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suggestions? Anonymous
I need to get back in shape. here's my current habits; would appreciate your thoughts

exercise:
* just finished week 2 of hundredpushups.com workout (level 1), continuing to do workouts every other day, including weekends.
* training up on bike to ride to be able to ride back and forth to work (5 miles each way), currently doing about 20-30 minutes around the neighborhood nearly every weekday

diet:
* cheerios with berries (dried inside the box) for breakfast with skim milk
* turkey, cheddar (or swiss), turkey pepperoni, mayo, mustard, pickles on whole wheat sandwiches
* non-fat yogurt
* beef jerky
* arizona green tea, coffee, water, and soda every once in a while
* chicken and beef chili pre-made soups from the store
* caesar "light" pre-made salads
* grapes
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>> Anonymous
>* qdoba's: steak queso burrito
get it in a bowl. and cut out the cheese. NO FUCKING CHEESE get soem guacomole that shit's banging.

>* subway: oven roasted sub on parmesan oregano, provolone, black olives, lettuce, tomatoes, chipotle sauce

Get it on a wrap. less carbs.

>* taco bell: cheesy gordita crunch, southwest steak bowl, zesty chicken bowl

Fucking gross dude.
>> Anonymous
>>329028

Do you really want advice? Are you actually going to do what we suggest? If you do...

Skip the Cheerios. Make OATZ instead, and throw some frozen blueberries or raspberries in. They lose a lot of their nutritional value when they're dried.

Stop eating shitty deli meat. There's more soy protein isolate in it than actual meat protein. Get your protein from grilled/baked chicken breasts.

Try to limit beef jerky. It's got a lot of sodium, which is psychologically bad for keeping track of your progress on the scale.

Arizona Ice tea? Come on man, that's sugar you don't need. Drink unsweetened green tea.

No pre-made soups. No processed food. If you didn't make it from scratch, don't eat it. I don't care. Yes, you fucking have time to make food if you make time, don't give me any excuses.

Taco bell? Are you fucking kidding me? If I had read your post all the way through and saw you ate Taco Bell while trying to cut, I'd have saged your thread and called you a moron.

Enjoy your dietary advice, El Grande Moron.
>> Anonymous
>taco bell: cheesy gordita crunch, southwest steak bowl, zesty chicken bowl
>taco bell

There's your problem right there.
>> Anonymous
all liquids better be unsweetened tea or water.
>> Anonymous
you're eating a lot of processed foods with hfcs and tons of sodium which can work against you, try to clean it up as much as you can. Keep the subway/taco bell/etc as a cheat meal once a week or every 10 days not a part of your diet. Whole grain instead of whole wheat, salad with balsamic no creamy "lite" dressings, give up the soda and iced tea just drink water, plenty of it. Oatmeal and eggs in the morning instead of cheerios. Check your bmr and count calories just to make sure youre getting enough. Eat on schedule, every 2 or 3 hours, even if you're not hungry, your body will adapt to being fed all the time and won't feel the need hold on to stores of fat.
>> Anonymous
OP here.

>> 392048

Oops. I went from 5'7" 200lbs => 145lbs a few years ago (it took for fucking ever though) by following a bunch of stuff in Men's Fitness magazines. One article actually mentioned that Taco Bell wasn't too bad. But, I trust /fit/'s volunteer words better than some magazine, so thank you for the advice.

I didn't mean to say that this was my *new* diet, just what I'm currently eating that I thought was at least moderately healthy. I expected to get yelled at, I guess.

I had no idea about the deli meats, I always thought that sandwiches were a safe bet. That's good to know.

So, I think I'm down to basically just:

* grilled chicken
* oatmeal (I hate it, but I'll just have to stuff it down my throat)
* grapes

Are canned or frozen vegetables and fruits okay? Any recipe suggestions? Sounds like I have a boring few years ahead of me in terms of food :P

Also, I haven't heard much about my exercise routine. Shouldn't I be doing more? I think I should, but it seems like I am hitting much of the major muscle groups with compound exercises and I'm afraid to overtrain.
>> Anonymous
>>329028
Knock out the Qdoba, Subway, and Taco Bell right the fuck now. The stuff is toxic - a regular steak burrito has somewhere in the neighborhood of 1400 calories. Subway and Taco Hell are no better.

Switch to frozen fruit and oats, like a prior anon mentioned. Oatmeal is fast, easy, cheap. Throw some honey in there if you think it's too bland. Honey = tasty

Ditch the jerky. Switch to healthy trail mix (nuts, raisins, almonds, etc)

Ditch the Arizona green tea. Go to regular tea - again, use honey if it's too bland. Limit the coffee

Drop the mayo in your sandwiches. Limit the cheese (I know a lot of people BAW about how bad cheese is - but fuck it, I like cheese).

Eat 5, 6 small meals a day. Keeps your metabolism firing. Try to eat right after workouts, again because your metabolism is still firing in high gear, burns things more efficiently.

Pre-made soups can be hit or miss. Some can be ok, some toxic. Read labels carefully. Don't get anything creamy. Chicken noodle, stuff like that.

Get a good multivitamin. Shit, even Emer-gen-C is better than nothing.

Biking, focus on intensity, not just duration. 20 minutes of piddling around the block is useless. 20 minutes of hard interval riding is great. Google some interval workouts for yourself. Start doing basic body-weight stuff besides pushups - prisoner and Hindu squats, bicycle crunches, install a pull-up bar, do chin-ups and pull-ups. Go running and swimming to alternate your cardio.
>> Anonymous
you eat shitty fatty fat fat
>> Anonymous
you don't exercise.
>> Anonymous
>>329082

392048 here again. Good job on your weight loss. Canned vegetables often have preservatives and sugar added, so skip them. Frozen vegetables, however, are often more nutritious than fresh vegetables, because they're frozen only hours after being picked in the fields and still contain fragile helpful enzymes.

My stats are like yours. I'm 5'5", I was 206, and now I'm down to 147. Like Gordon Gecko said in Wall Street, 'You've done good, but you gotta keep doing good.' You don't have much weight left to lose, so now is the time for the intense dieting. Making some better choices is what got you to 145, but having a tight diet is what'll get you the tight abs.
>> Anonymous
>>329082
You can just eat the oats dry motherfucker add some milk and honey in that shit fucking delicious.