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5 Meals a day Anonymous
For a while I've been doing some exercise, just trying to lose a little weight. Most of the time, I have a bowl of porridge in the morning, then a footlong subway at about 3 or 4 in the afternoon. I don't eat much else throughout the day. I know that I should really be eating 5 or 6 small meals during the day, rather than one large one. I figure I could try to cut the subway to a 6-inch, then eat something else throughout the day. However, I don't really have time to prepare anything for myself.

So, my question are:
- Is there any low-calorie fast food out there?
- If I go to the store to get something to eat mid-day, should I go for sandwiches or pasta-based ready meals?
- Am I just kidding myself with the subway? Do I need to cut it out completely?

Also, lots of people talk about doing like 30 minutes of cardio per day. I can only really manage 10 minutes. I use a rowing machine and do what it reckons is 5 km per day on quite a high resistance. Am I doing it wrong?
>> sage
be selective about your order

if you're serious about losing weight you'd go on google right now and read all about fast food.
>> Anonymous
>2 main meals throughtout a day
>footlong subway
>considering shitty store-made sandwiches/pastas
>10 minutes cardio
>Am I doing it wrong?

Well what do you fucking think?
>> Anonymous
Sushi.
Too bad it's expensive as fuck.

And one sub is like 70% of your probable recommended daily intake.
>> Anonymous
How fucking busy are you? You can't cook your own food, and only have time for 10 mins of cardio? (If you mean that you are tired after 10 mins of cardio, then rest, and do 10 more. Repeat.)
>> Anonymous
You're probably right. I've looked at nutritional information before for subway, and a footlong seems to be around 1050 calories. Add a little more considering they probably leave nearly every extra off for that calculation and you're at 1300 calories. That's too much for one meal, you're right.

The rowing machine reckons that 5km is 300 calories. I'm not sure how accurate that is. I gues I could try to push up to 10km/day at most, but that still only takes around 20 mintutes. I couldn't do more than that.

Sushi makes sense, but it is really expensive. I just want to know if there's anything really good and not too expensive that you can buy when you're out.

I mean this has been working so far, I've been getting results.
>> Anonymous
>>375715

holy shit I'm gonna start eating them twice a day.
>> Anonymous
Fruits and vegetables! They will fill you up and they are low calorie (not to mention the nutrition you get from them will be fucking INSANE).
>> Anonymous
>>375697

Not OP, but on days where I work a 5 hour shift, I could go 6-8 hours without eating anything. On Saturday I ate breakfast at 9 and then had "lunch" at 4:30. Well, I guess I had a banana and a yogurt at 2 but that wasn't enough to make me not hungry by the time I got home. On 5 hour shift days, I only get a 10 minute break, so I can't bring a whole meal and I can only eat once for those 10 minutes.
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>>375715
Fuck the rowing machine. Use an elliptical, or lower the resistance and go longer...or even better, do both. If you're trying to lose weight, your current regimen isn't cutting it.

Also: Try getting a 6" instead of a footlong w/ turkey and veggies and instead of loading up with greasy Italian meats and cheese.
>> Anonymous
I've been doing the 5 to 6 meals a day play.
I had subway for lunch...all you have to do is just get a foot long and eat one half for lunch and one 3 hours later, and drink a lot of water (I did 3 cups at subway).
>> Anonymous
Actually I should have thought of vegetables. Buy enough of them at a time and they are very economical. Yeah, I find that when I'm working during the day, I just don't really need to eat. That's what's getting me into thse bad habits I guess.

I could row twice as far on a lower resistence easily... is that better?
>> Anonymous
I read that high resistance work out is good for burning more fat. You just need some cardio as well...

