redpimp said:
Ok then my major concern about this diet would be energy!!!!
I still want to go to the gym, how do you keep your energy levels high or even average!!!! There is nothing worse than walking around feeling weak!!!
Motivation is for sure the hardest thing to keep when your working out. Im 24, so I have a million reasons to be motivated to workout. In your case, I would have to say that illness and confidence within yourself should be a motivation. Obviously as you age your body is gonna age with ya and your amino acid count starts going down. The amino acids is what keeps your muscles strong. If you excersied and ate right, you wouldnt have to worry much about that. Plus you always wanna look good whether its for your wife or for yourself. I always thought that self confidence from working out was BS, but after 6 months of this, I feel like I can pick up any damn girl I want lol.
The best thing to do is workout with a friend. He pushes you and you push him
redpimp said:
Secondly food product would you recommend that is easy to fix but at the same time heavy enough to substitute as a full meal!!!! (outside of beef products and poultry products and no fresh veggies, one can only eat so much of that stuff before diving head fast into your purina dog chow)
yea thats always a tough one. I would have to say...
Breakfast:
- Oatmeal
- White Eggs
- Fiber cereal - or organic cereal (with skim milk of course - maybe throw some cranberries in it)
- fruit
Lunch:
- You could have any sandwich on WHOLE GRAIN wheat bread
- Stay away from takeout places - make your own food
- Make a salad with olive oil
- Tuna
- Low Carb protein bar like the Odyssey Protein Bar (I usually have this with a salad that way I can get all the vitamins and shit)
Dinner:
- Chicken Breast with Brocolli
- Brown rice
- Steak with no fat
- baked potatoes
- Maybe a protein shake with a salad afterwards (I use Myoplex Lite)
redpimp said:
Funny thing is that for the last 3 days i had just changed my diet to straight up subway!!!! and right now i am belly full of a foot long slab of white bread..(my luck they didnt have wheat today!!!)
The wheat bread at subway is no different then the white. Actual wheat bread is made from whole grains. The wheat bread from subway is still bleached...but if your gonna eat there, always get the veggie delite
The most important thing to this diet are (in my opinion)
- Do NOT eat before you sleep. In fact, make a time limit for yourself as to when to stop eating. Some poeple cut themselves off at 9pm
- Do NOT drink soda or anything with sugar in it. Make yourself like the taste of water - it`ll flush your system right out. A few years ago my aunt stop drinking everything but water. She drank the acquired 64oz. a day and 3 months later the doctor found a tumar in her that was covered with fat that luckily water flushed out.
- You cant eat fast food. I never really understood why fast food was so bad until I started doing my own research. Believe me, everytime I drive by a Burger King, I drool for a whopper but it has 22GRAMS of SATURATED FAT. Thats just not good...So stay away from fast foods at all costs
Here's a site about the health benefits of water:
http://www.betterwayhealth.com/drinking-water.asp
Here's a good site that shows the nutrition data of all foods - even fast foods:
http://www.nutritiondata.com/index.html
