For fitfreak - let's talk diet

[Daisy_Girl]

I agree with QT's comments. ESPECIALLY about the fruit. My comment is the AMOUNT of fruit. You are eating almost 2 cups of fruit everyday - that is A LOT. Plus, the pineapple is VERY high in sugar. Fruit itself is not BAD, but moderation is key. And, there are good fruit choices, and less smart fruit choices.

Along with QTs comments on the Soya stuff - eating clean means eating foods that are not processed. If it is packaged, molded into a shape, or "imitation" anything (this also goes for most FF stuff) then it is probably processed. You want BASIC foods - things found in their natural state.

You need to eat more. You are BARELY eating 4 meals - I say barely because one of those meals is a shake. You need more food. Your body is starving - that is why you cannot control the cravings. You are craving foods because your body NEEDS food! I bet if you add more CLEAN food, you will crave food less - because you are not starving.

There are NO "bad foods" - only better choices. Everything is fine to eat - but in moderation. Once you start labeling foods "bad" and "good" you set yourself up to feel "bad". You can eat anything - but everything has it's time, it's place, and it's amount.

 

[Fit Freak]

Training - God bless you if you can train on an empty stomach.

Funny thing is I can only train in the am on an emtpy stomach. If I eat before I train, I feel sick during and after my trainin, cardio or weights.

Sometimes when I train in the afternoons, I eat first then wait three hours before I go to gym and workout

Guess it must be the way my body works

 

[Fit Freak]

There are NO "bad foods" - only better choices. Everything is fine to eat - but in moderation. Once you start labeling foods "bad" and "good" you set yourself up to feel "bad". You can eat anything - but everything has it's time, it's place, and it's amount.

Very True Daisy

Thanks for all your help guys, will definatley make some diet changes and keep you posted on my progress

 

[Sassy69]

Funny thing is I can only train in the am on an emtpy stomach. If I eat before I train, I feel sick during and after my trainin, cardio or weights.

Sometimes when I train in the afternoons, I eat first then wait three hours before I go to gym and workout

Guess it must be the way my body works

This is really interesting. My stomach goes thru phases where it is really picky about what & when I eat relative to training / cardio. Currently it isn't, so I'm rolling w/ that. I have been staying away from carbs like oatmeal in the morning because it just did not sit well after I moved. The last few months have been ones of big uphevel for me and that's probably why. So I was doing like a grilled turkey pattie + 1/2 c of fat free cottage cheese. Go figure that I can't digest milk but I have no problem w/ cottage cheese. I was having trouble w/ eggs (1 whole, 3-4 whites) so I skipped those too. The last 2 days its been the eggs + turkey bacon. That sits just fine. I need to ease back into the oatmeal again tho.

Anyway (I rambled for a minute), what I've found is that your body responds in different ways to whatever you feed it at whatever times -- it seems like sort of dictated by where you are in life, i.e. whatever are the circumstances you've arrived at by the time you are dieting. But, especially if you go on a particular diet / training schedule, it will adjust. I found that out in a big way when i did my little competition. But I adjusted. The only time it is going to be absolutely criticia l that you learn (and also train your body) to adjust to a particular diet / training is if you are on a strict schedule w/ a strict goal such as competition prep. You are looking at an absolutely optimized fueling schedule w/ exactly the prescribed macronutrient ratios to give you exactly what you need to feed, burn & refuel, how much you are going to burn during a particular workout (e.g. heavy leg day, or cardio day) and also what time of day you are eating what you are eating in order to start manipulating how your body responds at a particular time on a particular day (e.g. contest weigh in and then pre-judge, estimating you'll be on stage at say 10 AM on contest day). Stuff like that can blow up on you if say the judging is dragging ass and you don't get onto the stage until 2 hrs after you anticipated. Then you are left feeling really drained because your eating schedule got screwed up and possibly the time between looking completely filled out from carbs has passed and you have "spilled over".

So, yes, maybe now your body has determined that it prefers to train on an empty stomach in the morning. But you might want to do a breakdown of the cals you are putting in at what time, how what you eat is meeting the needs of the demands you put on your body and determine if it works or there's a better way. The better way may take some time to train your body into working with, but the change may also kickstart the situation that your body is currently "comfortable" with.