If rowing is the only thing you do, I suppose you should do some long warm up or cool downs at lower resistance and longer durations before and after your high resistance workout. Try for 30 minutes total.
>> Anonymous
Ok I'll try to bring it up to 30 minutes, that makes a lot more sense.
>> Anonymous
Skip the cheese
Shit don't taste anything on subs anyway
>> Anonymous
>>375715
A 6 inch sub, at heart, is only around 300-400 calories.
1000 calories? Sure, if you're getting cheese, mayo and dressings.
>> Anonymous
>>375795
Are you fucking kidding me? A standard McDonalds cheeseburger is 300 kcal. A 6 inch sub is at least three times that.
>> Anonymous
>>375796
Are you fucking stupid?
a 6 inch Turkey Breast sub with no mayo, cheese or dressings is about 250-325 calories.

You have said the stupid shit I've heard today, and it's only the afternoon. 10/10, good sir. 10/10.
>> Anonymous
It isn't that hard dude.

Eat your porridge in the morning, add some fruit for taste and extra nutrition.

Have whey isolate after your workout.

Buy a bag of trail mix as a snack a bit later, and why not prepare a sandwhich the night before and carry it along with you, and it that fucker for lunch along with a banana and an apple.

A couple hours before before supper have some fruit or veggies.

For supper by one of those cheap premade salad bags and add light dressing and some lean meat on it, thin cut so you can cook it on the skillet in less then 5 minutes.

If your not too out of shape consider doing a HIIT workout for your cardio, you'll be lucky if you last 10 minutes and its a fuckload better then what your doing.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
>>375796
So you are disagreeing with someone who was agreeing with your point in the first place?

I hope you know that because, holy shit, you're stupid.
>> Anonymous
http://www.subway.com/applications/NutritionInfo/nutritionlist.aspx?id=sandwich

Maybe it's not as bad as I thought. Thanks 3705803, those are some good ideas, I think I'll see if I can implement some of those.

I'm not sure if it's really HIIT, but I typically attempt 500 meter bursts of energy, where I row really quickly, followed by 1000 meter recovery. Rinse and Repeat. That gets me really really tired.
>> Anonymous
>>375832
Do what I did, just get any 6 inch off their "6 grams of fat or less" menu WITHOUT any MAYO, CHEESE OR DRESSING.

You'll be surprised how many calories mayo and cheese would add to a regular cheeseburger. Sometimes, these condiments attribute to more than HALF of their calories.

Healthy, breakfast, lunch and dinner, everyday, anytime.
>> Anonymous
>>375848
Bro whats wrong with cheese?
>> Anonymous
>>375849
To be fair, nothing, really.
If you're not exceeding your grams of fat per day, you can add cheese. It's mostly saturated fats, which most people tend to steer clear from. But in it's defense, you need just a tad bit of sat. fats daily.

I guess it's just dieting, you want a big meal without any calorie-dense calories.

I simply don't add cheese because I don't really need any extra fat in my diet, even though I could use it.

Get cheese, but just stay away from mayo - That's just too much fat per tbsp serving.
>> Anonymous
1 bite = 1 serving niggers
>> Anonymous
What would /fit/ reccomend for a 2000 calorie/day diet? I alternate between Cardio/Hiit every other day aswell so I estimate I burn somewhere between 2700-3000 calories/day so that should give me some hefty weightloss, right?

My day usually start with two slices of bread (bread that's around 180 kcal/100 grams and rich on fiber) so it fills me up for a while, then I basically don't eat anything until dinner, dinner varies a lot for me because I can't decide myself what's for dinner but in general, I try to eat one fist of carbs and one fist of proteins and usually as much salad or whatever there is to fill up on, then I usually have another meal later on in the day consisting of another two slices of bread, and maybe around 100 grams of white meat. If I get hungry after this before I go to bed, I eat an apple or an orange or something of the like.

Is this below 2000? It's so hard to know sometimes, but I do spend some portions of the day hungry, particularly when I go to bed, which kinda sucks, I could pretty easily fill up on salad though, couldn't I? Also, may this make me malnutritioned? I'd think so because appart from the dinner, there's not much variety in my day-to-day meal, but I don't really care, i'm only doing this shit for 6 weeks then i'm increasing my calory-intake to around 3300 / day and beefing up.