jess77
Thu, August 11th, 2005, 02:44 PM
Hi everyone
I have started a new fitness and healthy eating plan. I'm 5'8, female, 27 years old, and 150 pounds. I have been going to the gym now for the past month 3-5 days a week to do weights and I generally do cardio outside of the gym but I am starting to do some HIIT now at the gym.
I read lots of the posts on nutrition in this forum (all the stickies) and figured out that I need to be taking in about 1800 calories a day, with a 50% carb, 30% protein and 20% fat split. I've been using fitday to track my intake and yesterday I was almost bang on with about 1840 calories.
Yesterday (and most working days) my diet consists of 5-6 smaller meals every 3 hours. I started by having a banana, some cottage cheese and unsweetened applesauce and some kashi cereal with soy milk. Next meal was more cottage cheese and applesauce. Then I went to the gym to do weights, and came back to have my third meal: protein shake and oatmeal and a banana. Dinner was a chicken breast, broccoli and cauliflower and a sweet potato.
I vary it a bit by day and include things such as almonds, tuna, salmon, tofu breakfast patties, egg white omeletes, other fruits and veggies.
How does this all sound? Should there be other things I should be adding or eliminating from my diet? Also, I plan to allow myself to have 1 cheat day a week- is this a good idea or not?
Thanks everyone!
I have started a new fitness and healthy eating plan. I'm 5'8, female, 27 years old, and 150 pounds. I have been going to the gym now for the past month 3-5 days a week to do weights and I generally do cardio outside of the gym but I am starting to do some HIIT now at the gym.
I read lots of the posts on nutrition in this forum (all the stickies) and figured out that I need to be taking in about 1800 calories a day, with a 50% carb, 30% protein and 20% fat split. I've been using fitday to track my intake and yesterday I was almost bang on with about 1840 calories.
Yesterday (and most working days) my diet consists of 5-6 smaller meals every 3 hours. I started by having a banana, some cottage cheese and unsweetened applesauce and some kashi cereal with soy milk. Next meal was more cottage cheese and applesauce. Then I went to the gym to do weights, and came back to have my third meal: protein shake and oatmeal and a banana. Dinner was a chicken breast, broccoli and cauliflower and a sweet potato.
I vary it a bit by day and include things such as almonds, tuna, salmon, tofu breakfast patties, egg white omeletes, other fruits and veggies.
How does this all sound? Should there be other things I should be adding or eliminating from my diet? Also, I plan to allow myself to have 1 cheat day a week- is this a good idea or not?
Thanks everyone!