How many months/years of lifting/nutrition did it take you to realize that things like soda, bread, chocolate, etc doesn't actually make you gain fat and that gaining fat is all about being in a calorie surplus.
It boggles my mind when I see guys who have been lifting for years chugging down a can of diet soda because they're too scared to drink a normal can of soda.
>b-but its an extra 160 calories
Who gives a shit? are you that much of a pussy that you can't spare 160 calories from your total daily calorie intake for a soda?
>hah! I don't drink soda at all, I am a perfect autistic machine that only consumes water, chicken breast, brown rice, and broccoli, EVERYDAY, WITHOUT FAIL, NO MATTER WHAT, I AM SUPERIOR.
I've always known that, American public education always likes to skip over that and instead sells you that lame food pyramid shit.
Ian Sullivan
I unironically prefer diet pop because regular pop tastes too sweet to me. Although I don't really drink either because I am not a fucking child.
Carter Flores
>trying to justify spending 140 of your precious gainz calories on pure fructose and glucose instead of 2 large gainz eggz.
Levi Thompson
same
Nathaniel Thomas
>Liquid calories >All sugar >so corrosive its used to clear blood off the streets
Soda is garbage, enjoy being addicted to hfcs retard.
Also >.002 cents has been added to your account
Nolan Morris
Because it's 160 calories of an extremely an efficient sugar that causes fatty liver. How the nutrient interacts in the body is just as important as the energy it provides.
Christian Peterson
I don't drink soda because I'd rather use that 160 calories for food.
Justin Campbell
drinking literal cancer. This isn't 2000 anymore.
Easton Morgan
im sure you're gonna be so healthy only consuming junk foods and sodas while limiting your calories
Dominic Edwards
Soda is objectively one of the worst things you can consume. You're fucking retarded m8
Easton Young
This. Unless you care about being shredded and sub 10%, you probably have a few hundred calories a day you can use for whatever you want. I tend to have about 300. I still think that soda is one the biggest waste of those calories you can do though. Hell even something like a small bowl of ice cream gets you all sorts of good nutrients alongside all the extra sugar.
Joshua Rivera
I drink full sugar drink and dark chocolate as a pre workout. Meal timing is actually important if you want to maximize your performance in the gym.
I do PPLxPPLx and I do the big 4 once a week on 3x3. >OHP 205x3x3 >Bench 325x3x3 >Squat 455x3x3 >Deadlift 525x3x3
As I mentioned with meal timing, you should eat specific kinds of food depending on when you lift.
Because I lift in the mornings I eat this way
>Preworkout Meal - Fast digesting sugary shit >Post-workout Meal - Fast digesting protein >1st normal meal - Slow digesting healthy meal (Fish, Brown rice) >2nd normal meal - Very Slow digesting healthy meal (Chicken or Beef)
This way your only getting the fast digesting shit before you lift, to give you that boost of energy for the gym, then all your meals after that are slow digesting since you no longer need to worry about having energy/fire within you that you get from the sugary shit.
Blake Sanchez
The real reason I don't drink soda is that it doesn't taste very good after you haven't drank it in over a year
I haven't had a soda in 6 months now. What are your substitutes? I've been drinking tea, milk, juice, and coffee in place of soda. That's with my meals, I drink mostly water otherwise.
Brandon Butler
There's literally no difference between soda, milk, juice...its all sugary shit.
Not sure why soda gets the bad wrap with the normies.
Its like everything else in the normie world, you guys are literally normies, you probably think bread is evil, but you eat rice, literally the same shit in slightly different form.
Dylan Johnson
>comparing soda to milk
Holy shit, literally kys.
Jack Ross
The guy I'm training with basically told me to cut all grains and only have meat/veg/fruit/beans, is this okay?
it's not about fat retard that shit is full of literal garbage that never leaves your body
Blake Turner
it works but I felt tired as fuck when I did that
Nolan Lewis
the only harm would be potential insulin spikes converting carbs to fat, but its not that bad. youre right
William Brown
literally nothing wrong with whole grains >insulin spikes converting carbs to fat unironically/nonsarcastically explain in detail please
Leo Carter
>it's not about fat retard that shit is full of literal garbage that never leaves your body
Broscience 101
Liam Reyes
>thinking all sugar is the same lol go away. soda gets a bad rap because it's scoops of shitty white sugar in bubbly water.
Hunter Allen
Carbonated sodas absolutely can lower your bone mineral density.
Andrew Jenkins
>eating for enjoyment
Oliver Anderson
Can't remember exactly but something like this: >chemoreceptors detect increase in blood glucose concentration >more insulin released >insulin converts glucose to glycogen >excess glycogen is stored in fat tissue cells
Joshua Robinson
>implying the excess carbonic acid doesn't come out of solution as carbon dioxide and water as the soda is brought to body temperature
have you even taken high school chemistry yet, much less opened a container with a carbonated beverage?
I found more broscience for you famalamadingdong
Jonathan Roberts
You are obviously too stupid to realize that there is more to a diet than calories. The sugar content in a single can off coke is bad for you. End of discussion.
