please critique my diet. thanks.

[anthonyanthony]

I am not very good at preparing food for the day. I tend to be on the fly, so I tend to make do. I hope this isn't too bad. If it is please let me know.

7:00 am, Bowl of cereal. life or frosted mini wheats( both are preety low in sugar @ 6 grams) with skim or 1% milk. coffee.
10:00 Am, Zone bar, or something similar. Often some nuts and maybe an apple also.
1:00, Peanut butter and jelly (or fluff) on whole wheat. Almost every day. alot of pb too.
3:00, piece of fruit
5:30, yogurt or zone bar before the commute.
7;30, protein shake before workout, maybe a banana.
9;15, protien and dextrose.
10:30, something before bed. Peanut butter and crackers maybe. sometimes i cheat and have a bowl of ice cream.

I never needed to pay much attention to calories etc. before, but am getting a bit older now and perhaps i need to pay a bit more attention now.
thanx for the suggestions etc.

 

[Muay Thai Guy]

You should be aiming for protein at each meal

have around 1-2g of protein per lbs u weigh and devide that by 6 and eat that much per meal if you can

7:00 am, Bowl of cereal. life or frosted mini wheats( both are preety low in sugar @ 6 grams) with skim or 1% milk. coffee.

Might only have 6g of sugar (Which i think is quite high!) it's high in GI, Replace with Oatmeal prepared with water and cinnamon and splenda to taste. Add some egg whites and a whole egg here for protein if u can


10:00 Am, Zone bar, or something similar. Often some nuts and maybe an apple also.

I am not a big fan of bars. You'd be better off imo eating propper food. I'm not sure if your situation and circumstances would allow for that though but if it does, try getting something like a chicken breast with a sweet potato or yam and maybe some veggies

1:00, Peanut butter and jelly (or fluff) on whole wheat. Almost every day. alot of pb too.

add some extra protein into this meal. maybe add a shake?

3:00, piece of fruit

Skip the fruit imho, have some propper food. Maybe a can of tuna with salsa and a tbsp of flax oil

5:30, yogurt or zone bar before the commute.

again u need to get some good protein, try to eat some veggies too, maybe pre pack some veggies with some chicken and a small yam or sweet potato? (it's what i do hehe)

7;30, protein shake before workout, maybe a banana.
have some carbs if this is ur preworkout meal. I like oatmeal personally.

9;15, protien and dextrose.
cool!

10:30, something before bed. Peanut butter and crackers maybe. sometimes i cheat and have a bowl of ice cream.
How about cottage cheese and some peanut butter, maybe a tbsp of flax oil too!

 

[bigdaddy22]

WOW MTG has been hanging around Fyre for too long! I could not had possibly said anything else. Deffinately go with what MTG said and you should be in good shape

 

[Fyre]

WOW MTG has been hanging around Fyre for too long! I could not had possibly said anything else. Deffinately go with what MTG said and you should be in good shape

lol
Good job Muay Thai Guy. I couldn't have said it better myself

 

[Muay Thai Guy]

I've learnt from the best

 

[anthonyanthony]

MTG,
thanks for the great breakdown of my diet. I appreciate you staying with the established time structures. I can work with your recomendations nicely. A bit of planning will be needed, but the discipline will be good for me.
BTW. 6'1" , 185lb @ 10%. Moved up from 160 in past 8 months. Put some bf on along with the solid gains. Thinking it is time to lean out a bit, then gain again later.

 

[Muay Thai Guy]

No probs

At your weight i'd aim for around 250g protein personally

 

[acxel]

hey mtg is on the money anthoney your diet look more like a fitness competitor off season program .lol seriously if you really want to get big it doesnt come easy take the time and prepare on the fly is not gonna fly. i mean cereal , pb sanwiches , crackers? you can't be serious and ZONE BARS? maybe if your elderly eat SOME REAL FOOD DUDE! drop all the cutesy shit and eat like a man, steak , chicken , fish ,oatmeal ,rice potatos, veggies, if you have a hard time getting all the food id recomend at least 4 real meals and 3 mrp shakes like VPX's miccelllean with 1 table spoom efa's

 

[Faye]

Great diet recomendation MTG.

 

[anthonyanthony]

youre right Axcel. Made some changes already. thanks to MTG. it is hard to eat right when on the fly, but I am a chicken cookin' fool now. It does take planning. And some good advice.

 

[acxel]

hey bro good luck hope you get all the info you need here