I thought I'd start a diet blog to go alongside my training blog. I'll start with a bit of background.
I'm a FFB - former fat boy for those unfamiliar with the term. I basically love all things carb - cornflakes with loads of milk and sugar, biscuits, pretzels, etc, etc, etc, and I love eating late at night. Problem is that with my endomorphic tendencies, carbs and late night eating combine to give me ample padding around the middle.
About a year ago I decided that I didn't have to accept that the padding was here to stay. I experimented with a few different eating patterns until I settled on how I eat now.
My rules - some of you will recognize these rules - I don't profess to have discovered them - only adapted them to my own needs.
eat 5/6 times a day
protein with every meal
lots of green veg
carbs only at breakfast and post workout - as I train early morning, this means my daily carb intake is complete by about 8 am
don't mix carbs and fat in large amounts in the same meal.
non calorific drinks only and about a gallon of water a day
make sure I get enough fat in my diet
I eat like this for 6 days every week and have saturday off, where I basically eat what I like - it helps me stay on the 'wagon'.
I currently weigh 78 kilos as of last time on the scales. I have no idea of bodyfat%, but I can say I am currently in the best shape of my life.
Andyw
Comments
Diet (or should that be nutrition?) thoughts
Quite possibly the hardest part of a healthy lifestyle as we've (well most of us) have been raised on fast food, junk, chocolate and convenience.
Good work on the diet - its important to find something that makes you happy as sticking to a diet that is unappealing just doesn't work - the human instinct for sustenance is much greater than the human instinct for looking good.
The other thing is that it helps a lot of people to stop looking at things as a "diet" - the term has negative meaning, look at food as a nutrition programme.
Anyway, glad I set up a diet category - back to work in making this site even more functional