Sandwich Diet, hows it look

[criffer]

Prob sounds stupid, but I work on the road alot and cant really eat well (no access to oven, fridge, micro, etc) so Ive been packing about 3-4 sandwiches every day including:
-2 slices whole wheat bread
-about 6 ozs of lean turkey breast or lean roast beef
-light mayo
-mustard
-let and tom (sometimes)

My 2-3 other meals per day include
-breakfast of whole weat waffle with peanut butter and all fruit, whey protein shake with carb countdown milk, and flax oil
-PW protien shake, (muscle milk with carb countdown milk)
-snack (banana, glass carb countdown milk, peanut butter on a rice cake with all fruit

Im guessing that the sandwiches are about 400 cals each, breakfast at about 700 cals, PW shake at 500 cals, and snack at about 400

So my daily cal intake is about 2800 to 3200 cals
-I am 6'3" 250# about 18% BF, trying to lose BF and maintain muscle, will this diet do the trick for me?????????????

 

[Karmic Pendulum]

Nope

 

[criffer]

Karmic, thanks for the bland input....care to elaborate????

 

[pintoca]

I'd say, since you are having that many carbs during the day, you will need to compensate in the morning and afternoon meals: Less carbs in those, probably will need to drop the oats (will need to see how it goes).

Also, unless absolutely necessary, drop the additional cals (mayo). Don't use milk post workout it will reduce the speed of digestion and you want that protein fast in your blood, so use water instead.

In my personal experience, I had to drop the peanut butter and all sorts of nuts, because they are too caloric dense.

for your stats, 250 @ 18%, 3200 cals is a little too high for cutting, try something along the lines of 2600 cals and one or max twice a week up them to 3000 cals.

Ideally you would want to lower those carbs, maybe one slice of bread with more turkey?

Also, Peanut butter with rice cake??? Fat and carbs (high GI carbs)... BIG NONO man.

takje the guessing out of this and put numbers to all this food, cutting is a sience bro. How is your lifting and cardio plan ?

 

[criffer]

Lifting= doing the 5x5 program now in week two, 3x per week with about 15 min cardio after each session.
My main problem with dieting is convenience during the hours of 8 and 4 when I am on the road traveling so much, but I want to get my 6-8 mmeals per day...any add advice appreciated, I do need to cut the carbs at night though!!

 

[suckamc44]

I was having a similar problem, what I started doing is cooking almost all of my meals for M-F on Sundays. This usually consists of a bunch of chicken breasts, some steak, and a lot of various kinds of vegetables. Then plan out all your meals for the week and put them into tuperware containers accordingly. Then when you need them put them in a mini-cooler with some ice packs. It's been really nice to just grab a couple of containers in the morning and throw them into the cooler and go.

 

[pintoca]

I was having a similar problem, what I started doing is cooking almost all of my meals for M-F on Sundays. This usually consists of a bunch of chicken breasts, some steak, and a lot of various kinds of vegetables. Then plan out all your meals for the week and put them into tuperware containers accordingly. Then when you need them put them in a mini-cooler with some ice packs. It's been really nice to just grab a couple of containers in the morning and throw them into the cooler and go.

This is the best post in this thread so far.

In reality, this is what SHOULD be done: Plan in advance. It is all too easy to find an excuse and blow it. Props to you Bro for having the perseverance to sticking to your program even in not perfect situations.

BTW, 15 mins cardio 3 times a week is not enough (not in my book). If you want to drop much faster, increase duration to at least 30 mins, then increase frequency

 

[Kabeetz]

I was having a similar problem, what I started doing is cooking almost all of my meals for M-F on Sundays. This usually consists of a bunch of chicken breasts, some steak, and a lot of various kinds of vegetables. Then plan out all your meals for the week and put them into tuperware containers accordingly. Then when you need them put them in a mini-cooler with some ice packs. It's been really nice to just grab a couple of containers in the morning and throw them into the cooler and go.

The drawback on that for me is the dishes... I have a tendency to let them pile up (I don't have a dishwasher).. but you're right. This sort of sacrafice and pre-planning is *perhaps* the ONE AND ONLY WAY to maintain a diet, REGARDLESS of how much free time or cash you have.

You do not want to rely on yourself to make last minute meal decisions, or to look up at a menu and make the right choice time after time after time. Going super market shopping when you're not already starved, Pre-cooking on the weekend, and accepting the necessary and possible drop-off in variety and taste in your diet are probably the only way to ever reach your fitness goals, especially for the "genetically challenged" such as myself.

Just this morning I woke up late, and had a thing of jenny-o lean ground turkey breast that had defrosted overnight... I jumped out of the shower, threw the package on the stove top with a little bit of salt and pepper (as I was eating breakfast etc), divided it into four tupperware containers that already had a mix of vegetables and whole-wheat pasta (with almost no pasta in the one I'd be eating in the evening), grabbed a gallon of water, two cans of diet mountain dew, an apple and a banana, and an mrp and got to work 25 minutes late.

I gotta plan in advance better next week.

 

[ortiz34]

I'm with ya bro. My life seems to revolve around going to the supermarket, cooking, cleaning dishes, eating, working out, working like a dog, and lifting 5X a week.

Man, I need a big mac.....