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Originally Posted by jsharp
I can eat whenever
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That makes things much easier and is an ideal situation.
Idealy, you should eat 5-6 meals a day, 6 being best for men and 5 for women. This is very important because it takes about 2.5 - 3 hrs to digest a proper meal, so if you eat every 2-3 hrs you have a better chance of burning the cals you consume rather than storing them, you can provide a steady flow of nutrients and control insulin spikes, this is important as fat loss and high insulin levels do not work, you will be able to eat properly sized meals and not feel hungry because by the time you digest your meal it will be time for another. Some people actually find it difficult to eat that many meals as everytime you turn around you are eating.
Everyone has different likes and dislikes when it comes to eating so it's hard to recomend a meal plan, it is much easier if you write down what you eat and when and then I can look it over, modify and find food choices similar to what you like that may be better choices.
You have heard the saying if you give a man a fish he eats for a day, if you teach him to fish he eats for a lifetime, well I'm going to teach you to fish. lol.
Below is the food data base I posted earlier and a meal plan I posted. Using the meal plan as a guide of when to eat what types of foods and the amounts of carbs, proteins and fats what you can do is pick from the food data base the foods you like and substitute them for the ones in the meal plan.
For example we will use two meals, the first one will be breakfast 1
you say you don't like oatmeal so choose from the list of complex carbs you can live with so instaed of the oatmeal (not your biscuit lol) choose the whole wheat bagel. it's not in the data base but if you want meat with your breakfast remove a couple of eggs and add turkey sausage, turkey bacon or canadian bacon, these are all acceptable as long as you stay close to the cals and percentages in the chart.
example 2 meal # 5 you will see that there are no starchy carbs only fiberous carbs, but lets say you don't like salmon or grean beans so substitute them with a different choice from the same category.
A few posts back are some recipies for smoothies, you can substitue one or two of your meals with one that has similar nutrient values.
A general rule two follow is always eat protein with every meal, eat complex starchy carbs earlier in the day and fiberous carbs later in the day. Try to keep the ratios of carbs, proteins and fats close to what's in the sample menu as the ratios of these nutrients and their sources are what ramps up fat loss.
If you want you can put together a couple of sample meals and I can look them over and point out the good and bad.
You can prepare the foods the way you like but baking and broiling are good, FRYING IS NOT
Once I see your food choices I can provide recipies that suit your taste, actually everyday I will post one or two that will fit right in with this plan.
You workout at 5 am, do you eat before or after your workout?
