Sport Healthy Choices

[jakethesnake]

Hi, I am currently a Sophomore in College and I used to be in decent shape due to the sports I used to participate in, in High School. Since my college does not offer my specific sport, I have found myself less motivated to workout and more specifically eat healthy. I could really use some help so that I can start to follow a low calorie healthy meal plan to aid in my exercises. I am starting to go to the gym regularly again and I am really just looking for an outline of foods and drinks that I need to help stay in the best physical shape. Could anyone help me figure out a meal plan that doesn't insist that I go out and buy certain foods and snacks? I have very little income so I was hoping to find help in choosing healthy alternatives in the cafeteria. Please if anyone can assist me, I would greatly appreciate it.

jakethesnake

 

[PLB_old]

Hey Jake, welcome to the forum! It's going to be hard to help you with specific examples without knowing what you actually have available to you in your cafeteria. Can you give us some examples of what is available? Or what your current diet looks like?

Probably the best thing that you can do is to focus on the portions of each food group that you're getting in each meal... here's a good example of a "meal plan" that doesn't list specific foods: http://training.fitness.com/nutrition/healthy-plan-53748.html#post433432

 

[Maintain Balance]

I'm in the same spot as Jake and actually came to the nutrition section to ask a similar question. I've sort of set the base rule for me to be avoid anything my cafeteria makes with grease which makes a lot of my meals vegetarian. I've been eating a lot of beans and tofu.

Along with my rule of no grease, I have found that options like chicken I sometimes can't eat (although today I had some chicken parm and scraped the sauce off the chicken). Usually when my school prepares some chicken without a sauce or anything they are chicken fingers and that's just as bad. So a question I have to add to Jake's is, how ok is it if I eat some of the school's chicken or fish if they are made of unprocessed meat but appear to be prepared in a sauce with grease in it?

 

[PLB_old]

Sorry it's taken me so long to answer... I haven't been able to get to the forum in a while! If you are already scraping the sauce or even some of it off and being careful to avoid the batter on deep fryed fish and chicken, then you're taking a pretty good step to improving your limited options. You're stll going to get some of the grease that has soaked in, but when you have very limited options, then that's no so bad. Maybe just don't have it everyday Once or twice a week max if that's possible?