Whats your diet like?

RubyK

Do you watch what you eat? Are you strict and eat well all the time? Or do you allow youself treats now and again, or do you run so you can eat whatever you like?

Being out injured at the moment is slowly driving me demented, but having to really watch my diet more than ever because of the lack of exercise makes it really headwrecking, and Christmas looming around the corner is not helping :pac:

My main vices would be peanuts and crisps. I've cut out crisps but the peanuts I'm finding impossible to give up.

G-Money

Mine is just awful at the moment. I've taken up running as a way to get fit and lose weight and while I've lost some weight, my eating has just gone to pot over the last month or so.

I know I should be eating better but I find myself just eating crap in the evenings and weekends.

I think part of the issue is that I feel like eating healthy requires denying yourself so much stuff and eating fairly plain food. Plus I often don't want to spend ages cooking in the evenings either.

RubyK

Well done on taking up running and loosing some weight Grandmaster.

It's hard alright to be good this time of year. I blame the weather :pac:

Econoline Van

I find my over-eating/eating of cakes or chocalate is a habit that builds up slowly and is something that I wean myself off slowly. If the food is there and I feel really hungry then I eat. But I can gradually eat a little bit less every day until I don't really feel hungry after 6pm say. Maintaining that's the problem though.:rolleyes:

ThePiedPiper

RubyK wrote: »

Do you watch what you eat? Are you strict and eat well all the time? Or do you allow youself treats now and again, or do you run so you can eat whatever you like?

Being out injured at the moment is slowly driving me demented, but having to really watch my diet more than ever because of the lack of exercise makes it really headwrecking, and Christmas looming around the corner is not helping :pac:

My main vices would be peanuts and crisps. I've cut out crisps but the peanuts I'm finding impossible to give up.

I'd be careful enough with my diet. Good breakfast cereals, home-made sandwiches for lunch and healthy home-cooked food at least 95% of the time for dinner. I snack on fruit most of the time. If the wife is having pregnancy cravings for crisps, chocolate, etc, I usually join in with her but wouldn't eat too much junk.

I don't see a huge amount wrong with treats really, if it's only occasional treats that aren't too fatty or oily. However, we'd try to avoid takeaway foods, and grease as much as possible. I'd probably drink about 10 units of alcohol a week, mostly wine, maybe 2 or 3 beers on the average weekend. At the end of the day, you are what you eat or what is left after you burn it off through exercise.

tHE vAGGABOND

I have recently lost a load of weight, so my diet is great tbh

Im all about getting the right amount of the right stuff, and little or none of the bad stuff. At this stage its not really dieting, just being sensible.

But at the same time getting plenty of protein is very important [I get most of mine from chicken, fish, and indeed protien shakes!], as it fills you up, and stops you needing snacks between meals - which is the killer!

Brianderunner

My diet is pretty good, bar drinking like a fish! Theres always a voice in my head telling me to stop as i start to eat junk food, even on xmas day. I wouldnt have it any other way tbh.

The Bad Pawn

Generally my diets pretty good.

Toast and OJ in the AM along with a protien shake if training hard.

Banana and peanuts at 11

generous portions of Pasta with some kind of sauce for lunch

apple in the pm
Full dinner - poultry/meat with pasta, potatoes or rice with veg

Tons opf water throughout the day.

Some biscuits and tea to finish off.

I eat quite alot but I train a fair bit too. Have between 0 - 8 beers on the weekend at the moment depending on what training i'm doing in then mornings. (and don;t forget it's the off-season:)

claralara

My problem is my love for a good ole cup of tea (and then some) on a daily basis and the desire to have something with it. I try to keep it good but we all have our weak spots! :rolleyes: f I can keep it to a plain biscuit that's fine, but if the chocolate comes out it's binge central. Wouldn't be a mad crisp lover (unless hungover!) and I think nuts are fine if you watch the portion size.

I'm a grazer actually - would rather eat eat every 2/3 hours than have three "proper" meals a day. I think the people who sit around me think I'm a bottomless pit even though it might just be crackers and peanut butter and then a yoghurt and fruit. It's just that it's so regular it seems never ending!

