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good diet alone?

  • 22-10-2006 9:56pm
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    I was wondering if it was possible to keep lean enough by following a healthy diet alone? the reason is because i leave home at half 7 in the morning and dont get home til about half 7 at night and by then i just have no energy left for anything. then again i would consider myself to be quite active during the day running between lectures and walking through town for the bus but just doing nowhere near as much sports as i was doing during secondary school. by the way when i say healthy eating i mean seriously healthy eating.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,549 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    It is possible yes. If you eat a maintenance amount of calories, eat reasonably healthily and aren't a total couch potato (the fact that you actually walk during the day means you aren't) you will stay relatively slim and lean. But as you get to middle and old age you will experience muscular atrophy if you don't do resistance training. You'll experience it anyway but training will slow the process.

    You say you have poor energy - I bet you would have more energy if you did even 20-30 minutes of exercise in the evening. You might think that exercise wil make you even more tired but in fact the opposite can be the case


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    BrianD3 wrote:
    You say you have poor energy - I bet you would have more energy if you did even 20-30 minutes of exercise in the evening. You might think that exercise wil make you even more tired but in fact the opposite can be the case
    This is completely true. Even better, try to get the exercise in early in the day - get up a bit earlier if possible and get in 45 minutes before breakfast. I honestly think this is the single best time.

    In my personal experience to an extent you can actually exchange sleep time for exercise time; I started getting up an hour or so earlier each morning to go for a cycle without going to bed any earlier and don't feel tired, quite the contrary (went from eight to seven hours sleep.) Earlier you should have plenty of energy and it will kick-start you for the whole day.

    Lunchtime might also be a possibility? Consider taking up something like jogging that needs no equipment and you can slot in to basically any free hour that appears. Your college may also have a gym?

    What course are you doing and where? Where do you live? Could you transfer a portion of your commute to a bicycle for example?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 171 ✭✭JimmNeutron


    Take today as the perfect example, woke up at half 6 to walk to the first bus stop in ashbourne for 7 15 to get a seat on the direct bus to UCD for 9. Runnin between lectures like a headless chicken all day. Get the 46 at 18 into town, in time for the 19 10 bus back to ashbourne. Home by 8 for dinner only to do the same again tomorrow. I dont think i could possibly fit a decent workout in there anywhere???

    Diet-wise, on average i eat:
    Brekkie: Porridge or shredded wheat and a banana
    Snack: Oat flapjack and apple
    Lunch: Large healthy roll/sambo
    Dinner: Mammys homecooked grub(usually v.healthy aswel)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    The obvious thing that sticks out there is get a cheap bike and a decent lock and cycle back from UCD to Busaras rather than getting the bus. You'd have to do the same in the morning though I guess so don't know how that might affect your schedule- lectures always start at 9?

    What course are you doing?

    UCD has a decent gym and I presume you have a lunch break.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    How far a cycle is it from your house to UCD?
    I wouldnt expect you to commute every day there and back, maybe cycle in on monday, leave the bike there, cycle home wednesday.

    I hate to see wasted time sitting in cars or buses. My mate drives 1 hour a day to work and back, then goes to the gym for an hour, could have cycled to work in less time and had more free time for himself.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 546 ✭✭✭Easygainer


    Take today as the perfect example, woke up at half 6 to walk to the first bus stop in ashbourne for 7 15 to get a seat on the direct bus to UCD for 9. Runnin between lectures like a headless chicken all day. Get the 46 at 18 into town, in time for the 19 10 bus back to ashbourne. Home by 8 for dinner only to do the same again tomorrow. I dont think i could possibly fit a decent workout in there anywhere???

    Diet-wise, on average i eat:
    Brekkie: Porridge or shredded wheat and a banana
    Snack: Oat flapjack and apple
    Lunch: Large healthy roll/sambo
    Dinner: Mammys homecooked grub(usually v.healthy aswel)

    I'm up at 6.45 ed, often up during night with my 2 y.o. son, into college for the day, workout during breaks, study/do extra curricular stuff, go home, play with son, prepare my meals for the next day (4 cooked, 2 shakes) etc. Also run a business and have to organise social events (class rep)...

    There's plenty of time in the day to fit things in, just double things up. Study on the bus in, use cycling as cardio, don't arse around...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,995 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    What Easygainer says is right, you really have to exploit your breaks and just make time. The thing is, even 45 minutes a day (hell even 45 mins three times a week) exercise is beneficial and I find it difficult to believe that anyone can't find that. If nothing else, you must have a lunchbreak? (I cycle on mine most days, if it is not raining.)

    You also have the weekend.

    rubadub- he's in Ashbourne so I don't think cycling in to UCD would be practical in the winter, it would be dark both ways (and I am suspecting unlit on portions?) In spring/summer your suggestion could certainly work though, I think it's around 30km or so? (Should easily do it under 1h30 with a bit of practice.)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,549 ✭✭✭✭cowzerp


    it is possible to stay thin buy eating low calorie but not lean-resistance training will make and keep you lean-cardio for fitness..

    Rush Boxing club and Rush Martial Arts head coach.



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