Newbie seeking diet advice

[Jenga]

Hey

After a few false starts (me being lazy and life getting in the way), I want to loose some bodyfat and gain some muscle and compete in a figure class in 2010. Only stats I know are weight 85kg and height 5ft 10. I have pulled together a diet, see below:

M1: 1/c oats mixed with protien powder or eggwhites

M2: protien shake (with water)

M3: Chicken/tuna with veges and 1/2 c brown rice or 50g kumara

M3: protein shake (with water)

M4: Pre-workout 1/2 protien shake and post work-out 1/2 protein shake with some sultanas

M5: Chicken/steak/fish with salad and 2T brown rice

Questions:

Would the above diet start me off on acheiving my goals?

Do I need to take any supplements?

Appreciate any advice, sorry for the long blog.

[teamfatboy]

Without sitting down and working out the exact macros, that diet doesn't look too bad, Jenga... did you actually calculate cals/ protein/carbs/fat and ratios?

I guess you knew from your previous competition history that knowing % bodyfat is helpful - do you have a trainer or friend who can help with some skinfolds. You can work out %bf from that.

As for supps, a good multi vitamin is always a good idea, but I'm not sure whether other choices, the obvious one being creatine, would be necessary.

[Jenga]

Hey Teamfatboy

Didn't calc cals/protien/carbs/fat and ratios - would appreciate advice on that, if anyone could spare the time.

Yep know about the BF% will find out what it is - I guess I gotta start somewhere!!!

Cheers about the mulitvitamin, have used creatine powder in the past and didn't really notice anything and hated the taste, but found I always had good training sessions when using NFS kre-alkalyn am open to suggestions/advice on other creatine type products though.