I'm 35 y/o male, 160 lbs, skinny for the most part but most of my fat is centered around my abdomen, I have some small gains in my upper arms/shoulders, I'm in my 2nd week of Fierce 5 novice. I've attempted this a few times over the past year, had a lot of false starts and made mistakes, but these past 2 weeks I've been in the gym 3x a week consistently.
Going to the gym has been no prob for me, but eating enough is proving to be a challenge. See I feel like I'm at a disadvantage (correct me if I'm wrong) because...
1) Cost. I only make 50k a year at the moment, this will increase exponentially in 2-3 years when I get in/finish nursing school. But until I'm stuck with what I make. My wife is currently not working (had to resign due to stress a month ago) and is taking her time looking for a part-time job.
2) Too many people in household = higher food consumption. There's 5 of us, including myself as well as an in-law who is temporarily residing with us.
See, #1 wouldn't be such a bad thing if it were just 3-4 of us. On the flip, #2 wouldn't be so bad if I was making 55k-60k minimum. But anyways, as a result, there's many days I'm struggling to hit my macros, my protein in particular. I'm following the 1g protein per lb of BW rule, so for me that would be 160g protein daily. It's a friggin challenge with my budget and the number of people in my house.
I mean a carton of eggs, for instance, is $3.50 at the supermarket. If I'm lucky, I can get a carton for $1 each at the dollar store when they aren't sold out. Point being, with 5 people in the house, I can't really be eating like 4 eggs a day (which = 24g protein). So basically, it's hard to balance this out when your family also likes to eat some of the things you have to eat for protein.
Aside from money/household size, I also have to deal with time. There's only so much time you can put aside for cooking.
Here's an example of good ON day I had recently:
This was also my day off from work so I had more time to cook at home...
1. 2 scrambled eggs, jasmine rice, and a glass of milk.
2. Subway's steak sandwich, with tomatoes, shred mozzarella, lettuce, spinach, no sauces.
3. Turkey burger on wheat bread with shred mozzarella
4. 2 scrambled eggs again.
5. Greek yogurt.
6. Protein shake with milk and strawberries.
About 150g protein total. Pretty close enough, although I wish there were a way around relying on subway sandwiches every other day, in order to save money.
Here's an example of a bad OFF day I had recently:
I woke up 12pm, only 2 hours before having to leave for work. I had to do some light grocery shopping before work for the fam as well. So not enough time to cook, let alone defrost any chicken.
Before work:
1. Part skim ricotta cheese with 2 slices of wheat bread, plus a glass of milk.
2. Subway's rotisserie chicken 6-inch sandwich, just tomatoes, shred mozzarella, lettuce, spinach, no sauces.
At work:
3. They were serving pizza, not the best choice, but its got protein in it, right? So I had 2 slices.
4. On my lunch break, I went out and got some halal chicken over yellow rice and green peppers, no sauces, plus a banana for snack. It was between that, kennedy fried chicken, more pizza, a deli sandwich or wrap, or a protein smoothie.
So all in all, that's about 75g protein. Disappointing, right?
Does anyone have any recommendations on how I can work around these issues? It would be nice if there were some kind of supplement with 40g protein in it, one for safe daily use. I recently bought liquid egg whites from MuscleEgg, $45 for 2 half gallons, tastes pretty damn good and one serving is just 26g protein, you can just drink it.
My typical go-to sources for protein are pretty much everything except fish/seafood/tuna.
Going to the gym has been no prob for me, but eating enough is proving to be a challenge. See I feel like I'm at a disadvantage (correct me if I'm wrong) because...
1) Cost. I only make 50k a year at the moment, this will increase exponentially in 2-3 years when I get in/finish nursing school. But until I'm stuck with what I make. My wife is currently not working (had to resign due to stress a month ago) and is taking her time looking for a part-time job.
2) Too many people in household = higher food consumption. There's 5 of us, including myself as well as an in-law who is temporarily residing with us.
See, #1 wouldn't be such a bad thing if it were just 3-4 of us. On the flip, #2 wouldn't be so bad if I was making 55k-60k minimum. But anyways, as a result, there's many days I'm struggling to hit my macros, my protein in particular. I'm following the 1g protein per lb of BW rule, so for me that would be 160g protein daily. It's a friggin challenge with my budget and the number of people in my house.
I mean a carton of eggs, for instance, is $3.50 at the supermarket. If I'm lucky, I can get a carton for $1 each at the dollar store when they aren't sold out. Point being, with 5 people in the house, I can't really be eating like 4 eggs a day (which = 24g protein). So basically, it's hard to balance this out when your family also likes to eat some of the things you have to eat for protein.
Aside from money/household size, I also have to deal with time. There's only so much time you can put aside for cooking.
Here's an example of good ON day I had recently:
This was also my day off from work so I had more time to cook at home...
1. 2 scrambled eggs, jasmine rice, and a glass of milk.
2. Subway's steak sandwich, with tomatoes, shred mozzarella, lettuce, spinach, no sauces.
3. Turkey burger on wheat bread with shred mozzarella
4. 2 scrambled eggs again.
5. Greek yogurt.
6. Protein shake with milk and strawberries.
About 150g protein total. Pretty close enough, although I wish there were a way around relying on subway sandwiches every other day, in order to save money.
Here's an example of a bad OFF day I had recently:
I woke up 12pm, only 2 hours before having to leave for work. I had to do some light grocery shopping before work for the fam as well. So not enough time to cook, let alone defrost any chicken.
Before work:
1. Part skim ricotta cheese with 2 slices of wheat bread, plus a glass of milk.
2. Subway's rotisserie chicken 6-inch sandwich, just tomatoes, shred mozzarella, lettuce, spinach, no sauces.
At work:
3. They were serving pizza, not the best choice, but its got protein in it, right? So I had 2 slices.
4. On my lunch break, I went out and got some halal chicken over yellow rice and green peppers, no sauces, plus a banana for snack. It was between that, kennedy fried chicken, more pizza, a deli sandwich or wrap, or a protein smoothie.
So all in all, that's about 75g protein. Disappointing, right?
Does anyone have any recommendations on how I can work around these issues? It would be nice if there were some kind of supplement with 40g protein in it, one for safe daily use. I recently bought liquid egg whites from MuscleEgg, $45 for 2 half gallons, tastes pretty damn good and one serving is just 26g protein, you can just drink it.
My typical go-to sources for protein are pretty much everything except fish/seafood/tuna.
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