My Diet, let me know if it sucks.

[Sev408]

Ok, so when i use to play lacrosse in college last year i was a nice 180lbs at 5'9". I was in great shape, but still had a higher then i wanted body fat and couldnt for the life of me get my chest to grow larger. Anyway, its been a summer and a full semester since I gave it up for better grades and I am probably right around 195lb now. I quit going to the gym because well I had no drive at my old school. Since then I have transfered to a school with my buddies and have started my college life brand new this semester.

My goal here is to diet and drop my weight down to 175lbs, then proceed to bulk back up to 180 something with a healthy diet and more muscle.

Now heres my diet so please let me know if it sucks.

My BMR is 3250

morning 12:30pm -
Oatmeal with Milk or Bowl of Special K and/or apple
Bottle of Water with Crystal Lite Mix

Snack- 2:45pm -
Fatfree yogurt and/or apple
Bottle of Water

Lunch- 4:15pm -
Tuna packed in water, sometimes with brown rice sometimes on a whole wheat sandwich bread. NO MAYO. just a bit of mustard and pepper.
Bottle of Water

Dinner- 7-8pm
One Grilled Chicken breast, salad or veggies (corn,peas, carrots, lima beans...) i choose 2 for the night and i dont stuff my face.
Water with Crystal Lite

11pm -
Fat Free Yogurt or another bowl of Special K
Water with crystal lite

Bedtime is like 2am-3, maybe 4am.

Now you will notice my day starts at breakfast at 12:30pm. yes thats correct, im in college and dont have class till 3pm. :laughnew:

I have limited my self to no soda, as I use to put a 12 pack of coke away easily every day.(This is probably what caused me to gain weight, along with shitty college campus food).

Now i have previously used Ab-solved and it worked wonders on removing the water weight around my abs. Even after the past crappy semester I havent gained the water weight/fat over top of my abs. Now its just the fat underneath the abs. :hmm: I am also going to start using Lipo-6 and taking a multivitamin.

Now if all my information for health foods is correct im only eating about 800-1000 calories a day with roughly 1000mg of sodium.

My diet is based of Low Cal, Low Carb, Low Soduim, and Low fat.

So please let me know good this diet is and if it will work properly.

I will be going to the gym starting on saturday: just for cardio, not weight lifting yet, untill i drop this weight.

[slipshady]

your not eating enough at all and they make canola mayo which is really not so bad for you.

[coffee-guy]

First of all - yes - your diet sucks.

Now - so you know - we are here to help you so...

Help us....

Are you doing any type of physical activity now (or can you if we tell you that you need to)? Cardio or weightlifting and if so how much and when etc? What types of food do you have available and can you eat pretty much anytime (granted in between classes and not in them etc). Do you drink alchohol etc.

[Sev408]

First of all - yes - your diet sucks.

Now - so you know - we are here to help you so...

Help us....

Are you doing any type of physical activity now (or can you if we tell you that you need to)? Cardio or weightlifting and if so how much and when etc? What types of food do you have available and can you eat pretty much anytime (granted in between classes and not in them etc). Do you drink alchohol etc.

I live in an apartment, so i have access to any food i need to buy. I can cook anything I need. Yes i can eat whenever, all my teachers are chill about even eating food during class, so i have taken advantage of that.

Cardio is what i will stick to while i try to loose weight. Probably 3 possibly 4 times a week on a bike. My knees are basicly destroyed from playing lacrosse and excessive squating that was uncalled for by my coach. I hate him now for doing this. This will take place at like 2pm M/W/F and probably Sat or Sun.

Alchohol, pretty much is a negative. I may drink 1 or 2 every month. I am pretty much over the whole, college getting wrecked thing.

[coffee-guy]

I live in an apartment, so i have access to any food i need to buy. I can cook anything I need. Yes i can eat whenever, all my teachers are chill about even eating food during class, so i have taken advantage of that.

Cardio is what i will stick to while i try to loose weight. Probably 3 possibly 4 times a week on a bike. My knees are basicly destroyed from playing lacrosse and excessive squating that was uncalled for by my coach. I hate him now for doing this. This will take place at like 2pm M/W/F and probably Sat or Sun.

Alchohol, pretty much is a negative. I may drink 1 or 2 every month. I am pretty much over the whole, college getting wrecked thing.

Sounds good bro - I am really busy with school this week so give me some time. I'll get to you ASAP - I just didn't want a day or two to go by and you think that we had forgotten about you...

[Sev408]

thanks fog_hat. well its better for me to know that my diet sucks and I can wait a bit till it is fixed.

[coffee-guy]

thanks fog_hat. well its better for me to know that my diet sucks and I can wait a bit till it is fixed.

Are you trying to be a smartass?

