New Journal - Onlyparty

[Onlyparty]

Right so I have decided to start a journal to help me stay on track and monitor what I eat every day and my workouts... your advice is very welcome as I am always keen to improve..

Some stats, I am female, around 6ft and weighing in at around 77kgs

I will start with yesterday

Monday 18 Aug

Diet:

7:30am half cup oats with a few raisens and 1/2 teaspoon honey

10:30am carrot sticks and red peppers with salsa

12:30pm pasta with broad beans

3:30pm 95g can tuna (sweet chilli)

5:30pm WORKOUT

7pm tofu stirfry on cabbage

8pm cup of tea

Workout was a 1 hour session of boxing.

I really enjoy doing the classes at the gym, usually do 4 a week including boxing, flex, step and the occasional pilates.

I am keen to do weights too, would this be too much if I did 2 or 3 weight sessions a week as well as a few cardio sessions in the morning?

[Onlyparty]

I should have mentioned I am going shopping today for light cottage cheese (probably to have for my 10:30am meal, and some chicken breasts)

Having 6 meals a day, should they be all the same size? I tend to have larger meals for lunch & dinner?

Thanks.

[teamfatboy]

Nice to see the new journal

On meal size, in practice my meal sizes are determined by when I workout, what my day job allows, and some other good advice - like restricting carbs to earlier in the day. But if yesterday was typical for you, then the late-night carbs aren't an issue.

If your job lets you eat when you like, what you like (or need to!), then that's great, but a lot of jobs, the convenience of a protein shake/ tin of tuna or chopchop may win.

I guess most people wouldn't want a big meal before their workout, so that's one thing to consider.

[AgentOrange]

Monday 18 Aug

Diet:

7:30am half cup oats with a few raisens and 1/2 teaspoon honey

10:30am carrot sticks and red peppers with salsa

12:30pm pasta with broad beans

3:30pm 95g can tuna (sweet chilli)

5:30pm WORKOUT

7pm tofu stirfry on cabbage

8pm cup of tea

Diet looks nice and clean however imo there is not enuff protein in there. Yesterday you did not really have any decent protein untill 3.30.. I would susgest the following changes to the above day:

7:30: 1/2 cup of oats (raw) then cooked with 1 or 2 scoops protein

10:30: A whole serving of cottage cheese (the small container) + fruit

12:30: A Protein shake and water + a carb (pasta, rice whatever)

3:30 NO more carbs just protein ie what you had 95g tuna

5:30 workout

post workout shake in water within 15mins

7:30 your stirfry

9:00 Green tea (de caf) and maybe some almonds or slow digesting protein like cottage cheese..

:nod:

[Onlyparty]

Thanks AO, yea I gotta buy some green tea today to replace it with my white tea.

Yesterday my day looked like

Diet:

7:30am 1/2 cup oats (made with water) with few raisens and 1/2 teaspoon honey

10:30am 95g can tuna & cup of tea

12:30pm pasta with broad beans

3:30pm protein shake with trim milk

5:30pm WORKOUT

7pm 100g uncooked chicken stirfry on cabbage

8:30pm cup of tea and a small protein ball (thanks to Mossley for that recipe!)

I went to a 'step' class last night for my workout, god it really killed me but good to work hard. Tonight going to a flex class using weights, are these classes good for me or should I be concentrating more on using free weights and cardio.... I like the classes as they give me motivation and are really fun.

[Onlyparty]

Wednesday 19 Aug

7:30am 1/2 cup oats with water, 2 tablespoons lf yoghart, few raisins. 2 egg whites (hard boiled)

10:30am 1 carrot and half tub light cottage cheese

1pm stir fry chicken & veg with half serve rice (Thai) - went out for a work lunch.

3:30pm cup of tea and small protein ball

5.30pm WORKOUT

7pm Had an unexpected guest so had to hold off on cooking dinner so had about 5 almonds and 1 glass of wine

8:30pm Finally made dinner, lean beef strips cooked in tomato puree & light sour cream with some mushrooms

My workout today was a flex class using weights, did heaps of lunges too.

[AgentOrange]

goodish diet, bout time to start training proply with a good weight split!!!

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