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Originally Posted by missjane
What are your plans for nutrition to support your workouts and your goal to build muscle? That's what you really need to take a look at.
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Thanks for such a quick response missjane. During the past year, I have been tracking all of my nutrition using the daily plate. Since about December, I have been consuming around 2800 calories daily (based on "moderately active" lifestyle from daily plate). I have been maintaining on this diet, although I have wondered if it was slightly low for my previous exercise routine (mentioned in the first post).
A bit more recently (mid-january), I have been focused on macro goals of 40/30/30 (c/f/p), although this usually ends up closer to 45-50/25-30/20-25.
I thought that after I incorporated NRoL into my routine (and assuming I am still running a few days a week), I should bump up my activity setting to "very active", creating a calorie goal of around 3200. I am still thinking about this (and would love input), but I figured that somewhere between 3200-3600 would be a good place to start to give me the proper nutrition I would need (since I would like to put on a little muscle)
I should also point out that I am still not too far removed from losing a good deal of weight. As such, I don't always trust my instincts when it comes to eating. Sometimes its hard to seperate true hunger from boredom munchies, which is why its so nice to have a calorie goal to shoot for.
Finally, let me address my goal for muscle building. I definitely want to put on muscle, and am looking for an all around atheltic phyisque. I would say that my first priority is losing the small amount of fat I have and creating better muscle definition, but I have a feeling I will be more interested in putting on muscle after I start to see the effects of all my hard work.
Thanks for anyone who reads through all of this! I would love any more feedback, especially about my proposed exercise routine from the original post.