diet obsession argh.....

[circusgirl]

It's me again. I've been trying to obsess less about my diet as getting too worked up about it increases bingeing.

Anyway, I'm finding my current diet quite handy for lifting, thought you guys might be interested in critiqueing it:

breakfast (lazy circusgirl): mass gaining shake. Yes, I know they are full of sugars, but I have a mega-sized tub to use up. I also hate mornings.... 2 tblspn flax oil (chilled organic from health food store). COFFEE. 300 cals (including skimmed milk) plus flax oil (250 cals).

This tends to be at around 8-9am or so. Then I have -

lunch - either 4oz chicken breast of can tuna, with pataks pickles, comes to around 300-400 cals, according to fitday. I think 300 cals for 4oz of chicken is actually a bit high - is this correct?

afternoon snack - same as lunch. Usually tuna if lunch is chicken. Sometimes I have a lamb grillsteak (means mutton burger).

Currently have no grill so I fry these in 1tbspn olive oil per chicken breast/grillsteak. (grill is coming as birthday pressie in a few weeks).

After working out:

dinner - 1 portion starchy carbs - 200cals (rice, pasta etc), 1 portion meaty stuff (c 3-400 cals), olive oil on salad or veg c 200 cals. My husband cooks dinner and gets very upset if I try to eat less at this meal due to diet reasons.

Before bedtime - half a protein shake, 200cals.

This comes to about 2200 cals.

Yes, I'm trying to lose a bit of body fat.

Activity, 3 karate sessions a week (1.5 hours each), lifting, 3 days a week, walking, an hour a day for getting around, if it's not raining, otherwise I get the bus.

I'm not eating tons of carbs because I think my blood sugar could do with levelling. there's also cheats in there - the occasional indian takeout, or a pizza with workmates.

Questions - do you guys count the cals in flax oil? I've found my stomach is getting smaller around in diameter with this, and hips and chest remaining the same or larger (muscle I hope!). I get mighty hungry after working out - this is another reason the big meal straight after coming home is handy, stops the binges...

critique?

 

[Naxis]

Absolutely count the calories in flax oil. 1 Tbsp has ~130 depending on brand, If you have 4 Tbsp per day, thats an additional 512 calories. It's god fats, but it's still calories.

 

[SteelWeaver]

Yup - calories are calories, no matter where they come from. But if you're tightening up on that, I wouldn't go cutting anything just yet. Nothing worse than cutting calories - except maybe eating no carbs, lol.

Have you tried r-ALA yet? Very nice stuff for blood sugar levelling Or you could just make sure you eat only very low GI carbs, like chick peas and lentils.

 

[circusgirl]

My cal intake for the last week has been more like 2500 a day - but my GM went up another 10kg, so no worries there.

I hate being hungry. I also went through a period of calorie obsession just before starting lifting in trying to stop bingeing, which coincided with my hanging out on the thin forum (I still give workout advice there, although the obvious advice is EAT MORE i understand why they feel they can't..). I'm trying to relax a bit about cals these days - trying to eat more or less a healthy diet (lots of lean protein, etc) and less crap. I'm a lot happier since I stopped beating myself up about every 50 cals. And bingeing a lot less, it has to be said.

Eating no carbs would drive me insane!!! I have ALA (it's not R-ALA, it's the ALA from kilosports). I could restart using that I guess.