Sports Nutritionist / Dietician (Dublin Area)

Andrew H

Hello all,

I am looking for a Sports Nutritionist / Dietician in the Dublin area.

Currently im around 17 1/2 Stone, 40 years old, 5 Foot 10 tall and train Brazillian Jiu Jitsu (Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays for the past 5 plus years and trained Traditional Martial Arts before that) im looking for someone who can advise me on Sports nutrition as well as weight loss, advice on menus for the week, portions sizes, when to eat, etc.. I am also on High Blood pressure medication.

I am not looking for someone who is going to tell me how to use the basic Food Pyramid as I have tried this before & found it did not work well.

Thanks for any help,
Andrew

Mellor

You don't need a sports nutritionist or a dietician. They won't tell you anything that you can find out easily for free. for example, the food pyramid is not a good model for your.
The reason you are over weight is because you eat too much. Either portions are too big, or the food choice are high calorie foods.
Reducing calories is the number one concern. As a rough guess, 2500 calories a day would be a decent target for weight loss at your current weight.

As for what to eat. Aim for 40% of calories from protein and roughly 30% each for fats and carbs. So thats;
250g Protein/1000 Calories
190g Carbs/760 Calories
80g Fat/720 Calories

That's still quite a decent amount of food. Do that everyday and you'll start dropping weight fast.
Eat and anytime. It doesn't matter.
For convience, I'd go with 5 500 calorie meals, but more or less meals for the same total calories is the same. What ever suits your schedule.

There is loads of information in the stickies and similar threads to this if you look around.

Andrew H

Thanks for the reply Mellor. It's def portion sizes for me.

I'll do as you suggest and try the 5 meals throughout the day im going to go through the site and work out some meal plans.

Andrew