Eat double what you eat now, or is that too obvious?
My routine is
09.00 Eat
10.00 Eat
11.30 Eat
13.00 Eat
14.00 Gym
15.00 Eat
16.00 Eat
19.00 Eat
22.00 Eat
That's not including snacks
Your Typical Day - Exercise & Diet
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Eat double what you eat now, or is that too obvious?
My routine is
09.00 Eat
10.00 Eat
11.30 Eat
13.00 Eat
14.00 Gym
15.00 Eat
16.00 Eat
19.00 Eat
22.00 Eat
That's not including snacks
7am: eat (cereal & coffee)
10am: eat (chicken, veggies & olive oil)
1pm: eat (sandwich & whey shake)
4pm: eat (whey shake with milk)
5pm - train
7pm:eat (chicken, veggies & olive oil)
10pm eat: 1 x tbspn nat PB, whey shake with water.
This alters slightly on Saturdays as I work different hours and Sundays as its a rest day (and I like to stay in bed a little longer
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10am: eat (chicken, veggies & olive oil)
1pm: eat (sandwich & whey shake)
4pm: eat (whey shake with milk)
5pm - train
7pm:eat (chicken, veggies & olive oil)
10pm eat: 1 x tbspn nat PB, whey shake with water.
This alters slightly on Saturdays as I work different hours and Sundays as its a rest day (and I like to stay in bed a little longer
)Ok, sorry I was going to post some more, but I couldn't get on the site.
Anyway, if you want a good list of food to eat, LV's list is a good start. It's located in the Nutrition section.
Here's some tips on your current diet:
Corn Flakes, Crunchy Nut, Kelloggs 390.0kcal
Bacon and Egg, Bacon and Tomato, Sausage and Egg, Triple, Tesco 304.0kcal
Bacon, Back, Dry-Cured, Grilled + Baked Potato, Flesh & Skin 257.0kcal +136.0kcal
^ This is actually considered nutritionally poor. You have some good things here, but you lack veggies, fruits, and you load up on fat.
Here's what I suggest you do:
1) Make up a diet plan youself. Post it here, and we can offer some other ideas too.
2) Cut out the amount of bacon you eat. If you really like bacon, eat it maybe once every few days.
3) For breakfast, try eggs, oatmeal (not the instant kind), low-fat/fat free milk, cereal (not the high sugar one, but something good), etc. Stay away from bacon (limit this by a lot), and sausages. Be sure to eat some veggies and fruits during this time too. Perhaps a banana in your cereal, some green pepper / spinach / tomato in your eggs, etc.
4) For lunch, try something like a tuna sandwich on a whole wheat bread, a chicken/turkey sandwich with tomato, lettuce, and mustard on a whole wheat bread, or even peanut butter (natural peanut butter, not that processed crap you get in Peter Pan or something). Again, put in as much veggies and fruits in your lunch too. Stay away from processed cheese, commercial mayo, etc.
5) For dinner, cut back on the white potato and use sweet potato. For dinner, try something like chicken breast (lean), turkey breast, fish (such as salmon, etc), or something like that. Be sure to eat up plenty of veggies and fruits. Stay away from things like bacon, and ham. Also, try brown rice, pasta, spaghetti, etc.
6) For snacks, don't eat low cals snacks. Try something like cottage cheese, or some fruits and veggies. Baby carrots, apples, pear, orange, avacado, nuts, etc all provide good value, and they fill you up. Stay away from soda drinking, don't drink a "smoothie" or something (as they can have well up to 1,000 cals, if you're not careful) from the store, and drink plenty of water.
My best tip for you to increase your cals is to:
1) Don't eat junk food. Empty cals from stuff like bacon, sausages, soda, high sugar cereal, low cal snacks, etc. They provide you with limited nutritional values and on top of that, they add empty calories to your daily intake.
2) Eat veggies and fruits. Veggies are loaded with fiber, and other good stuff, so you'll feel full and not starve yourself. Fruits, although high in sugar, are good for you. Don't over load on fruits, but eat a lot more than you are now.
