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This thread is dedicated to bodybuilding diets. Everyone can add their experience, tips, advice on how to gain muscle and/or lose bodyfat. Later maybe i'll split the topic, but for now, let's have both in one. Feel free to add your ideas. It's possible that you have different opinions on things, but please don't discuss in this thread. The purpose of this thread is to be a source of information on vegan BB diets. For a start, here are my thoughts on BB diet. Everyone who does BB wants to either build up mass or lose bodyfat, or both, preferably. There are many opinions around how to do it best. Obviously, the exact plan depends on the individuals starting point.…
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I'm curious about what a days worth of food looks like for a vegan bodybuilder. Would anyone mind sharing their typical meals for a day with me. Here's mine today. It's really boring cause I'm having a hard time coming up with what to do with my non-meat food. Meal 1 1 cup Oatmeal 1/2 block tofu Meal 2 1/2 Cucumber 5 Radishes 1/2 cup baby carrots Nectarine 1/2 bloack tofu Meal 3 1/2 Cucumber 5 Radishes 1/2 cup baby carrots 1/2 bloack tofu Meal 4 1/2 oz. Peanuts 2 slices Ezekiel Bread Slice Soy Cheese Meal 5 1 cup Pineapple 1/2 cup Quinoa 1/2 block tofu 3 cups Raw Spinach 1T Lowfat Dressing Meal 6 1 cup Brown Rice 1/2 block tofu Total Cals: 1647 Fat: 3…
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hello all. I would like your help and would love to hear your responses.
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Hi everyone! I don't know if I selected the right forum for this but anyway... I'm 51 years old and on menopause for 4 years now... I've been struggling a lot with post-menopausal weight gaining. I'm gaining muscle (I can feel it) and I'm getting stronger but I don't seem to be able to lose the fat (mostly arms and belly). Any suggestions? anyone struggling with the same problem? Thanks
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Ok, here's the scenario... First off, I'm 6' 2", 185 lbs of hardgainer. Secondly, I work at a very active job (cooking for a retirement community, getting 17000 steps a day easy). Here's the break down of my daily eats: 4:40am Breakfast: 2 homemade breakfast bars (recipe is: 10 cups peanut butter, 2 c oats, 2 c ground flax seed, 2c walnut pieces, 2c raisins, 1c maple syrup, 2 packets amazing greens superfoods with 20g protien, yields 24 bars) with choco almond milk and vitamins plus b12 spray. 8:30 am snack: homemade protien peanut butter cup 10:30 am lunch: 2 bananas with red lentil salad (1/3c red lentils, some chopped up green bell pepper, green onion, tomato,…
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Hey guys! I was wondering if you could help me out with some research I am doing for a project. I am looking to take on a plant based diet and am incorporating this into some project work I am doing, finding it so interestimg! It should take you no more than 1 mins 59 seconds to complete promise! Questions are split on these two surveys: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/35GG6LB https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/35PNQ9P I don’t have an iPad to offer as an incentive just the knowledge you’d be helping out massively in some of my work! Thanks in advance! theresearchguy
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Hi all, Been vegan for nearly a year & have dropped about 25 lbs but am ready to start getting toned & want to develop definition by the start of the fall. I bought Robert Cheeke's book (& love it so far) but I'm trying to figure out how to get started with: A- my caloric intake before even doing a single exercise as well as for my first week or 2 and... B- what my training program should be. I want definition, not mass building. I also have access to a small gym at my office with some basic equipment. My height us 5ft7. I weigh 178 lbs. I'm 39 yrs old & sit most if the day for work. Any suggestions? Thanks! Alex
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Hi, I hope you are all well and in good health. Just wondering if someone can recommend a good fat burner suitable for vegetarians of course as most have gelatine in the capsules.. Please help if you can. Thanks in advance
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So I've been vegan for about 5 years now, but only the past year and half have I been really trying to get more serious with working out. For me I ended up with a lot of wheat gluten as my main protein source (I'm not huge on tofu and so many things with wheat gluten I found delicious). Problem I've found out is apparently I'm gluten sensitive so I can't keep getting most my protein from gluten sources like I have been. I know one vegan body builder at my gym and he says most of his protein he gets just from drinking like 8-10 protein shakes a day (he's really jacked). While I'd be up to drinking more protein shakes, I don't think I could stand drinking so many prote…
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Today July 9th 2018 A&W Canada launches "Beyond Burger" at all locations. They had a vegetarian burger on their menu but it wasn't vegan. https://web.aw.ca/en/our-menu/burgers/beyond-meat-burger
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Recommend a juicer? * I want a juicer, not a blender * Something EASY to CLEAN * Something that does green leafy vegetables well * Something durable. Anything else I should know? Any big differences between centrifuge juicers and presses? Will a presser juicer let me make juice I don't have to drink right away?
