Hi Fadi,
It's been a pleasure reading so many of your posts on here. Usually Im tempted to ask lots of questions but of course I keep reading the threads and hey presto! the answers are there. I've learn so much from this site in the few weeks I've been here
I'm still finding my feet setting my goals with regard to strength training and nutrition and trying to balance that with overall fitness and lifestyle. I'm 33yo, 82kg (would like to be 87kg) and 177cm tall and I run about 3x5km each week on my non-gym days as I intend to participate in the Run For The Kids race in April - plus I have a pretty full-on heart murmur so cardio health is a must for me. (I don't think my cardiologist would want me at 90kg+ even if it was all muscle!).
Im reasonably happy with my body fat levels and my goal (at this stage) is to enjoy the benefits of being stronger.
I'm very much a novice and while I'm excited to be taking my training more seriously than ever, I don't know if I have the determination to stick with a diet like the one you've suggested. (Eating it isn't the problem, but preparing it is!)
I was wondering if you could let me know what
slight(!) changes I could make to my current diet that would reap the biggest benefits. I think I need to "ease" into a serious diet!
At the moment my diet looks like this:
Breakfast, 8:45am: bowl of cereal with skim milk, and 2 scoops of whey protein powder, and a multi-vitamin. And a glass of water.
I also have half an aspro - doctors orders to thin my blood, plus a cup of cheap and nasty nescafe with skim milk, no sugar, some time after brekky.
Mid-morning 10:45am: 1 red Apple and a glass of water.
Lunch, midday: Ham & spinach, tomato, avocado sandwich on some type of Helgas brown/rye or seedy bread. And a glass of water.
Afternoon 3:30pm: small bunch of grapes or another apple, or museli bar, water.
Afternoon 4:45pm, pre-workout banana, water.
Hit the gym (SS program) or go for a 5-6km run between 5:30 - 6:30pm.
6:30pm: WPI shake....much water...banana.
7:30pm Dinner: steak or chicken breast or thigh or lamb backstrap or fish with lettuce (or baby spinach), tomato, cucumber, maybe some fetta. Or corn, carrots, peas, broccoli.
After dinner 9:30pm: some plain youghurt with some grapes or strawberrys or banana.
Hopefully the more I keep reading the more motivated I will get and the more determined I will be to keep getting good results.
Any thoughts or links you can provide will be appreciated Fadi - and keep spreading the good will! It really is a pleasure to read your posts.
Andy