Xavier Morales
Is this new pasta, OP?
Jeremiah Gonzalez
Its fine, meat and veggies tastes better too.
Nolan Brown
>chemoreceptors detect increase in blood glucose concentration >more insulin released correct
>insulin converts glucose to glycogen insulin is not an enzyme. insulin signals cells to make more of a glucose transport protein, allowing the cell to take up more glucose. if the glucose is not metabolized immediately, it will be stored as glycogen. if the glycogen is not used within a few days, it is converted to ketone bodies and shunted into the blood. adipocytes then take up these bodies and convert them to triacylglycerides, aka fat
>excess glycogen is stored in fat tissue cells adipocytes store fat, not glycogen. glycogen is not fat. glycogen is a poor energy storage molecule because of the hydration shell it takes. this water increases the volume and mass of the cell greatly. fat is hydrophobic and so has none of those disadvantages. it is also about twice as energy dense as carbohydrates
I hope you misremembered
Colton Stewart
>i hope you misremembered Nah this was just basic high school biology from nearly 10 years ago
Nathan Reed
I never said the carbonation caused it. In fact most studies show carbonated water doesn’t. There are tons of studies on this and they show a correlation between soft drinks and lower bone mineral density. My friend even had MRIs done one summer (for other reasons) that showed this. He had upped his cola intake significantly that summer. Doctor even told him to stop drinking it so much cause his bones had the same density of 70 year old at the end of the summer.
Angel Powell
>Carbonated sodas absolutely can lower your bone mineral density the above statement implies that it is the carbonation that is the cause of lower bone density. if you meant that it was a combination of everything in the soda, then you should have deleted 'carbonated' from it
Dominic Johnson
I don't drink soda I do treat myself sometimes on junk food but I just avoid soda and cereal (except rolled oats)
Carson Ward
Soda is for children, you shouldn’t even crave or miss soda at all as an adult
Dylan Robinson
>giving a child soda Guess who's going to have fat kids?
Jordan Perry
You don’t give it to them every day my amerimutt friend
>soda is 140 calories >but also 40g of sugar user, I...
Sebastian Rodriguez
>been drinking Coke all my life >2-4 cans a day no problem >in shape with 10% body fat I just tell myself if I want another I need to lift more that day.
>that guy who does IIFYM and eats icecream and other various treats but autistically screechers at the thought of IIFYMing a can of soda
Eli Hall
Pepsi Max crew 4lyfe
Julian Powell
Oh does coke need a sales boost wagie?
Juan Cruz
>you will never have another chance to fuck a 15 year old titcow
Asher Fisher
Soft drinks taste shit you moron
Julian James
>MRI I had a fMRI 2 weeks after and it came out all clear.
t. drinking soda daily for 30 years
Bentley Ramirez
>falling for the cola is bad for your bones meme The same people say you need to drink milk for strong bones while the countries with the absolute highest milk consumption are also the highest in bone fractures and related injuries.
Those other countries dont get bone fractures because theyre manlet nations or low life expectancy countries or more active countries for labor reasons
Western countries get higher bone problems because of the height, sedentary lifestyles and longer life expectancy.
Basically what you said is like saying "Dont live to your 90s" because being in your 90s means you have 50% higher chance of having X Y and Z health problems.
Matthew Myers
>A hundred thousand men and women were followed for up to 20 years. Researchers found that milk-drinking women had higher rates of death, more heart disease, and significantly more cancer for each glass of milk. Three glasses a day was associated with nearly twice the risk of premature death, and they had significantly more bone and hip fractures. More milk, more fractures. There's no way it's something that simple while this is still not understood by scientists.
Dominic Evans
Ehh, awhile.. At least I'm not stuck in that bullshit "diet soda" phase Fuck "diet" anything
Adam Allen
>tfw you don't drink soda but a combo meal is cheaper than just the sandwich and you're cheap as fuck
I've fallen off lifting a couple times, but I have thus far been off soda for one year, and it's fucking awesome. I attempted to drink a 7up about 6 months ago, and it taste like I had soap in my mouth, so I spit it out. Now I can be a smug little shit to all my coworkers when they bring up something to do with the drink machine in the break room.
Chase Edwards
I'm a La Croix boy
Really I just drink a lot of naturally flavored sparkling water. 0 calories and no artificial sweeteners.
Haven't had any soda, regular or diet, in like 3 years and I've been lifting consistently for like 7 years now. Feels fucking good man.
Noah Martinez
I used to think this way until I started my first serious cut. >b-but its an extra 160 calories 160 empty calories at 1800 calories a day is a pretty big deal. I mostly drink water and black coffee anyway, but occasionally I'll have a Diet Coke or Coke Zero when I'm socializing on the weekends.
Dominic Johnson
"all grains". How are you supposed to get your fibers? Don't say "from my vegetables", because no, you would need to eat greens like a cow. Just eat 100% whole grains shit and be done with that.
Also, how are you supposed to get the energy for an early morning workout eating fat? What if you need it within 30 minutes and not within 2 hours? Eat apples? Working out with 2 kg of apples in your guts, does it sound wise?