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Hi! I suppose most of you take supplements like proteins, amino acids, or creatinine I was inspired by one podcast of the Gary Null Show to look into possible supplements or nutritional changes to reduce the amount of damage done to the body by the training. Mr. Null is a avid proponent of intense physical exercise to stay healthy and age well. And he recommends the following supplements after (or before) training: post-workout capsicain (Chili component) resveratrol quercitin + vitamin C ribose L-carnitin grape seed extract pre workout and/or during workout red beet juice mixed with coconut water Do you have any further recommendations on this? Cheers And…
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I have been reading articles about how eating fructose leads to way more lipogenesis "fat creation" than glucose. I am trying to build muscle with a diet that includes a lot of black beans and some peanuts. I'm also supplementing with a scoop of pea protein powder everyday. I don't know about eating fruit anymore (used to eat a lot of fruit) because I want to just build muscle without putting on fat. I enjoy eating large volumes of food too, so I don't want to eat like I'm on a starvation diet. I think eating a lot of fruit without constant exercise leads to a "skinny fat" body with the fat being the most around the abdominal area. That's no good. I guess eating bl…
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Hey everyone! Hope you’re all well. I need some help creating a cutting plan. I’m one of those people that feels like protein is highly important (I feel better when I receive adequate amounts) and I do this with all of the obvious foods as well as powder. I’m looking for a 5 meal diet plan around 2300 calories that gets me close to 170 grams of protein, 200 carbs and whatever fats. I typically run in the AM (training for a sprint triathlon) and lift heavy in the PM (trying to maintain muscle while I add triathlon cardio). I would really appreciate some guidance on this matter. I’ve had trouble with cutting in the past and it made me really frustrated. Thank y…
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Hello, I am new here. I have started training a little over a month ago. In the last month eating 2500 calories a day I have gained over 8 pounds. I started at 130 and am now at 138. I keep monitoring and notice a gradual increase of 2 pounds a week. I'd like to be at .5-1 pound a week. If I cut back any more calories I will be at around 2000. According to every single BMR calculator and all of that online that's way lower than they say. I am 5'7" and started at 130. I know it's fat, water, and a little muscle but it keeps going up steadily. 2000 seems too little especially trying to get 130g protein a day. Could it be possible I only burn around 1600-1700 calories a da…
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After consuming tofu en masse (around 12 oz per day) for what seems like ages, and now switching it up with Seitan, and this Beyond Meat stuff (pea protein isolate), I'm starting to wonder whether consuming all of this "processed" stuff is hindering my progress. I've seen other people on here looking great on raw food diets, and then there is Brendan Brazier (proponent of raw foods, and also ripped!), who make me wonder whether I should make a switch -- Or is it that I am sick of eating tofu? I think my main problem is that I am afraid of eating too many calories that would cause me to gain my recently lost weight back again. I train four days per week, for about an hou…
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I was thinking of growing my very own hemp seeds from Hibiscus cannabinus Kenaf http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/ncnu02/v5-327.html . Is it a good idea? Would it be better to grow different seeds? I mainly wanted it for protein. Thanks.
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Question for the women still in the child bearing years. Have any of you had any issues with low body fat on vegan diet causing you to lose your period. Been a vegan for close to 2 years. Always had a regular period. Lost a ton of weight from vegan diet. periods stopped and estrogen levels became really low due to losing body fat. Workouts are mostly 5 or 6 days weight training for about an hr with maybe one or two days HIIT cardio training. Diet is strictly vegan. grains, nuts, seeds, fruits and veggies
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https://www.soylent.com/ Came across soylent online today, it's for people who don't want to eat actual food just 5 bottles a day. I use a non-soy vegan protein blend but add one scoop (11g protein) to my muesli breakfast (12g protein) 3 dates, a sprinkle of sunflower seeds and walnuts, plus a cup of soy bev (8g protein). I usually don't do shakes. I also make a smoothie for breakfast that uses juice I make from carrots, beet, apple, celery and ginger, also if we have vegetable scrapes. Put this juice in a blender and add, lettuce, kale, peanut butter, strawberries, ground chia seeds. My soy is non-gmo organic, tofu, soy bev and occasionally soy sausage, Gardien …
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So i have been wanting to transition to a plant based or vegan diet for ethical reasons for about a year now. This is the second time I am really trying hard to eliminate meat. Every time I have tried this, the fith day, I get bad muscle spasms all day non stop. I have been tracking my macros and weight for years. I've noticed my fibre and carbs go way up on plant based, and fats are lowered. Macros are something like 525 carbs 160 protein 125 fats When I go back to my normal diet, the spasms have stopped This is very frustrating I am heavily active and people don't believe me, but my job is very very active and I lift weights on top of that. So I have to ea…
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Bought some Beta-alanine and Creatine. Yow! just took some Beta-alanine and already got the tingles or more like an overall itchy feeling but only last about 1/2 hour. Took more today and again later but 1/2 the amount, you can take smaller doses several times a day and very very mild itchy tingle. Also picked up some Taurine caps, which gets lowered when on a Beta-alanine cycle.
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Hey ya'll I'm currently in the process of starting back to weight lifting, and will be starting 5/3/1, 3 days a week. I'm also in the process of shifting to a vegan diet. Currently, I'm weighing in at about 215lbs (5ft 7 in) with about 45% BF. Clearly, I have my work cut out for me, and clearly my primary goal is fat loss. Second to that, I'm aiming to be lean and strong. In other words, not concerned with mass/hypertrophy. I have lost weight and been lean before as an omnivore so I'm not totally ignorant to how weight loss works. Where I'm having an issue is figuring out how to hit my protein goals without going over calorically. Online calculators tell me I should …
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the title says the question but i'll detail it more. basically, gaining muscle means carbs and proteins, and lots of calories obviously. if i want to maintain a healthyish lifestyle (by which i mean ensuring i get the vitamins and minerals i need) as a staple what would be the main foods i need to eat? I have a fairly good understanding of nutrition and my dietary needs, my diet is pretty good atm being 3000-3400 cal a day, roughly 150g protein, 500g carb, 80g fat. if someone could point me in the right direction that would be swell. cheers
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Hey all, new to this forum and could really do with some help. To cut a very long story short I'm 27 years old, I was a fitness model and competed in my early 20's, a couple of years ago after a battle with crohns disease, my large intestine perforated and was removed leaving me with a stoma bag. I have managed to gain all my weight back through diet and training, currently 210b 12% body fat. A month ago I decided to go vegan, something I have wanted to do for sometime for both health but more so for animal rights. Now at first I thought I had it all figured out, but after reading these forums i realised I was consuming a lot more soy than some recommended. I was …
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