Help - dont have a clue

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Hi,

I never really thought about my diet until now really. I was wondering if you could give me some advice on what i am doing and what i should be doing.

Normally i train in the gym 4 times a week - tuesday, wednesday, friday and saturday. My routine is i get out of bed, eat some corn flakes and normally a 2 bacon sandwiches, then i wait an hour and goto the gym. When i come back i then drink a protein shake(promax - http://store.maximuscle.co.uk/cgi-b...100017910dc273f0a020a01057d/Product/View/1003) and cook some pasta. Then i eat my normal meals, dinner normally some kind of meat and potatoes and then sometimes a late night snack like another bacon sandwich.

I dont take any supplements at all appart from the promax.


I am 6-2 and a lean 205lbs
The gym work i do is complex training using weight training coupled with plyometrics to make me more explosive.

Is there anything you can suggest??

 

[STEP OFF]

what are you goals?

 

[desman]

man if i ate like that i would look like humpty dumpty!! some people just have all the luck....lol

 

[JKurz1]

nuttn like a good ol bacon sandwhich upon waking, huh bro? Geez......cmon

 

[serbyte]

I think you do know what you are doing, if you are a lean 205 at 6 2. If i ate like that I would deffinatly be a fat lard.

The fact is that if you are eating like that, that you are not getting enough calories to store fat, meaning that you are not getting enough calories to build large ammounts of muscle. If you want to gain muscle, up your protien and carb intake and minimize the fat intake. Eat as much as you can without gaining alot of fat.

 

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what are you goals?

to be as strong and as fast as possible. And still maintain my low fat %


I can honestly eat just about everything i like, no one ever feeds me enough when they give meals. I am also a bit lazy, sometimes when im hungry I just dont eat because i cant be bothered going into the kitchen and making something.

I have recently cut down on all my shit food, like buiscuts and stuff, i used to eat a packet of digestives at 1 sitting. But im trying to be a little better with that now and eat healthier.

Oh and I love bacon so theres no way i can give that up. It is grilled though and pretty lean, i dont fry any of my food.

Basically my diet is - 1 main mean a day at dinner time(6pm) of steak/chicken/gammon/turkey/fish with potatoes. I eat about 2-3 meals a week of chicken and steak. With my other meals that i mentioned earlier.

I could show you a picture of my skinny body if you want? I dont think i eat enough, but i also dont want to get fat as last year i put on a lot of bad weight when i was on creatine and became very slow.

If you think it would help i could make a diary of everything i eat starting tomorrow, then you could give me some good advice.

not getting enough calories to build large ammounts of muscle

I do get pretty good gains when i train. I was adding 2.5kg a week to every lift when i was training about a month ago, then i got a bit lazy and didnt go to the gym as much as i should have. Now im getting back into it and want to know how to make myself as good as i can.

But i am relaivly weak compaired to other people my size - Bench 120kg(265lbs) Squat 170kg(375lbs) Power Clean 90kg(200lbs).

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance

 

[STEP OFF]

dude, why the BS? you started training a month ago and you were benching 265 and squatting 375? come on ....

 

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I didnt start training a month ago, i trained for a good couple of years but have missed a lot due to injury and being depressed because of injury.

I was training hard a month ago but got out of my gym rythem and then kind of lost mostivation. I'm now trying to put back together my offseason workouts and need some advice on my diet.

I took a note of what i munched today and it wasnt a lot really, i will take notes of everything for the rest of the week and post it all back next tuesday night, but for todays food..........

Wake up at 10:45am
Breakfast at 11am of :-
Cornflakes with semi skimmed milk
4 rashers of bacon(grilled)
2 pieces of buttered toast
a small glass of apple juice(~200ml)

Gym at 12-30pm ---> 2-05pm

Protein shake at 2-30pm
Pasta Meal thing(Batchelors Pasta 'n' sauce) at 2-30pm

2 litres of water(with diluting juice) drank thought the afternoon/evening

6pm Tea - Pasta meal with water

9pm packet of crisps(or chips for you americans)

1am another packet of crisps

2am - sleep

Ok this is kind of a typical day for my diet, looking at it i dont think i eat enough. I am a bit worried about over eating and becoming fat because i cant afford to become slow(again) So should i eat a few more meals thoughout the day?
Or anyother suggestions for me?

 

[faller]

Have you tried the turkey bacon? I used to love that stuff. Its leaner than the regular. The 9pm and 1 am could be improved. Depending upon how hungery you are...maybe a turkey sandwich, or natty pb. Or at least add a glass of milk to whatever you are eating. Need some protein in there.

 

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yeah i have the turkey bacon is quite nice.

Is there anything actually wrong with eating bacon?

Normally my 6pm meal is a meat so i get the protein from that. I do sometimes drink glasses of milk but i kind of found i get fat from it, maybe it was from something else but i do like a glass of milk.

The thing i dont know what to do is what to snack on when im hungry after or between meals? Should i just make a sandwich instead? Or what else do people eat? Do they just eat 6 "proper" meals a day?

Like i said i dont want to get fat, but i also want to add a lot to my strength so I want to be eating enough for that.