Starting a Diet...

[xazraelx]

Okay, well, this is really so that I have an online copy, but criticism is welcome.

I've recently started thinking about health, I never really worried about it up until I messed up metabolism in college and never recovered. So, anyway, I'm more-so starting a record of what I am eating, and slowly trying to move toward a 4-6 light meals a day plan. I know what I'm eating is unhealthy, and I need some work on some areas (Ie, fruits and veggies...I really only like apples and lima beans). While I'm home from college, parents always make supper, so that won't change too much - I just need to start controlling the portion size. I've also not had time in the morning to make usual fruit/veggie/flax/nectar smoothie (Vitamix is amazing, everyone), but anyway.

Flame, support, view, or disregard. I accept anything

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  Tuesday, July 17th
  
  Wake up: 8:00
  Two egg omelet with a slice of cheddar cheese. 9:00
  Glass of pink lemonade. 9:00
  Diet Mountain Dew 2:00
  Two glasses of pink lemonade (wyley’s) 7:00
  Hamburger (1/2 lb) with two slices of cheese, Dijon mustard, and ketchup 7:00
  Pepsi 10:30
  Glass of Edy’s Chocolate Ice Cream mixed with three Andes mints and milk 8:00
  
  Going to bed 1:25 AM
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  Wednesday, July 18th
  
  Wake up: 8:28
  Slim-Fast 8:40
  3 Pieces of Pepperoni Pizza 2:00
  2 Cokes 2:00
  Diet Mountain Dew 6:00
  Home-made Chicken Pie 8:00
  1.5 Servings white rice with light butter 8:00
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  Thursday, July 19th
  
  Wake up: 9:10
  Slim-Fast: 10:30
  Ceaser Chicken Salad with no Ceasar but Italian instead 1:15
  1x Pepsi with lunch 1:15
  Two handfuls of peanuts 3:00
  Salad 6:50
  Chicken Pie (yes, yes, mother made this one) 7:15
  3x Glasses of water with dinner 7:15
  Bed 11:00

Should I include workout times as well as what I do in this, or keep it strictly nutritional? I'm trying to workout every other day at least, for about an hour and a half.
I will be continuously editing this to see if I'm getting somewhat successful at lowering portions and eating more meals, and maybe throw into the bit-more-healthy side of food...Thanks for your time,

Will

[swanso5]

- mix veggies, salads and fruits with other foods if you don't like them such as sandwitches, smoothies and stir frys with various sauces
- have breaky as soon as you get up and add fruit to it
- diet is not good mate, you need food not soft drink

small food crash course for ya

protein sources - chicken, turkey, red meat, tuna, fish, yoghurt, cottage cheese, eggs, powder...everytime you eat you need one of these...doesn't matter which one just have one everytime you eat

carbs - fruit, veggies, salad, brown rice, brown bread, whole wheat pasta are your best options

fats - almonds, walnuts, fish oil, avocado, fish, tuna...don't add too much in as you'll bet most from protein sources but fish oil is gold

easiest way to go is to half of your meals of fruit and protein than have the second half of protein, veg, salad and just add fats every second meal or so

don't make it to complicated start off simple with something like this and it should be easily sustainable...aim for 4 meals a day for starters...every 5 days add in another meal...force feed yourself a little if you have to..evenly space and evenly portion all meals...drink nothing but water...i think it would be best if you planned your meals a day in advance so you know exactly what you need to prepare etc so you don't have to miss anything

[xazraelx]

Thank you very much for the reply, though I have a question. smoothies in the morning in place of breakfast, I was on a good roll there for a couple weeks with those...is that a bad idea because body would rather have food, or is it decent? The smoothies would naturally include flax, cabbage, carrots, nectar, strawberries, banana, and sometimes some other things.

I definitely like the idea of planning the meals a day ahead...I haven't thought about that, but it makes sense. It wouldn't do any harm to prepare the foods a day ahead also, would it? IE, making a grilled chicken salad the day before.

Also, you say to evenly portion and stack each meal so that they are similar in quantity/etc, so that means I that morning meals should NOT be bigger than night meals, correct?

I'm a huge fan of fish (mainly salmon), but where do I get fish oil from? Are those the pills that people are taking, or is there a certain supplement I can add to food.

As for eggs, does it matter how I cook them? For example, is a 2 egg omelet with a slice of cheese in the morning worse than two eggs over easy, or what? Also, does a baked potato count as a vegetable or is it too starch-based?

As for working out, I'm just continuing learning process, but I do have an every-other-day routine going on for now. At least I feel better

Thanks again, and apologies for the many questions, I do appreciate your help.

Will

[Boss Man]

First day.

Don't have two whole Eggs. I yolk only.

Chedder, make it Low Fat. Low Fat has approximately 50/50 Saturate, unsaturate split.

I suggest a bowl of Cereal, or some Fruit wiht a resonably high GI, like Banana. Get a proper Bloodsugar spike first thing. You need it.

Also why did you eat nothing between 9:00AM and 7:00PM? You're seriously using up Muscle mass to replace Cals for energy, and that's no good for the Metabolism.

Oh and yes a Potato is known as a Tuber, owing to I believe it's ability to grow from itself. If you've ever seen one, with what looks like little nodes, nodules, sprout type things on them, those are almost certainly little embryonic Potatos.

Though in general they are Veggies, when classified. Tuber being probably a sub-classification.

Day 2, needs no comment. It critiques itself by default

[swanso5]

- food is better than smoothies but smoothies are better than nothing
- as long as the meals are planned you can cook them the next day if yuo have the time which would be better
- you can breakfast a little bigger as it should be the biggest but not at the expense of missing your next meal
- fish oil gel caps are stocked at chemist's, supermarkets, health food shops...pretty easy to find...if your not sure what one to get ask someone there
- eggs can be had anyway but fried
- potatioes are probably the worse veg but if you have for meal 2 or 3 than it should be alright in moderation