- Aug 19, 2006
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I've been working out for about two months now and while I've noticed some improvment its not what I want.
When I started I was 225lbs and 5'10, I'm now 210lbs. In two months time I think I should have lost more then that, especially since over the summer I lost nearly 30lbs in two months, although that was from nearly starving myself and working all day, when school started up I became a bit more lax in my amount of physical exertion and a bit more heavy on my food intake.
Now, from what I can tell, I don't eat that bad, although thats because I hardly eat at all, for instance yesterday I went the entire day only eating a Snickers Marathon protein bar at 1pm after my work out (which was 1.5 hours), I had been up since 10am, only drank water, and then around 7pm I had a few bites of roast beef and a bite of potatoes (left over dinner, honestly, i had about a mouth full and then stopped eating.) I didn't eat anything else until around 11pm when I had a small fruit snack.
Now, the reason I starve myself like that is because I don't know what I should be eating, everything I look at has a lot of fats, sodium, carbs, calories, etc, and I stay away from it, leading me to not eat, but when I do I eat whatever is available.
What I need is different foods or ideas of what to eat, when I should eat, etc. I tried looking up diets online but what I get from one is contradicted in another so I thought asking a group of real people would be the better idea, not reading some report that for all I know could have been made to help sell some product.
A few bits of information about my normal diet though: I don't drink any soda or anything with caffeine, no coffee, etc, I don't eat out a lot (maybe once a month sometimes) and I don't eat fast food as a personal rule, only on super rare occasions when food is necessary and no other option is available. I'm a good enough cook to try most any combinations to eat healthy and have the income to support buying more expensive foods to stay healthy I just don't know what I should be getting.
I hope I've explained what I am asking clearly and can get some good responses from you guys and girls, as rare as you all are on the internet!
When I started I was 225lbs and 5'10, I'm now 210lbs. In two months time I think I should have lost more then that, especially since over the summer I lost nearly 30lbs in two months, although that was from nearly starving myself and working all day, when school started up I became a bit more lax in my amount of physical exertion and a bit more heavy on my food intake.
Now, from what I can tell, I don't eat that bad, although thats because I hardly eat at all, for instance yesterday I went the entire day only eating a Snickers Marathon protein bar at 1pm after my work out (which was 1.5 hours), I had been up since 10am, only drank water, and then around 7pm I had a few bites of roast beef and a bite of potatoes (left over dinner, honestly, i had about a mouth full and then stopped eating.) I didn't eat anything else until around 11pm when I had a small fruit snack.
Now, the reason I starve myself like that is because I don't know what I should be eating, everything I look at has a lot of fats, sodium, carbs, calories, etc, and I stay away from it, leading me to not eat, but when I do I eat whatever is available.
What I need is different foods or ideas of what to eat, when I should eat, etc. I tried looking up diets online but what I get from one is contradicted in another so I thought asking a group of real people would be the better idea, not reading some report that for all I know could have been made to help sell some product.
A few bits of information about my normal diet though: I don't drink any soda or anything with caffeine, no coffee, etc, I don't eat out a lot (maybe once a month sometimes) and I don't eat fast food as a personal rule, only on super rare occasions when food is necessary and no other option is available. I'm a good enough cook to try most any combinations to eat healthy and have the income to support buying more expensive foods to stay healthy I just don't know what I should be getting.
I hope I've explained what I am asking clearly and can get some good responses from you guys and girls, as rare as you all are on the internet!
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