Yeah paleo is non negotiable, it's changed my life for the better.
I ok with eating white potatoes or rice in case that makes a difference.
I ok with eating white potatoes or rice in case that makes a difference.
Quote: (05-09-2013 03:27 PM)reaper23 Wrote:
Quote: (05-09-2013 02:10 PM)IntrovertSuccess Wrote:
Yeah paleo is non negotiable, it's changed my life for the better.
I ok with eating white potatoes or rice in case that makes a difference.
brown rice and sweet potato
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Brown Rice
It’s the “healthier” choice because it still has the bran, with all its nutrients. In a 100g dose, raw brown rice contains:
77 g carb
3.5 g fiber
3 g fat
8 g protein
0.4 mg thiamin (Vitamin B1)
5 mg niacin
1.5 mg iron
143 mg magnesium
223 mg potassium
I mean, even the most ardent zero-carber would have to admit that brown rice sports an impressive nutrient profile (to clarify, that’s 100g raw; 100g cooked is far less impressive). But most of it is bound up with phytic acid and mostly useless to humans. Rats and other rodents produce phytase, which breaks down phytic acid and releases the bound minerals, but until we engineer rat-human hybrids, we’re not enjoying the full potential of brown rice. Another option is to soak and ferment brown rice, as Stephan details here. To me, though, this just sounds like a ton of work, and I worry that the newly unbound minerals will just leech into the soaking/fermenting liquid along with the phytate and the other antinutrients. If you toss the liquid, won’t you be tossing the nutrients, too? Hopefully Stephan can chime in with some clarification.
Read more: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/is-rice-u...z2Sq7tVUjj
Quote: (05-09-2013 06:07 PM)TheRookie Wrote:
Quote: (05-09-2013 03:27 PM)reaper23 Wrote:
Quote: (05-09-2013 02:10 PM)IntrovertSuccess Wrote:
Yeah paleo is non negotiable, it's changed my life for the better.
I ok with eating white potatoes or rice in case that makes a difference.
brown rice and sweet potato
Was under the impression brown rice is pretty nasty. I eat white rice:
Quote:Quote:
Brown Rice
It’s the “healthier” choice because it still has the bran, with all its nutrients. In a 100g dose, raw brown rice contains:
77 g carb
3.5 g fiber
3 g fat
8 g protein
0.4 mg thiamin (Vitamin B1)
5 mg niacin
1.5 mg iron
143 mg magnesium
223 mg potassium
I mean, even the most ardent zero-carber would have to admit that brown rice sports an impressive nutrient profile (to clarify, that’s 100g raw; 100g cooked is far less impressive). But most of it is bound up with phytic acid and mostly useless to humans. Rats and other rodents produce phytase, which breaks down phytic acid and releases the bound minerals, but until we engineer rat-human hybrids, we’re not enjoying the full potential of brown rice. Another option is to soak and ferment brown rice, as Stephan details here. To me, though, this just sounds like a ton of work, and I worry that the newly unbound minerals will just leech into the soaking/fermenting liquid along with the phytate and the other antinutrients. If you toss the liquid, won’t you be tossing the nutrients, too? Hopefully Stephan can chime in with some clarification.
Read more: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/is-rice-u...z2Sq7tVUjj
Quote: (05-06-2013 10:17 PM)Jaylow Wrote:While I sort of agree with this in theory, it's important to note that there is a huge practical difference between trying to eat 4000 calories a day in tuna and brown rice vs. 4000 calories a day in calorie dense fast food... If you're a person who has trouble gaining weight (ectomorph, tall...), it would be prudent to go for foods that offer a lot of caloric bang for your buck.
TLDR: there is no bulking foods. You just eat more calories per day. Its hard to tell you how many calories you should eat because its based on your activity level. If you are conscious about how much you are eating just add an extra 500 calorie meal per day.
Quote: (05-11-2013 03:05 PM)Ziltoid Wrote:
While I sort of agree with this in theory, it's important to note that there is a huge practical difference between trying to eat 4000 calories a day in tuna and brown rice vs. 4000 calories a day in calorie dense fast food... If you're a person who has trouble gaining weight (ectomorph, tall...), it would be prudent to go for foods that offer a lot of caloric bang for your buck.
