Rate my Diet

DaBreno

Hi folks, taking the invitation kindly extended in the "What do you eat?" thread, could someone lambast me for this diet and tweak it a little? Ive joined a gym lately in a bid to shed some of the 15 and a half stone Im carrying(6 foot male here). Doing mostly Treadmill and Bikes, would like to get into weights soon. Anyhow.....

8.00am Banana (on way out the door)
9.30am Cereal, cup of coffee
1.00pm Soup and a roll, sometimes large sambo with Mayo,coleslaw, chicken
4.00pm Crisps, cup of coffee
7.00pm Dinner is usually Meat(steak, lamb, chicken) with peas/corn/beans and spuds or pasta. Sometimes curry from a jar. Battered Fish too.

Not much fruit or variety of veg in this. I dont take any supplements or vitamin pills. Anything with an emphasis on a bit more energy for the day would be appreciated, Im usually whacked by evening.

Cheers folks!

BoozyBabe

Actually, do the sam e for me please (sorry to hog your thread DaBreno)
I've started this about a week ago & I actually think I'm gaining weight!!

Brekkie:- small bowl of Kashi cereal & miniscule amt of milk.
Snack:- small handfull of peanuts & hazelnuts
Lunch:- 2 slices of wholegrain bread & small bowl of veg soup.
Snack:- plum & couple of strawberries
Dinner:- Chicken fillet breast, mushrooms, onions, regularly broccolli, small serving pasta, mixed with 2 tbsp curry sauce
Dessert:- Natural live yoghurt mixed with couple of chopped up strawberries & grapes.
2 litres of water per day.
30 mins aerobic exercise, lunges, squats, sit-ups & weight training roughly 3 times a week.

g'em

I'm presuming you've read the weight loss sticky at the top of the page that contains all the information you need for this kind of thing...
:rolleyes:

For energy you need to supply your body with nutritional food at regular intervals through the day, and the food should be as unprocessed as possible, high in protein, carbohydrates and contain only good fats.

That means (ideally) porridge as your cereal, a snack mid-morning, a lunch which is wholemeal or nutty bread over white, no butter, with lean meat and plenty of bread, homemade soup with lots of chunky vegetables, a snack mid-afternoon (c0ttage cheese, fruit, low-fat yoghurt, crackers and organic peanut butter... not all at the same time before you ask!!), dinner is lots of protein and fibrous vegetables with a samll serving of carbs (think brown not white for breads, pastas, rice) and a protein based snack in the evening.

Your diet isn't absolutely awful, but it won't supply you with the nutrition you'll need to make good gains when you start weight training. Thre reason you're so whacked is likely to be a result of all the high sugar foods you eat during the day which make you crash later in the. Seriously, even packet soups and dei rolls will have lots and lots of sugar and salt added to them for taste, nevermind all the additives for longevity. Have a read of the sticky about weight loss, in fact here you go and see if you can make some changes yourself- the best way to change your diet is to find out why you should eat certain things over others, that way you can make informed choices about food all the time!!

g'em

BoozyBabe wrote:

I've started this about a week ago & I actually think I'm gaining weight!!

you might gain 'weight' on the scales but its highly likely to be muscular weight from weight training in which case ignore it. The better question to ask is whether your clothes fit better.

your diet is pretty good, well done, try adding some more protein in though. There's no problem being liberal with skimmed milk in your cereal, and eating cottage cheese or yoghurt along with your fruit snacks will slow the sugar release and dampen the insulin response. I don't know your current height and weight so I can't tell you if you're eating too much/ little, but you can figure it out yourself from this- and use a website like www.nutritiondata.com to figure out the nutritional composition of the foods you eat

t-ha

DaBreno wrote:

Anything with an emphasis on a bit more energy for the day would be appreciated, Im usually whacked by evening.

Try eating, your daily intake looks like my breakfast .

DaBreno

I'll get reading. Thanks for the reply.