Thread: I don't want to look like a Tank Abbott body double any more.

I need help on a diet plan (I'm looking at you Marc) :yes:

At the moment, I am running 5 days a week. That is all of the exercise I am doing at this point in time. Reading know has no MMA or BJJ classes.

I will start doing BJJ again soon, when I move to Slough.


My diet is very basic. I usually eat some soup and bread during the day. For an evening meal it is Steak or Chicken Breast or Fish with Salad or Vegetables.

That is about it.

I usually have a can of coke each day, along with water. I also normally have a Chinese or Pizza once a week.


Money is a bit tight at the moment, so I can't afford loads of expensive foods, tablets or shakes.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Yo!

Food on a budget can be easy if you look in the right places, where do you shop?
you can save a bit of coin by switching to Aldi or lidl, or whatever you have in slough/reading

Go for bags of frozen chicken/turkey

I but 2.2kg bags (usually about 15 fillets) frozen from costco they taste good too, not stringy or watery like some cheapo stuff

get more carbs in too if your running a lot, stock up on white rice/potatoes/pasta again buy big bags in bulk to save money you can get 3kg bags of white pasta for £3 in tesco probably chepaer from aldi or somewhere

get the fast acting carb meals ie: chicken pasta etc around you training times, and as the day goes on cut back on the carbs and replace the potates/rice for salads

ive done a few diets recently for people dieting so alot of of it will be applicable to you, have a mooch over my last few posts but maybe tailor it a little bit for being on a budget

Good luck dude

I'm always worried about eating Pasta and potatoes, I think they'll stop me from losing weight.

I don't run very far, due to me being a fat-arse! I'm steadily increasing my distance but I don't think I am burning all that many calories doing my jog.

tem - are you maintaing the samw weight??..a good way to start is write down everything you eat for 3 days (make it 7 if you wanna be thorough)make notes of cals (and protein/carbs etc if you can be arsed).

After 3 days weigh yourself are you the same weight? - add up all your calories for the 3 days and then divide by 3 - this gives you your average daily cals - if you are the same weight from the start then this figure tells you what you need to maintain weight then either stick to this amount of cals each day and exercise harder or drop 250 to 500 cals (or do more exercise and drop cals) this is how you will drop weight - its a simple formula but it does work and it's worth the hassle as a one off.

- Marc has covered the basics (treat food as fuel - couple of hours before your run/exercise get your carbs in, other wise protein veg and fruit are fine). I would recommend a high strength vit c at the very least though - assuming you are gonna start training hard. Hope this is of some help - P.S the non marathon runners handbook link on Amazon.co.uk may give you some ideas re running and fuel etc (or the others books linked to this):happy:

I lost 15 lbs in the 1st month. In the last 6 weeks I have lost around 3 lbs. My weight seems to be going up and down an awful lot.