DO NOT use muscle milk. I uses crystalized fructose for a sweetener. It's a great taste and only gives you explosive diarrhea so you shit yourself a 1/2 hour after drinking it. I admit to losing a pair of underwear before finding this out.
Recommend real meat like steak with a big strip of fat and a lot of brocolli with melted real cheese on it not the name brand crap but like crackerbarrel or something not made with omega 6 oils which most have but are called cheese not cheese food like they should be labeled. Also go for power lifting since it requires less food and gets better strength gains.
TO get cut do daily minifasts not dieting, eat from 6pm to 10 pm and nothing all day just water, you'll lean up 10x faster and your muscle won't shrivel up on you and your tendons will not waste away either.
Thanks. I'm trying to stay away from anything prepackaged already. I realized pretty quickly that bottled shakes and bars are loaded with garbage and marketed as healthy. Makes me wonder how many people gobble that shit up and wonder why they can't lose weight.
As far as scheduling goes I was doing an intermittent fast i.e. skipping breakfast and lost the first 10lbs pretty quickly. Since I really started getting after it and hitting the gym and understanding my actual nutrition needs I found that a small breakfast, decent lunch, small snack in the afternoon (I mean truly small like a handful of almonds) and then an ok dinner, seems to be working out for me. I don't have a ton more to lose. Maybe another 7-10lbs. Workouts hopefully maintaining my embarrassingly small muscle mass. Ideally I'd like to see about 12-15% body fat then start a lean bulk. Once I can build some decent muscle I'm going to experiment with some different kinds of cuts.
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