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hey, i have been having this diet for about a year, do you think its ok in terms of nutritional value? i also skip lunch, is that ok?

Breakfast - 6 A.M.
Chocolate milk
bread with jam/cereals
fruit juice

Tea - 3 P.M.
Chocolate milk
bread with jam
fruit juice

Dinner - 7 P.M.
Hungarian and Serbian food consisting of meat and vegetables
Sometimes spegetti
Soup
Fish


is that a good diet?

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Ooh, yes - I'm on one right now :eek:

Breakfast: Fatblaster tablet, then Sustagen drink, after burning 500 cals at the gym.

Lunch: half a sausage roll :redface: (I forgot to bring my salad s/w to uni!! :frown: ). I gave half to my friend, we shared. Oh yeah and I had an orange box drink. :biggrin:

Snack: apple. gummy worms. packet of mixed nuts and fruit, 30g.

Dinner: I don't know, I haven't had it yet, but I'm scared b/c there's not much food at our house, just unhealthy crap so I'm thinking of skipping it and having toast and milo. :smile:
Reply 2
Brekkie seems okay and dinner sems exceptionally good especially the soup and fish, however I think most will agree that missing lunch isn't good!

Making up for that with a slighly sugary tea will pack on the pounds I think :wink:

Depending on your day, possibly have a lighter tea and something to eat for lunch - even if it's quite light - as from your post you're without food for around 8/9 hours.

But otherwise pretty good! I wish I could have your dinner, but I'm not a fishy person lol.
Reply 3
ok, but i do not seem hungry anymore when i am not having lunch, but at first i started to feel hungry, is that normal?

and the hungarian and serbian dishes are just like any meat and vegetables dishes with like sauce, sometimes i have like steak or something,

and i also forgot to mention i have potatoes for dinner also, usually

the soup is also Hungarian/Serbian

do i really need to have lunch? any long term effects? i just drink water throughout the day
Reply 4
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Reply 5
imre


do i really need to have lunch? any long term effects? i just drink water throughout the day


It would help yes. Regular eating keeps your metabolism up. Try to eat 5-6 small meals per day, about 3 hours apart. Since I don't know your stats 2000 calories/day is a safe general suggestion. Of course you may require less or more...

Try to get protein in every meal, you go all day before eating protein at 7pm. Fruit juice is full of sugar, stick to real fruit.

Other than dinner, I'd say your diet is absolutely terrible.
Reply 6
You need to eat more fruits and vegetables to get the vitamins, minerals and fibre you need.
Vikernes
It would help yes. Regular eating keeps your metabolism up. Try to eat 5-6 small meals per day, about 3 hours apart. Since I don't know your stats 2000 calories/day is a safe general suggestion. Of course you may require less or more...

Try to get protein in every meal, you go all day before eating protein at 7pm. Fruit juice is full of sugar, stick to real fruit.

Other than dinner, I'd say your diet is absolutely terrible.



0o0o state a good one, healthy one.
my food today

2 weeabix with semi-skimmed milk

Dinner Chips and beans in Union

Tea Pasta, Peas, Tomatos.

Fudge bar

3 diet cokes

NOT IMPRESSIVE
Reply 9
I dont get why are people posting their own diets? maybe for attention

but the original diet has loads of sugar in. fruit juice has loads of sugar in it, and jam and chocolate milk.. I cant see any protein in breakfast or tea so you might want to focus on that. Also to Vikernes, I would ask why he said some of those things.. he is not trying to lose fat or anything so there would be no great reason to have 6 meals a day which is much more akward.

Also fruit has just as much sugar as fruit juice, because fruit juice is basically the juice of the fruit.. so replacing juice with fruit won't do anything really.
Reply 10
Does anyone else eat completely different things on any given day? For example, I can eat extremely healthily one day, and then the next day I can eat like a horse (a horse that really likes chocolate).

