>Started dieting yesterday >Limited myself to one glass of Pepsi Max a day (slowly weening myself off it to replace with water & one cup of coffee at work) >Eating cereal w/ milk at breakfast + some grapes >A salad with fish/a slice of ham for lunch every day filled with various veg >Dinners generally very healthy with some sort of fish/chicken/lamb/beef etc etc
This will generally be my diet for a while.
I'm going to be throwing in some hard boiled eggs into my salad for protein, and upping my milk content for protein.
Protein seems incredibly important but I am worried that perhaps I am not getting enough of it (fatty right now, looking to tone up)
I've ready the sticky rather thoroughly, but do you lads have any reccommendations to me based what I've written here?
>I've read the sticky >Tone up I'd recommend reading the sticky
Liam Torres
You can't wean off soda. Quit it now. As in yesterday. Switch to something else sugary in the meantime to help with withdraw. I used cranberry juice - to each their own. Then reduce the juice slowly as it is just as bad for you, obviously. You can wean off juice. After you get off juice, never touch it again, not even on vacation.
You drink water or milk. Obey.
Levi Roberts
this and this.
Also, if you make the mistake of eating too little, you will throw your metabolism out of wack and lose a lot of muscle which will further lower the amount of food you can eat. What I recommend is eating at ~500 less than maintenance and doing cardio so you can eat more. YOU MUST LIFT IF YOU WANT TO LOOK GOOD.
Liam Perez
>I've ready the sticky rather thoroughly, but do you lads have any reccommendations to me based what I've written here?
Some of my golden rules for good nutrition and diet:
>Never drink calories >Two veg, 1 meat and 1 carb per meal >Don't eat 95% to 100% of processed foods >If in doubt, eat more veg >Health fats from oily fish, nuts, seeds and avocado/coconut etc are often forgot
Other than that plan your shopping list based on this single page and you've got 95% of nutrition down
Generally my diet already consists of this. My major problem is Coca-Cola, which I have almost entirely eliminated, and will be after reading previous comments. So that's locked down.
Moving to water right now lad. I can survive without it.
I wouldn't say I'm eating too little, I feel that I've hit a good balance. Should I be calorie counting to find an exact measure?
This is my first full week at work after X-Mas. I felt it was best to coincide the diet with my work pattern.
Caleb Rivera
This page has been a godsend btw, lad.
Christian Harris
Check out Cube Cola or Opencola. I missed coke zero and diet coke when I stopped drinking sodas so I started making my own and I now occasionally buy Cube Cola syrup and make a big batch up with xylitol or erithytol
Yeah it's my go-to for noobs asking questions about diet