1SmoothTE

Hi everyone!

This is my 1st post so any suggestions are much appreciated. I currently live an extremely busy life!

I live a busy schedule. A typical day includes 8 hours of work (travelling salesman), an hour spent with my best bud (my German Shepherd Layla), 1 hour at Gold's Gym, and then 3 days of week I have school!

Add to all that I am married and a dedicated husband. We do not have children yet, nor are we planning to have any.

Additionally I play semi-pro football in the fall.

All of this and I am dedicated to keeping fit and building a better more toned body.

I read several magazines and many of them reccomend 6 meals a day. With my schedule, how in the hell do I find the time to prepare and eat those meals. It is so tough to eat right as well. Fast food is so convenient and doesn't take up my team with meal preparation.

I realize that the bottom line is I need to find time to prepare meals. I would love to hear other people's stories on how they manage their busy lives yet still maintain a strict diet that promotes muscle growth. Thanks for the replies!!

Eric In North Carolina

Stuff about me:
6'2" 220 lbs.
26 year old male

P-funk

Protein shakes are great if you are in a rush. I like preparing all my meals the night before or all my meal for the week on sunday. I cook a whole bunch of brown rice and sweetpotatos and just keep them in the fridge and use them all week. Cook your meals on sunday and freeze them. then take them out the night before you need them and let them thaw out. Just some suggestions. If I find that I am really stuck and have to resort to fast food I try and find a deli with a salad bar and get some tuna or chicken salad. (but i really make sure this happen ever)

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Yanick

Shakes, bar, coolers, ice etc can all be used to eat on a busy schedule.

Like funky said, make the meals the night before and in the morning just throw them in a bag/cooler or something.

As far as preperation time goes, bb'ing meals are pretty fast/easy to make unless you want to get really complicated. Tuna + mayo or oil and an apple is a nice balanced meal that will take literally 5 minutes to make. Things like chicken breasts and sweet potatoes can be made the night before. You can also hardboil a dozen eggs and keep them in that packaging they come in and eat them at your desk at work.

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Dr. Pain

Welcome to the board

DP

Showdown

Outside sales = Carrying a big cooler wherever I go. It's my daily companion, in the office or out.

It's not just a sport, it's a lifestyle!

Prince

Welcome to IM!

This is not that different than what many of us live. You have to be dedicated to the lifestyle. Your diet is a very important key that cannot be compromised.

Meal 1: You can prepare and eat at home
Meal 2: This can be a good protein bar (Detour bars are great)
Meal 3: If you travel this could be a meal you prepared the night before, or choose a healthy restaurant to eat at.
Meal 4: This could be a MRP (you can have the powder in a shaker bottle, then add water)
Meal 5: Hopefully you're home by now, otherwise maybe another protein bar.
Meal 6: You should definitely be home by now, prepare a meal.

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Jodi

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Like everyone else, on Sunday's I make a bunch of chicken, ground beef or ground turkey with my spices, brown rice, sweet potatoes and keep them sealed tight in tupperware in the fridge or freezer. Then the night before I take out what I'm gonna eat the next day, weigh it pack it in my cooler. At first it seems so inconvenient and time consuming but once you get a system it takes no time at all and with everything prepared you can have a good healthy meal in a flash. I also carry small bags of Protein powder in my truck so in case I'm really stuck as well!

Good Luck and Welcome!

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olusco

Every dedicated gym rat does the same thing prepare your food on weekends for the week then you are all set to go. Do not complain cause most us go to school, work, have kids, play sports and still manage 3 times a week in the gym. if I can do it you can.

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