Do you have set eating patterns/times as part of your training?
What do you MAKE SURE you eat daily? (fruit, etc) And in what quantities…?
Do you take Vitamin Tablets/Supplements?
Just want some ideas because I’m trying to put and end to my irregular and inconsistant eating habits.
Thanks for any help
-greg
Here’s one: never eat an all-starch meal or snack.
Daytime
Fruit during the day (Breaky Lunch)
In the form of Blends(peeled then blended with jucie and ice)
Coffee,Tea,Chocies,Water
Sometimes rice in the morning depends what I am doing
Night time
Protiens and vegs,salads
Ocasionally take MV or Vit E, Cod Liver Oil or Kelp
Rarely: Bread,sugar, flour based products
Lots of : eggs, fish ,seaweeds, miso,meat,milk,fruit and veg
No fat reduced stuff
Alcolhol: here and there,depends whats up
Non smoker
Breakfast:
Cereal usually. I don’t like breakfast very much.
Lunch:
Pizza/sandwhich/raviolli/maccaroni/whatever, try to make it at least 800 calories. Milk, juice, whatever.
GNC megamen multivitamin.
Dinner:
Some meat: Chicken/Steak/Pork/Fish/Turkey/etc.
Something with carbs: Baked potato/rice/etc.
Something else: Garlic bread/rolls/
Salad
Vegetables: Broccolli/corn/mixed vegetables/etc.
Milk, juice, whatever
Workout
Right after the workout is an N-Large shake. I usually use 3 scoops instead of 4, so that’s 450 calories and 42g protein. My forumula is for each scoop you’re going to use, you use 5oz water and two frozen strawberries. The strawberries make the vanilla stuff change from nasty to good tasting. Sometimes I’ll throw in half a banana, too.
Dinner 2:
Usually a Hungry Man dinner, but not one of the rediculously bad ones, like one has 200% sodium. Forget that. I try to eat the ones that are around 50% RDA fat, at least 30-40g protein, and 600-800 calories. Some of my favorites are Boneless Fried Chicken, and Beer Battered Chicken and Cheese fries. I stay away from the Pulled Pork one cuz it only has 9(!) grams of protein. Wtf? Shouldn’t pork have more than that?
Also sometimes pizza instead of a Hungry Man.
That’s the IronFist diet.
I eat small amounts every 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Still tend to eat regular sized meals at the normal mealtimes, I just add snacks as well. Also, never eat all starch, all protien, ect… Try to keep every thing you eat ballenced. I.e. some veggies, carb and protien evry time you eat even if it is just a snack.
FYI- most fruits are very high in sugar, so try to eat them by themselves and at least two hours after any other meal. Your body will be less inclined to store it as fat and will use it to keep your blood sugar level even. This is a big part of not feeling “bad” when dieting.
Oh, so you’re one of those raw-meat guys eh?
Here’s an interesting one on Grains
see what you think
http://www.mercola.com/1999/archive/truth_about_eating_grains.htm
Originally posted by inic
Want to see whats in your colon? take a piece of bread, put 1/4-1/2 stick of butter on it (organic if you can get it). Then take two spoon fuls of cod liver oil. wait one hour. EVERYTHING is coming out!
How much is 1/4 to 1/2 a stick of butter? Any idea in ounces or grams?
Originally posted by inic
Edit: btw, i bet if Ironfist changed his diet to mine, his training results will improve a lot
I bet if IronFist changed his diet to yours, he would shrink. 
Ahhh well thats all marketing isn’t it,the price of info on the net.
However a good background book on the topic would be
Jared Diamond’s “Guns,Germs and Steel”
It will connect a few dots,excellent read in general.
I tend to buy organic vegetables and free-range meats, and make stuff from scratch. I still cook food, though; bacteria is a concern, and a lot of foods actually release more nutrients when you cook them.
