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2005/04/27, 03:13 AM
OK, so I need some help with my diet guys. I've been checking out several of the posts here and have decided to get in on the action. I will be posting my meals for the day and the times when I eat and am hoping to get some input from you all about what should change/improve/stay the same. I think I have a pretty good idea about what to eat and what to avoid, but I know I could always use some advise, and I know I need some help learning how to fuel myself for all the workouts I'll be doing.
So here goes:
Wed. April 27
2:30am breakfast: 1 small banana, a bowl of protine Total with skim milk and lots of coffee.
off to work now.....to be continued....
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2005/04/27, 10:06 AM
All right, here's the rest of my morning:
between 5am-8am I "grazed" on an apple, 1/2 c. FF cottage cheese and had 1 c. of fat free, low surgar, low carb is it even yogurt anymore
After I finished my work at 8am I went to the gym for a 30 min. swim. I did laps pretty consistantly, but needed to stop for a breather at the end of each lap.
Back home and so starving I feel like I have a tape worm trying to naw it's way out of my stomach...
10am 4 egg whites and 1 egg with a green onion and some mushrooms and ketchup.
I'll be heading back to the gym this afternoon for weights before I have to go back to work.
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2005/04/28, 04:00 AM
So the rest of Wed. was pretty productive...
Lunch at 1pm: a big salad with lite dressing, garbanzo beans and a bit of crumble blue cheese.
The it was to the gym for half an hour of weights before going back to work for a few more hours. After work I had a can of tuna before dinner.
7pm dinner was half a large chicken breast, half an ear of corn w/ Brummel and Brown yogurt butter and a large slice of white bread (I'm out of whole wheat at the moment).
I did splurge a bit and had a small handful of candied grapefruit sections....I love those things. :)
Then off to bed.
I'll be posting my meals and workouts in a bit more of an organized fashion from now on, this was just my warm up...
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2005/04/29, 03:49 AM
Well I've decided after yesterday that I really need to do some serious grocery shopping.
Breakfast: oatmeal w/ cherries and skim milk, 1 apple
snack: the last of my ff cottage cheese, a bowl of whole grain cereal and skim milk
lunch: cheese sandwich on white bread, 1/4 of an organic chocolate bar made w/ soy milk, small handfull of preztels.
I went trail running/hikining in the hills for an hour, then went to the gym for weights for 45 min.
dinner: 1 large chicken breast
went to bed almost immediatly after dinner
So I'll be doing some grocery shopping and hopefully try to get a better eating plan worked out....
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2005/04/29, 09:42 AM
Hi freyja, congads on trying to improve your diet. It's kind of hard to follow what your eating with the multiple posts. What I'd suggest is using the Foods for a Healthy Body list found at the top of the Nutri. list and pick your foods from the list. Secondly, I have found it very useful to use the nutrition tracker which is free on the site and input your food for the day. I'm now using the FT-Pro version which is much more user friendly. This way you will see exactly the calories, protien, fat and carb breakdown for each day and you can tweek what you are eating from there. Also remember that you're sometimes better to choose a "regular" healthy item than one that claims to be low fat / low carb etc...read the labels closely! Finally try and get in at least 2X wt training sessions / week and on the days you don't wt train, do cardio and remember your rest day!
Just my 2 cents based on my experience with an ongoing lifestyle change.
Best of luck to ya!
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2005/04/30, 08:51 AM
Thanks fly. I'll take your advise.
Yesterday was a bit of washout and I think I need some time to sit down and retool my diet and approach to eating and exercising.
I haven't given up, I just haven't figured out yet how to make everything work.
Between work and home pressures and stress, I'm finding it very difficult to keep my head on straight for any length of time and stick to something consistantly.
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