Contest Diet Help - vol. trying to get ripped!

[Faraz]

Hi new member here and just wanted to see if anybody could help me out with nutritional/diet info on getting ripped up. Im not doing a show or contest just wanna take my body to its limit. Ill be doing this naturally. I was planning on paying a nutritionist in my area but had no luck finding a good one thats worked with bodybuilders and would rather save the money and do some research.

So after some internet searches i was able to find out some info. I searched on GB but wasn't able to find exactly what i was looking for. But i was able to figuring out my BEE=Basal Energy Expenditure. So here are my questions.

1. Whats the perfect diet ratio for getting ripped up for a contest? I've seen diets that consist of 70 percent carbs, 25 percent protein, and 5 percent fats. But ive also seen diets with 70 percent protein and 25 percent carbs, and 5 percent fats.

2. Is using my BEE to figure out how how many calories my body can take in to maintain the best equation? Or should i use another method?

3. I still need to figure out my body fat percentage but i wanna say im at about 15 percent and would say for contest ready i need to be at 5 percent. So i need to lose 10 percent of body fat. How do i figure out how many calories this would consist of?

4. So based on how many calories i need to lose to lose that amount of body fat i would adjust my diet accordingly?

5. I heard a lot about this every week the closer u get to the contest date you keep taking away food from your diet? So how would this work? Example take away 100 calories a week based on a 8 week diet? Based on these calories what percentage of protein/carb/fat do you take away?

6. How many weeks should i diet for? 8 weeks?

7. Also i usually wake up around 10am and go to sleep around 2am...i hear a lot about dont eat carbs after "X" time. I plan on eating 5 meals a day should i not eat carbs with meal 4 and 5?

I like to say im pretty disciplined when it comes to eating. Im ok with doing chicken and rice all day long and was kinda just planning on doing that for my diet.

As far as my workout i was planning on doing 45 min to 1 hour of cardio 5 times a week. My lifts i hit everybody part at least twice a week.

Here are my stats

5' 11"
176 lbs.
attached is a pic of what i currently look like sorry for the crappy quailty..

Thanks for any help sorry for all the confusion questions.......*puts up flame repelling shield*

[Blockhead]

Hi new member here and just wanted to see if anybody could help me out with nutritional/diet info on getting ripped up. Im not doing a show or contest just wanna take my body to its limit. Ill be doing this naturally. I was planning on paying a nutritionist in my area but had no luck finding a good one thats worked with bodybuilders and would rather save the money and do some research.

So after some internet searches i was able to find out some info. I searched on GB but wasn't able to find exactly what i was looking for. But i was able to figuring out my BEE=Basal Energy Expenditure. So here are my questions.

1. Whats the perfect diet ratio for getting ripped up for a contest? I've seen diets that consist of 70 percent carbs, 25 percent protein, and 5 percent fats. But ive also seen diets with 70 percent protein and 25 percent carbs, and 5 percent fats.

2. Is using my BEE to figure out how how many calories my body can take in to maintain the best equation? Or should i use another method?

3. I still need to figure out my body fat percentage but i wanna say im at about 15 percent and would say for contest ready i need to be at 5 percent. So i need to lose 10 percent of body fat. How do i figure out how many calories this would consist of?

4. So based on how many calories i need to lose to lose that amount of body fat i would adjust my diet accordingly?

5. I heard a lot about this every week the closer u get to the contest date you keep taking away food from your diet? So how would this work? Example take away 100 calories a week based on a 8 week diet? Based on these calories what percentage of protein/carb/fat do you take away?

6. How many weeks should i diet for? 8 weeks?

7. Also i usually wake up around 10am and go to sleep around 2am...i hear a lot about dont eat carbs after "X" time. I plan on eating 5 meals a day should i not eat carbs with meal 4 and 5?

I like to say im pretty disciplined when it comes to eating. Im ok with doing chicken and rice all day long and was kinda just planning on doing that for my diet.

As far as my workout i was planning on doing 45 min to 1 hour of cardio 5 times a week. My lifts i hit everybody part at least twice a week.

Here are my stats

5' 11"
176 lbs.
attached is a pic of what i currently look like sorry for the crappy quailty..

Thanks for any help sorry for all the confusion questions.......*puts up flame repelling shield*

In a nutshell...


 For a stage you are out of shape. Totally. For the general public and the beach you are RIPPED beyone human comprehension. Example: The general public thinks that Patrick Swayze and Marky Mark are HUGE and crazy jakked beyoned belief.

 Keep doing what you are doing. Take the training of bodyparts TWICE a week thing down to ONCE a week. You're natural. Avoid sugar like the plague ( even in drinks ) and eliminate 20% of your carbs (rice) and supplement that with broccoli or a green vegetable.

 Your cardio is fine. Drink a Redline XTreme just beforehand. Enjoy your summer!



 - Block!

[Faraz]

thx.......but still a lot of unanswered questions.

As far as contest diet. Whats a basic ratio of protein/carbs/fats?

[Blockhead]

thx.......but still a lot of unanswered questions.

As far as contest diet. Whats a basic ratio of protein/carbs/fats?

How much wood could a woodchuck cuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? I don't know. It depends on who you are and what you respond to. That's a question without a direct answer.

 Stop worrying about it and just train and do what I suggested. You aren't competing.



 - Block!

[tbombz]

as blockhead said there is no  perfect ratio of p/c/f... every bodybuilder does something a little bit different..  his advice is good and will work... but there's a million other guys out there with different advice and it would work too! see? different ways to do the same thing... in the end all that maters is that it works... and anything with adequate protein and controlled calories will work..


oh by the way, epic birth giving hips! 

[Blockhead]

as blockhead said there is no  perfect ratio of p/c/f... every bodybuilder does something a little bit different..  his advice is good and will work... but there's a million other guys out there with different advice and it would work too! see? different ways to do the same thing... in the end all that maters is that it works... and anything with adequate protein and controlled calories will work..


oh by the way, epic birth giving hips! 

Well said.

 It wouldn't be Getbig without some sound honest advice and a  stab right in the back when we are finished. Hahaha...

 Welcome to the THUNDERDOME, Bitch!


 - Block!

[Pickpocket]

Block I just read your other post about guys with faux hawks their relation to NO-Xplode.  And then this pic comes up, and you suggest he drinks a Redline.