Really need help with my diet, ive come to a dead end, plz read :(

[pintoca]

Right Right... i do get the basic idea of all this btw

Do as much bloody cardio as you can, train well 3/4 times a week, eat healthy foods "chicken breasts, oats, brown rice, whole wheat bread, vegetables." drink lots of water etc

Right i done the above and it says i need 2700 cals, So should i aim to intake about 2000 cals a day... Then how many cals should i be burning with cardio?

pintoca would you be willing to help me with a diet please... i would be more than happy to pay or something...

Still confused a little about the mornings, should i just have a shake, or carry on with my bananna and wheatabix??

Again this forum ROCKS Thank you...

We do this for free man, in the interest of helping others. We only ask you do your part as well.

Mornings you want to have a protein source (if possible) and some slow digesting carbs... some people go with oats, some go with scrambled egg-whites... fruit is a debatable issue, since its carbs will go to your liver and not to your muscles (to make a long story short).

Mornings I prefer oats, since they are more filling, but that is just me, you need to find what works for you.

2700 cals? that is a lot, again, how much do you weight? (in lbs, please) and what is your estimated body fat (this I recommend getting tested).

How much food you are "entitled" to eat depends not only on your current state but on how much training you will do, the more you train, the more food you can have (loosely speaking)

I'm not really into making custom-diets, but more in the fundamentals, I prefer each person to work on their diets, I can work out the basic numbers, but you need to fill in the blanks... reason? what I like to eat, you might hate... and it would never work. Best is to look for the things you like to eat (within reason) and build a small spreadsheet with the nutritional info, then mix and match.

 

[hopper2k]

I Weigh 186 lbs, and i think 2700 cals is huge to lol, i think i eat no where near that...

Mornings, ok so how about a good oats cerial with skimmed milk and a protien shake on mornings where i have trained the night before ?

 

[harbinator]

Most of the foods you should eat are really common sense: chicken breasts, oats, brown rice, whole wheat bread, vegetables.

Then you have the things you would NEVER find out with common sense: flaxseed oil, for example.

As for "I could never follow such a schedule"... think twice man, it will NOT happen for you, you have to make it happen... It all depends on how badly you want it. Last year I managed to drop fat during December, and not only it was December but our wife was having our first baby too..

It all boils down to motivation.

Use the calculator in the post and work out how many cals you need per day, you need to include cardio and lifting into your life if you want the change to be permanent.

As for the love handles, you cannot spot-reduce... this means, fat will come off in layers, where you have more fat today, it will last longer (and also some genetic factors)... so all those "Ab-X" ads? pure scam... It's perfectly possible to have a perfect set of ABS hidden below a thick layer of fat... Fat only comes off with cardio and cardio burns fat from your whole body.

Patience.

"and not only it was December but our wife was having our first baby too.. "

What kinda weird love triangle you in pintoca?

 

[harbinator]

I Weigh 186 lbs, and i think 2700 cals is huge to lol, i think i eat no where near that...

Mornings, ok so how about a good oats cerial with skimmed milk and a protien shake on mornings where i have trained the night before ?

I think the 2700 was your TDEE meaning you could eat 2200 and lose 1lb a week . Eating 2000 a day and cheatin a little on the weekends looks like it would work well. My TDEE is 3700 and I eat about 2500-3000 nowadays and losing just as much weight as I was before when eating 2000. Like Pintoca said, less is not always better.

 

[Agent Dana Scully]

Look up online Glycemic Index, eat the carbs that are low in that, and eat high quality protein.

 

[hopper2k]

Thanks for your help guys, Much appreciated...

Im gonna start properly in January, Not gonna go mad now but im gonna be really really strict starting from january, my new years resolution Thanks for that site pintoca im gonna defo make a purchase of that book Starting JAN i will have about 6 months to be looking decent for me summer holidays