Weight Loss - Tips & Daily Check-in

[Cusefan]

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Those chicken strips with the corn flakes sound really good.

Try Koshi Brand Cerial...

Total of 30lbs this week

[cubsfan203]

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Do any of you guys happen to have any quick, easy salmon recipes? I don't think I've ever had salmon and want to try it out, not so much to lose weight but for the protein.

[Jonesy]

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I just bake it in the oven on that baking paper stuff. Maybe a bit of dill on it but i usually just have it plain. A slab of salmon cooked to perfection with some steamed veges is a great healthy meal.

[Amoo316]

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Do any of you guys happen to have any quick, easy salmon recipes? I don't think I've ever had salmon and want to try it out, not so much to lose weight but for the protein.

If you want a recipe that isn't so health friendly try this:

Heat frying pan to normal temp with enough light olive oil to cover the pan

Lightly cook fish on both sides but not quite done

Add enough lemon juice to the frying pan to float the fish

Cook on both sides about 2 mins

Remove fish and rinse out pan

Add butter to pan and reheat (should still be hot as you don't need to wash the pan just rinse it out)

Add oregano/garlic powder/black pepper while browning both sides

Serve, enjoy

Again if you want a healthy meal just add spices and grill/fry, otherwise if you just want the protein and aren't worried about a healthy meal give it a try.

[Jonesy]

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Does anybody here do the eat 5-6 meals per day thing? I think i'd find it really hard to stick to my 1800-2000 cals per day limit if i did that.

Was thinking i could do this (cals are an estimate)

7am 2 eggs, 1 piece of toast, no butter (300 cals)

10am 30 grams of nuts (macadamia's, almonds etc) (300 cals)

12.30pm - large salad with FF dressing and 1 skinless chicken breast (400 cals)

3pm - Piece of fruit, 2 boiled eggs (200 cals)

5pm - protein shake with banana, skim milk (300 cals)

7.30pm chicken / fish / red meat with salad / veges. (400 cals)

For a total of 2000 cals. I guess i could keep all that to 2000 cals if i watch what i'm doing with portions etc. I really need to start getting more fish in my diet, i'm lucky to have it every 2-3 weeks as it is, need to up that to at least once a week or more.


EDIT: Hmmm not bad. I added it all up on fitday.com until dinner and it equaled 1500 cals by 5pm leaving me another 300-500 for dinner. The breakdown is 40% protein, 33% fat (from the eggs and nuts) and 27% carbs).

It's def doable, think i should give it a shot or stick with my current 3 meals / occasional fasting type routine?

[mattsb84]

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I do...

Similar to you in times that I eat, but I'm in the process of cutting so I'm only looking to get 1500 cals, prior I was doing 2400 cals and its pretty much the same deal, but plug in more food.

8 am - 3 hardboild eggs, no yolks (dont like them), yogurt, coffee

1030 - oatmeal, 2nd coffee

12pm 1/2 a chicken breast

2:30pm - protein shake w/ water

5/530pm pre workout shake w/ skim milk because I tried a new type of shake and it tastes vile with just water.

7pm fish/chicken/tuna/etc. w/ vegetable/brown rice. I would normally have a post workout shake here and then dinner, but I decided to cut it out because if I have one I'd be at around 1330 cals leaving pretty much nothing for dinner which I didn't like.

Then sleep at around 11-1130pm.

It's working so far, started cutting in march at 1750 cals, then scaled back to 1500 cals. I lost around 10lbs and 2% bf in the first month. I don't know if that has anything to do with eating 6 small meals a day, but mentally it helps i suppose.

[ODogg]

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stewaat - yeah she's my girlfriend, we have really hit it off! one of the benefits of losing weight I suppose.

[ODogg]

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I like three regular meals a day with two or three very small, light snacks in between. When I was trying to do 6 small meals I focused on food too much and felt too hungry most of the time.

[DaveDQ]

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I do...

Similar to you in times that I eat, but I'm in the process of cutting so I'm only looking to get 1500 cals, prior I was doing 2400 cals and its pretty much the same deal, but plug in more food.

8 am - 3 hardboild eggs, no yolks (dont like them), yogurt, coffee

1030 - oatmeal, 2nd coffee

12pm 1/2 a chicken breast

2:30pm - protein shake w/ water

5/530pm pre workout shake w/ skim milk because I tried a new type of shake and it tastes vile with just water.

7pm fish/chicken/tuna/etc. w/ vegetable/brown rice. I would normally have a post workout shake here and then dinner, but I decided to cut it out because if I have one I'd be at around 1330 cals leaving pretty much nothing for dinner which I didn't like.

Then sleep at around 11-1130pm.

It's working so far, started cutting in march at 1750 cals, then scaled back to 1500 cals. I lost around 10lbs and 2% bf in the first month. I don't know if that has anything to do with eating 6 small meals a day, but mentally it helps i suppose.

I do something very similar. The only thing I don't do is eat as late as 6:00pm; however, I'm staying up until 10:30 and hunger really kicks in sometimes. The challenge though is I want to eat with my family.

I have 2 eggs in the morning with coffee. 7:30am

Proteing shake at 10:00 am

Usually a turkey sandwich at noon with some goldfish and a glass of juice. Noon

Granola bar around 2:30-3pm

At 6pm I have dinner with some fruit.

[ODogg]

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Oh btw, just for confession time, I did finish up the pizza (3 squares) and a quarter of an italian sub last night after fat club. I think i finished the day about 300-400 calories over. I'm back on the healthy eating today though, I had brown rice and shrimp for breakfast and some cashews for a snack. I know, odd breakfast but it was something i wanted to get eaten before it went bad and I don't mind eating a non-traditional breakfast.

I was runner up at fat club last night with 1 pound lost. I won the month of April with 9.6 pounds lost!!

[DaveDQ]

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Awesome.

[ODogg]

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Off to the gym!

[slimm44]

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First two days back at the gym have been BRUTAL. I haven't worked out hard, but the first two days are always the worst.

Monday

Benching 135 pounds on a "V" bar. It's a 45 pound bar but the "V" allows for more range of motion.
1 set of 20
1 set of 15
1 set of 12

Shoulder press
3 sets of 15 on a machine. Don't remember the weight.

30 minutes on recumbent bike burned 300 or so calories.

Tuesday

Lat pull down
3 sets of 20 on a machine. Don't remember the weight.

3 sets of 20 on reverse butterfly machine. Don't remember the weight.

30 minutes on recumbent bike burned 300 or so calories.

My goal for benching is to get up to 150 pounds, 3 sets of 20. When I stopped benching in March, I was doing 185 pounds, 3 sets of 15, but it was a lot of stress on my shoulders. I want to stay a little lighter on the weight with more reps so it's easier on my shoulders and so I stay more lean than bulky.

[ODogg]

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That's a lot of weight (for me), I just did 155 about 3 times and my shoulders were hurting a little so I backed off. I haven't done a lot of benching but I need to get back into it. Usually I do about 120-130 3 sets of 8.

[Scottdau]

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Do lighter weight if you want to get cut, more heavy weight if you want to get bulkier. ODogg if I was you I would do lighter weights and get the cut definition going.