diet

[Elwood]

Hello all, I had a question concerning a cutting diet...I am currently 200lbs, 5'10 and 21 years of age. I am currently doing 3-4x /week of cardio and on the opposite days I lift. I do however want to lose about 15-20lbs bodyfat and if some muscle goes with it, so be it. Any help with some good daily diets would be great and I have bought some good foods' recently.

for instance today I had the following:

meal 1:
2 eggo waffles (whole wheat), some surup
glass of orangejuice and water

meal 2:
chicken breast on a whole wheat bagel with some light marg.
banana and carrots
glass of water

snack 1:
some non salt/roasted peanuts

meal 3:
non-yoke egg noodles, with chicken and veggies and some pasta sauce
glass of water

meal 4:
3 egg whites
few glasses of water

snack 2:
some non salt/roasted peanuts

I need to try and get cardio in on the morning before eating anything I know, and I am keeping my carbs down after 7pm.

thanks

 

[Arnold]

Doesn't look too bad. You should add some protein to meal 1.

Have you calculated your BMR, and counted any calories yet?

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train hard!

 

[Elwood]

Have you calculated your BMR, and counted any calories yet?

Well I counted cals, pros, fats and carbs on my meal from sunday and people said it was way too low for cals, and needed to up the protein, thats where I'm not sure what I should be at, nor am I that hungry anymore.

Could you help me out with calculating my BMR? heh, not sure what it is...

 

[Arnold]

read this post:

http://www.ironmagazine.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000128.html



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train hard!

 

[Elwood]

ok so I am say (14)x200 = 2800 calories. But I don't want to keep my current weight, therefore do I increase my intake or decrease it by say 500 or so?

 

[Arnold]

It takes 3500 calories to burn one pound of fat. A safe amount of weight to lose is one pound per week.

So, reduce the calories and/or increase your cardio to burn or drop 500 calories per day, and you will lose one pound per week.

If you have a solid diet, high in protein and you're lifting weights, you should be able lose fat only.

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train hard!

[This message has been edited by Prince (edited 03-27-2001).]

 

[Elwood]

If you have a solid diet, high in protein and you're lifting weights, you should be able lose fat only.

Well my diet isn't going to bad, i'm around 2000 calories/day and cardio is about 3x/week as well as lifting. I guess I just need to try and get the cardio in before eating anything (morning) to burn calories stored in fat cells right?

What about carbs after a certain time, how long a period should you not eat anymore carbs when trying to lose bf, 2-3hrs before bedtime?

thanks

 

[MtnBikerChk]

We've tried to stop eating carbs after 3 - but it's tough. Mostly we've just cut WAY back. And it's making a huge difference. I lost 4 pounds since we started doing that like 3 weeks ago.

Try it, if it works for you, stick with it, if not - try something else!!

 

[Elwood]

I lost 4 pounds since we started doing that like 3 weeks ago.

Thats pretty sweet, I wouldn't mind aiming for that goal myself. You need carbs before you workout correct? (energy source) but then after this period try and cut them back? that is pretty hard, last time I checked I was about 200-300g carb/day, not sure if thats good or not...with calories around 1800-2300 and fats low.