Diet

Don't do extreme shit and just eat a balanced diet of homecooked whole foods? It's not hard at all. Why do you think you need to join a food cult?

Diets are mostly a meme.

Just eat a reasonable amount of calories. You can use an app like myfitnesspal if you want to count them to the last slice of cheese.

Try to hit a decent balance between macros. But honestly, especially if you're a newbie, it doesn't really matter that much. Just try to eat "real" food, and don't drink your calories.

Read the sticky.

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Pretty much this.
All the autistic macro counting, knowing every little detail, weighing all your food, is only really necessary if you are
1. Extremely overweight and need to lose a lot
2. Professional bodybuilder going into a show
Most guys just need a good healthy diet of homecooker meals and exercise, nothing more nothing less

This kind of thinking is what keeps your average normie at 20% bodyfat year round and wondering why they don't get abs. Knowing what a calorie deficit is and how to achieve it is basic and important

Bruh 3-4 meals
175g cooked chicken
200g cooked rice/potatoes
200g non-starchy veg
15g olive oil

Start with three meals, check weight.
If weight gain, subtract half a meal.
If weight loss, add half a meal.
Repeat

Only drink water/0 calorie beverages, coffee and tea are fine plain.

Do paleo but be less retarded about it. You can eat peanuts and greenbeans and tomato.
just don't eat anything that's more than one step away from how it exists in nature or has more than itself as an ingredient.

does bread look like wheat? no
does an apple look like an apple? yes
does steak look like meat? yes
do Doritos look like ??? no
does salt look like salt? yes
does ranch dressing exist in nature? no
does pepper? yes
mustard? yes

you still need to check your TDEE and measure no matter what you pick. I just feel paleo, ignoring all its fag shit, would be the best "one" to follow.

nigga just eat

eat whole foods according to your instincts, what matters is food quality and adequate caloric and protein intake for good body composition, what you generally never want to eat are added sugar and industrial seed oils

I generally end up with a 45C/35F/20P macro ratio

Are you bulking? That protein is really low for a cut
OMAD at a slight deficit if you want to lose weight. What exactly you eat is largely up to you and it's more a matter of health than weightloss. Generally you want good quality animal foods (fish a best, eggs and organ meats, then meat, then fermented dairy), veggies preferably with every meal, some fruit but in high moderation

Paleo is a myth.

We used to not eat that much meat. Also, the animals we consume today are pumped full of hormones and are just as genetically modified as wheat.

Literally the chickens we eat couldn't even survive in the wild as they grow too fast. The cows are genetically modified to produce too much milk. They are fed grain instead of grass.

Follow Tom Brady's plant based diet.

i dont understand your argument. are you saying not to eat meat? I don't think I can grow muscles on strawberries.

Im saying if you need a general outline, paleo would be the one to pick.

>the chick on the left was once considered fat in america

legumes are the primary plant-based protein, you can absolutely get swole on beans, it's high school science. please don't fall for Jow Forums memes and end up only eating bacon plus raw hamster liver and python eggs.

We need to know your BMI, so calculate that and then make a decision. The reason it seems so confusing is that some of these diets are designed for specific goals in mind and other diets aren't for fitness reasons.

If you're overweight or obese based on your BMI, then keto and low carb is the way to go.

If you're underweight and skinny, don't do keto or low carb won't do fuck all for anything you're trying to accomplish.

>eat according to your instincts
LOL

Imagine falling for the meme diets

Meat
Root vegetables
Berries
Fruits

vegan eggs + tofu = ottermode GUARANTEED

Here comes the vegan pussy

>plant "protein"

you are too focused on the strict paleo thing. Get off that, im saying use it as a guideline (mainly unprocessed food) if you need a guideline.

I've read "The Paleo Solution" and thought it would make a great general guideline for a diet if the author would relax on the legumes/other stuff being evil sort of things. You can 100% eat all food the comes from nature.

I'm recomping, I eat 1g of protein per pound of bodyweight and I weigh 140 (inb4 manlet) but I have a pretty high TDEE for my weight
this is literally how you used to eat before you knew anything about food or diet just without processed junk

Just make sure you're eating enough protein and try to limit processed food

>don't drink your calories
This is false. Smoothies are an easy and good way to hit your macros