I’m I doing to many calories?
Hey just one quick question?
My goal is to gain muscle and weight about 150 lbs, unfortunately i don’t have much control over my diet. I can’t eat by mouth so i have a tube in my stomach which i use to feed myself with a special kind of milk that the doctor prescribed. Overall i take nine cans a day which gives me about 2500 calories per day, 360 gm of carbohydrates, 120gm of protein, and 80 gam of fat. Is this too much if i want to get rid of some of the fat and get more muscle? Should i bring it down to 8 cans which will bring my calroies to 2200? or just keep the same 9? I would really appreciate your answers, thank you
January 28, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Hi! My personal feeling on that–i’m a nursing student–is that you should stick with eactly the diet ordered by your primary MD, and increase your exercise. The thing about reducing your intake when you’re NPO is that those cans contain more than just calories–there are vitamins and minerals there too that you need to be healthy. I’d say talk to your doctor about it before modifying the plan they’ve come up with for you, as well as seeing what they think about your goals in relation to your recovery from illness. If anything, increased effort in the gym is going to require more calories, not less. Best wishes to you, and congrats on becoming a new dad