[BBAddict]

fg is right, your diet is pretty bad, your lifestyle is questionable and your training has the wrong idea. Let me explain.

morning 12:30pm -
Oatmeal with Milk or Bowl of Special K and/or apple
Bottle of Water with Crystal Lite Mix

Definitely need protein in here and cut the milk and fruit. Milk sugars and fructose (fruit sugars) are not good during cutting. 1cup of rolled oats would be fine but add something like 6egg whites with 1yolk.

Snack- 2:45pm -
Fatfree yogurt and/or apple
Bottle of Water

Again, dairy and fruit sugars are no good. You have the right idea in terms of getting a meal around every 2-3hrs though. Make this a lean meat, some brown rice/yam and some veggies.

Lunch- 4:15pm -
Tuna packed in water, sometimes with brown rice sometimes on a whole wheat sandwich bread. NO MAYO. just a bit of mustard and pepper.
Bottle of Water

This sounds OK--you have protein, a bit of carbs--just make sure you're very careful about the kinds of bread you choose. Just because it's whole wheat doesn't mean its whole grain. Side note--you have water listed as part of a meal; water should be drank continuously throughout the day.

Dinner- 7-8pm
One Grilled Chicken breast, salad or veggies (corn,peas, carrots, lima beans...) i choose 2 for the night and i dont stuff my face.
Water with Crystal Lite

Decen choice here. I definitely would recommend corn, carrots--stick with green veggies preferably-something like green beans, broccoli, spinach, etc.

11pm -
Fat Free Yogurt or another bowl of Special K
Water with crystal lite

Again, no protein--and drop that Special K already--no good for you!
This seems to be a little early for the last meal of the day and you're definitely not to anywhere near your BMR. You shouldn't cut to any less than BMR/AMR-500cals at the risk of losing excessive muscle or your body going into starvation and self-preservation mode.
A good last meal of the day is 1-1.5cups of cottage cheese with perhaps some fat (natty PB) to further decrease the metabolization rate of the cottage cheese.

Bedtime is like 2am-3, maybe 4am.

Make sure you're getting enough sleep. I don't know or care what you're doing up this late but it's usually not something that is going to help with your goals. What time are you working out--your carbs should be focused around that time.

I will be going to the gym starting on saturday: just for cardio, not weight lifting yet, untill i drop this weight.

Weight lifting will be equally or more effective at helping drop the weight because muscle burns more calories and also elevates your metabolism for a longer period of time than cardio. Start working now because that will help drop weight faster and will help you achieve what you're looking for faster. You can do both, you know!

[Sev408]

fog i wasnt being a smart ass. just my wording was pretty suckass.

i meant to say, whenever you get around to helping me is fine.


BBAddict: thanks for helping to fix it.

what do you mean as rolled oats? regular oatmeal? as far as egg whites, just mix it into the oats or what. This is the first time i have ever tried to diet, so im new to this.

as far as water goes, i am drinking it all day. i just have it marked that each meal i am drinking another bottle.

i will get back into weight lifting then this coming week.
My gym time is going to be right around 2:00pm


And my bed time, well mainly is because i do homework after i get out of my lab and then normally watch a movie so my day doesnt seem like all that occured was school.

[Sev408]

Also, any recommendations on supplements that i can take once i get this weight off.

I have used the old creatine and the new style and both didnt really do much for me. I am really looking for something to help put mass on my chest. I somewhat hit a wall with them last year when i was getting stronger but they were not growing in size. I tried different routines and what ever i could but they just wouldnt grow.

I was going to post in the training section to see if anyone has any other routines for their chest that would possibly help


EDIT: You think i should just scratch the diet, and just hit the gym and cardio, find a supplement that will build muscle mass that works well for me and just let the fat kinda of burn it self off naturally? As in cardio doing most of the work?

[BBAddict]

what do you mean as rolled oats? regular oatmeal? as far as egg whites, just mix it into the oats or what. This is the first time i have ever tried to diet, so im new to this.

Rolled oats as opposed to quick oats. Quick oats are a higher glycemic index (GI) and will cause an unwanted insulin spike that can cause fat storage. Don't mix the eggs into the oatmeal!! Just scramble them, make an omelette or whatever.
Scratching the diet and just working out/doing cardio is the most ludicrous idea I've heard. If you don't even try at the diet, I'd skip the exercise. You can actually get relatively lean with just diet, but to really look good, you need the cardio and resistance exercise. You'll also get there faster and feel better with proper exercise and diet.
No supplement is going to magically put mass on your chest. Search the content on this board--there's a lot of discussions of what is and isn't effective for chest/pec training. When you get around to planning your exercise routine, you could post that for comments as well.
Good luck!

[Sev408]

ok will do, thanks for all the help. ill do away with the milk and fruits. thanks again. ill let everyone know how well this works out for me in the end.