What should i be eating?

[Player]

Hi all, i am new to the forum and would like to say Hi to everyone and say thanks for the warm welcome.

I consider myself to be pretty fit. I bike about 14 miles a day and attend the gym 3 times a week. I am a sucker for bread and i'm really trying to cut it down but don't know what to eat instead.

My main problem is i don't know how to balance carbs with protein. I have read you should have twice the ammount of carbs than protein.

My initial goal is to be lean with muscle but i don't want to be big and bulky the same as i don't want to be skinny (not much chance of that)

I'm 5f11 and weigh just over 14 stone. My frames medium and my doctor reckons i should be 11 and a half to 12. I think this would make me under weight.

Can some recommend some kind of a diet i can stick to, to get the results i want. At the moment i am trying to stick to the following:

breakfast: 2 whole meal slices of bread with 2 poached eggs and a few beans. A protein drink

At work: bowl of pasta and tuna with salsa sauce. 1 x banana

Tea: Meat and veg

If it's a gym day i have a protein shake before and after the gym instead of a meal.

Any help would be apreciated as i would love to know how to eat properly and if i knew that what i was eating would be benificial it would be easier to stick to. I need some new ideas as pasta gets sooooo boring.

Thanks for reading peeps

 

[Twenty Inch]

Your diet looks pretty monotonous. You need to mix it up more, staying away from junk food. Get a good cook book.

 

[dudi]

5'11 at 12st wouldnt put you under-weight.
I'm 6'1" and have dropped from 14'12 to 11'13 since the new year and I dont seem underweight or emaciated at all.

Can't help on the food science thing though. I've always jus eaten whatever I wanted and worked it off/got fat afterwards...

My only advice is to eat a wide variety of foods. I'm fortunate in that my wife enjoys cooking, and cook books. so I get quite varied meals in the evening, but when left to my own devices it's proddige and ham sarnies all the way...

Best of luck with the weight loss, and I would imagine that you will end up lean and mean within a year if you stick to it...

 

[yenrod]

Hi all, i am new to the forum and would like to say Hi to everyone and say thanks for the warm welcome.

I consider myself to be pretty fit. I bike about 14 miles a day and attend the gym 3 times a week. I am a sucker for bread and i'm really trying to cut it down but don't know what to eat instead.

My main problem is i don't know how to balance carbs with protein. I have read you should have twice the ammount of carbs than protein.

My initial goal is to be lean with muscle but i don't want to be big and bulky the same as i don't want to be skinny (not much chance of that)

I'm 5f11 and weigh just over 14 stone. My frames medium and my doctor reckons i should be 11 and a half to 12. I think this would make me under weight.

Can some recommend some kind of a diet i can stick to, to get the results i want. At the moment i am trying to stick to the following:

breakfast: 2 whole meal slices of bread with 2 poached eggs and a few beans. A protein drink

At work: bowl of pasta and tuna with salsa sauce. 1 x banana

Tea: Meat and veg

If it's a gym day i have a protein shake before and after the gym instead of a meal.

Any help would be apreciated as i would love to know how to eat properly and if i knew that what i was eating would be benificial it would be easier to stick to. I need some new ideas as pasta gets sooooo boring.

Thanks for reading peeps

I personally would lighten the b.fast with a cereal and toast..other than that looks good to me.

Dont forget the vegetables - something Ive paid attetion to recently !

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

..my filossofee is to eat wtf I want ...but I tend to want to eat carbs before a ride and protien after a ride, always with lots of water and green tea. I try to cut out bread as it bloats my stomache, porrideg everyday for brekky, then ride , then some ham, tuna, eggs anything like that...then dinner later which is usually a healthy home cooked dinner from the mrs...lots of salad etc

Big no goes 4 me are fry ups, cheese and booze....but I do all those once in a blue moon still, then ride twice as far the next day.

 

[Player]

Thanks for all your advice. It's pointed me a bit more in the right direction. I need to have a bit more variety me thinks.
I had bran flakes this morning which wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be, and have red salmon on wholemeal bread
I thought the best time to eat was in the morning hence the eggs and beans on toast but to be honest i sometimes feel podged which effects my cycle to work. I felt a hell of a lot better this morning and gave it my all resulting in me having a good quick run to work
As for the gym i do, do more reps and not so much weight as my mate. I also go swimming too.
Thanks for all the advice guys, this has certainly gave me something to think about.

Thanks

John

 

[Player]

..my filossofee is to eat wtf I want ...but I tend to want to eat carbs before a ride and protien after a ride, always with lots of water and green tea. I try to cut out bread as it bloats my stomache, porrideg everyday for brekky, then ride , then some ham, tuna, eggs anything like that...then dinner later which is usually a healthy home cooked dinner from the mrs...lots of salad etc

Big no goes 4 me are fry ups, cheese and booze....but I do all those once in a blue moon still, then ride twice as far the next day.

Are you really a big tall fat bloke, big tall fat bloke?

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Don't think he is any more. He's a seasoned tourer now, with 1000s of miles under his (now) ill-fitting belt.

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

Are you really a big tall fat bloke, big tall fat bloke?

..no, not compared to what I used to be. Today i am 6' 3" and 95 kilos which is around 15/4 I think.

I still want to lose another stone or two though...but it's these two that are toughest...the last 6 stone were easy.

 

[Tharg2007]

KEBABS!!!

 

[Player]

..no, not compared to what I used to be. Today i am 6' 3" and 95 kilos which is around 15/4 I think.

I still want to lose another stone or two though...but it's these two that are toughest...the last 6 stone were easy.

I find that when i get to 13 and a half it's really tough loosing more. The best i have got to was 13s 3lbs.

You have done well to loose that much. One question, what kind of stuff was you doing/not doing to be that weight in the first place?

 

[gratts]

You mentioned wholemeal bread, but cut out any processed, refined junk..i.e white bread, white pasta and white rice and replace with brown or wholemeal. It's a helluva lot better.

 

[Player]

You mentioned wholemeal bread, but cut out any processed, refined junk..i.e white bread, white pasta and white rice and replace with brown or wholemeal. It's a helluva lot better.

I have replaced bread with brown and pasta with wholemeal pasta and i'm not enjoying the pasta. The bread i'm fine with. I need some pasta idea's and some rice dish idea's