Meals that I can cook myself to help lose 10kg

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Hey guys I am looking to lose 10kg in the next 2-3 months. I am 16 years old 179cm (5ft 10inches) and I weigh 76kg (167.5lbs). I atleast want to get under 70kg and then start building muscle.

What I am looking for is some good meals that I can cook myself. I am not a very good cook so I would prefer if these were simple meals that I could have for lunch at school. For breakfast I usually have weet-bix (you might not have heard of this if you're not from Australia) and thats pretty healthy I reckon.

Thanks guys :)
 
Hi yeahbuddy,

What is your diet currently like?
My best advice is to try cutting out any bread and sugars. This alone will work wonders and leave you feeling better as well as helping with the weight loss.

Also try to just stick to real foods and avoid quick, ready made meals or meal bases (jars of pasta sauce and things like that). A little extra effort in preperation is worth the results you will see and feel.

Also, working out will help you with the fat loss, so don't wait until you reach a certain goal weight before you start wanting to build muscle, just go for it now.

More some suggestions than anything but hope it helps.
 
ActiveRed said:
Hi yeahbuddy,

What is your diet currently like?
My best advice is to try cutting out any bread and sugars. This alone will work wonders and leave you feeling better as well as helping with the weight loss.

Also try to just stick to real foods and avoid quick, ready made meals or meal bases (jars of pasta sauce and things like that). A little extra effort in preperation is worth the results you will see and feel.

Also, working out will help you with the fat loss, so don't wait until you reach a certain goal weight before you start wanting to build muscle, just go for it now.

More some suggestions than anything but hope it helps.
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I wouldn't recommend cutting out carbohydrates. Those are what give you the majority of your muscular and neural energy, so cutting those out will make it more tiring to work out.

Rice and pasta make for simple, healthy meals, as long as you moderate. A lot of vegetables as well. Also, one thing I found to be a great miracle food is quinoa, which is full of healthy carbs and protein while being the simplest thing in the world to cook.
 
Jrahien said:
I wouldn't recommend cutting out carbohydrates. Those are what give you the majority of your muscular and neural energy, so cutting those out will make it more tiring to work out.
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Far from that, my suggestion was to cut out bread and sugars, particularly processed sugars, not carbohydrates all together.
These are generally quick burning carbs. You are better off with slow burning carbs which will leave you feeling fuller for longer and give you a slow energy release, rather than the quick spike that you will get from breads and sugars.
Try legumes for a good alternative to give you the slower energy release and still provide you with the extra colories you need for working out.
 
Bread is only a quick-burning carb if you eat it with nothing else. It's still a complex carbohydrate, like what's in lentils, as opposed to the single-molecule, simple carbs which are sugars and easily digested.

Food with high glycemic index (high carb ratio) will be absorbed too quickly, used, and then cause an early crash, but that's an easy fix. Simply adding cream cheese to a bagel or making your bread into a sandwich will remedy the situation.
 
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Are humans meant to live from a high grain diet?

Jrahien said:
Bread is only a quick-burning carb if you eat it with nothing else. It's still a complex carbohydrate, like what's in lentils, as opposed to the single-molecule, simple carbs which are sugars and easily digested.

Food with high glycemic index (high carb ratio) will be absorbed too quickly, used, and then cause an early crash, but that's an easy fix. Simply adding cream cheese to a bagel or making your bread into a sandwich will remedy the situation.
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Remember that not all 'carbs' are created equal. Bread is a food that is insanely over-consumed now days and it really isn't something alot of experts believe is a natural part of human nutrition. Think about primal man - they definately wouldn't be consuming such a high grain diet.

There is a tonne of research showing the ill affects of a high grain diet, such us weight gain and bloating, inflammation of organs, back pain and even skin problems. I have had great success with people I train in my gym by simply cutting grains and sugars out of their diet. They still get all the carbohydrates they need fro vegetables and fruits. Most people will initially freak out at the idea of cutting bread and grains out of their diet but find their energy increases quite a lot.

I recommend taking a look at a couple of books - 'The Metabolic Typing Diet' by William Wolcott and 'The Fungus Link' by Doug Kauffman. If you're really interested in weight loss these books will open your eyes to how detrimental a high grain diet can be to you health.

Also yeahbuddy, I totally recommend starting your strength training now. Stick with basics - squats, lunges, deadlifts and pushups. A guy your age will increase muscle mass and lose excess weight just by looking at weights! :)
 
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yeahhbuddy:) said:
Hey guys I am looking to lose 10kg in the next 2-3 months. I am 16 years old 179cm (5ft 10inches) and I weigh 76kg (167.5lbs). I atleast want to get under 70kg and then start building muscle.

What I am looking for is some good meals that I can cook myself. I am not a very good cook so I would prefer if these were simple meals that I could have for lunch at school. For breakfast I usually have weet-bix (you might not have heard of this if you're not from Australia) and thats pretty healthy I reckon.

Thanks guys :)
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Hi ya,

I would suggest you to purchase Dave Ruel's Anabolic Cookbook. It's got around 200 receipes, and most of them we can cook ourself. It is worth investing.
 
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