Generally I eat some eggs for breakfast, a roast beef sandwich and some chicken for lunch, and whatever dinner I feel like making, with some fruit as snacks during the day.
anyone tried any japanese grub besides sushi and the stuff they serve at them fancy japanese resturants? i’m talking about the stuff normal ppl eat.
havent done much research about it, but supposedly japanese food is the healthiest there is. they do have the longest life span for a reason. dunno if its suffcient for someone who works out though.
either way, its hella good stuff. best thing about it, is that u can eat till u almost burst like everytime u eat, n u still wont get fat.
gotta pay japan another visit soon…
Ironfist: Don’t eat frozen dinners. I understand because you’re a student. But you are basically eating stewed cardboard. You can’t make gains on that crap. Your shake is good, but it is still a shake. You need some good, natural food. Why not just buy a couple pounds of ground beef, cook it to your taste, then eat it over the course of a few days with some whole wheat bread?
Originally posted by fa_jing
Ironfist: Don’t eat frozen dinners. I understand because you’re a student. But you are basically eating stewed cardboard. You can’t make gains on that crap. Your shake is good, but it is still a shake. You need some good, natural food. Why not just buy a couple pounds of ground beef, cook it to your taste, then eat it over the course of a few days with some whole wheat bread?
I actually remember a thread not all that long ago where I gave a couple recipes for food that could be easily cooked in bulk on a student lifestyle. Don’t remember the title, though…
Sausage-and-Egg is a good one… is actually a philipino dish… can’t remember the name of it…
take 1 lb sausage (any flavor) and mix with 1/2 cup bread crums or quick oats, then divide into 6 equal parts.
take 6 hard-boiled eggs (peeled) and mush the sausage around them. Technickly, you should now put it in a fresh sausage skin, but I never do.
Now you either bake it @ 350` F or steam untill meat is cooked well (about 35-45 minutes)
can be eaten warm but is much better cold. And will keep in the fridge for a week or more.
I guess you haven’t seen what goes into sauages;)
A lot of fats, flour,Salt,presveratives,Emulsifers,flavour,and whatever meat thats left on the floor.:o
Ka,
She’s American. US sausage = Oz mince. I actually might try that recipe, sounds good. Thanks Becca.
My diet right now (for the last few months) is to eat everything possible.
In the morning usually some cornflake-type-stuff with cranberries and nuts. GOod stuff. Usually a bananna too. Sometimes some other stuff also, like yogurt. I like tea in the morning.
During the day at least 1 protien shake or 1 can of tuna. Sometimes 2 or 1 of each. Lots of fruits and other randomness, some days I munch on “go-gurt” all day long.
When I get home in the afternoon, Ill eat another type of meal. Big sandwich or something.
For dinner, usually chicken or tuna and pasta with lots of vegetables. Sometimes beef, not as often.
More yogurt usually. Im addicted to the stuff 
Life doesnt get much better then go-gurt.
:eek:
i only drink water or milk and i have to have one peace of fruit a day
This is the basic timing of my day:
5:30 AM: Wake Up
5:40 AM: Cereal + Protein Shake
6:00 AM: Workout
7:15 AM: Post-workout Protein Shake + Glucose crystals
8:00 AM: Egg white omlet (4-8 eggs & will throw some whole eggs in there) w/OJ
8:45 AM: Sip 1/2 serving N-Large on way to work and while there
10:00 AM: Cheerio’s, cheese/yogurt, protein shake
1:00 PM: Tuna or Chicken Breast on whole grain bread; 1/4 N-Large shake, fruit
4:00 PM: 2 cups Skim milk, protein shake, fruit
5:30 PM: Snack on whatever
7:30 PM: Usually chicken w/rice, pasta, and/or veggies. Fruit juice to wash it down. I’ll get a sub once or twice a week if I’m feeling lazy.
9:00 PM+: May snack on something else depending on appetite
10:30/11:00 PM: Protein Shake or 1/2 N-Large Shake
That’s it. That’s my optimum plan and I try to stick as close to it as possible, but obviously work/social life can get in the way, so I adapt as necessary. I always use the same plan but stagger the calories based on my goals for that particular period. I label shop big time, and stay away from most processed foods unless they make it past my scruitiny for ingredients. I’m not immortal, so I’ll bend and have some nice ben & jerry’s or other sweets once a week or so.