Pure Home Workouts/Veg Diet possible?

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BlueSky

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Is it possible to drop some weight by doing purely home workouts only? Currently, I have just a treadmill and 5/8lb weights. I haven't been using the weights much because I'm not sure how to use them. I only recently started running a little over 2.5 miles every other day (most of the time it's 3 miles), but I have no clue about how to go about my diet plan since I am vegetarian. I know the cardio is doing little if anything at the moment since I'm really not sure what to eat.

My normal diet consists of soups, stir-fry vegetables, pastas/noodles/rice, veggie sandwiches, and veggie tacos/fajitas.

I could use any help regarding how to start a proper workout and diet plant under these circumstances.
 
You could do a calisthenics routine with little to no equipment. Pick about 5 exercises and do them in a circuit with minimal rest in between. After each circuit, take a minute to rest and go again. Try to work up to 5 circuits or 20-30 min of continuous exercise.

You can also try to incorporate some HIIT training into your runs starting with once a week and build from there. I would wait until your body has fully adapted to the run training you just started. You would do better running outside than on treadmill for this.

For your diet....I don't have much experience with veg's. But your body still needs the mix of carbs/protein/fat. If you are trying to drop weight, I would be careful with all the pasta you eat....tons of carbs. Try and calculate how much protein you have in your diet and add more if necessary.

You'll have to post more about your diet for the people here to analyze and offer suggestions.
 
Thank you for the help Johnny. I just looked up what HIIT training is and it sounds like what I'm looking for.

As for my diet, I have cut back on the pasta and am trying to incorporate fruit in my diet (I didn't normally eat much fruits). I have apples and the occasional fresh fruit mix (strawberries, mango, pineapple, kiwi, melon). I'm also eating more vegetables that are steamed or stir-fried with garlic and onion for seasoning and no oil (broccoli, cauliflower, snow peas, baby corn, asparagus, green beans). I added a protein powder I mix with my non-fat milk to drink after my workout. It says it has 25g of protein. I'm also drinking more water and have cut out normal juice unless it's fresh juice. I have Pogresso soup sometimes (Ministrone or Vegetable variety).

Since I am a big carb person, I'd like to keep the bread in. What kind of bread would you recommend? I'm considering getting a mini bread maker so I can make my own and put my own fresh ingredients. I also like white rice or rice noodles with my veggies. Is that OK to have?

What kind of fats would you recommend? I like avocados. Don't they have the good kind of fat in them? I'm not a big nuts person, though. I know those have the good fats as well.
 
Whole grain products (i.e., whole wheat) are better for you than the processed white variety (brown rice > white rice). You have the right idea in making your own bread, but I'd extend that to soups and whatever else you put into your body. It will make a world of difference. Also, I understand you'll need to combine your foods so as to get complete proteins - carnivores have it easier in that meat proteins are complete, so you have to combine say, hummus and toast to make sure that you're getting complimentary protein types.
 
Check out LV's grocery list in the nutrition forum for more options.
Also, try fitday.com and track your diet. Looks like you are still going to need more protein. Try for a 40/40/20% ratio of Protein/Carbs/Fat as a basic rule of thumb and make adjustments from that baseline. The website will do the calculations for you.
 
Thanks for the help guys. I'll get that bread maker and try to make more of my foods, and I made an account at that site. TY for the info!
 
BlueSky said:
Thank you for the help Johnny. I just looked up what HIIT training is and it sounds like what I'm looking for.
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How long does it take you to run 2.5 miles / 3.0 every other day ?

HIIT training can be very intense and demanding.

Depending on your fitness level, you may want to start with some basic moderate intensity interval training first and the move into HIIT shortly after that.
 
Protein, not breads should be your main focus though... (though I do very much enjoy making my own bread). If you're looking for a workout routine, try looking at a copy of The New Rules of Lifting, by Lou Schuler and Alwyn Cosgrove. It's got useful information as well as workouts laid out for you.
 
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