Recommendations for my Diet

SantryRed

Hi all,

Off away for the Summer to America and I'm looking to get into the best shape possible. I did a 30 day fitness challenge two months ago and I've been sticking to that. I don't have much weight to lose so to speak, just need to turn add a bit of muscle and tone up. I'm about 6 ft and just over 11 and a half stone.

A typical day's diet for me would be:

(8am-9am) Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs and 2 pieces of wholemeal toast
(12pm-1pm) Lunch: Tin of tuna
(4pm-5pm) Dinner: 2 chicken fillets/salmon fillets with boiled brown rice and the lighter than light mayo.

A problem is that I don't seem to be full after dinner at all, even just after eating it. I don't like fruit and Vegetables at all so can't add that to my meals. My main problem is having something to eat in the evening time. I don't know what to have after I come home from training/gym to fill me until the following morning. Sometimes I wouldn't eat, or I may have what I call my dinner meal after I come home. One thing I like to have is Bran Flakes but I know they aren't great for me.

How bad is the Kelkin granola with some natural yogurt too? Need something else to fill me but really don't like porridge so it can't be that.

Thanks for your help!

eat more vegetables. There is no way that there are no vegetables you will eat. Cook chopped cabbage & brocolli in a thumb of butter. If you discount vegetables, you won't get sorted.

Eat more food too.

Lots more.

Use real mayonnaise.

Read Nutrition101.

If you're trying to burn bodyfat consider a CKD diet - remarkably strict though.

Instead of granola and yoghurt, use Greek Yoghurt (Fage) with chopped hazelnuts and berries.

El_Dangeroso

Mr. CooL ICE

Unless you are on a seal hunting expedition with an Inuit tribe, you need vegetables.

What is it you don't like? Taste? Texture? Try different ways of eating them. If you were turned off vegetables by the way they were cooked when you were growing up, try a different way of cooking. Try making your own veg soups as a way of making them more palatable.

Magenta

I defy ANYONE not to enjoy raw carrots!!!

the groutch

seems to be a bit of a fussy eater, like I was, and to an extent still am.
best thing to do is a couple of times a week try one thing completely new.
worst case scenario is you'll have a bad taste for a few minutes, and eventually you'll find a few that are pallatable.

SunnyDub1

SantryRed wrote: »

A problem is that I don't seem to be full after dinner at all, even just after eating it. I don't like fruit and Vegetables at all so can't add that to my meals. My main problem is having something to eat in the evening time. I don't know what to have after I come home from training/gym to fill me until the following morning. Sometimes I wouldn't eat, or I may have what I call my dinner meal after I come home. One thing I like to have is Bran Flakes but I know they aren't great for me.

How bad is the Kelkin granola with some natural yogurt too? Need something else to fill me but really don't like porridge so it can't be that.

Thanks for your help!

OK first thing that stands out about your post is that you are not eating near enough foods. No wonder you are still hungry after dinner :rolleyes:

Secondly you don't like fruit, vegetables or porridge :eek: why?
If you want a healthy balanced diet and lose weight the right way you need these in your diet esp veg.
You'd be surprised how good they can taste when you mix it up a little and cook them certain ways.

I find puree veggies makes them very eatable.
Cook some carrots and turnip, when cooked and soft - mash the sh*t out of them add some cracked black pepper. Nom Black pepper is great for seasoning all veg IMO.
Sweet potato - nicest veg you can eat and do many ways of cooking it.
Try making some sweet Potato fries (cut sweet Potato into strips add some olive oil crackled black pepper and cook in the oven until crispy... yum)

Prepare and cook your dinner before your gym sessions. have it when you get home to refuel your body then there is no need for snacking on bran flakes.

You need to eat a better lunch. Protein (meat or fish) and plenty of veg and salad - something that will fill you right up.

reprazant

SantryRed wrote: »

I don't like fruit and Vegetables at all so can't add that to my meals.

I am sorry but how is it possible for a functioning adult not to like or eat any fruit or vegetables?

How does this even happen? Did you decide you didn't like them as a 5 year old and your parent(s) indulged you?

Stench Blossoms

reprazant wrote: »

I am sorry but how is it possible for a functioning adult not to like or eat any fruit or vegetables?

How does this even happen? Did you decide you didn't like them as a 5 year old and your parent(s) indulged you?

+1

Fruit & Veg don't all taste the same either.

Unless you've tasted EVERY single kind of them cooked/prepared different ways then saying you don't like them is childish IMO.

vitani

You need to stop thinking of food in terms of what you like/dislike and start thinking about it in terms of its function. Fruits & vegetables provide essential vitamins and minerals and it's worth finding a way of getting them into your diet rather than just saying 'no' from the off.

Besides, you might surprise yourself. I spent years avoiding spinach because I'd heard so many people bang on about it not being nice. I bought some recently to increase my intake of iron and it's now one of my favourite foods.

Spend some time educating yourself about nutrition before heading to America. Eating out is a huge part of life over there and speaking from experience, if you're not careful it's very easy to pack on the pounds in one summer.