Q: Hi Mike, what do u think of lunch-meat honey turkey? also, what is so special about cottage cheese, i see you recommend it alot. Could you give me a sample of what you eat in a day, or what you would recommend me eating to help lose my man boobs?

A: Prepackaged lunch meats are an OK choice. I personally would still not eat them since they're packed with sodium and preservatives, but if you're not concerned about that then they should be OK. Look at the nutrition label and make sure there isn't too much fat or sugar added. Something like 2 or less grams or fat and 2 or less grams of carbs/sugar for every 10 grams of protein.

Cottage cheese is just a good protein-rich food. Low-fat cottage cheese has around 80% of its calories from protein. It also gives you extra calcium and vitamin D. I personally also like its taste with strawberries :) The protein in cottage cheese is mostly casein which has made it a popular choice among bodybuilders for a night-time meal. I personally don't feel that it's any better at night than a, say, salmon + green veggies meal. But on the whole it's another protein-rich food that can give you more variety. It's also a great source of protein for vegetarians (but not vegans, obviously).

As for my own diet, it's very very similar to the sample diets I posted, except I eat a bit more (usually 3500-4000 calories when bulking and 3000-3500 when cutting). All of the sample diets are structured from the same foods and meals that I have actually eaten at some point or am eating now.

If you want to lose man boobs you need to select from my fat-burning sample diets. But since you're still growing and don't really want to lose weight (certainly not a lot of weight), you'll have to eat bigger portions or, even better, add an extra meal or two compared to sample fat-burning diets. You probably want to shoot for 7 meals/day with 2800 calories/day total. So take this and have a second copy of meal #2 sometime during the day for a total of 7 meals. Obviously it's a huge change from what and how you're eating now and not easy to do, but that's my recommendation if you want to get best fastest results possible. You can compromise and eat somewhere in between, both in the number of meals and the quality of foods. That's why I encourage you to create a plan for yourself that's based on the sample plans but that's made to fit your life. You can then post it here and I can critique it for you.