Thread: I'm fucking braindead tonight, but what sort of eating habits do you have?

I have an ideal meal plan for every day of the week:

breakfast: cottage cheese, canned peaches(in water)
lunch: sandwich on whole wheat bread and a bunch of carrots
dinner: broiled chicken and vegetables

So that is what I would like to eat every day. My breakfast is usually consistent, I'll usually substitute the sandwich for some other sort of carbs though, and the dinner is pretty consistent too. I didn't originally intend to do it like this and this is my diet for losing weight, not maintaining, so in a few months or whatever I imagine this will be changing a bit. At my prime with this diet while I was running I was losing 2-3 pounds per week.

Truthfully though, I cheat a lot. I'm smart about it though, I cut calories out if I need to and I've learned to portion everything so I never eat too much. If you add up all the calories from my ideal plan it only comes to around 1200 calories so I have a lot of wiggle room.

i don't pay too much attention to what i eat, which is some kind of cardinal sin, i suppose. i used to be worse for it, eating only off the snack truck that drove past the factory for lunch breaks and whatnot, but after eating grease for a couple months i started just feeling grosser than what i was consuming.

so i started making a point of eating fruits and vegetables (well, more fruits than veggies but whatever), making my own lunches and being pretty strict about it (whole wheat bread, turkey meat, lettuce, a little cheese, no mayo or butter) and having one of those for lunches. I allowed for a cheat a day, partly because i was uncertain about my will power, but the caveat was that the cheat could not come from the snack truck at work, so it would usually end up being something like a bagel from tim horton's or something like that.

now i don't have so much control over my food. my aunt and uncle are vegetarians and very careful about being as organic and/or natural as possible with their food. it seems like everyone here knows the person, and the chickens, where they get their eggs, they usually make their own granola and preserves and whatnot, so i know that the food i eat isn't unhealthy, i just haven't seized control over portion sizes (I think I've gained weight, but it's hard to say without a scale) or what exactly goes into the food, but i'm pretty content with it all being homemade and wholesome in that regard, at least.

Beer is horrible for workouts. I can't even think about drinking any on a cutting cycle, and I have to be moderate in bulking cycles too. A couple weekends of drinking and my normally relatively flat stomach goes on vacation. That's why if I want to drink I drink liquor

My saving grace was cutting out soda. I was a big soda drinker, and now I drink soda like once every 2 months or so now, and I think that has helped a lot. It is also surprising how much good adding lemon juice to your water does. I lose an extra pound or two a week when I am on cutting cycles if I add the lemon juice. I don't know the science behind it, and it may be psychosomatic, but it has worked for me.

Tis quite helpful. If you really need the caffeine you can take a pill or drink coffee of something.

I'm trying to bulk up so I just eat a lot of chicken, eggs, fruit and drink a hell of a lot of milk. Also stuff like PB, cottage cheese, Tuna and Potatoes. I need to start eating more vegetables.

And stop eating pizza and drinking beer too, can't see that happening.

Pizza isn't so bad, so long as it isn't like uber-greasy and fatty.

Well I'm kind of addicted to Dominos Pizza and it seems pretty greasy to me.

I ordered delivery pizza yesterday. I feel gross today, but oh man was it delicious.

I feel great afterward. Of course, today I will spend like 6 hours in the gym to make up for it (ok, probably not 6 because I am still sick, but probably 3-4), but yesterday I was feeling groovy.

That is probably the difference between someone who has always been fit and an ex-fatty workout obsessive.

Originally Posted by Kal El

If I ate delivery pizza I'd be in the gym for an hour just to feel normal again. I hate how I feel after I eat some disgusting gready thing loaded with fats and carbohydrates.

i hate people like that

Originally Posted by raghead

i hate people like that

I don't hate people who are like that, I just hate people who say it. I feel like they think they are better than me. No offense Kal El.

Originally Posted by Kal El

I don't think I'm better than you Mr E, I just feel gross when I eat something. I deal with people on hypertension and high cholesterol medications all day, and about 80% of them are overweight and could easily exercise.

I just don't want to be one of those people, Mr E I have nothing but the utmost respect for you. You do exercise, so I really shouldn't say anything about you eating a pizza. It's just me in general, I eat something, and it goes straight to my ass, regardless of how much I exercise.

That's because you workout wrong.