Reducing body fat %

Cianos

Hi folks,
I was wondering if anyone could recommend some foods I should be eating to reduce my body fat %. My usual daily diet would consist of;

Cereal in the morning (cornflakes and milk)
Lunch could be tuna (yeah I eat fish!) and bread, or cheese and bread, something simple enough.
I'd usually eat a bit of chocolate or a couple of biscuits at some point during the day.
Dinner is usually healthy. The odd time (less than once a week) I'd have a Thai or Fallafel or something.

I used to drink a few beers most nights of the week which is where the extra fat has come from I guess, but I've now started cutting that back to like 2 nights a week or something. I don't drink that much compared to a lot of people, maybe 4 beers in a night or so.

So my impression is that my diet is not really healthy but not really bad either. I don't know much about diet and calories and everything so any advice is appreciated

edit: fwiw, I'm 26, 5' 11", and around 76kg

Dovers

This should be moved to the fitness forum, you will get advice there and there are numerous posts on exactly this. On the face of it I would say your diet needs quite a bit of work to be honest. If you're drinking that much beer forget about reducing body fat my friend full of empty calories.

Cianos

Dovers wrote: »

This should be moved to the fitness forum, you will get advice there and there are numerous posts on exactly this. On the face of it I would say your diet needs quite a bit of work to be honest. If you're drinking that much beer forget about reducing body fat my friend full of empty calories.

Well I thought people here would have a better idea for food suggestions since I'm vegetarian, I was hoping for some meal ideas etc. But I don't mind if it is moved really.

sweet-rasmus

Moved to Nutrition and Diet Forum

MagicMarker

Cianos wrote: »

So my impression is that my diet is not really healthy but not really bad either.

Well lets think about that for a second, if your diet is not healthy, then it's unhealthy, and that's always bad.

Tar.Aldarion

Cianos wrote: »

Well I thought people here would have a better idea for food suggestions since I'm vegetarian, I was hoping for some meal ideas etc. But I don't mind if it is moved really.

No you're a pescetarian. ;p

rantyface

You're a normal weight for your height so I suspect you need to eat more protein and to gain some muscle. This increases your metabolism and thus decreases body fat. Ask in fitness.
You need protein in every meal. You don't get enough protein.
Breakfast- include eggs from time to time and eat porridge most days
lunch- tuna is fine
dinner- you need to make more effort

My favourite dinners are:

chickpea korma (just tinned chickpeas, frozen spinach, mange tout coconut milk, spices from asian shop)
green lentil madras (sauce from a jar + veg + boiled/tin lentils, boiled)
red kidney bean rogan josh/ madras (tin beans + veg + jar sauce)
chilli made with red kidney beans instead of beef
red lentils in veg soup (lentils, carrot, onion, frozen peas etc, stock cube + herbs boiled)
mixed bean salad (love it with vinegar and sugar dressing, or garlic sauce)
tofu stir fry with rice/noodles
tofu soaked in soy sauce and chilli flakes microwaved, when I'm lazy, plus salad or veg of some sort
Spanish omelette (yesterday's boiled potato, onion, eggs, herbs, pepper, fried)

None of these take long to make at all.