Main Diets
MFP saved meals that are bookmarked and easily copied over to today. The MFP meals are also classified by the type of day (hospital day, etc). This encourages a variety of flavors but also consistent dieting. This also works around the saved meals not consistently retrieving all the food on iPhone versus web.
The process to start a new diet is:
1. Open MFP web to next blank 2014 day where you'll save all the MFP meals associated with the new diet (spill over to next day if run out of room).
2. On a iPad or iPhone, open MFP app separately. Simulate meals by adding food or looking for a meal/day you already ate. Save as a meal Temp1, Temp2, etc - select Yes if it asks to replace an already existing meal. Can have another iPad or iPhone simultaneously so you can simulate food on the 2014 days on device A and review recently eaten on device B.
3. Then Add the Temp meal back to the blank 2014 day.
4. The 2014 day has a URL in the web browser that you can copy over when building the diet. You build a diet by creating a new folder in /diets and pseudo coding it in index.txt (follow the same format as the other diet index.txt's)
Diets you are following for months at a time with a specific body composition goal or a maintenance goal in mind.
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Mostly at CTRL on week days. Because of working night shifts on weekends 7pm to 730am, it's hard to shift my sleep to earlier than 2pm on my off days. So will be a combination of bringing Trifecta's / Huel / Vanilla Protein / Protein bar, and walking to nearby pickups for cardio portion. Will work up to conditioning for HIIT, then running, then joining Running club Tuesdays. Some days I will cook Bison patties and/or eggs before or after CTRL. *The goal* is not going to be specific in regards to body type, macros, or calories, but to monitor whether my body re-composes to lean or hypertrophic then sticking to it consistently. Currently reversed metabolism already and can eat high carbs 150g-200g without much weight gain, and I am weight training at the gym 2x a week.
*Quick link*
CTRL walking
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We are still in lockdown for Covid-19/Coronavirus. I have gotten used to doordash etc apps and instacart for simple groceries. Even though I am now at maintenance at 165lb, I still want to lose more body and there is still considerable belly fat. Then the long term is to work on building muscles. Currently I'm eating 200g-300g carbs without weight gain but this is also a health risk for diabetes, so this diet will start lowering carbs to 150-170g carbs, higher end preferably on workout days.
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Done after lowering carbs from 150g: Now at 100g carbs while under lockdown for Covid-19/Coronavirus, having restaurant food delivered via doordash etc apps and instacart for simple groceries. Expect a lot more weight loss.
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Done after lowering carbs from 100g: Now at 50g carbs while under lockdown for Covid-19/Coronavirus, having restaurant food delivered via doordash etc apps and instacart for simple groceries. Expect a lot more weight loss.
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Relaxed diet with no consideration on carbs. Due to the Covid-19/Coronavirus outbreak, all gyms and dine-in's are closed. We are instructed to stay at home. Delivery is still allowed through apps like Ubereats, Doordash, and Grubhub, but those items you can normally order are now simplified by many restaurants. In addition to that, there is less energy need to lift heavy weights at the gym, so calories need to be brought down to prevent fat gain.
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Hybrid of building strength and muscle mass.
Interim Diets
Diets that you intermittently go on for one week to help reset things, such as sodium intake, insulin resistance, etc. Then you return to your main diet.
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A week of low salt diet to prevent blood pressure, GERD, Bruxism, and OSA. Also to prevent bloating.
- Coaches/nutritionists can share instructions here.
- Coaches/nutritionists can use a calculator and my tally tool to help figure out averages.
- Pizza calculator is here.
- Next available empty day for meal plan templates at MFP: 2014-01-01 onwards.