Toning and my diet

WhatNowHow

Hi I want to start toning up but not sure if my diet will interfere.
I'm a vegetarian and mostly live off spagethhi/pasta/rice, are all these carbs going to ruin my hard work? I don't eat junk food or drink fizzy drinks. I wouldn't say I eat 2,000 calories a day, I get full very fast.
But do I need to cut out the carbs? If I do what do recommend that is filling?

Stench Blossoms

Post up a typical days diet.

Do you eat eggs?

WhatNowHow

WhatNowHow wrote: »

Hi I want to start toning up but not sure if my diet will interfere.
I'm a vegetarian and mostly live off spagethhi/pasta/rice, are all these carbs going to ruin my hard work? I don't eat junk food or drink fizzy drinks. I wouldn't say I eat 2,000 calories a day, I get full very fast.
But do I need to cut out the carbs? If I do what do recommend that is filling?

You can't 'tone' without the right fuel.

It doesn't matter what exercises you do or how often, if you don't eat right you'll not get to where you want to.

Not only will your diet 'interfere' it's actually far more important than the training that you will do to 'tone'.

Thomas Magnum

Deleted User wrote: »

You can't 'tone' without the right fuel.

And what is the right fuel?

Thomas Magnum

Thomas Magnum wrote: »

And what is the right fuel?

It depends on

A : What your body is like now
B : What you envisage/want your body to be like.

Deleted User wrote: »

sorry to be a dick, but what does toning up mean to you?

Find a photo of someone "untoned" (similar to yourself) and then "toned" (your goal). It will make it a lot easier to figure out what you mean.

(for perspective, if someone is a big bulky guy they could well have a lot of muscle, so a fat killing diet could be needed. If someone is a skinny little thing with no body fat, it's time to eat it all and lift it all)

Thomas Magnum

Deleted User wrote: »

It depends on

A : What your body is like now
B : What you envisage/want your body to be like.

But surely the fuel would be the same. It's just the exercise that is different?

Thomas Magnum

Thomas Magnum wrote: »

But surely the fuel would be the same. It's just the exercise that is different?

what makes you say that?

WhatNowHow

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

Post up a typical days diet.

Do you eat eggs?

A typical days diet would be a cup of tea & Cheerios
Then brown bread with cheese for lunch
For dinner some sort of pasta dish usually spag Bol ( using quorn mince)

I would eat eggs, maybe boiled or scrambled, usually at the weekend.

WhatNowHow

Lachlan Shrilling Liquor wrote: »

It depends on

A : What your body is like now
B : What you envisage/want your body to be like.

I'm about 5"8 & 9stone around a size 10-12 (depending on the shop)
I'd just like to get rid of the lower tummy pouch and get thinner thighs.

Paddywiggum

WhatNowHow wrote: »

I'm about 5"8 & 9stone around a size 10-12 (depending on the shop)
I'd just like to get rid of the lower tummy pouch and get thinner thighs.

to reduce the bodyfat in those areas you will have to reduce it overall. We all have different genes and so some people put on more fat in certain areas and other people put more fat on in a different area etc etc

for some people (me included) reducing carbs and replacing them with healthy fats can be very effective. just make sure you are getting enough protein too

Stench Blossoms

WhatNowHow wrote: »

A typical days diet would be a cup of tea & Cheerios
Then brown bread with cheese for lunch
For dinner some sort of pasta dish usually spag Bol ( using quorn mince)

I would eat eggs, maybe boiled or scrambled, usually at the weekend.

Not a great diet tbh.

Have you read the stickies?

Ditch the Cheerios and try limit the amount of bread you eat.

Work out how many calories you need to eat from the stickies and go from there.