My diet and workout. Am I doing enough?

Andyfbt

My diet and workout. Am I doing enough?
I recently joined the gym (after break up with long term g/f). I am committed as 3 of my mates also go nearly every day. I have started eating better (I was on about 4 takeaways a week and ate a lot of fried stuff for lunch plus crap at night) and I am going to the gym 5 times a week. I am 23, my height is 5'8 and my BMI is 28. I have seen some results in my face and beer belly already. Just want to make sure I am doing enough or if anyone has advice on how I can improve. Baring in mind I don't particularly like vegetables (apart from Onion) and I don't like any type of fish.
My workout:
As I said I am going 5 times a week and at the moment I am more concentrated on bringing my BMI down. I alternate my workout between days. My schedule is
Monday (Cardio): 40 minutes Cardio, Push ups, sit ups, backs ups (basically work on Abs)
Tuesday: Day off
Wednesday (Cardio): 40 minutes Cardio, Push ups, sit ups, backs ups (basically work on Abs)
Thursday (Cardio/weights): 20 minutes Cardio, 40 minutes on weight machines, Push ups, sit ups, backs ups (basically work on Abs)
Friday (Cardio): 40 minutes Cardio, Push ups, sit ups, backs ups (basically work on Abs)
Saturday (Cardio/weights): 20 minutes Cardio, 40 minutes on weight machines, Push ups, sit ups, backs ups (basically work on Abs)
Sunday: Day off
My Diet:
I had a terrible diet before I joined the gym made up of fatty foods like takeaways, crisp sandwiches and fried food. I have cut back but is it enough? This is an example of an average week
I'll start with breakfast and lunch first as they are generally the same
Weekdays I generally eat the same before I get home from work. It consists of
Breakfast: Bowl of wheatabix with milk, and spoon full of sugar. A glass of orange juice.
Lunch: Chicken, stuffing and mayo on white Wrap. I also get 2 bananas and I'll have one at lunch and the other at about 15:30. I drink water throughout the day
On weekends I change it a small bit
Saturday Breakfast: Bowl of Two wheatabix, spoon of sugar, glass of orange juice, sometimes slimed milk sometimes normal
Saturday Lunch: usually in the pub so probably skip it, maybe packet of bacon fries
Sunday Breakfast: Fry up
Sunday Lunch: In pub so it gets skipped
On to my dinners.
As I said I don't really like Veg so I am rather limited. Apart from Tuesday I don't eat my dinner until I come back from the gym
Monday: Either Chicken Goujons, oven chips and Gravy or Steak burger, pepper sauce and oven chips.
Tuesday: day off from gym and my family get a Chinese takeaway so Curry chips, fried rice and 4 chicken balls (my bad day!)
Wednesday: Either Chicken Goujons, oven chips and Gravy or Steak burger, pepper sauce and oven chips
Thursday: Either Chicken Goujons, oven chips and Gravy or Steak burger, pepper sauce and oven chips
Friday: Either Chicken Goujons, oven chips and Gravy or Steak burger, pepper sauce and oven chips
Saturday: I usually have a few drinks in me so I might not have dinner or maybe a slice of pizza off someone who has got one in the pub
Sunday: Quite probably I'd get a chipped after coming in from the pub
I would love to target those days where I either have Goujons or Steak burgers with a more pasta type of dinner but I am a terrible cook and since I don't eat dinners those days until I get home from the gym I don't get dinners off my family and they are the only things I can cook.
Sorry bout the long post and I have tried to make it reader friendly but I feel it is needed to get inside my head in order to help me out. Appreciate the advice on my diet or even my training schedule.

irishvibez

Mate your diet is dodgy !

Get rid of:

Brekie: Do you like poridge? SMall bowl with some nuts bit of honey is great start.
Lunch: sounds ok, loose the mayo.
Dinner: Chicken Goujons (Either buy proper chicken fillets, even better turkey fillets) do stir fry. I find doing stir fry makes eatin veg easier.
It sounds like you like the pub, you should defo reduce that!
Gravey and things like that can be dodge. Dont eat so much red meat.

If your eating pasta make it brown pasta. watch your portions. You need more fruit in the diet and try drink 2ltrs water per day. cut out late night eating.

WEIGHT DAYS:

Id say your best bet for losing weight is to hit large muscle groups (chest, legs, back etc) about 3 times per week. and try push a full hour on cv.

Sorted

corkcomp

irishvibez wrote: »

Mate your diet is dodgy !

Get rid of:

Brekie: Do you like poridge? SMall bowl with some nuts bit of honey is great start.
Lunch: sounds ok, loose the mayo.
Dinner: Chicken Goujons (Either buy proper chicken fillets, even better turkey fillets) do stir fry. I find doing stir fry makes eatin veg easier.
It sounds like you like the pub, you should defo reduce that!
Gravey and things like that can be dodge. Dont eat so much red meat.