Today I ate:

Breakfast: 5 spoonfuls of Alpen with semi-skimmed milk, one glass of orange juice, 3/4 cup of sugarless tea (I was late, and cramming it all in. Not nice)

Lunch: 3 scoopfuls (as in ice-cream scoops) of mashed potato. One small chocolate muffin. One bottle diet coke.

Snack: Marks and Spencer's layered chocolate bar, around 250 calories. One can Fanta-Z (about 9 calories, I reckon).

Dinner: (in about 10 minutes) pasta with cheese.


I know there aren't any fruits/veg on there - I'm normally better - and normally I only eat one chocolate portion per day. But its what I felt comfy eating today. I tend to listen to my body i.e. if I have a craving I assume my body needs it and I eat it.

I've tried obsessing over everything I eat (which ends up with feeling guilty about eating anything and eating literally 800 calories per day) and I don't recommend it to anyone! The occasional chocolate bar or fizzy drink won't kill you, and a day without fruit isn't a disaster.

OP: if you don't want lunch, and you're maintaining a healthy, steady weight, and you have plenty of energy, don't eat lunch. A bit more fruit, maybe?
2 pieces of toast and marg and tea

couscous
big cookie
tea

4 pieces of toast and marg (no food in the flat apart from breakfast food and couldnt be bothered going to tesco) and tea

dont think that would go down too well with dr atkins. caffeinated and carbohydtrated!! very much lacking in any kind of nutrition today...naughty me...must do better tomorrow!
I posted my own diet to see if any one said shock horror cos my Mum keeps saying I am seriously unhealthy. I agree the above diet has too much sugar though
Reply 13
imre
hey, i have been having this diet for about a year, do you think its ok in terms of nutritional value? i also skip lunch, is that ok?

Breakfast - 6 A.M.
Chocolate milk
bread with jam/cereals
fruit juice

Tea - 3 P.M.
Chocolate milk
bread with jam
fruit juice

Dinner - 7 P.M.
Hungarian and Serbian food consisting of meat and vegetables
Sometimes spegetti
Soup
Fish


is that a good diet?

dinner is good, and breakfast is fine, have more fruits between meals, I don't agree with people saying to sugary or whatever, if you don't want to lose/gain weight and you feel comfortable with, you have milk which prevents ostropheroses, you have fruits from the juice, practically every 1 cup is 2 fruits,you have carbs, and protien, try to fit more protien in another meal lets say lunch, soup depends on kind of soup, lentil soup protien, veggi soup is viggie:p: thats all I guess I mean if you eat a bit of everything a day, and feel comfortable with your diet, I don't see any chips or crisps or these stuff in your diet which is a good thing
Omg I'm so guilty, last night I had a FULL bowl of pasta, instead of jst that *piece* of toast I planned to have! :frown:

Also had a milo too, than went to bed. Oh I went out first, b/c my mates always go out on Thursday night, but didn't stay out for long as I have uni at 9am.

This morning: Special K after going on a jog of 10 laps around the local oval (sports field to most of you :wink: :p: ). I need to control my eating more, I can't believe I ate all that past last night, stupid stomach! :redface:
Reply 15
a healthy daily diet well this is mine i thinks its healthy

Brekkie: museli with skimmed milk

Snack1: fruit with muller light yoghurt

Lunch: chicken and salad bagguette no salad no mayo fruit with this

Snack 3: more fruit

Dinner: Skinless chicken breasts with vegetables and or salad

Snack 4: Even more fruit
Reply 16
plus i drink a minimum of 4 litres of water a day, stops water retention.
Lunch: a small serving of wholemeal pasta + chicken salad. Tropical fruit drink.

No snacks (pasta salad was thankfully filling enough).
Reply 18
ok thansk all
Reply 19
me so far today. Cup of tea with full cream milk (yuk I've run outof milk and had to nick flatmates)
toasted wholemeal roll with lurpack light and a piece of cheese.