need help on diet.

awhir

ok

im goin to school atm and im 16 on friday .im a small bit chubby and i want to loose it

ok this my diet atm ,looken for some better options

OK in the moring i have a bowel of cron flaks with no suger

the at 1 i have a hot chicken roll with garlic and hurb and letuce roll with white roll.

then i would have a apple and few plumbs also at around 1.30.

then maby before study(at 4) i might have a chiken and manonause and stuffin ,brown breat sandwich.

then i would have ethir a steak,chiken thi green curry,chicken and stuffin or stew for dinner.

then at around 10 i would have some tea and white toast and butter.



i dont think that my diet is too badd.............but some times like at 1 or 4 i get this craving for cholate and i cant resist it .so what would be a good way to get rid of this or to have something as a subsitute.

hope ye can help

sorry bout the spellings

tribulus

Stop eating white toast at 10 for a start.
In general avoid bread/rolls as much as possible. Who cares if it's all your canteen has, make your own food and bring it in.

Have some protein at breakfast, eggs are good. Porridge oats would be best for cereal though cornflakes aren't too bad.

Also I assume you have you breakfast at 8am, school starts at 9? You're not eating until 1, thats 5 hours without food. Try having some fruit and nuts (as an example) at your small break at 10:30. If you don't get a break then ask go to the toilet and shovel them down. Make time for your meals, don't skip meals and eat more frequently.

Lose the roll at 1, make something yourself, you like stir frys, cook some chicken, peppers and rice and bring it in for your lunch, keep the fruit.

A similiar snack to the 10:30 one would be good, be creative, just make sure to get some protein, carbs and healthy fats in e.g mixed nuts and a banana or two.

Dinner seems ok, take it easy on the sauce.

At 10, something like tuna with olive oil and sweetcorn is good, take it easy on the carbs.

I strongly suggest you read the stickies at the top of the forum, they'll help you alot.
You have to stop buying such ready made sh1te though and be prepared to cook stuff the night before and bring it in.

Best of luck

dame

Chicken......chicken...more chicken....
Try and vary your diet a bit more.

Your diet doesn't sound too bad at all, there's just a lot of the processed carbohydrates like bread.

Have a bigger breakfast of say porridge and a banana (banana helps wake you up and gives you energy, porridge is slow release carb).

A smoothie or yogurt or fruit for breaktime.

Lunch, no white rolls! Always choose brown/wholemeal. Go with Tribulus suggestion to make your own and bring it in.

At 4 I think another sandwich is a bit much. Try and go for something lighter there. Maybe bring in your own salad in a lunchbox and drink milk/fruitjuice. BTW, salad can have anything you like in it but try and not have fried meat or too much fatty dressing.
Even a couple of pieces of fruit and a bit of cheese with a few crackers could be enoigh for you at that time of the day.

For dinner keep eating healthily but do vary the choice from day to day. Choose brown rice rather than white etc.

For supper eat something small and healthy like nuts or maybe a small bowl of cereal (with no sugar).

Drink as much water as you can all day every day.

You're most likely craving chocolate because your blood sugar levels have suddenly dropped. As your body gets used to having healthy food at regular intervals it will start to crave instant fixes less.

If you don't do it already - take up some form of exercise. Anything you like just as long as you're active in some way.

All the above are just my opinions and suggestions. I am not a dietician.

daenis

Just a quick question on the porridge front.

I eat porridge every morning for breakfast. I usually have 2 of the microwave sachets that you buy (they are pretty small but really handy). I heard that these are high GI as they are more processed than normal porridge.

Anyone know how true this is?

tribulus

I'm not sure which ones you're talking about tbh but I think they'd be higher on the GI rather than just high. Most likely still better than coco pops, sugar puffs or whatever the other crap is most people eat for cereal.

Porridge in general is a good option, I use flahavans oats and they always keep me full so I couldn't care less what their number on the GI is.

davyjose

daenis wrote:

Just a quick question on the porridge front.

I eat porridge every morning for breakfast. I usually have 2 of the microwave sachets that you buy (they are pretty small but really handy). I heard that these are high GI as they are more processed than normal porridge.

Anyone know how true this is?

I don't think they're going to be high GI, but as Trib said probably higher as they're gonna be somewhat processed. I've taken normal Oats and Microwaveable, and I have noticed a difference in my hunger levels TBH.
If time is a factor for you, you could always cook them the night before???

girliegirl

To calculate the GI value of a meal, you need to know two things:

- The total grams of carbohydrates in the meal.
- The percentage of the carb-total contributed by each food.

Once you know this data, which is typically obtainable from most food composition or nutrition tables, the GI calculation for a meal is simple:

Multiply the GI value of each food by their percentage of total carbohydrate. Add up the totals, to get the GI value for the meal.

g'em

girliegirl wrote:

To calculate the GI value of a meal, you need to know two things:

- The total grams of carbohydrates in the meal.
- The percentage of the carb-total contributed by each food.

Once you know this data, which is typically obtainable from most food composition or nutrition tables, the GI calculation for a meal is simple:

Multiply the GI value of each food by their percentage of total carbohydrate. Add up the totals, to get the GI value for the meal.

And for those of us who don't normally carry a calculator in our pockets to pull out every time we eat, stick to whole, unprocessed foods which will virtually always be better for you anyway.

I'm confused as to how microwave-packets of oats are "easier" than regular oats- stick oats in bowl. Add twice that volume of water. Put in microwave for two minutes. Eat. :rolleyes:

daveirl

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g'em

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lol, ah but that's just for starters. Throw in some yoghurt and protein and you have the breakfast of kings (and, indeed, queens )

t-ha

awhir wrote:

ok

im goin to school atm and im 16 on friday .im a small bit chubby and i want to loose it

You got chubby because your energy intake exceeds your output. Simple solution is to reduce your dinner portion size & ditch the toast before bed. Even doing just that will probably shift the chub for you without having to make large-scale changes.

If the fat-loss slows/stalls before you want it to then you might need to tighten it up further, but at 16 you shouldn't have to. What are your activity levels and energy levels like generally?

loismustdie

add flaxseed to the porridge, it acts as a sweetener and is sooooo good for u