Tell me How Many Ounces of Something to Eat; What Works for Me??

I have never combined nutritional plans before, but today, I have.  Two clients both work at the same restaurant, are both room mates, eating about the same thing 75% of the time, and so I I decided that it would be a good advantage to them.  The first and biggest wall I had to take in to account before I pursued this was to make sure that they were eating similar amounts.  While one is physically larger than the other, the smaller of the two is more of an ectomorph (hard-gainer), luckily they are workout partners as well and the ectomorph's metabolism is through the roof.  A few of the many reasons I came up with the comfort level of combining the nutrition are that they would know..

1. What each other was doing to help them both stay accountable and motivate each other
2. This will make it easier when it comes to the restaurant and the accessibility to the foods that they have to eat.
3. One gave me a 3 Day Food Log with ‘pieces’ as the description of food. After dining a lot on the same things myself, I can understand and relate to the size of the ‘pieces’.  In the past during my competition phases of hard dieting and micronizing every ounce I consumed, my friends laughed when I could pick up a yam at the grocery store, bounce it once in my hand, and could tell them how much it weighed..  In addition, I know when meats are cooked, the water can be removed from the meat and this will make the meats lighter, so “pre-cooked weight’ is what we want to measure from all the time.  The other (fortunately the ectomorph) gave me 'ounce' measurements in his 3 Day Log; this is great because it is the weight we need to keep track of during the nutritional goal planning.  

Fact: 4oz = +/- 25 grams of protein.  Remember, 1 gram Protein = 4 calories, so 25gx4cal/gram=100 calories of Protein within 4 ounces of meat.  So, when I see 15 ounces of meat consumed, it means you consumed 93.75 grams of protein.  The kidneys will only be able to handle about 40 to 50 grams ‘tops’ of protein per meal.  So this means many things.  The extra protein could have the risk of being stored as fat on the body because it is on overload trying to digest more than the 50 grams.  Note:  Females need to stay between lower numbers; much lower; nearly half no matter what goals they have (build muscle or tone).  Remember ladies, without pharmaceuticals, you will not gain so much muscle that you resemble a man or show a man-like resemblance.  

So, with a lot of education from me that will guide them for the future, a few tweaks to associate the carbohydrates consumed to the meal time, time of day, and what workout they are doing that day, we can make you see the results they want to see very quickly.

- Zeke Samples, IFA, IDEA Certified