Now a few people are wondering who this guy up on top is. This man is known as Kali Muscle, and as you can tell, he's clearly very muscular. Whether it be by steroids or not is unknown to me, and I'm keeping that out of the discussion. The reason I mention him is because there is a lot of controversy on what he preaches, and to make it relevant to me, I'll backtrack to when I started to lift.
Going back 10 years, when I was 14, I knew NOTHING about dieting or eating right. I just started working out, I figured if I just kept eating what I did, but worked out it would work itself out. In a way, it did. I dropped a lot of fat and added a good amount of muscle, and by the time I was 16, I had a rock-hard 6-pack and could start to curl 100 pounds on a barbell. I wasn't even taking whey or any other supplements, and I even worked out right before bed (Did crunches in my bed, which wasn't very sanitary in retrospect since my sheets would be covered in sweat. But hell, I didn't care...I wanted a 6-pack!).
Fast-forward to college, where I started taking nutrition classes. I started to learn about these macros (lipids, carbs, and proteins) and what they did to the body. I started to follow it a little more closely and tracked my food, and realized all my macros were already in the ranges they should be in.
Ok, now let's bring this to what Kali is preaching in his videos. In one of his videos I saw, (in particular this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OgEe_wLjCk ) he speaks of not caring what a macro is, and focusing on how many calories instead. THIS is how I tracked if I was going to gain or lose weight before college! I didn't care about hitting my proteins while lowering my lipid count...it was about getting those 3000 calories in! I still follow this principle for the most part, and I'm slowly losing the fat and still gaining muscle. The only other thing worth noting about this way to eat is he also mentions when he wants to look more cut, he cuts his sodium down low. Because of my crazy overnight schedule now, I don't have much time to cook my meals, so my meals tend to be higher in sodium, and I hope to try this technique and see if it works as well.
Where Kali and I differ in the food intake, is I take whey supplement to help me feel more full and get a good amount of protein in quickly. But other than that, I believe in taking in healthier foods like brown rice, chicken breast, and frozen veggies steamed if you can. I try to eat as natural as possible, but at the same time I'm not tracking how many lipids I have taken in, or carbs. If I take in 2500 calories, and workout and expend 2800 calories naturally, I'm going to slowly lose weight, most likely fat if most of my calories are proteins it will help maintain my muscle. So overall: don't eat cake all damn day, and eat more home-made or natural stuff. If you're eating 3500 calories and gaining a lot of weight...and a lot of fat, cut down the calories, and take in less calories in general until you dialed it in right.
You don't have to agree to this method, as we all have a choice in life. Although, if you're having a hard time trying to get into the shape you want doing it the normal way, maybe switching it up may be just what you need to succeed.
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