opinions on my diet please!!!

jimmy11

just want a few opinons on my diet if ye have the time lads, im relatively new to the whole proper diet thing etc.

im currently tryin to loose body fat im 5ft 10, 82kg and 13% body fat

Im doing high carb/low carb/no carb cycles:

high carb days twice a week, low carb 3 times and no carb twice

this would be a typical high carb day (low carb days are similar less one meal with carbs i.e. no wrap etc and no carb days is just protein)

6am - 150ml skimmed milk, 50g porridge, ON whey 1 scoop, banana

9am - (afterworkout) ON whey 2 scoops, 70g brown rice, 5g creatine monohydrate, apple
12pm - chicken breast, mixed nuts

3pm- chicken breast,sweet potatoe, veg (peppers/brocolli/carrots), red grapes (5 or 6)

6pm - chicken breast, wrap

9pm - casein 1 scoop

10pm - bed

gym 4-5 days a week, lifting heavy for 5-6 reps

Stench Blossoms

Are you counting calories?
Do you know how many calories you need to lose weight?

jimmy11

jimmy11 wrote: »

just want a few opinons on my diet if ye have the time lads, im relatively new to the whole proper diet thing etc.

im currently tryin to loose body fat im 5ft 10, 82kg and 13% body fat

Im doing high carb/low carb/no carb cycles:

high carb days twice a week, low carb 3 times and no carb twice

this would be a typical high carb day (low carb days are similar less one meal with carbs i.e. no wrap etc and no carb days is just protein)

6am - 150ml skimmed milk, 50g porridge, ON whey 1 scoop, banana

9am - (afterworkout) ON whey 2 scoops, 70g brown rice, 5g creatine monohydrate, apple
12pm - chicken breast, mixed nuts

3pm- chicken breast,sweet potatoe, veg (peppers/brocolli/carrots), red grapes (5 or 6)

6pm - chicken breast, wrap

9pm - casein 1 scoop

10pm - bed

gym 4-5 days a week, lifting heavy for 5-6 reps

Firstly - Why?

Secondly - Not enough rest days imo. Are you splitting the exercises properly?

Instead of doing cycles, why not try a targeted style of eating and using carbohydrate for glycogen replenishment?

Eat a normal diet (meat and vegetables) most of the time, and direct carby foods straight after training to help with recovery.

jimmy11

@stench: yes i need approx 2400cals for weight loss, and aim to stay under this each day

@emmet:im lifting heavy weights because in June i was 96kg with 25% body fat, by cleaning up my diet and going alot of cardio and circuits i managed to get down to what I am now. however, my strength suffered so im trying to build that up now whilst achieving a low body fat i.e. 11% maybe.

yes i split the weights up into 4 days: day1: chest/triceps, day2: back/biceps, day3: legs/abs, day4: rest, day5: shoulders/traps, day 6: power lifting session (i play rugby club havbe us doing this) and day7: rest

each day is done by supersets, example: day1 chest/triceps = bench press/dips, db incline press/skull crushers, db flys/pull down, press up/bench dips.

cheers for the replys lads

I meant why in terms of why are you "cycling" as you are? What benefits are you hoping to get from it?

jimmy11

its just a way to diet tat my gym instructor reccomended. said id give it a go

jimmy11

jimmy11 wrote: »

its just a way to diet tat my gym instructor reccomended. said id give it a go

Any particular reasoning?

I'm just interested in what it's trying to achieve (or supposed to be able to).