If your eating pasta make it brown pasta. watch your portions. You need more fruit in the diet and try drink 2ltrs water per day. cut out late night eating.

WEIGHT DAYS:

Id say your best bet for losing weight is to hit large muscle groups (chest, legs, back etc) about 3 times per week. and try push a full hour on cv.

Sorted

+1 good advice there. OP a lot of the meals you described could contain a fair bit of trans and saturated fats .. if the goujons are processed this is often the case .. any fried food bought in pub or chipper is VERY bad tbh

Andyfbt

my diet was a lot worse! I do like porridge. Can be annoying to make though. Easy to mess it up. I love chicken so I think I could easily get more chicken breats in there. Chicken Breast with boiled rice, that's good isn't it? Only thing is I'd love a bit of extra flavour in there. What's a good flavouring item.

Stir fry: I use to watch my girlfiend do them all the time. But wouldn't know where to start myself. Suppose it can't be that hard. Would you roll it up in a wrap or just eat it straight off the plate?

BobbyOLeary

Baring in mind I don't particularly like vegetables

Then to put it bluntly you won't particularly like being in shape. Cleaning your diet up is the number one move in losing weight. Exercise is secondary really, it helps (a lot) but if the diet isn't there you're not going to see results as fast as you'd like. You lost the ability to get away with saying you don't like vegetables around the same time you lost the ability to stay in 3rd class.

My trick with eating vegetables is to steam them or boil them, then eat them first at dinner, when I'm most hungry. An example, I don't like cauliflower (the poor mans brocolli in my book), but if I'm starving I'll gobble it up. That leaves you with your nice tasty portion of meat. It may sound stupid but it works for me.

Introduce dietary changes gradually, you won't be able to change everything at once and if you try you'll just hate yourself if you fail. Try adding a cup of vegetables to each meal for a week and see how it goes.

Andyfbt

Cheers all. I'll have to write a list out and go to Dunnes and then get me ma to help me at first!

booboobear

I think your doing a smashing job. fair play to ya. if ur going to the gym that much you can eat what ya like really. Thats what my doctor said and i never go to the gym. Perhaps you could take up hand glidding its right good fun.

corkcomp

the thing about veg is that its not a myth about high fiber foods being filling! if you eat a big plate of veg for dinner you really will feel full for longer ... OP, in your case the worse scenario is that you wont grow to like veg but you can still do a lot otherwise like cutting out chipper food and pub grub ... even though they might not be as good as steamed brocolli you could also try tinned beans / peas / sweetcorn with dinner, you will get the fiber benefits, good ammount of protein and no nasty fats...

BobbyOLeary

booboobear wrote: »

if ur going to the gym that much you can eat what ya like really. Thats what my doctor said

Simply not true. I doubt it very much a doctor said to you "Oh yeah, sure go to the gym and you can eat whatever you want. In fact, hop on that treadmill, I've got a block of lard out the back."

Its a common misconception that just going to the gym is an excuse to eat/drink anything. Its only ok (in the loosest sense of the word) if you're burning more than you're taking in.

OP, personally I train 6 days a week, a mix of weights and sub wrestling. I've found that the best diet for me is to eat clean monday-thursday/friday then let myself go a small bit mad at the weekends. By clean I mean no refined sugars whatsoever, no potatoes, no rice, only carbs are from veg, wraps and milk. Mixed in with some nuts etc. I've found this is the only way I can keep myself sane while in college, I like sugar too much to give it up and this gives me the best of both worlds. Sure my fat loss is slowed by this process but I don't find it hard so I'll stick with it.

irishvibez

booboobear wrote: »

I think your doing a smashing job. fair play to ya. if ur going to the gym that much you can eat what ya like really. Thats what my doctor said and i never go to the gym. Perhaps you could take up hand glidding its right good fun.

Ye dont listen to this crap. Losing weight is 70% what you eat 30% training

Andyfbt

what are the fruit shakes out of places like sumo? Had one at lunch anyway cause i was shopping so was just walking round with the fruit shake. Also got a wrap with no mayo, chicken, stuffing, onion and lettuce. Might be a bit dry but taking on board what was said here about the veg. I am still full from the fruit shake so I will have a bit of the wrap when i get a bit hungry later on.

also found out good news about the stir fry. The butcher acrosss the road from me has ready made stir fry stuff so you just need to add the chicken.

I will probably still have the one takeaway curry a week on my day off from the gym which is Tuesday.

Also figured out I haven't had a bag of crisps or bar of chocolate in over a week. And i don't miss them at all. The gym is a motivation not to eat crap and ruin your workout

RoosterIllusion

irishvibez wrote: »

Ye dont listen to this crap. Losing weight is 70% what you eat 30% training

+1

You could never work out and lose weight by eating properly.