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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Also I dont eat that great. I try and eat breakfast, but I dont have a good morning routine... :( If I do its usually a bowl of grape nuts. For lunch its some sort of sandwich. Dinner is usually some sort of meat dish, chicken, pork, beef... usually with veggies and stuff... Should I be taking vitamins on top of that to cover stuff I might be missing? |
Diet is key. Your body uses energy to metabolize what you put in it, so logically the more you eat, the faster your metabolism works. Starving yourself or not eating frequently enough puts your body into fat storage mode...so you want to be eating every 3-4 hours or so...or 4-6 smaller meals a day. Eat protein at every meal if you can. Limit starchier carbs to the morning, and have salads with every lunch and dinner.
This is basically how I eat:
At breakfast I do eggs/egg whites (omelets, scrambled, on toast, etc.), oatmeal, Kashi cereal (I like Go Lean, it's full of protein), protein shakes, or cottage cheese with fruit. Oh and I buy bread from the health food store...gluten freen or whatever. I make oatmeal pancakes with a scoop of protein powder sometimes too. Peanut butter and banana sandwiches are alright too...but I don't eat them very often. Peanut butter counts as a serving of fat.
Then you can have cottage cheese or some fruit (if you didn't already have fruit at breakfast) as your second meal.
Lunch time I usually have chicken, fish, or steak...a veggie to go with it like asparagus, broccoli, brussels sprouts, or green beans; half a sweet potato - mashed, baked, whatever way - and a small salad. Wraps are good, so are stir fries. Just have to remember that the wrap/rice/whatever counts as your carb serving. I like chicken caesar salads for lunch...and wraps!
Next meal I have a protein shake again.
Dinner is similar to lunch, but no carbs. So like, steak, chicken, or fish with a big serving of veggies, and a salad. I also make taco salads, or shrimp skewers...stuff like that. Just no starchy carbs (bread, potatoes, rice, etc.).
I don't use sugar on anything. I put cinnamon on my fruit and in my cereal instead...and it tastes so ing good. I don't really drink a lot of juice, rarely drink pop. Water water water. I *sometimes* use sweetener in my tea or coffee...but rarely. I eat full fat cottage cheese and drink 2% milk...cause lower fat stuff has higher carb content. I don't use a lot of condiments cause they're full of sugar. Mustard and/or mayo only, and real butter not margarine. I make my own salad dressings, too. Plain old oil and balsamic vinegar most days.
Canned tuna or salmon on salads works at lunch and dinner as well. Sliced egg is also yummy on salads.
Oh and serving sizes, as a general rule, should be about the size of your fist. |
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| zeKsg |
Eating greens = key. The rest depends on your goals....
I see some people really diet in here, for me that would mean no beer regularly... :nervous: :nervous: :nervous:
On the other note, does anybody feel way more hungry after midday and towards the evening. On the contrary it is in the morning where you can eat meals with more carbs in them... Seems like when I should be eating I am not hungry but when I shouldn't be the hunger kicks in so I have to consume tons of protein to kill the hunger :/ Fruits help a lot too... |
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| Silky Johnson |
Fruits are full of natural sugar though...so while they're good for you and you need them, they're gonna spike your blood glucose and make you hungrier in the long run.
You want to eat stuff that fills you up and takes longer to digest, because you'll stay fuller longer, and your body will be using energy more efficiently. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
i cant even imagine giving up bread with a lot of meals... I love horrible, horrible, white bread... :p
I have lately been tending to not eat full meals during the day, just like crackers and cheese or something randomly, or meat on crackers or a yogurt... no full sit downs during the day till dinner.
Half the other time when i feel hungry I take a nap... thats probably not healthy in a lot of ways though. :p |
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| chach |
| I'd have you 20lbs down in a month nou. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Yeah dude that's not good for you at all. Gotta eat!! And give up white bread!! That is the devil! |
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| Zild |
| quote: | Originally posted by chach
I'd have you 20lbs down in a month nou. |
hell yea we have you bro |
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| chach |
| I honestly don't even like the taste of white bread anymore. Only if it's white mountian bread that is so good. |
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| chach |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zild
hell yea we have you bro |
lol you were in my ed up dream last night hahah was so hilarious. |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
Diet is key. Your body uses energy to metabolize what you put in it, so logically the more you eat, the faster your metabolism works. Starving yourself or not eating frequently enough puts your body into fat storage mode...so you want to be eating every 3-4 hours or so...or 4-6 smaller meals a day. Eat protein at every meal if you can. Limit starchier carbs to the morning, and have salads with every lunch and dinner.
This is basically how I eat:
At breakfast I do eggs/egg whites (omelets, scrambled, on toast, etc.), oatmeal, Kashi cereal (I like Go Lean, it's full of protein), protein shakes, or cottage cheese with fruit. Oh and I buy bread from the health food store...gluten freen or whatever. I make oatmeal pancakes with a scoop of protein powder sometimes too. Peanut butter and banana sandwiches are alright too...but I don't eat them very often. Peanut butter counts as a serving of fat.
Then you can have cottage cheese or some fruit (if you didn't already have fruit at breakfast) as your second meal.
Lunch time I usually have chicken, fish, or steak...a veggie to go with it like asparagus, broccoli, brussels sprouts, or green beans; half a sweet potato - mashed, baked, whatever way - and a small salad. Wraps are good, so are stir fries. Just have to remember that the wrap/rice/whatever counts as your carb serving. I like chicken caesar salads for lunch...and wraps!
Next meal I have a protein shake again.
Dinner is similar to lunch, but no carbs. So like, steak, chicken, or fish with a big serving of veggies, and a salad. I also make taco salads, or shrimp skewers...stuff like that. Just no starchy carbs (bread, potatoes, rice, etc.).
I don't use sugar on anything. I put cinnamon on my fruit and in my cereal instead...and it tastes so ing good. I don't really drink a lot of juice, rarely drink pop. Water water water. I *sometimes* use sweetener in my tea or coffee...but rarely. I eat full fat cottage cheese and drink 2% milk...cause lower fat stuff has higher carb content. I don't use a lot of condiments cause they're full of sugar. Mustard and/or mayo only, and real butter not margarine. I make my own salad dressings, too. Plain old oil and balsamic vinegar most days.
Canned tuna or salmon on salads works at lunch and dinner as well. Sliced egg is also yummy on salads.
Oh and serving sizes, as a general rule, should be about the size of your fist. |
i need to start eating eggs again |
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| Silky Johnson |
| I never liked the taste of white bread. Never ever had that growing up. My dad always bought nice rye from the European bakery. Mmmmmmmm. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
i need to start eating eggs again |
man...you can eat them any time of day!! Eggs are so ftw. OM NOM NOM. |
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