Food... and exercise in general.

[superbadger]

Sat here with my pasta now

. Pasta is good....

 

[Crankarm]

Errr ...... pasta is not good unless you are going to run a marathon tomorrow or ride 100 miles.

My advice to the OP is reduce the sizes of your food portions. Drink more water and
do more exercise instead of stuffing your face. Eat your main meal at lunchtime. Cut out porridge as
it is all carbs that are stored around your belly. Have a very light meal, ie salad in the evening and do
not eat food after 7pm. Go for an evening run lasting about an hour or distance 7-8 miles. Do not stuff your face late in the evening then slob on the sofa then go to bed as the undigested food will be stored as fat on your belly but more frighteningly around your vital organs.

It's not rocket science, you have to burn off more energy than you take in. Cut out the pies and rich food
you eat or if you can't do this then reduce the quantity and frequency you eat them and do a lot more exercise.

Simples.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Salad????!!!!

Pasta is good, porridge is good (not with pasta). Pies are nice, rich food is nice. Just don't have too much.
Bollocks to running too, it's rubbish, go for a bike ride.

Salad is ok as a bit of plate decoration but it's not an evening meal.

 

[calibanzwei]

I'm sure Crankarm just glossed over my initial post

 

[superbadger]

I'm sure Crankarm just glossed over my initial post

Me too.....

 

[Nebulous]

Your original post pretty much reflects what I did. I lost 5 stone in 14 months, slowly and deliberately, with the aim of keeping it off, and did that by eating porridge at breakfast and fruit at lunchtime.

There is a little shop near my work that sells 5 items of fruit for £1, and I have that nearly every day.

I tried to run a deficit 5 days a week, and keep a balanced diet at weekends - when I had a salad with herring or mackerel at lunchtime. If you are doing a lot of exercise you can always adjust up a bit.

 

[Crankarm]

Salad????!!!!

Pasta is good, porridge is good (not with pasta). Pies are nice, rich food is nice. Just don't have too much.
Bollocks to running too, it's rubbish, go for a bike ride.

Salad is ok as a bit of plate decoration but it's not an evening meal.

Each to their own ..............

The porridge and pasta mafia ........

You can't be a good healthy athlete on porridge and fruit alone.

Eat omlettes, chicken, veg especially green veg and brascias, a wide range of veg and of course fruit, potatoes for carbs, basically a full healthy balanced diet. Watch your portion sizes and don't eat your main meal right at the end of the day so you then slob on the couch in front of the box and then roll into bed shortly after where all your undigested food is then digested whilst you sleep. Major heart attack risk. Best time to eat your main meal is lunch time and have a light snack in the evening.

 

[Bikerchick]

We all talk about food and dieting, what about food and maintaining weight, what should we eat then if we ride every day

 

[Sittingduck]

We all talk about food and dieting, what about food and maintaining weight, what should we eat then if we ride every day

The same stuff, just a bit more of it or maybe add more treats, if you don't want to build a calorie deficit.

 

[Ghost Donkey]

Errr ...... pasta is not good unless you are going to run a marathon tomorrow or ride 100 miles.

My advice to the OP is reduce the sizes of your food portions. Drink more water and
do more exercise instead of stuffing your face. Eat your main meal at lunchtime. Cut out porridge as
it is all carbs that are stored around your belly. Have a very light meal, ie salad in the evening and do
not eat food after 7pm. Go for an evening run lasting about an hour or distance 7-8 miles. Do not stuff your face late in the evening then slob on the sofa then go to bed as the undigested food will be stored as fat on your belly but more frighteningly around your vital organs.

It's not rocket science, you have to burn off more energy than you take in. Cut out the pies and rich food
you eat or if you can't do this then reduce the quantity and frequency you eat them and do a lot more exercise.

Simples.

I agree with Crankarm! . A few alternative otherwise though with your training times.

It sound like you're going to eat pasta. Pasta, bananas, dried fruit, fruit juice and basically starch carbs and sugary fruits should be small portions if you do have them and best around training times. If you have pasta for tea a couple of hours before or straight after evening training keep the portions small! I usually just have some milk or dry fruit after an evening training session for recovery. If you have an inactive job don't eat pasta/bananas for lunch or as snacks in the day!

I'd say if you train in the evening and have a none-active job I'd have your main meal in the evening and a salad for lunch with something protein like oily fish or meat and some olive oil to give it a bit of taste. You do need some fat in your diet. Olive oil is a good source of that and so is fish and meat. Pies are not. Salad for lunch doesn't sound appetizing but it really is great.Pad out you main meal with vegetables. Veggies are still filling and have lots of good nutrients for health. If you train in the evening after eating your main meal it also means you don't have massive portions or you'll be sick. If you train before your evening meal it's not an excuse to go mad! My recovery food after Ironman 70.3 a few weeks ago was a recovery drink (full fat milk mixed with branded powder containing dairy based whey and some other sh!te), a handful of raisins, a small cup of orange juice and a bacon cob then back to the usual. Plenty of sleep was what the doctor ordered. I'm not a big user of sports products but this was a special case for me and there was limited food there. Nowhere to get food as I was camping then a long drive home.

I like porridge for breakfast but I cycle to work so it's not so bad. Saying that it's the best cereal based breakfast and toast is not the answer. I wouldn't water down your milk though. Full fat is king (ingore me if you disagree. Lets not ave me hijack another thread).

A good book I read some time ago is the paleo diet for athletes. I don't do a paleo diet at all but it covers amount of food around training including recommended calorific intakes to help fuel you pre and post training and is based on actual food. An updated version is due out in Sept.

Get plenty of sleep too!