I got the height, perfect chest and shoulder but a really bad belly!

jeezy85

jeezy85

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Title says it all I started the gym today

I just want to tone up really but defiantly need to get rid of my belly its really awful...

The problem is I get hungry very quickly and I love my sweet
Drinks I.e redbull,

This is what I have usually

Morning

Tea, porridge or toast, and a redbull on the way to work


Lunch

Tuna sandwich, snickers, lucozade(fizzy)

Evenings

Chicken and chips or curry usually

I know it's a bad diet but can someone please point me in the right directio

What do I aim for? Less calories?

Thanks
 
No Homo - I want to see the perfect chest.

Ready GordyR's sticky. Then ask questions.

There's plenty of diet advice knocking about on here. You don't seem to eat much and from what you do it doesn't seem to be particularly good.

You'll be surprised what good diet can do for your composition.
 
Abs are made in the kitchen as they say and that diet is complete junk.
You're going to have to cut out all the lucozade, snickers, currys, chips and redbull to start with.
You want to base your diet on good lean protein (chicken, eggs, fish, extra lean mince) good fats (Extra virgin olive oil, organic butter, nuts, fish, advacardos) and wholemeal carbs (wholewheat bread, brown rice, brown pasta, sweet potatoes, quiona, oats) get a diet containing them on the go and you're on the right track.
Oh yea and plenty of mixed veg spinach, broccolli, cauliflower basically anything that isn't a root vegetable
 
tom_e said:
Abs are made in the kitchen as they say and that diet is complete junk.
You're going to have to cut out all the lucozade, snickers, currys, chips and redbull to start with.
You want to base your diet on good lean protein (chicken, eggs, fish, extra lean mince) good fats (Extra virgin olive oil, organic butter, nuts, fish, advacardos) and wholemeal carbs (wholewheat bread, brown rice, brown pasta, sweet potatoes, quiona, oats) get a diet containing them on the go and you're on the right track.
Oh yea and plenty of mixed veg spinach, broccolli, cauliflower basically anything that isn't a root vegetable
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But is having good fats not going to put more weight on?
 
As Raikiri said eggs are all good and good fats are essential if you want to lose some body fat as long as you balance them with a low intake of whole wheat carbs.
A loose outline of my diet since the begining of Jan has been:-

Breakfast
Porridge with a drizzle of honey and a protein shake

Snack
Tuna with a tbspoon of EVOO

Lunch
Chicken with mixed veg and a tbspoon of natural pb

Snack
chicken and almonds

Dinner
Extra lean mince with mixed veg and a tbspoon of EVOO

Prebed
tbspoon pb and a scoop of whey

On training days I'll throw in some extra carbs around my workout.
IIRC it works out around 2200kcals a day so not massively low but combined with a good training regime I've made some good progress in 3 months
 
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jeezy85 said:
thank for the replies are having eggs everyday a bad thing?
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Cholesterol from eggs does not affect blood cholesterol levels. Search the British Heart Foundation website for proof.

jeezy85 said:
But is having good fats not going to put more weight on?
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No not at all.

A well balanced varied diet is essential.

I suggest you spend a few days lurking here reading up on diet advice that has been dished out by reading other users diet threads and also journals.

Put the effort in to reading up on nutrition and you'll benefit from it. Not to mention the sense of achievement you get when you realise why you're eating what you are and when.
 
tom_e said:
Abs are made in the kitchen as they say and that diet is complete junk.
You're going to have to cut out all the lucozade, snickers, currys, chips and redbull to start with.
You want to base your diet on good lean protein (chicken, eggs, fish, extra lean mince) good fats (Extra virgin olive oil, organic butter, nuts, fish, advacardos) and wholemeal carbs (wholewheat bread, brown rice, brown pasta, sweet potatoes, quiona, oats) get a diet containing them on the go and you're on the right track.
Oh yea and plenty of mixed veg spinach, broccolli, cauliflower basically anything that isn't a root vegetable
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Sorry for the hijack, but what is bad about root vegetables? I only ask, as I eat a LOT of roots??
 
Detroit_Waves said:
Sorry for the hijack, but what is bad about root vegetables? I only ask, as I eat a LOT of roots??
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Nothing bad about them but if you're in a position like the OP who it sounds is carrying some stubborn fat one of the easiest ways to start loosing it is to watch your carb intake and root vegetables are full of carbs and a lot of the time there simple ones rather than complex.
 
Thanks for the replies.. I don't want to gain much mass i just want to lose weight and tone up... So should I forget about taking protein shakes?
 
jeezy85 said:
Thanks for the replies.. I don't want to gain much mass i just want to lose weight and tone up... So should I forget about taking protein shakes?
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At least until you've sorted a good base diet and like Benny says have a read of the sticky it covers a lot of good starting stuff
 
Haha, your diet is funny. You don't even need to eat "healthy", just cut out the sugary drinks, they don't do your body any good. Watch this video sugar the bitter truth http://www.bestkettlebellworkout.com/ it will teahc you all you need to know about high fructose corn syrup, and if you have any sense you'll drop it.

baqsically the sugary drinks pack a lot of carbs and you body/brain does not get the "I'm full" singnal when you just drank 60g of sugar from a can of fizzy drink.

So you keep on eating and you get fat.

The corn syrup are pretty bad for you, it gets processed entirely by the liver, and the body can't use it as it cannot turn it into glucose, glucose is the bodies preferred sugar and is easily used, the bacteria love it, the muscles love it, the brain loves it, every cell in the body loves it.. corn syrup [the sugar in fizzy drinks].

Im blabbing on, and you probably dont understand what Im saying, if you have 90 mins, watch the documentry
 
Starchy foods like potatoes etc... aren't bad, but it's a balance and moderation - as is everything in life. There's a lot more nutrition in other vegetables certainly leafy veg. I don't deny myself any of the food groups (other than refined and processed products) - so starch, veg, grain/nut, fruit, meat and fish are present almost daily in my diet. It's a balance and how your body utilises the nutrition you're putting into it. Excessive carbs lead to fat gain - fact, however, excessive calories irrespective of what they are lead to weight gain too - however, not all calories are equal IME, as your body metabolises each type of food groud differently.
 
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