[quote]ddot76 wrote:
[quote]FarmerBrett wrote:
Started a fat loss diet today. I’m fed up of being too embarassed to take my shirt off or wear a vest in public. So I’m going to do something about it.
I’m not going to count calories or take measurements, I’m just going to go by the mirror. I’m going to go low carb 3 days in a row, then a high carb, higher calorie day on day 4. Protein’s mainly going to come from fish and eggs with the odd bit of meat. Having raised animals myself I’m used to having a freezer full of my own meat, but now we’ve sold our animals I don’t have that luxury. And having raised animals I’m now very fussy about husbandry standards, so I’ll only buy Organic meat which is very expensive here. So I can only afford a small amount of meat.
Today, (I started at lunchtime) I had smoked mackerel fillets, rollmops, some eggs and salad for lunch and seared tuna and green beans etc for tea. My biggest problem is thinking of things for breakfast because I’ve always been a ‘muesli man’, so any suggestions would be gratefully received.[/quote]
Farmer, (if you’re not already) you may want to plan your HIGH days around your toughest training session of the week and you may want to limit how HIGH you actually go. I like your idea of LOW days followed by a HIGH day (it works for me) so it’s definitely a start. As you become more comfortable on low days, you might want to extend the amount of low days between a HIGH day. I’d even try to go 6-7 low days to start.
What constitutes a LOW carb day for you? Where are you starting? I ask because you need to leave room to go down if things stall. I’m getting close to running out of room at 40g/day. I started at 100g/day as a low day.
[quote] Farmer Brett wrote:
I have pretty good will power, I think how successful I am will mainly depend upon how well I plan my meals and shop in advance, it’s always when there’s nothing in the fridge that I turn to the breadbin and make bad choices.
We shall see how it goes.
Any comments on my plan would be appreciated.
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I think the above statement is true for anyone. When you plan and prepare ahead of time, there’s certainly more accountability to yourself (which I believe is the key factor to ANY diet success). I generally spend 2hrs on Sunday afternoon/evening cooking my protein sources for the week. Something like 10 chicken breasts, 30 oz of steak and maybe 3 to 4 fish fillets. I have frozen broccoli on hand at all times and then for other veggies sources, I can cook those as needed.
For example, I cooked some asparagus last night. 10 minutes from prep to finish and I cooked enough for last night and all day today. I have a container of spinach in the fridge and it doesn’t take long to chop up enough cucumber for the day.
My breakfast usually is 1/3 cup of oats and a protein shake w/ teh creatinze and my multi vitaminz. On weekends I’ll whip up 2 large eggs + 1 cup of egg whites with some ezekiel bread.
Those are my thoughts for now.
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Thanks ddot. I was hoping you would check in and give me some advice. Right now my carbs aren’t that low because I’m still eating a fair amount of veggies (including potatoes), salad and fruit. I’m not eating bread, pasta, rice, fruit juice and cola etc. So I can cut out more if I plateau.
I don’t know why I picked 3 low carb, low cal days between high carb days, I just guessed. I can definitely extend that gap.
So are you saying oats and a bit of bread are OK to have then?
Because I’m not counting calories can I use my hunger level to gauge my calorie defecit?
Is it good to be feeling hungry?, I’m not starving, but I’m definitely ‘peckish’ in the evening, but I’m ignoring it. I’m waking up in the morning feeling ravenous! Does this sound about right?
Thanks for the help