I like to think I can have the treats when I'm doing a bit of exercise. Once it's not dripping in grease or containing a sick amount of saturated fat, I'm an advocate of everything in moderation.

JosDel

Breakfast porridge with sliced banana
mid morning I would eat 2-3 portions of fruit..
Lunch brown bread with either chicken or fish
a good balanced dinner (plenty of veg)
evening mug of tea and toast
(guinness down to 4 pints on saturday night, down from 6-7)

cwgatling

I'm a vegetarian, but other than that I don't watch it at all. Some days are healthy enough, others are carb/fat/junk all the way. Plenty of booze too

tunguska

Personally I'll eat what I want. "What I want" being the key words. If I want a bar of chocolate or whatever then i'll have it after training. I find that if you give yourself what you want then the big binges just dont happen. The problems start when you try to really restrict. Although having said that, some people have an emotional attachment to food. They get upset they eat, they get stressed, they eat, something goes wrong, they eat. If thats the case then you do really have to monitor yourself to make sure you're only eating when youre hungry, not eating for comfort.
Its all about momentum though. If you're training and putting in an honest effort you just dont want to blow out on junk or booze, the cravings arent there, you have positive momentum. But if you're not training and you're not being healthy its so easy to get caught in a rut of gorging on junk, and that sets up a negative momentum which feeds off itself, setting up even more negative momentum.

tang1

Breakfast - 3 Weetabix followed by tea and toast.
Lunch - Sandwich on brown bread.
Dinner - Potatoes, rice, pasta with chicken or fish and fresh veg.

About 4 -5 litres of water throughout the day aswell as loads of fresh fruit.

Only drink once every 6 weeks(not very good at it!!!!) or so, but out injured with achilles injury atm and silly season is approaching. Keep away from junk food as much as possible, maybe once every couple of months. My only real vice is like the OP, crisps.

Ruu_Old

Very clean, plenty of lean meats and fish. I lost the cravings for sweet things. I don't really feel the need to splurge or take a cheat day. I love a good cup of tea and a few slices of nine grain bread for break though before a long run. Too hard on myself the most of the time though.

rainbow kirby

Work in progress. Trying to eat as healthily as I can, and cut the crap out. I drink 3-4L of water a day, and haven't had any beer since the afternoon of DCM.

Cluster92

tang1, 4 to 5 litres of water a day? why arnt you dead yet?!:p

tang1

I'm up from 7 nearly most mornings and not in bed till late so its well spread out throughout the day, plus alot of bathroom calls!!! Is this an excessive amount????

RJC

Peanuts and red wine would be the two things I should cut down on.

When I read about the elites I nod in agreement when they start the day with porridge and a coffee but notice that we go our separate ways after 9:00pm. I never hear them say: '......and to finish off I'll drink half a bottle of red wine and a pack of peanuts and watch newsnight'


I don't do sweets or chocolate - too much of a sugar rush. Apart from that just the regular 'good foods'.

mloc123

At the moment in one word... ****e
Any day now I'll get back on the wagon

metamorphosis

At the moment it's very stodgish. Always happens with the cold snap that comes this time of year - lots of oats, oatbran, thick dense breads like soda and spelt, oatcakes, ryvita, peanut butter, dark chocolate, dried fruit, bananas, yogurt, milk and tuna, but there's not enough veg in there or protein. I always get one meal a day with fish/meat and a **** load of veg but the rest is from the list above. In fact too much of my diet at the moment is fiber based that iv been having 'trouble' on most of my runs lately - need to redress it asap. Out for 9 this evening and thank god i ws passing the UL arena during my run as i had to run in, shout 'TOILET' at reception and just made it. Jaysus. Rest of the run was bliss though!

Cluster92

just seems a bit excessive but whatever works for you. id get about 2.5 litres between 10am and 8pm

Arthurdaly

Breatfast - Porridge and possibly a protein shake if I am training hard
Protein share and vits
Mid Lunch - bannana
Lunch - Brown roll with mayo. chicken, cheese. onions, lettuce
Afternoon - Apple
Dinnner - Steak or chicken with veggies and potatoes
Protein share