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2004/09/21, 05:35 PM
I keep hearing it all begins in the kitchen. Great, this helps alot! I don't buy the groceries, my parents do. They are buying more healthy things but there are still things like kraft diner and the chef up there. I don't understand how most of you people can eat perfectly balanced every 3 hours in this world.
I for one can't get up a 8am and prepare a full fledged breakfast for myself, nor can I pull a meal out of my @$$ every three hours while I'm at school. I go all day on my breakfast, I don't even have a lunch period during my day so I can't eat. So many people are saying this and this is bad for you that I'm down to 2 meals a day because I'm afraid of all these foods.
So far I'm seeing all these results in places that don't really make me happy. I mean I'm glad my arms have taken some shape, and I'm always doing cardio. Walking to and from school, and I go biking usually 3-4 hours a day almost. Why is it so damn hard to get this stomach off. Can someone please help me, who live in the real world, not a gym.
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2004/09/21, 05:50 PM
Dezeard,
It certainly can be frustrating, and certainly rough when you don't control the refridgerator, but you do the best you can. There are at best some things you can do regardless of the situation.
For breakfast I usually have a bowl of instant oatmeal and a protein shake. Not the breakfast of champions, but a good start anyway. If you don't want to go the shake route (expense), than get you a carton of eggs and hardboil them. Have a bowl of oatmeal and some eggs (great protein souce).
Eating several times a day. You have to start eating more than two times a day. What you are doing is training your body to think that food is scarce. Therefore, it is going to store as much of the energy as it can as fat so that you will have enough reserve to survive should the next meal not arrive. Now it is true that I don't know the exact nature of your day, but I bet you can eat a sandwich on the way to class. The night before, pack yourself two sandwiches (whole wheat bread if you can), some nuts, some beef jerky or other healthy snack and fill a water bottle. In the morning throw it in the back pack and head out.
Eat one sandwich and the other healthy foods some time 3-4 hours after breakfast, and then eat the second sandwich 3-4 hours after that.
Then home for dinner. You don't have to deny yourself everything bad, just control how much you eat. If there is kraft dinner on the table, have some, but then fill up on the vegetable that is on the table, etc.
Then before dinner find another healthy snack, a glass of milk, etc.
Third, sit down with the family and discuss what you are attempting to do, and what kind of support you need.
Fourth, find a way to work in some resistance training. You are going to want to build some muscle to burn that fat. That will help more than all of the cardio you are doing, which you might cut back on a little.
Finally, track what you eat on the nutritional planner to make sure you are getting enough calories and types of nutrients. It is monotonous, but it helps.
I hope those suggestions will help, and I do hope that it all works out for you. You might print of the bodybuilder's grocery list in the nutrition forum and show it to the parent's. I could help.
Daniel Love
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2004/09/21, 05:55 PM
Dezeard,
It certainly can be frustrating, and certainly rough when you don't control the refridgerator, but you do the best you can. There are at best some things you can do regardless of the situation.
For breakfast I usually have a bowl of instant oatmeal and a protein shake. Not the breakfast of champions, but a good start anyway. If you don't want to go the shake route (expense), than get you a carton of eggs and hardboil them. Have a bowl of oatmeal and some eggs (great protein souce).
Eating several times a day. You have to start eating more than two times a day. What you are doing is training your body to think that food is scarce. Therefore, it is going to store as much of the energy as it can as fat so that you will have enough reserve to survive should the next meal not arrive. Now it is true that I don't know the exact nature of your day, but I bet you can eat a sandwich on the way to class. The night before, pack yourself two sandwiches (whole wheat bread if you can), some nuts, some beef jerky or other healthy snack and fill a water bottle. In the morning throw it in the back pack and head out.
Eat one sandwich and the other healthy foods some time 3-4 hours after breakfast, and then eat the second sandwich 3-4 hours after that.
Then home for dinner. You don't have to deny yourself everything bad, just control how much you eat. If there is kraft dinner on the table, have some, but then fill up on the vegetable that is on the table, etc.
Then before dinner find another healthy snack, a glass of milk, etc.
Third, sit down with the family and discuss what you are attempting to do, and what kind of support you need.
Fourth, find a way to work in some resistance training. You are going to want to build some muscle to burn that fat. That will help more than all of the cardio you are doing, which you might cut back on a little.
Finally, track what you eat on the nutritional planner to make sure you are getting enough calories and types of nutrients. It is monotonous, but it helps.
I hope those suggestions will help, and I do hope that it all works out for you. You might print of the bodybuilder's grocery list in the nutrition forum and show it to the parent's. I could help.
Daniel Love
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2004/09/21, 07:39 PM
I talked to my mother, and she has willingly, actually, she wants to get up a little before me and start me off with a good breakfast. Eggs, oatmeal, the works! So thats great! I'll start making some tuna sandwiches and taking them to class along with maybe pickles and cheese or something, as well as carrots, apples, and orange slices. We start cooking soon in my hospitality class so that will work in some food too..
I do have resistance training. I have a plan here at FT, which is 5 days a week + the 12 week abs program. I do those when I get home from school, and then I usually do some biking at night with friends as a social thing, but very good exercise.
Thanks so far.
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2004/09/21, 08:28 PM
In that case, just hang in there and you will start seeing changes. You just have to remember that we don't get to decide where the fat comes off first, our unwilling bodies do. Unfortunately, in men, the belly is usually the last to go.
Daniel
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2004/09/21, 10:19 PM
Dezeard1
I started lifting in a weightlifting class in highschool. I did little cardio, and a blah workout. Upper body 3 days a week, lower body 2 days a week. I ate whenever I could, which was about 5 times a day. I ate any old junk. My weight went from a fat 165 to a six pack 205 in 1 school year. The advice you got was very good, and I would echo it. If I could do that with no help then you can do better with the advice you get here. I want to encourage you cause you have a lot going for you. Time and age. Cut back on the cardio. You are burning too many calories. Concentrate on gaining muscle with progressive gains. Use the nutritional tracker. It is a great resource. The only other advice I could give is to try to get low-fat or no-fat foods where you can. However, I am in no way suggesting no-fat mayo that stuff is just gross. Stick with it, and you will see results.
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