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Originally Posted by J pold
I always find this type of information very useful but also extremely overwhelming, every where you turn someone has something to say about supplements, diet, exercise etc.
I'll toss it out to your guys I'm 6'4 205, I'm a pretty in shape guy and have been working out on and off for 3 years. Right now I'm going to the gym at 1.5 hours a day 6 days a week doing the P90x program. I always try and have a constant diet but it's hard to maintain. Right now my typical day looks like this:
Wake up 8:30 Breakfast: Either a couple of eggs on toast, peanut butter on toast, or yogurt and cottage cheese.
I bring a large mixture of almonds, carrots, and crasins that I eat throughout the day.
I normally get home around 3 when I make a salad of spinach, tuna, and cottage cheese.
Than for dinner I eat some combination of pasta or rice, chicken or fish.
After that I just go back to eating Almonds, carrots, crasins, or blueberries until I go to bed.
The only supplement I take is a recovery drink after I work out (normally around 10 every morning) called ISOFLEX. I'd like to gain some lean muscle and lose a bit of weight (around 200 pounds)
If someone can make any sort of recommendation as to what I should or shouldn't being doing that would be great, thanks in advance.
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It can be a little overwhelming, but you just kind of have to tinker with it until you find the right combination. It took me a while to get the right diet down that was allowing me to shed fat but also giving me enough energy to finish my workouts. If you're trying to burn fat, load up on fats and protein and cut down on the carbs. My diet usually looks like this:
7 AM - 3 eggs, 3 strips of thick cut bacon, 1/2 cup of salsa
10 AM - 1 large banana
Noon - Low-carb protein powder + 8 oz. Almond milk (I use this stuff
http://www.kaizenprotein.com/nutrition.html)
2:30 PM - 20 almonds + 50-75g of cheese
4:30 PM - workout
6 PM - Post-workout shake (same as the lunch shake)
7 PM - 300g of Meat + low-starch vegetables (i.e. broccoli, asparagus, green beans, salad)
This works out to about 1800-1900 calories/day. The % ratio of fat: protein:carbs is approximately 45:40:15.
Judging from your height and weight, I don't think you need to lose any weight. I'm 5'8 170 lbs, which equals out to approximately the same BMI as you (25). Technically, over 24.9 BMI = overweight, if you take BMI really seriously (I don't because it doesn't calculate bone structure and muscle mass). That being said, if you eat like this and workout as much as you do, you should be burning fat like crazy.
I also take omega-3 fish oil pills as a suppliments and drink about half a gallon of water everyday. Right now I'm actually trying to just gain strength and muscle so I'm eating a few more carbs than normal so I can get through the program I do. When I was doing this diet back in the fall with a low-weight, high-rep workout (+ 20-30 min of cardio each workout), I was burning fat like crazy.