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

I personally am on a high protein, low fat diet. I try to limit my fat intake, It's too hard to be on a "no fat" diet as there is fat in a great deal of foods, so I just try to limit my intake if I can. My goal is to gain weight, but not any body fat. I lost 20 lbs in the hospital as a result of being hospitalized for some even I wont bring up, and I saw it is an opportunity to gain muscle weight and not have to worry so much about fat weight.

Since October, I've gained about 18lbs of muscle, and as of tonight I weight 162lbs, my goal is 175 and then i'll decide where I want to go from there.

What are your eating habits, and what do you want to accomplish?

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.

I'm on one of those high calorie/high protein/high carb/high fat/high beer diets. I find that I feel better on that one as opposed to other diets, and that as long as I stay very active I can maintain a healthy weight pretty easily. The only thing is that I slack off on the beer for short periods of time when I notice that I'm starting to build a bit of a beer gut.

If I had that diet I'd spend half of my life in the gym. No matter how active I am, eating like that catches up with me, so I have to seriously watch my calorie/fat intake. Carbs I am not as worried, I eat them in moderation, but Beer affects my workout too much.

Beer does kill my workouts. If I'm looking to make serious progress I'll cut it out completely. For right now I'm pretty complacent so it can be part of my diet. If I have six or eight beers running gets a lot easier though.

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

I've personally been cutting out sugar for the last year or so. It's been reasonably helpful. I'd guess I dropped about 7-10 pound just because of that.

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.

I need to cut out soda completely. The caffeine stimulates my brain, and it gets me going, but it's having an effect on my workout, so I'll have to ween myself off.

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

My doctor put me on an ADD med that isn't an amphetamine, so we'll see if it has an effect, then I can just bypass caffeine altogether.

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.

yeah pizza from pizza places is bad news, I gave up pizza completely, and i've been really bad with eating fast food this week. fucking chaotic work schedule just isn't allowing me time to eat properly.

I made some homemade pizza yesterday, it was pretty great.

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

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 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.

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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.

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i hate people like that

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Originally Posted by raghead

i hate people like that

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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.

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.

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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.

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That's because you workout wrong.

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Originally Posted by Tekk

That's because you workout wrong.

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Some people are just inclined to put on weight in certain areas of their body.

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Originally Posted by Tekk

That's because you workout wrong.

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Well then Mister Smartass, tell me what I am doing wrong then?