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Originally Posted by mjf
What types of food do you eat? I might be able to give you suggestions on how to improve your diet.
What exercises do you do at the gym, and how often?
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Hi mjf,
Thanks for taking the time to reply to my post to help me out. Here's what I've been doing for food:
Start the day
- Wake up and have a glass of warm water with crushed ginger and lemon juice
Breakfast:
- At 7am I have a measured half cup of oats (quaker quick cook) with 1 cup water and salt (I don't like sweet cereal in general) + two boiled egg whites
Snack:
- Around 10am I have a snack, almost always a banana (less ripe/no black spots)
Lunch:
- 12pm my coworkers and I go for lunch. Almost always a salad (spinach + chickpeas + kidney beans + shredded carrots + peas + beets sometimes + boiled split pea + vinaigrette) (used to add honey mustard but then I stopped)
- Some days lunch is a burritto without the wrap and with tofu (I'm vegetarian)
Snack again:
- Around 3 or 4 I have a nature valley honey and oats granola bar (slowly cutting that down) OR I pack a few almonds and walnuts
Dinner
- Dinner is variable and at a variable time. I used to make vermicelli with vegetables or wheat pasta which I've stopped now (because carbs, sigh). -
- lentils in soupy consistency.
- I try to add bell peppers, carrots, peas, beans, onions, tomatoes, brocoli and kale to my dinner
- I make indian flatbread (roti) from scratch (kneading the dough from wheat flour) So thats the carb in my dinner
** I don't eat sugar per se. I don't add sugar to my tea and coffee either
** I don't like milk so the only dairy I was eating was greek yogurt and cottage cheese (paneer) & regular cheese occasionally
Working out:
I try to hit the gym about 4-5 days a week.
- I jog/run about 8-10 miles a week
-> (10 intervals of 45 sec @ 6.8mph + 1.15 min @ 3.5 mph)
-> endurance jogging for 2-2.5 miles @ 5 mph)
- I attend about 1-2 zumba classes every week (1 hour classes)
** I have been skeptical about training with weights because what I've heard is - burn fat first with lots of cardio, then tone muscle with weight training
Do you have any suggestions for me? Any comments would be so helpful