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2003/08/07, 09:19 PM
Hi, This is my first time posting here, so feel free to correct me on something i say or am doing wrong.
Im 21 years old and weigh 86kg. I do cardio training for 2 hours on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturdays. I also do weight training On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
With all this training you would think that i would be losing weight but i am not. My problem being that i have no idea what i should be eating. I have heard all sorts of different theories, with people saying you need a protein diet and then people saying you need a carb diet.
I have no idea what the correct way is to go about this.
Since weight training (4 1/2 months ago) i have become much stronger and gained small results to my muscles and i am failrly fit with a resting HR of about 50.
I think i have the ability to grow much stonger and become much healthier if i am put on the right track. I also tried the freetrainers nutrition tracker but just became to confused.
If anybody could please help me and give me an indication of what i should be eating during the week, it would be greatly appreciated.
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2003/08/08, 03:03 PM
I too, added weight training and cardio to my lifestyle and wondered why I wasn't losing weight. It made sense to me...add exercise, lose weight. I was really frustrated. I knew that I was building some real muscle where there was hardly any before and figured that since it 'weighed more' then that was why I wasn't losing weight. When I found ft and started getting some great advice on my diet was when things started to change. 2 hours of cardio is a lot and I assume your workouts are at least an hour long, so you are incorporating a lot of activity in your life. You may not be eating enough. Do you know what ft gave you for your needed calories? And it should have been broken down into carbs/protein/fat. That would be a good place to start. Give us some idea of what you are eating now and what your workouts are like and we can help you more. Also how often do you change your workouts and is your cardio the same all the time?
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~Victoria~
...There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.--Beverly Sills
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2003/08/10, 10:10 PM
FreeTrainers game me the following for my reccomended daily intake. Protein - 189 g, Carbohydrates - 662 g, Fats - 46 g Total Calories - 3776.
As far as eating goes, it changes daily simply because i dont know exactly what i should be having. Im a very "need to be told" sort of person, for example i understand the reccomended daily intake but i dont know how to break it down daily unless im told.
E.g. Morning - 2eggs, 2 bits of toast w/jam
3 hours later - Tuna sandwhich.
If im given an indication of some peoples daily or weekly diets it would be a great help for me in order to build my own weekly diet in accordance to that reccomended by FT.
My gym workouts are done with a partner and take about an hour, and are changed weekly for variety.
My cardio workout is refering to my Australian rules football training. Which usually consists of
-Warm up jog & stretches (15min)
-Short sprints and jog recovery (25min)
-Long running (400m) with short breaks (1 hour)
-Heavy contesting work (constant body to body work) (10mins)
-50m sprints or 200m strides(changes weekly) (10mins)
-Warm down stretches
That is Tuesday and Thursdays and on Saturdays, i play for 2 hours which is about
20% stand
10% walk
55% jog
15% sprint
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2003/08/11, 12:35 PM
Unfortuantely, if you are taking in that many carbs, a better than average chance is they are not all healthy carbs, and no weight loss is going to happen. You don't give a profile, so we really don't know your goals, even if you are male or female.
The first thing you HAVE to do is clean up your diet and get on a schedule. Guessing and haphazard measures are probably your biggest downfalls. This in itself will get you started in the path you want to go.
You may try this site for your calorie needs...http://fitren.com/res3artp.cfm?artid=46
Good luck to you, and please fill in your profile so we may aid you better.
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Quoting from albanga:
FreeTrainers game me the following for my reccomended daily intake. Protein - 189 g, Carbohydrates - 662 g, Fats - 46 g Total Calories - 3776.
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Great people never want it easier, they just want to be better!
Ron
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2003/08/12, 04:01 PM
Designing an eating plan is time consuming, but well worth it in the end. The best way ti start is with pencil and paper and figure out an average days plan. Keep adjusting it until it has the right ratios and totals. Once you have it planned, just use it every day until you are used to it. You probably don't need that many carbs, and they should all be 'good' carbs and not a lot of sugar and junk food.
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~Victoria~
...There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.--Beverly Sills
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