Does my diet sound ok?

Example of what i eat...

Breakfast:
bowl of Fitnesse flakes with semi skimmed milk
tea or coffee
usually a glass of juice

Lunch/dinner (main meal):
mixed salad with lettuce, tomato, olives
salami, corned beef, ham
portion of potato salad OR

something like sausages and mashed spuds

apple and kiwi fruit for dessert

Tea:
Egg sandwich (3 eggs)
slice of cheese
banana
apple

Snack:
bowl of weetaflakes...

Woah i eat lots lol! But does it seem fairly healthy to you? Any suggestions for replacing any "bad" choices?

cheers guys...

Reply 1

gas_panic!

12

Well i would cut the corned beef out, and sausages arn't exactly the best things for you but other than that it looks pretty good. Is that what you eat every day though? Exactly the same? I'd try and vary it up a bit, especially your tea- why not have some fish or pasta? Also, three eggs every day may raise your cholesterol.

Reply 2

generalebriety

16

Sounds ok... how do you cook the eggs? To be honest, it sounds like you're putting a bit too much into your tea and not enough into your dinner (if that's your main meal, vice versa if you meant your tea was your main meal). Also, try eating more fish and so on.

Reply 3

saoirse

OP

10

God no i dont eat the same thing every day! But that would be an example, i wouldnt have eggs every day, i do have quite a bit of tuna or salmon or chicken breast etc

Eggs are boiled :smile:

Reply 4

silverbolt

19

lose the sausages they are very bad as they have a huge amount of fat in them, but other than that its ok. Your RDA of saturated fat is about 20 grams, you do two fried sauasages youl probably equal thatlol
You've got a pretty good diet there though.

Reply 5

Squelchy

That's not eating lots.

My stomach would be chewing itself up on that little.

Reply 6

friendsfreak88

Hmm looks pretty good to me. I think that you vould eat a healthier cereal for brekkie though- preferably something whole grain eg weetabix or maybe something like bran flakes, or porridge would be good.

Also for snacks things like unsalted nuts and seeds are good as well as yoghurts (if low sugar variety). A bowl of cereal is fine but as you tend to eat that for breakfast it is probably better to have something else for a snack.

Reply 7

foxiroxi

10

It's better then my diet!

Brekfast - either nothing or a sandwich (peanut butter)
snack - chocolate
Lunch - crisps, sandwhich, chocolate
Snack - chocolate
Dinner, main meal of meat and potatoe/pasta/rice and some kind of veg
Pudding - something sweet (cake of some kind)

I am so unhealthy, you are really healthy and wouldn't change anything!

Reply 8

Bubblebee

15

I like Fitness because it has fibre and whole grain and fills you up, but it also doesn't give me cramps :smile:

I hate IBS...

Reply 9

alfieatthelse

Your diet sounds really healtyj and really little!

Breakfast: 2 rounds of toast with butter and marmite or porridge
Lunch: Big sandwich or wrap, banana, apple
Dinner: massive dinner e.g. stir fry, sometimes pizza, chicken kiev - potatoes, some veg, beans etc
Snack: Toast, Yoghurt, About 5 cups of coffee, cereal, ice cream

am i bad?

Reply 10

melissamel

your diet sounds great! Very healthy as long as you vary it a little, which I guess you do as you said it was an example of what you ate.

My diet is possibly the worst out of all of you

breakfast: 4 rice cakes and cheese, cup of tea and an apple

lunch: not usually anything, cup of tea, occasional snaky things, fruit, chocolate, crisps or another rice cake

dinner: sometimes I eat dinner that my mums made which is generally healthy, brown rice and meat and veg, or jacket potato and salad, but i generally just skip that and eat....more rice cakes, i swear i live on the bloody things its ridiculous.

the worst.diet.ever. I really need to do something about it because its so unhealthy. I got into the habit if not eating proper full meals and just snacking because I was dancing and revising so much and I kind of didnt have time... but now its really hard to get out of.

Reply 11

pumpkin7

13

sounds fine to me. don't listen to the idiot who said 'omg no more corned beef or sausage for you!' because you need some fat in your diet, and meat.. so living off salad isn't good.

sounds perfect to me so good for you!

(i wish i knew how you all ate the same thing every day. i can't do that.. bleugh)

Reply 12

zav

14

pumpkin7

sounds fine to me. don't listen to the idiot who said 'omg no more corned beef or sausage for you!' because you need some fat in your diet, and meat.. so living off salad isn't good.

sounds perfect to me so good for you!

(i wish i knew how you all ate the same thing every day. i can't do that.. bleugh)

Actually you don't need to eat any meet in you diet at all. Soya protein is better than animal for long term growth while animal is good for quick bulking.

Reply 13

rock_eleven

1

zav

Actually you don't need to eat any meet in you diet at all. Soya protein is better than animal for long term growth while animal is good for quick bulking.

explain (extensively) and then substantiate the three claims, please

Reply 14

zav

14

rock_eleven

explain (extensively) and then substantiate the three claims, please

Because Soya protein is very low in fat and contains very little to no cholesterol its seen as protein that will increase your strength but not bulk you up quickly. As most animal proteins contain more fat ect they are very good for bulking hence when you bulk you eat a high protein diet usually containing a lot of meat.

This is not saying one is better than the other but they work in different ways but either can support your diet.

I could go into a great detailed explanation but i am at work and if you want to read up on it google it.

Reply 15

chonky

what's your goal? How tall are you? Hard to say anything about it.
It doesn't seem like a well selected diet but more like eat-less-diet (which is ok aswell
depending on the goal)

I would generally
- eat more fruits
- less animal fat. E.g. I would replace every sausage/salami with a handfull of nuts or avocado
- no mayonnaise (potato salad and egg sandwich sound like mayonnaise candidates)

But otherwise ..no sweets, no things with extra sugar, no excessive carbs... sounds ok.
Good luck :smile:

Reply 16

rishman

13

It all depends on what you're trying to achieve with your diet if anything?

Reply 17

Eurasian

2

IMO, I don't think your eating enough. Are you trying to lose weight?

Reply 18

gas_panic!

12

pumpkin7

sounds fine to me. don't listen to the idiot who said 'omg no more corned beef or sausage for you!' because you need some fat in your diet, and meat.. so living off salad isn't good.

Yes you do need fat in your diet but not saturated fat 'you idiot'. Fat from fish, olive oil, nuts, avocados is the sort of fat thats good for you not ****ing lard.

Reply 19

chonky

Because Soya protein is very low in fat and contains very little to no cholesterol its seen as protein that will increase your strength but not bulk you up quickly.

That sounds very unscientific. Here's one study against that argument:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=15798080&query_hl=4&itool=pubmed_docsum

which came to exactly the opposite conclusion:

In young men completing 12 weeks of resistance training (5d/wk) we observed a tendency (P = 0.11) for greater gains in whole body lean mass and whole as greater muscle fiber hypertrophy with consumption of milk (-protein). While strength gains were not different between the soy and milk-supplemented groups we would argue that the true significance of a greater increase in lean mass that we observed with milk (-protein) consumption may be more important in groups of persons with lower initial lean mass and strength such as the elderly.

Does my diet sound ok?

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