A quick question regarding nutrition

[etalns]

I'm starting to watch how I eat while I'm doing a cutting phase while working out, as I've reaized that my eating habits are the bottleneck of getting built. Currently in my cutting phase I'm supposed to do the following:

Maintain weight: 3218 calories
Lose 1 lb per week: 2718 calories

Protein: 195 g, 780 calories (mostly lean meat - chicken, etc)
Carbs: 242 g, 969 calories (all complex carbs, eat them almost all before 5:00 pm, e.g. whole wheat bread, oatmeal, etc; only simple carbs in your PWO shake)
Fat: 108 g, 969 calories (all polyunsaturated fats and monounsaturated fats, minimal saturated fats, no trans fats. think fish, almonds, olive oil, etc)

I'm on ediets atm as that's where I typically find my erecipes, as their information on each is pretty good, but I don't know exactly how to do it.

Ediets asks for the following fields to be filled in:

Search by Nutrittion
Looking for:
------ (food name here, ie: chicken)
with less than:
calories /serving
% calories from fat
protein g. /serving
total fat g. /serving
carbs g. /serving

Lets say I was looking for something for dinner, what would I typically enter here in order to stay wthin the paramters of my caloric limit.

 

[etalns]

anyone?

 

[imported_Mike]

You bumped your own thread, only waiting an hour, when its 2 o'clock in the friggen' morning?

 

[snoopdoug1]

Wouldn't it depend on what you ate earlier in the day? For instance, if you ate a lot in the morning/lunch, in order to stay within your cals you'd have to have a small supper? Maybe I don't understand what you're asking. Something else to think about... a lot of things have an extremely small serving size, and you'll most likely have 2 servings. When searching for food divide everything by 2 or so, assuming you'll have 2 servings.

 

[etalns]

Do you mean multiply by 2?

And ya, I realize that regarding the calories thing. I'm mainly asking how I'd use that form that it gives me.

 

[edro]

THe bulk of your daily calories should be consumed right after your workout, and in the middle of the day (lunch). If it all possible, keep your meals consistant at around 500 calories each (6 meals a day).

 

[etalns]

Originally posted by: edro13
THe bulk of your daily calories should be consumed right after your workout, and in the middle of the day (lunch). If it all possible, keep your meals consistant at around 500 calories each (6 meals a day).

Any chance you could give me a "demo" day per se, just to get a rough idea of what 6 meals would be like for you.