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Originally Posted by CFD
That's good and it will fit right in with the ideas I have.
A couple of other things I would like to know, during the day Like when at work) can you prepare food to some extent, if not do do you have access to a microwave during those times?
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I will show you some of the problems with your diet and a few ways we can make it better using the same or similar foods.
It seems you are concentrating on caloric content more than macronutrients. A handeful of your foods are low enough in calories but have very little nutritional value, You are eating complex carbs later in the day which is opposite of what you should try to do. The only difficult part is post workout is the best time to eat a high protein starchy carb meal. Because of this we will keep that type of meal in place but reduce portion sizes as your last meal shouldn't be to large. Your breakfast is a problem. It consists of two generally good food choices but it is a sugar (banana) and a fat (peanut butter) you should not eat sugar and fat together it's a recipe for fat storage.
Now with that said, you should be starting out with a break down of about 40% carbs, 40% protein and 20% fat. This is a very good starting point, this is what your break down is (approximately
Using your first days meals I do not have the nutritional value for your chicken and cheese cristitos or your v8 splash but I can be pretty sure the ratios will make things worse, if you post the carbs protein and fat I will add them in and get a more accurate amount but using the other foods listed you are eating roughly
148g
92g carbs aprox.-62% should be 59g -40%
38g protein aprox-26% should be 59g- 40%
18g fat aprox-12% should be 29g -20%
Your cals are about right but your eating a very high carb, low protein and low fat diet, high carb diets generally = fat storage not fat burning. This is the problem. I am 100% sure if you add in the other foods I don't have values for this becomes worse not better
This is most likely why the scale hasn't changed.
Now we will try to come up with some ideas to make acceptable changes for you using as many as the foods you listed as possible.
There is so much I would like to know but let me ask a few things. I would like to come up with a few ideas for you.
What is your typical schedule like?
the chicken and cheese cristitos and the bagel dogs are they a processed frozen food that you just heat or nuke and eat?
Do you eat oatmeal? if not is it because of taste?