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Starting strength, Awful diet.

  • 29-02-2012 8:53pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,028 ✭✭✭


    I'm planning on doing the starting strength program soon but have a big problem.

    My diet is awful. Not because I couldn't be arsed, I could I just don't eat that many foods. Basically a normal day for me now is:

    Breakfast: Either a big bowl of cornflakes or half tin of beans with two or three slices of toast.

    Snacks throughout the day, Banana or crisp sandwiches, Bread rolls, Scones, Crisps, bars.. Crap really.

    Dinner: Only dinner I eat is mince beef or steak with bolognese sauce. I don't eat any other meat, I don't even eat other forms of beef or steak, Just minced.

    It sounds strange and probably stupid but I've been this way since a very young age. But I am healthy I rarely (once every two years maybe) get sick in anyway be it a tummy bug or a cold or the flu. I feel fine, I'm energetic and never feel drained or down. I feel healthy now but I know that won't last, I'm 21 now and as I get older I realize my body is going to need more than what I eat now which is basically bread and mince meat.

    Now for this program I know i'm going to have to eat big, But what do i eat? I don't like eggs, oats, any meat other than whats listed, rashers, cheese, fish, basically anything to be honest. I really want to do this program but what am i going to have for Breakfast? Dinner? Lunch?

    Should I just be honest with myself and forget all about it? :(


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 574 ✭✭✭kate.m


    I've never understood how people can dislike so many foods. Sure, some people won't eat a few things but your list is so long!

    Have you really given the foods listed a proper shot? I mean eggs for instance - you can fry, poach or scramble eggs. Even throw them raw into protein shakes and you can't really taste them?

    Can I just suggest that you give some of the foods you don't like a go? There are lots of foods I don't like. But I still eat them because I know they're good for me. Regardless of taste. Maybe you should change your attitude to food?

    You shouldn't forget all about it, but you should change your eating habits.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,028 ✭✭✭TheMilkyPirate


    kate.m wrote: »
    I've never understood how people can dislike so many foods. Sure, some people won't eat a few things but your list is so long!

    Have you really given the foods listed a proper shot? I mean eggs for instance - you can fry, poach or scramble eggs. Even throw them raw into protein shakes and you can't really taste them?

    Can I just suggest that you give some of the foods you don't like a go? There are lots of foods I don't like. But I still eat them because I know they're good for me. Regardless of taste. Maybe you should change your attitude to food?

    You shouldn't forget all about it, but you should change your eating habits.

    This is what i was thinking, If i can find a way too mask certain foods i don't like then great. Could i just throw them into a protein shake??

    I haven't tried all of them no, But what i have tried i haven't liked at all. I think most of what i don't eat are acquired tastes that we pick up when were younger, I think my ship has sailed on that one.

    I'm pretty sure it's all a mental thing, All in my head. Anything i'm not used to i just shy away from. I'm afraid to try something incase i don't like it the way i try it first, Then that would turn me off it altogether.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 574 ✭✭✭kate.m


    Well it's easy enough to mask the taste of meats in sauces etc but the problem is that certain sauces will probably be quite unhealthy? Unless you do it yourself. :)

    You can get mince lamb and turkey. I recommend the turkey as it's quite lean. you could use that in your bolognese sauce? you probably won't even notice as if it's minced it will have the same texture. You should probably make yourself! It's just tomatoes, onion, usually some garlic and stock (google some recipes)...and that way you know exactly what's in it and it will taste better than one from a jar.

    Don't be afraid to try things :) if you don't like it it, it doesn't really matter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 39,902 ✭✭✭✭Mellor


    So just mince, really.

    No steak, or burgers, or roast chicken, or breaded chicken, or suasages and rashers.
    There's nothign wrong with just mince from a diet or training point of view. but seriously, you are missing out.

    Just eat more.

    Breakfast. Try eggs, it not lots of beans and toast is ok.
    Lunch. a meat dish. Even if tis mince.
    Dinner. another meat dish.
    Snacks. Nuts and peanut butter through out the day. Lots of milk

    Eat enough proper food and you wont bother with snacking on crap.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭Susie_Q


    Only eating such a tiny variety of foods because you "don't like" other foods is incredibly childish. No, you didn't like certain foods as a child, but you're not a child anymore so stop acting like one.

    If you really want to be healthy and nourish your body then man up and start eating like an adult. Veg, fruit, a variety of meat, fish, eggs. Sorry to be harsh but your post read like that of a spoiled 7 year old.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 Sarah44


    Has anyone tried the HCG Diet?
    My friend has lost 15 Lb's on it so far and I am strongly thinking of doing it.
    It is no exercise except a bit of light walking.
    Any feedback would be great.
    I am going for my first consultation to the Doctor on Monday so will see what happens.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,673 ✭✭✭Miss Fluff


    baraca wrote: »
    I haven't tried all of them no, But what i have tried i haven't liked at all. I think most of what i don't eat are acquired tastes that we pick up when were younger, I think my ship has sailed on that one.

    You're wrong on that score. There is no such thing as an "acquired" taste. You know the Allen Carr guy who wrote a book about quitting smoking? He also wrote a book about eating healthily called "Easyweigh" and in it he talks about instinct (something all of the animal kingdom possesses when it comes to food choices) and that funnily enough the things that are best for us also taste the best. Think of the broad range of delicious fruit and veg options out there - there is nothing more delicious than feeling a juicy cherry tomato explode in your mouth or munching on some sweet pineapple, nyum! I think you might actually benefit from reading his book as it makes a lot of sense. Saying that you don't like something eventhough you have never tried it doesn't actually make sense! :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 Lmraf


    Sarah44 wrote: »
    Has anyone tried the HCG Diet?
    My friend has lost 15 Lb's on it so far and I am strongly thinking of doing it.
    It is no exercise except a bit of light walking.
    Any feedback would be great.
    I am going for my first consultation to the Doctor on Monday so will see what happens.


    Hi just wondering if you went with this diet? Did it work? How was it? Did you go to donnybrook clinic? Is it expensive? Really need to do something to shift this excess weight.


  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    Just to say that the HCG diet has been tested in various clinical trials not to work any better than placebo. It's a complete scam.

    Plus injecting yourself with pregnancy hormones is a terrible idea and may have untoward long term health consequences.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Just to say that the HCG diet has been tested in various clinical trials not to work any better than placebo. It's a complete scam.

    Plus injecting yourself with pregnancy hormones is a terrible idea and may have untoward long term health consequences.

    Jaysus I didn't cope it was human chorionic gonadotropin they were talking about. Only time I've heard of people taking that is in a PCT.


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  • Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    Jaysus I didn't cope it was human chorionic gonadotropin they were talking about. Only time I've heard of people taking that is in a PCT.

    Yerp. People will do anything, and I mean anything to lose weight but diet and exercise. Ironically the diet accompanying the HCG injections is a complete starvation affair of about 1,000 cals a day. But wait, that couldn't be the actual thing causing the weight loss... could it?


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