The diet that I am going to follow is really strict and so is my exercize plan actually. It's the first phase of a 4 phase diet that a competitive body builder friend of mine uses to slim down for competition. For me though I just want to get down to a weight that I'm happy at and that I can maintain easily. The biggest problem for me prior to starting the diet was portion size and just a general love of food - any food. I don't eat because I'm depressed or anything like that, I eat because I like food. Anyway onto the diet:
It's pretty simple really; I'll give it to you the way it was told to me:
6 meals during the day. Each meal should contain 30 grams of protein and 30 grams of carbs. A pretty good setup for this is 100 grams cooked basmati rice and a chicken breast. You can substitute them for other stuff as long as it's lean and has the right grammage of protein/carbs. Stay away from potato. Eat no carbs after 6pm. You can add a bit of veg to each meal (that gets you 5 out of 5 for your recommended veg portions) but make sure the veg has no carbs in it. Take a multi vitamin. Have one day off a week. You can have an additional meal of only protein and veg at about 8pm. Drink loads of water.
For simplicity I have one meal every 2 hours starting at 8am and finishing at 6. Then I have the meal that I should have had at 8pm whenever I get back from the gym.
This diet should be paired with a good exercize routine which for me is the following:
Mon - Fri
2 mile run at lunch
A cardio class at my local gym
30 - 45 mins of weights
30 - 60 laps in a 25m pool
Sat - Day off (also my cheat day on the diet)
Sun - Some kind of sport with my mates.
Any advice/comments would be much appreciated.
I am also going to be blogging this at so you can check that out too.
It's pretty simple really; I'll give it to you the way it was told to me:
6 meals during the day. Each meal should contain 30 grams of protein and 30 grams of carbs. A pretty good setup for this is 100 grams cooked basmati rice and a chicken breast. You can substitute them for other stuff as long as it's lean and has the right grammage of protein/carbs. Stay away from potato. Eat no carbs after 6pm. You can add a bit of veg to each meal (that gets you 5 out of 5 for your recommended veg portions) but make sure the veg has no carbs in it. Take a multi vitamin. Have one day off a week. You can have an additional meal of only protein and veg at about 8pm. Drink loads of water.
For simplicity I have one meal every 2 hours starting at 8am and finishing at 6. Then I have the meal that I should have had at 8pm whenever I get back from the gym.
This diet should be paired with a good exercize routine which for me is the following:
Mon - Fri
2 mile run at lunch
A cardio class at my local gym
30 - 45 mins of weights
30 - 60 laps in a 25m pool
Sat - Day off (also my cheat day on the diet)
Sun - Some kind of sport with my mates.
Any advice/comments would be much appreciated.
I am also going to be blogging this at so you can check that out too.
