/carbs are these percentages for calories or grams?
Also what percentages of pro/fat/carbs are best for cutting or bulking? Ive read a lot of info but Id like to get various opinions and the reason for those opinions. Thanks

[coffee-guy]

Ive been trying to set my diet up and have a few questions. When refering to the percentages of pro/fat/carbs are these percentages for calories or grams?
Also what percentages of pro/fat/carbs are best for cutting or bulking? Ive read a lot of info but Id like to get various opinions and the reason for those opinions. Thanks

The percentage should relate to total calories...

I've always like a 40/40/20 split for most basic diets....

If you're bulking stick with that and just up the calories (and throw in the occasional cheat meal) - if your just doing your basic cut (not a contest diet etc) then just lower the caloric intake and leave out the cheat meals......

Ask away on anythiing else you need....

[AD1]

Thanks for the feedback Foghat.
That seems to be the standard breakdown but Im interested in finding out about other breakdowns and what kind of sucess people had.

[coffee-guy]

My contest diet is 55/25/20 on workout days and 65/15/20 on non-workout days - of course this will change the closer I get but I've got 3 more weeks at this ratio...

I've used a 35/50/15 before in the offseason and had good results but I felt like I put on too much bf - of course I wasn't doing ANY cardio and my total calories were around 6000....

I would just pick something and keep track of things - if it doesn't work out the way you want it to then switch it up after x amount of time etc......

Good luck....

[coffee-guy]

BTW - my next diet change will look like this...

Workout Days ~ 60/20/20

Non-Workout Days ~ 70/10/20

[AD1]

Thanks for the feedback. Im getting my diet together and Ill post it up.