Quote: (05-11-2013 03:13 PM)Jaylow Wrote:Where your "break even point" (RMR + calories expended through activity) lies is an inexact science that is influenced by situational and genetic factors both known and unknown, as is your ability to gain and lose weight. Even with an optimal diet calories in does not equal calories out, and generally but not always, skinny people will have a harder time gaining weight.
Me and Giovanni have already debated at length about this. First of all, canned tuna is bad for you because it contains mercury so your arguement is silly off the get go. I bulk and cut eating lots of fast food, it makes zero difference. Being an ectomorph has zero factor on the weight you gain. Go over your daily calorie break even point and you gain weight, go under and you lose weight. This is the only factor.
Quote: (05-11-2013 03:13 PM)Jaylow Wrote:I think you may have misunderstood what I was saying... So called "healthy" clean calories like lean meats and whole grains/greens are very filling and satiating while simultaneously not offering a very high caloric payload. For those who have difficulty gaining weight, this is a problem. I was actually advocating fast food, in a way, because it makes it considerably easier to consume excess calories. But, as you said, it's expensive.
I can agree with you that fast food has horrible bang for your buck since you could make the burger or sub yourself for 1/3 the cost but it is a huge myth that fast food is "bad/unhealthy".
Quote: (05-09-2013 10:43 AM)IntrovertSuccess Wrote:
I'm between 28 - 32, classic skinny ectomorph, 1.8m tall. Did various kinds of sports in the past but could never stick to weight training cause the routines the gym trainers gave me lasted too long and bored me (1 hour+).
But now I've been working a HIT programme for about 2 months with a trainer on a special HIT workout machine. I train twice a week since I seem to be recovering well in between training sessions. Although I don't know exactly how much I've been pulling / pushing / lifting according to my trainer I've been improving consistently. (I don't want to know the numbers as I'd rather focus on doing my best and pushing until failure.)
Everything seems to be going great except I'm not gaining weight at all. I literally weigh the same as I did before I started but I'm a lot stronger. My thighs and arms feel a little bigger but the scales say I'm the same.
My trainer says that there's going to be a limit to how I'm going to look because of my body type. While I don't have delusions of being a body-builder I was hoping I could at least get to some kind of bruce-lee, surfer body type I think it's been described as lean fit.
I must be eating enough other wise I wouldn't be getting stronger all the time, right? (I eat Paleo style btw?)
Or is it just too soon to worry about that? We've just started splitting the routines into a whole body and lower workout and in a couple of weeks we'll expand to 3 different workouts, whole body, upper and lower.
Is my dream of becoming lean / fit on HIT + Paleo unrealistic as an ectomorph or is it too soon to be worrying about it?
Quote: (05-11-2013 05:57 PM)reaper23 Wrote:
This guy (among many others):
says:
Quote: (05-11-2013 05:45 PM)sixsix Wrote:
Don't mistake my harshness for meanness, because this response is to help you.
BAM! You're big.
Quote: (05-11-2013 06:30 PM)sixsix Wrote:
Quote: (05-11-2013 05:57 PM)reaper23 Wrote:
This guy (among many others):
says:
Yeah, he says you should eat 6 foods. The rest is unnecessary.
Egg Whites
Oatmeal
Tuna
Bananas
Chicken Breast
Brown Rice
But that's bullshit.
It works for him, because he takes exogenous steroid hormones.
If you don't wanna juice, you should eat (animal) fats.
Why? Because cholesterol is the precursor of all steroid hormones, including testosterone.
You need fat in your diet to function normally, and especially to get big.
Quote: (05-06-2013 09:56 PM)TheBlackNarwhal Wrote:
I've been working out and training for a solid year, although it's been mixed with weight training and conditioning for wrestling. I'm 6'3, 175lbs average and 9-10% body fat. Now, If I was in the 5"10-5"11 range I'd look bulky as shit, but since I'm not I tend to look skinnier to some people.
Any workouts that would efficiently add mass on my long frame, and any foods that put on good weight fast?