Breakfast – Cheerios, Oatmeal with fruit or Fruit Smoothie.
Lunch – Sandwich on 50/50 bread and varied fillings (cheese or something), Small Jacket potato and tuna or Salad.
Dinner – Grilled Chicken or Fish with Broccoli, Brown Rice and Chicken, or small portion of whatever my family is having.
I also walk my dog morning before breakfast and evening after dinner for about two or three miles each and jog about a mile or two around lunch time and ten minutes of boxing. Plus I only drink water.
Does this sound good? Any suggestions would be great x
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Let’s see. You get roughly 3/4 fruit a few grains 2 meat 2 milk. Depending on your portion size, this for not look very healthy. You need a snack ok 2 in between, how about a banana or apple in between lunch and dinner and a handful of berries or almonds at night. Your metabolism will drop otherwise as your energy levels will decrease and you will feel weak, you get plenty of exercise so you should really eat a bit more. If you just add 2 small snacks you will kill weight fast, and if you don’t cheat at all I’m guessing 2 lbs a week which is really healthy weight loss.
Good luck
No cereals. They are terrible for diets. Even the ones that say heart healthy and stuff. Also anything that says low fat has a lot of artificial stuff in it which is also terrible for a diet.
To be honest this is a healthy diet plan you’re running here, i would take out the 50/50 bread and go for wholemeal bread as this is more filling, (because of the Fibre), and retains its natural grains which is a healthier option. However if you where to eat any bread before running i would suggest white/processed as it breaks down quicker (little off topic fact for your running).
When people say “diet” i usually see “i want to loose 30lbs on this diet X in 2days” and it is ludicrous that people believe this at times. I do however believe that you seem to want to change your diet for good (which should be your aim it it was unhealthy, people forget about what they eat AFTER their short term diets ^-^), so respect on that area if so. Now let us presume you’re a runner as you do a lot of cardio, (might i suggest adding in some strength training on Mon – Wens and Fri), so you will want Carbs in your diet to fuel you for your long 20-30 min runs, now i know alot of these diet fab tools will be screaming right now, “Don’t!… Carbs are bad mmmmk?”, too many carbs are bad, yes, but dieters are usually lazy people who want to have the weight loss without the effort of exercise included, but, you do not have that problem. Just remember if you want to lose weight you just need to burn off more calories than you eat and avoid the high fat/sat fat foods. The best thing with being on a joggers/runners dietary plan is the variety we have at our disposal, i went on a Body builders diet and it is so bland and plain that it makes you depressed, but, with the runners there is so much option!
Now here are a few links for you that you may find interesting -
http://caloriecount.about.com/ — A website for food with recipes along with the nutritional amounts.
http://www.halhigdon.com/Articles/Diet.htm — A plain website with basic information for runners
http://www.runnersworld.com/subtopic/0,7123,s6-242-303-307-0,00.html — A website for runners, the link i provided are for meal plans.
http://running.about.com/od/nutritionforrunners/tp/bestfoodsforrunners.htm — Another short based informational nutrition guide for runners.
Good luck, i hope you get as much out of running as i have.
in general yes, although probably not enough, BUT
don’t eat Cheerios, full of sugar. Processed breakfast cereals are all bad. Also fruit should not be in a sugary smoothie.
eat real bread, not over-processed gimmick bread.
lots of fruit and veg and you need a bit more dairy for your bones.