3) Pay attention to where you are getting your calories from. Just because you add up the calories to your MT/Weight loss line, doesn't mean you are in good shape. There are plenty of normal weight people who are sick all the time, can't do one pull up, and can't even run for 10 seconds. These people drink stuff like soda (again empty cals), skip breakfast, eat some sandwich made loaded with processed cheese, and mayo, and probably eat just a small dinner before going to bed such as a bag of instant noodles.
Remember, being fit means three things: Physical, Mental, and Nutritional. Physical: you exercise, you walk, you're just active overall. Mental: you think positive, you like yourself, you're happy, you don't stress out, you're strong-minded. Nutritional: you eat well, you load up on veggies, fruits, you limit your junk food, you don't go on fad diets, you are able to eat without feeling guilty.
Anyway, if you want a good list of food to eat, LV's list is a good start. It's located in the Nutrition section.
Here's some tips on your current diet:
Corn Flakes, Crunchy Nut, Kelloggs 390.0kcal
Bacon and Egg, Bacon and Tomato, Sausage and Egg, Triple, Tesco 304.0kcal
Bacon, Back, Dry-Cured, Grilled + Baked Potato, Flesh & Skin 257.0kcal +136.0kcal
^ This is actually considered nutritionally poor. You have some good things here, but you lack veggies, fruits, and you load up on fat.
Here's what I suggest you do:
1) Make up a diet plan youself. Post it here, and we can offer some other ideas too.
2) Cut out the amount of bacon you eat. If you really like bacon, eat it maybe once every few days.
3) For breakfast, try eggs, oatmeal (not the instant kind), low-fat/fat free milk, cereal (not the high sugar one, but something good), etc. Stay away from bacon (limit this by a lot), and sausages. Be sure to eat some veggies and fruits during this time too. Perhaps a banana in your cereal, some green pepper / spinach / tomato in your eggs, etc.
4) For lunch, try something like a tuna sandwich on a whole wheat bread, a chicken/turkey sandwich with tomato, lettuce, and mustard on a whole wheat bread, or even peanut butter (natural peanut butter, not that processed crap you get in Peter Pan or something). Again, put in as much veggies and fruits in your lunch too. Stay away from processed cheese, commercial mayo, etc.
5) For dinner, cut back on the white potato and use sweet potato. For dinner, try something like chicken breast (lean), turkey breast, fish (such as salmon, etc), or something like that. Be sure to eat up plenty of veggies and fruits. Stay away from things like bacon, and ham. Also, try brown rice, pasta, spaghetti, etc.
6) For snacks, don't eat low cals snacks. Try something like cottage cheese, or some fruits and veggies. Baby carrots, apples, pear, orange, avacado, nuts, etc all provide good value, and they fill you up. Stay away from soda drinking, don't drink a "smoothie" or something (as they can have well up to 1,000 cals, if you're not careful) from the store, and drink plenty of water.
My best tip for you to increase your cals is to:
1) Don't eat junk food. Empty cals from stuff like bacon, sausages, soda, high sugar cereal, low cal snacks, etc. They provide you with limited nutritional values and on top of that, they add empty calories to your daily intake.
2) Eat veggies and fruits. Veggies are loaded with fiber, and other good stuff, so you'll feel full and not starve yourself. Fruits, although high in sugar, are good for you. Don't over load on fruits, but eat a lot more than you are now.
3) Pay attention to where you are getting your calories from. Just because you add up the calories to your MT/Weight loss line, doesn't mean you are in good shape. There are plenty of normal weight people who are sick all the time, can't do one pull up, and can't even run for 10 seconds. These people drink stuff like soda (again empty cals), skip breakfast, eat some sandwich made loaded with processed cheese, and mayo, and probably eat just a small dinner before going to bed such as a bag of instant noodles.
Remember, being fit means three things: Physical, Mental, and Nutritional. Physical: you exercise, you walk, you're just active overall. Mental: you think positive, you like yourself, you're happy, you don't stress out, you're strong-minded. Nutritional: you eat well, you load up on veggies, fruits, you limit your junk food, you don't go on fad diets, you are able to eat without feeling guilty.
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I just noticed, it's only 1067 Kcals if you only eat 100g of each of these, the sandwich you listed has over 700kcals, not 304
Are you serious? You want to eat less than 1000 calories a day?
