Help fix my diet

[GodlikeRoy]

[Twelver]

[Molina]

When I started this thread:



I was probably 13/14 stone (I'm 5'8).

I think I got to a mental place where I wanted to lose and weight and didn't care how annoying it was.

My diet became around 1000 calories per day, consisting of two meals a day, 70% of meals each week being

100g boiled rice
half can of chick peas
half can of tuna
1 small onion fried in a small amount of olive oil
shit loads of herbs and spices - oregano, loads of coriander, cumin, tarragon, mustards
seeds, tandoori powder, crushed chillis. Not
necessarily all at the same time

In addition I did 7 miles on the exercise bike five times a week on setting 4-5 (between 1 and 9) and hit my multigym like a beast, while doing 20 leg lifts and press-ups three times a day.

I pretty much did that for about 3 months solid. I'd have to set saturday aside (after drinking on Friday night) to each what I want as I'd start to feel a little food crazy, though it's not like I bingedon ice cream and chips either, it was more normal food rather than zero fat food.

I've eased of a bit the past month or two. While my original diet/exercise thing was fairly extreme and I was hungry a lot of the time, though you get used to it. Plus, I'm a big believer in that diets should be unpleasant. I think dieting is a means to an end (getting in shape), unlike most people who are so pleased that they're on a diet and that everythings okay because they're within the process.

IMO, dieting/losing weight shouldn't be fun because you are still not in the shape you want to be. Once a person decides they want to reduce to a certain size/shape, there's nothing to be smug about until you acheive that goal. The diet is part of the process and not a goal.

I've known plenty of people who complain about a diet they're on where they eating 1750 calories a day ( for a man) and exercising 3 times a week for the bare minimum period. It would take them AGES to lose weight to a decent degree, which they needn't worry about because they then spend Friday and Saturday nights drinking a combined total of about 5000 calories, plus takeaway and completey nullifying the previous weeks 'effort'.

But anyways, all I can say is that what I said I did has resulted in me losing a noticeable amount of weight, though I dunno how much I weight now. I've lost about 4 inches off the waist, put on a good amount of muscle (though not unnecessary bulk) and no longer look fat and out of shape. There's probably another stone in weight to go .

Just my 497469223478768658 cents

Molina

[Xaston]

Go on AIM. I know a lot about performance nutrition and excersize physiology, and my roommate knows more about it than I do about poker (seriously).

[Molina]

[GodlikeRoy]

[Xaston]

[UWPg]

[GodlikeRoy]

[shamdonk]

[Girevik]

[JJSCOTT2]

[sondring]

Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar. Keep intake to levels that will support exercise but not body fat. Practice and train major lifts: Deadlift, clean, squat, presses, C&J, and snatch. Similarly, master the basics of gymnastics: pull-ups, dips, rope climb, push-ups, sit-ups, presses to handstand, pirouettes, flips, splits, and holds. Bike, run, swim, row, etc, hard and fast. Five or six days per week mix these elements in as many combinations and patterns as creativity will allow. Routine is the enemy. Keep workouts short and intense. Regularly learn and play new sports.

and read this: http://www.crossfit.com/cf-download/CFJ-trial.pdf

[Tyrannic]

Chicken TIkka and Nan!!!!!

[GodlikeRoy]