Quote: (02-07-2017 06:14 PM)Moma Wrote:
90 percent of the time it's usually what you eat. How much of your protein is natural? Steak, chicken, fish? Are you planning your meals?
I will need to see a list of your diet to make an assessment. Often when we become meticulous with our training and our diet by which I mean jotting everything down, we realise we weren't eating as clean as we thought we were.
Thanks for the replies. I eat very clean. A little less so when I was pushing myself to the upper range of the calories I talked about. A typical day would be as follows:
Breakfast:
Omelet - 3 whole eggs + 3 whites + 1/2 an avocado + spinach
or Oatmeal - 1.75 cups milk + 1 cup oatmeal.
Lunch:
Greek yogurt with natural granola (oats, honey, almonds, sunflower seeds)
Sandwich - natural (i.e. stir, no hydrogenated oil) peanut butter on whole wheat
Dinner:
Meat (chicken, steak, fish, occasionally 96% lean ground beef for meat sauce) + carb (sweet potato/red lentils/brown rice/whole wheat pasta rarely) or black beans
Salad: colorful - spinach, broccoli, beets, red & yellow bell peppers, carrots + crumbled walnuts, olive oil & apple cider vinegar
Shake: milk, whey protein; a few: strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, goji berries; chia seed, flax seed, hemp seed
snacks: trail mix (cashews, pumpkin seeds, almonds), dried fruit, cottage cheese, "flax chips" or other fancy Whole Foods type thing.
I might occasionally treat myself to <4 dark chocolate covered almonds and 2 spoons of ice cream (no HFCS). I ate the 2 spoons of ice cream daily when I was cutting as a treat to myself.
I'm very disciplined, have pizza maybe once a month. I've given up things I used to love and gorge upon like chicken fingers and fries. Only drink alcohol socially, average 2-3 drinks a week. Only drink water, no juice or soda. Eat out less than 1% of the time.