re: I started Athlean-X's Max/Shred program yesterday.

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whts the diet look like?

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I'm not following it, yet. His diets are no measuring, no counting, no macros, none of that, just eat with intuition

The reason I am not on his diet yet is because I buy my food in bulk, and still have a lot of food I need to eat through. With that, I am eating at a -500 deficit each day with macros of 170 P / 45 F / 228 C. I supplement with 5-6g of Creatine, a post workout protein shake and a casein shake before I go to bed.

When I eat through the food I have, not sure if I will jump on the diet. The diet gives out a lot of breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and snacks, and recipes to make them, but again I buy my food in bulk so I am more make 10 of one meal and eat it over the next 10 days. His diet plan is different foods each day which is not bulk purchase friendly because stuff will spoil before you can eat it all.

Some of the recipes are good ideas, but a lot stuff I have generally done in the past. Each recipe also comes with a "shred swap", where you can alter the recipe to make it better tailored for losing weight, i.e. a recipe for a burrito bowl, the shred swap takes out the rice. But at 15% BF or below he recommends only one shred swap per day.

I didn't buy this program for the meal plans, I bought it for the actual workout program. There are some new recipes in the meal plan I haven't tried before that I will try, but for the most part I think for now I will stick to what I was doing.

Here is a sample day of eating from the diet plan. I've already been doing my own versions of the pumpkin oatmeal, burrito bowl and pasta/meatballs before I bought this program.

Breakfast - Pumpkin Spice Oatmeal: Whole Oats, Canned Pumpkin, Vanilla Extract, Cinnamon, Walnuts, Almond Milk, Maple Syrup. SHRED SWAP - No Walnuts

Snack - Protein Shake

Lunch - Burrito Bowl with Shredded Lean Pork or Beef, Pinto Beans, Lettuce, Fat Free Cheddar, Brown Rice. SHRED SWAP - No Cheese or Rice

Snack - Lowfat Cottage Cheese with Berries

Dinner - 90% Lean Meatballs, Whole Wheat Pasta, Tomato Sauce, Spinach, Grated Mozzerella. SHRED SWAP - Chicken Breast instead of 90% Lean Beef

Snack - Air Popped Popcorn with Cinnamon Sugar, Glass of Skim Milk