i need help with my diet... i wake up at about 12pm.. and go to bed at around 2am.. i have boxing mon/wed/fri from 4-6 i am planning on trying the 6 small meals a day rather than having 3 big ones. could you guys help me make a timed routine what/when i should eat. would just 1 granola bar or yogurt count as a small meal? pls help thx.

My sample day

Breakfest - 6:30 am: Hardboild Eggs or Cereal w/Skim Milk and Granola
Work out from 8am-9:45 am

Get to work
Snack: 10:30 - Either a granola bar, banana, yogurt, polio string chese (low fat w/skim milk)

Lunch Noon- Salad, or turkey or grilled chicken on wheat

Snack: 3pm - Same as snacks above, or popcorn

Dinner 7PM: Usually Salmon or Tuna or turkey burger (my wifes a good cook, thankfully)

9PM - Usually something sugar/carb free

1130pm - sleep

hope that helps

I think a major key to weight loss is to stay away from sugar and carbs, try to only eat wheat/grain breads

Eat every 2-3 hours, mostly whole foods, frutis and veggies with every meal, and high protein, moderate carb, low fat.

Asking someone to give a diet over the internet with not knowing your training experience, daily lifestyle, metabolism, genetics, training/nutrition history is impossible.

Eating every 2-3 hours isn't practical unless you never leave the house. If you stay home all day all night then listen to NJ but if not, listen to me. :D

IT easy to lose weight. **** all this "low carb", "high protein" mumbo jumbo everyone says. Bottom line: you gotta eat healthy. Eat organic foods (natural foods) and you will be fine. And drink tons of water.

I won't lie...I'm home day and night but only because it's summer :p

It does get harder during school but it's still possible to get in food every 2-3 hours. I usually don't like to sit in class and have a protien shake because I feel stupid but sometimes I make a peanut butter sandwich in foil and put it in my pocket and ask to go to the bathroom and while I walk around the halls or go to the bathroom, I just eat it.

And this isn't for nutrition, it's cause I'm damn hungry :D

But I usually have a breakfast...then a small sandwich around 2nd-3rd period, lunch at 6th period then something after school and then it's easy to get in food 2-3 hours.

Again like Smokin said...high protein, low carb isn't needed. As long as you eat healthy, you should be fine.

Even that...my grandfather used to eat only 3 meals a day which were usually white rice and maybe eggplants or chicken or something which would be considered bad by today's nutrition experts and he was still built like a tank.

That's why I think the diet/nutrition is overrated and you should focus more on training.

Seems like I've rambled on a bit but what I mean to say is...eat healthy :D

And...it's easy to get in food every 2-3 hours, you're just not trying enough Smokin :p

Isnt hard to get 5-6small meals when school starts if your in highschool imm ogin to highschool lookin forward to it. And NJ why would you needa go to washroom to eat cant you eat in class at your school? And on the protien shake note if you feel stupid put it in a waterbottle and if peeps ask its chocolate milk(its what my whey taste like) or take a protien bar. I wouldnt take the protien shake because of the hassle i dont like takin drinks to school i just birng juice/water

They don't allow to eat during class and drinking is allowed only if it's really hot and it's only water.

The smell of the protein shake would overwhelm the class :D

dang that sucks ><

I won't lie...I'm home day and night but only because it's summer :p

It does get harder during school but it's still possible to get in food every 2-3 hours. I usually don't like to sit in class and have a protien shake because I feel stupid but sometimes I make a peanut butter sandwich in foil and put it in my pocket and ask to go to the bathroom and while I walk around the halls or go to the bathroom, I just eat it.

And this isn't for nutrition, it's cause I'm damn hungry :D

But I usually have a breakfast...then a small sandwich around 2nd-3rd period, lunch at 6th period then something after school and then it's easy to get in food 2-3 hours.

Again like Smokin said...high protein, low carb isn't needed. As long as you eat healthy, you should be fine.

Even that...my grandfather used to eat only 3 meals a day which were usually white rice and maybe eggplants or chicken or something which would be considered bad by today's nutrition experts and he was still built like a tank.

That's why I think the diet/nutrition is overrated and you should focus more on training.

Seems like I've rambled on a bit but what I mean to say is...eat healthy :D

And...it's easy to get in food every 2-3 hours, you're just not trying enough Smokin :p

how are you home all day during the summer? the summers the time to go outside
I hit the gym in the morning come home shower then hit the beach/lake all day

Eating every 2-3 hours isn't practical unless you never leave the house.

Not true, I work full time and goto law school full time and have no problem

1. Eat every 2-3 hours, no matter what. You should eat between 5-8 meals per day.

2. Eat complete (containing all the essential amino acids), lean protein with each meal.

3. Eat fruits and/or vegetables with each food meal.

4. Ensure that your carbohydrate intake comes from fruits and vegetables. Exception: workout and post-workout drinks and meals.

5. Ensure that 25-35% of your energy intake comes from fat, with your fat intake split equally between saturates (e.g. animal fat), monounsaturates (e.g., olive oil), and polyunsaturates (e.g. flax oil, salmon oil).

6. Drink only non-calorie containing beverages, the best choices being water and green tea.

7. Eat mostly whole foods (except workout and post-workout
drinks).

Protein

Whole eggs and egg whites

Beef, chicken, turkey, pork (we'd keep pork intake limited, however), and other land critters

Tuna, salmon and other water critters

Cottage cheese

Cheese

Low Carb Grow! MRP


Carbohydrates

Post-workout drink (Surge)

Old-fashioned oatmeal

Most vegetables (Those frozen bags of mixed veggies can be very handy.)


Fats

Fish oil

Flax oil

Udo's choice oil blend

Biotest DHA/EPA supplement (This one isn't out yet as of this writing, but it will blow away all the choices above when it does hit the shelves!)

Mixed nuts and natural peanut butter

Plus the fats found in whole eggs and beef

Sample Daily Diet

Meal #1 (Big breakfast option)

Egg and cheese omelet

Oatmeal

Classic Grow!


Snack

Beef jerky, handful of mixed nuts


Meal #2

Tuna, boiled egg


Meal #3

Chicken breasts

Mixed veggies


Meal #4

Pre and post-workout drink


Meal #5

Steak

Salad


Meal #6

Cottage cheese

Low Carb Grow!


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how are you home all day during the summer? the summers the time to go outside
I hit the gym in the morning come home shower then hit the beach/lake all dayEasy. I wake up. Go running, eat, workout, eat, sleep, tv, boxing, eat, sleep, tv, computer.

I have nothing to do in the summer except sometimes go to the movies, park, basketball, whatever.