I don't think you're being serious or realistic.
This kind of post makes me mad. Really mad. I've seen it a million times, and I've seen people come and go at the gym. It's "too hard" they say, or "my genes must be messed up" or something. Then they go home and either eat nothing but salad, or think eating less is better, or eat tons of "low calories" snacks.
Can someone else please jump in and join? I'm going to stop posting and watch it out a bit. I know what this guy is doing. He's going to copy everyone else's routine, and then not understand why he's doing it.
I don't think you're being serious or realistic.
This kind of post makes me mad. Really mad. I've seen it a million times, and I've seen people come and go at the gym. It's "too hard" they say, or "my genes must be messed up" or something. Then they go home and either eat nothing but salad, or think eating less is better, or eat tons of "low calories" snacks.
Can someone else please jump in and join? I'm going to stop posting and watch it out a bit. I know what this guy is doing. He's going to copy everyone else's routine, and then not understand why he's doing it.
O ok, I'm sorry. I read your post wrong. I must be getting tired or something.
Yes, like I said, come up with your meal plan, and post it on the weight loss/nutrition board. It's the best way to get an idea of what you can do. With your food plan, people can see what kind of food you like, and can make suggestions based on that. It's really helpful and you can learn quite a lot.
Also, check out LV's list:
http://training.fitness.com/nutrition/lvs-grocery-list-19098.html
If you haven't already. It's really helpful.
Also, this is a fairly good post:
http://training.fitness.com/nutrition/nutrition-101-a-13819.html
Also, you can try:
http://training.fitness.com/weight-loss/fat-loss-troubleshoot-guide-19721.html
And,
http://training.fitness.com/articles-fitness-health/top-9-foods-fat-loss-24704.html
All those are posted here in the forum. Check them out, they're pretty helpful. I do hope you lose the weight, but I would love for you to do it in a safe manner. Good luck.
Yes, like I said, come up with your meal plan, and post it on the weight loss/nutrition board. It's the best way to get an idea of what you can do. With your food plan, people can see what kind of food you like, and can make suggestions based on that. It's really helpful and you can learn quite a lot.
Also, check out LV's list:
http://training.fitness.com/nutrition/lvs-grocery-list-19098.html
If you haven't already. It's really helpful.
Also, this is a fairly good post:
http://training.fitness.com/nutrition/nutrition-101-a-13819.html
Also, you can try:
http://training.fitness.com/weight-loss/fat-loss-troubleshoot-guide-19721.html
And,
http://training.fitness.com/articles-fitness-health/top-9-foods-fat-loss-24704.html
All those are posted here in the forum. Check them out, they're pretty helpful. I do hope you lose the weight, but I would love for you to do it in a safe manner. Good luck.
What do you mean the low calories?
I'm not following what you're trying to say now.
Are you saying you're worried that if you only eat those food for three meals a day, you will not get the proper amount of calories?
Just increase the food amount per sitting. On a normal day, I eat roughly 1,800 - 2,000 calories. That doesn't take much either.
I'm not following what you're trying to say now.
Are you saying you're worried that if you only eat those food for three meals a day, you will not get the proper amount of calories?
Just increase the food amount per sitting. On a normal day, I eat roughly 1,800 - 2,000 calories. That doesn't take much either.
Also, let me ask you something. Are you following the serving sizes when you calculate the calories in the food you described?
For example, cereal is mainly 2/3, 3/4, to 1 cup in servings. So are you actually taking a measuring cup and using that way? Or are you assuming 1 cup means pouring it into a big bowl?
For example, cereal is mainly 2/3, 3/4, to 1 cup in servings. So are you actually taking a measuring cup and using that way? Or are you assuming 1 cup means pouring it into a big bowl?
Yes, these meals only come to 1067 calories and thats typically what I eat now. That does concern me but what concerns mr is that if I pick healthier options I will eat even less calories.
People talk about healthy foods such as oats etc but where are the calories to keep the body going?
Complex carbs are in oatmeal. That's what gives you energy.
Food gives you energy in three forms: carbs, fat, and protein.
I think you're one of those who thinks eating right is eating too little. You have been "supersized" by the culture into believing that food such as a giant hamburger provides you with "better" form of food/energy.
