I think you're right, but with one caveat - there are some requirements for
macro (protein/carb/fat) and
micronutrients (vitamins)
that you must fulfill. I think once you get your 300 protein and 500 carbs and 50 fat, you've covered your bases. From there it's just manipulation of calories to add/lose weight. But I could be wrong.
this is what i don't understand.
in this very thread you accounted for how a tight bbing diet with the above macros made you skinny fat but, despite your success (stated) in abandoning that protocol, you still come back to it as your basis.
how much pure lean muscle do you honestly think you're building day to day
how much did you build last year for the whole year?
i'm targetting you here, but these are questions any experienced bbers (past 2 years training) can answer for themselves.
how many guys/gals (or lads and lasses in Tatyanna's case) here go to the gym, pound the weights, get their daily quotient of rem sleep, take all the (natural) supps, eat the above macros every single day and can honestly say that they have built more than 5lbs of pure muscle tissue (discounting fat and water retention) since Dec 18th 2006?
so, if you did actually gain 5lbs of muscle tissue (and most wouldn't have if they are allowing for an honest assessment), how much of a difference did that 300/400/500+ grams of protein, etc with all the added stuff (apart from drugs. let's keep the variables simple for now. anabolics, growth, insulin, etc are a completely different animal) make in your progress or lack thereof.
i'm asking these questions, not to seem arrogant or imply that anyone is a failure. to the contrary, i admire anyone who has been able to keep hitting the gym year after year, depite the bombardment of disingenuous propoganda spewed out by the industry through their media and advertisements, that if you're not gaining 30lbs of muscle a year you're a loser.
the simple fact is that the industry itself is just one big advertisement for (natural) supplements and always has been, where they fraudulently use athletes while having full knowledge that said supplements have as much to do with their success as taking a dump in the morning.
here we can all see in this very thread and within this thread an intelligent person (240 - sorry) that is so brainwashed by the industry that, despite his own insight, still chooses to repeat his nonsensical reasoning on macro/micro nutrients.
of course, when one of these industry victims are ever questioned, they simply refer to the success of comp bbers (who we all know use drugs). with that type of logic everyone is left to ponder, bbers remain slaves to the dogma and supplement company chiefs go out and buy a new ferrari.
there was a time, for a long time (longer than bbing has been around) where the world and all it's great scientists absolutely believed that the world was flat simply because they never questioned this "
fact".
when someone came along and questioned the fact, all the great scientists told him it was true and how dare he question them. luckily, for us, he persisted.
