Diet Help

phoenix833

Hi all,

I'm actually on here looking for advice on the new diet i've taken up and looking for some improvements/changes anybody can recommend. Or assitions that may be beneficial.

Basically here it is :

Breakfast:Porridge with sultanas and/or sliced banana

Lunch: usually a salad with lettuce carrot scallion egg mayo (only sometimes:D) and boiled chicken breast, usually two.

Dinner: Whatever is home cooked, most of the time its pork, chicken but then the odd evening theyre'll be spaghetti or steak.

Snacks are usually fresh fruit or low fat organic yoghurt. I try drink at leat 4 litres of water a day and no food after 6:30p.m. Oh and before I go to bed I eat white grapefruit, supposedly good for increasing your metabolism during the night!

As far as exercise goes I have Gaelic Training twice a week, then one cardio session in the gym and two swimming sessions or vice versa.

I'm particulary embarrassed by my "moobs". They're not massive or anything but if anybody has any exercises to help make them smaller along with the diet I'd be forever grateful:)

Cainr

I think your diet looks pretty well rounded and balanced and I think the approach of working on the diet first is smart. I would suggest some protein in the morning (eggs/egg whites) and making sure you getting your protein quota throughout the day in those snacks, which the yogurt is great for. Protein helps you retain a bit of muscle through your training, give you sustainable energy, and help burn off more calories/fat day to day. If you want to drop some, drop the pasta/starch in the evening. Good luck, keep up the good work!

phoenix833

Cainr wrote: »

I think your diet looks pretty well rounded and balanced and I think the approach of working on the diet first is smart. I would suggest some protein in the morning (eggs/egg whites) and making sure you getting your protein quota throughout the day in those snacks, which the yogurt is great for. Protein helps you retain a bit of muscle through your training, give you sustainable energy, and help burn off more calories/fat day to day. If you want to drop some, drop the pasta/starch in the evening. Good luck, keep up the good work!

Yeah I'm trying to up my protein intake but it's usually later in the day, about 1p.m, so maybe I would be better off with the protein in the mornings?

As regards the carbs point I have cut out white bread and pasta completely, once a week I'll have wholegrain pasta though. With potatoes again I've almost cut them out altogether but if they are for the dinner I'll eat more fresh veg and maybe only one medium sized spud!

Any "snacks" I have are either ryvita, rice cakes, fruit or yoghurt but can there be such a thing as too much snacking? For example, today I had two rice cakes and a banana in mid morning (11a.m), a kiwi at about 4p.m and them some yoghurt about 10p.m. Thats in between the normal meals of course. But is that too much?

phoenix833

Just wanted to bump this thread because I'm getting the feeling I mightn't be eating enough to keep my metabolism up and wanted an opinion on what i had to eat today. I'm taking the High Protein/Low Carb route. I'm 5'11 and weigh about 88kgs.

8:30a.m bowl of porridge and banana.
11am 150g of turkey breast and one slice of brown bread
2:30p.m about 100g of chicken and a pear
6:30p.m 1 chicken breast carrots and broccoli
9p.m Yellow grapefruit

Drink- about 3-4 litres of water

I don't feel hungry at all during the day but is this too much of a calorie defficiency to lose weight?

In my line of work I'm fairly active,lifting boxes, always on my feet walking around, up and down stairs many times during the day. As i said above I have at least 2 high intensity cardio sessions a week, with the days inbetween filled with other cardio exercise (running/swimming) but not as intense.

Help PLEASE!