Sadly, it's why most people are obese, and will never get why it's what they're eating.
Food gives you energy in three forms: carbs, fat, and protein.
I think you're one of those who thinks eating right is eating too little. You have been "supersized" by the culture into believing that food such as a giant hamburger provides you with "better" form of food/energy.
Sadly, it's why most people are obese, and will never get why it's what they're eating.
Fat provides 9 calories per gram. Whereas carbs, and protein provide 4 calories each, per gram.
So basically, if you eat something high in fat, such as bacon, you're going to get more calories out of it, not because it's "more food" but because it's loaded with fat, which provides most of the calories.
I looked at a pack of bacon. Three slices gives you 107 calories, 71 of those calories are from fat... that is one fatty food. Basically, most of your calories came from fat.
So basically, if you eat something high in fat, such as bacon, you're going to get more calories out of it, not because it's "more food" but because it's loaded with fat, which provides most of the calories.
I looked at a pack of bacon. Three slices gives you 107 calories, 71 of those calories are from fat... that is one fatty food. Basically, most of your calories came from fat.
To compare, though, let's take a look at chicken breast.
1 cup of sliced chicken breast gives you 211 calories, double the bacon, but provides 40 g of protein, 4g of fat (1g of which is saturated). So out of the 211 calories provided, almost 36 of it is from fat. Much better than a bacon.
1 cup of sliced chicken breast gives you 211 calories, double the bacon, but provides 40 g of protein, 4g of fat (1g of which is saturated). So out of the 211 calories provided, almost 36 of it is from fat. Much better than a bacon.
Im still confused!!!!
The foods I found are 1067 calories for 1 day yet people are still providing healthier options. People are saying the calories come from the fat but 1067 isn't enough calories so why would I want to seek low fat options when im not getting enough calories anyway?
Or should I forget all about calories? It just seems to be contradicted itself, from I can make out people are saying that 1067 calories is not enough but still providing healthy foods.
The foods I found are 1067 calories for 1 day yet people are still providing healthier options. People are saying the calories come from the fat but 1067 isn't enough calories so why would I want to seek low fat options when im not getting enough calories anyway?
Or should I forget all about calories? It just seems to be contradicted itself, from I can make out people are saying that 1067 calories is not enough but still providing healthy foods.
It's not contradicting itself.
We gave you the amount you required.
You just want to eat stuff like cereal and bacon and sausages.
Read the faqs, make up a meal plan that goes to your MT/weight loss line, and then you will see it's not so confusing.
There is nothing confusing about it. There is nothing contradicting itself. You're eating fatty food, and it's not healthy for you. I'm telling you to eat a better selection of food than bacon, sausages, high sugar cereals and so fort. I'm not telling you to not eat. I'm telling you to eat, but eat the right things.
Not a single person on this entire planet can keep up with a diet of 1067 calories. Not only that, you're seriously lacking important marco and micro nutrients.
Eating nothing but fatty food will in the long run do the opposite of what you want.
We gave you the amount you required.
You just want to eat stuff like cereal and bacon and sausages.
Read the faqs, make up a meal plan that goes to your MT/weight loss line, and then you will see it's not so confusing.
There is nothing confusing about it. There is nothing contradicting itself. You're eating fatty food, and it's not healthy for you. I'm telling you to eat a better selection of food than bacon, sausages, high sugar cereals and so fort. I'm not telling you to not eat. I'm telling you to eat, but eat the right things.
Not a single person on this entire planet can keep up with a diet of 1067 calories. Not only that, you're seriously lacking important marco and micro nutrients.
Eating nothing but fatty food will in the long run do the opposite of what you want.
Okay Im genuinely confused.
Can you please explain the calories, its calories I have a real issue with. I picked 3 meals that I typically eat on a daily basis throughout my entire life and it only comes to 1067 calories yet people are telling me to find healthier options.
If I eat healthier options I will be eating even less calories. Isn't that dangerous?
Can you please explain the calories, its calories I have a real issue with. I picked 3 meals that I typically eat on a daily basis throughout my entire life and it only comes to 1067 calories yet people are telling me to find healthier options.
If I eat healthier options I will be eating even less calories. Isn't that dangerous?