Thread: critique my diet

Originally Posted by Jzilla

I dunno what i'm doing wrong but from jan-march i lost 20 pounds. I went from 235 to 215, ever since I've been fluxuating from 210-215 i just can't get anymore fat off me.

You need to drop calories more. You are now eating at maintenance.

Originally Posted by Jzilla

I diet and train mon-fri and on sat, sun I dont overly cheat.

FitDay - Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal track your food, post up your average calories, include the cheats.

Originally Posted by Jzilla

heres what i've been doing:

Breakfast 8:00am
Bowl of go lean + either 1 sliced banana or 5-6 sliced strawberrys & a half cup of fat free cottage cheese.

Pre weight training 9:00am
2 scoops of muscle tech low carb protien & L-Glutamine.

Ditch the glutamine, eat some toast.

Originally Posted by Jzilla

weight training

Post weight training 10:00am
2 scoops of muscle tech low carb protien & an apple or silces of pineapple.

More carb here, starches, oats, rice, something like that.

Originally Posted by Jzilla

start work 10:30

First break between 12-1:00pm
can of lemon pepper tuna & veggies ( brocoli, carrots, celery ).

Needs some fats

Originally Posted by Jzilla

Lunch/Cardio 2:30-3:30pm
30 min Cardio
Chicken breast & brown pasta with healthy request tomato sauce or brown rice with hot sauce and a serving of veggies uselly canned green beans or canned peas ( i eat the meal pretty much right at 3:30).

Move this to right after your post-workout protein shake.

Originally Posted by Jzilla

Last break 5:15pm
handfull of mixed nuts ( brazil nuts, peanuts and sunflower seeds ) and carrot sticks maybe a few pretzels.


Dinner 7:30-8:00pm
this meal really varies - I try and eat chicken or turkey 3 times red meat 1 time and fish 1 time from mon-fri. I uselly have salad and veggies on the side or incorporated into the meal like in pasta, stirfry ect and I always have a glass of skim milk.

Snack 9:30-10pm

1 scoops of muscle tech low carb protien & nuts or pretzels.


why im plateaued at this weight I can't figure out, any help is much appreciated.

Like I said, track on fitday. We need calories, total grams fat, carb, protein.

Whats your daily consumption of Calories?
Whats your daily consumption of Protien?
Are you taking any Vitamens?
Any supplements?
How much water do you drink a day?

If you want to drop more weight, drop your calories daily, a good example of this is if your on a 200 callorie diet, drop the diet down to 1500, you just droped 500 Calories a day, your body sets itself in a routine, lowering the intake shoves it out of the routine. The body will start to consume the fat, and some muscle in order to replace the calories not being fed to your body.
Make sure you drink enough water. You make here that diet is a big part of bodybuilding, its true, but its even a bigger part of losing weight. Try cutting your daily calorie intake by 500, if you do that, see how it works for a month, I think it will work great for you. If that isn't good enough, cut it some more.

Here is what I would do if I had the same goals as you. I would cut out 500 Calories and see how much I lose in one month. If I don't lose the amount I like, I would cut a bit more out. You can keep doing this until you get to your ideal weight. Also, it sounds like your working out a lot. People think they are going to pack on all this muscle and lose all this weight at the same time, it dosen't work like that. You can lose weight while working out but you end up losing a lot of muscle mass with it, this is from personal expierence. Focus on one, tailor your Diet and workout around ether losing fat or putting on muscle, it makes it much easer for you.

I would lok into one of those fat burning programs, there on tv all the time. I think one of them said that it can burn 1000 or 2000 calories a hour? Thats a lot in such a little amount of time, look into this maybe. Also, if you focus on losing fat without the muscle gain, you don't have to worry about any new gains being lost, so you can do more Cardio. The more Cardio would promote more weight loss.

I hope this helps you.
Jered

Originally Posted by Built

You need to drop calories more. You are now eating at maintenance.

FitDay - Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal track your food, post up your average calories, include the cheats.

Ditch the glutamine, eat some toast.

More carb here, starches, oats, rice, something like that.


Needs some fats


Move this to right after your post-workout protein shake.


Like I said, track on fitday. We need calories, total grams fat, carb, protein.

thx for the help, ill post everything tonight when i get home.

Originally Posted by dreadhead01

Whats your daily consumption of Calories?
Whats your daily consumption of Protien?
Are you taking any Vitamens?
Any supplements?
How much water do you drink a day?

If you want to drop more weight, drop your calories daily, a good example of this is if your on a 200 callorie diet, drop the diet down to 1500, you just droped 500 Calories a day, your body sets itself in a routine, lowering the intake shoves it out of the routine. The body will start to consume the fat, and some muscle in order to replace the calories not being fed to your body.
Make sure you drink enough water. You make here that diet is a big part of bodybuilding, its true, but its even a bigger part of losing weight. Try cutting your daily calorie intake by 500, if you do that, see how it works for a month, I think it will work great for you. If that isn't good enough, cut it some more.

Here is what I would do if I had the same goals as you. I would cut out 500 Calories and see how much I lose in one month. If I don't lose the amount I like, I would cut a bit more out. You can keep doing this until you get to your ideal weight. Also, it sounds like your working out a lot. People think they are going to pack on all this muscle and lose all this weight at the same time, it dosen't work like that. You can lose weight while working out but you end up losing a lot of muscle mass with it, this is from personal expierence. Focus on one, tailor your Diet and workout around ether losing fat or putting on muscle, it makes it much easer for you.

I would lok into one of those fat burning programs, there on tv all the time. I think one of them said that it can burn 1000 or 2000 calories a hour? Thats a lot in such a little amount of time, look into this maybe. Also, if you focus on losing fat without the muscle gain, you don't have to worry about any new gains being lost, so you can do more Cardio. The more Cardio would promote more weight loss.

I hope this helps you.
Jered

I really dont overly workout, its just i have a gym at work and a desk job so i perfer to cut my weight trainging and cardio to 2 sessions so i feel more energized during the day. Ill post again tonight when i get home. I know i drink enough water other than muscle tech protien and L-gluteamine pills I dont take anything else. I really want to do this semi naturally with the least amount of suppliments that i can.

The glutamine is seriously doing nothing. You already get plenty of it in your diet, AND your body can make its own. Protein is just food. You are entirely natural, trust me.