how are my meals?

Ruu_Old

Hi, newbie to the fitness forum. could someone look at my diet and tell me if I am lacking or getting too much of something. My fitness background is the following, I started working out at home with a variety of basic exercises about 2 years ago and decided to eat healthier as a result. I spend about an hour and a half every morning doing push up w/ side planks, kickbacks, bicep curls (only 15lb weights), torso twists and some other exercises.

I run about 3 miles every second day as well as some kickboxing twice a week. I weight about 125lbs and am 5'7". I feel fairly good, I take fish oil tablets and multivitamin, chocolate milk and/or a protein shot after exercise. My meals are below of what I would eat regularly, not perfect and I have a splurge every once in a while;

Breakfast: like oatmeal w/almonds, scrambled or hard boiled egg+piece of whole grain toast. The odd day some frosted mini wheats with 2% milk.
Snack: Nuts or fruit.
Dinner: Chicken wraps, salads with orange, crutons, eggs with spinach leaf and lettuce as the greens.
Afternoon snack: granola bar
Tea: Salmon, tilapia, chicken breast (cooked with a variety of seasonings so does not get boring) with brocolli and some sort of small bread item, piece of toast or some bread rolls, maybe some wheat crackers.

Any thoughts? Thanks for the advice in advance.:)

edit: requested this be moved to nutrition/diet.

Khannie

Do you actually want this moved to N&D? It's ok to have questions about food in the fitness forum if they're related to helping you achieve some kind of goal in conjunction with fitness. It's a nuance, but as you can see I have a thread about jerky in here and it's largely because I think the fitness heads will know more about it / it's relevant to my fitness.

Anyway, let me know if you still want it moved.

Ruu_Old

Yes, on second thoughts, maybe best to leave it here. I am looking to continue building lean muscle, just wondering if I need more of something else and less of the other. Been pulling bits out of various blogs from fitness forum regulars as well. Thanks!

brianthebard

Diet sounds grand imo. I'd say you'd probably want to look at your program if you want to gain more muscle, sounds like you've been doing it for a while and its not really geared towards gaining muscle tbh. Starting strength might be an idea if you have access to a gym, or take a look at rubadub's log to get an idea of what you can do at home with some ingenuity.

Ruu_Old

cool. i guess i use the wii fit plus mostly as a way of tracking things (hours of workout, days, etc). i switch between routines every few days and so on. i know it is not a very physically demanding workout but tracking things like this helps the obsessive compulsive in me. will check out the logs!