What’s your diet? How many hours a week do you train?
Morning: 1/2 handful of bran with 60 calories of nonfat yogurt and two HEAPING tablespoons of non-fat cottage cheese (rinsed)
11:00AM Can of Tuna, with salad peppers
1:00 PM SUB, yummy
3:00 PM Met-RX Big One Hundred
5:00 PM chicken breast, 1/2 baked potato, steamed broccolli and carrots
7:00 PM Pita bread and four pieces of crackerbarrel extra sharp white
Train 12-15 hrs.
Today:
41 mile ride in AM.
2 Cups coffee, 1 Powerbar, 1 Red Bull, 1 muffin.
2 pieces pizza. 2 Kiwi fruit, 2 bananas, 1 peach. 1 small bottle orange juice. 3 liters of water (so far today).
I officially signed on with a new coach yesterday and after our first meeting I’ve gone on a totally new diet. I’m interested to see how it works 
5:45am - 6x1mi track repeats keeping HR under 165
16oz water and 16oz Gatorade
8:00am - 3Tbsp 1% cottage cheese & 1 Granny Smith Apple
10:45am - 3Tbsp 1% cottage cheese & 1 Granny Smith Apple
1:45pm - 3Tbsp 1% cottage cheese & 1 Granny Smith Apple
4:00pm - 3Tbsp 1% cottage cheese & 1 Granny Smith Apple
6:15-7:15pm - Master’s Swim Team
12-16oz Gatorade
1 Clif Bar - post workout
8:00pm - 3Tbsp 1% cottage cheese & 1 Granny Smith Apple
I’m trying this diet out for a few weeks so I can learn to eat every 2 or so hours. I will work on tweaking it to make sure I am getting enough protein because I’m not sure if I am.
I hope I am laughing *with *you and not at you.
I’m not a huge fan of this change, but I am willing to do anything. I have a horrible time moderating my diet on my own.
So far I’m feeling good. I didn’t like cottage cheese before, but I can handle it.
BTW - does anyone have any good tips for supplementing the taste of cottage cheese.
So far salt & pepper works, but I’m thinking of trying salsa as well.
Man, how can you guys eat like that?
Maybe I’m just not at the point where I take the sport seriously enough, but I can’t imagine micromanaging my intake to this degree.
Sean
I can not see how you are going to make it on that diet but good luck. There are 0 carbs and I could see that being ok if you were not working out but you are going to have to struggle during that last workout. What is the reasoning for no protein immediately after your first workout of the day? You are going to need something, even if it is a large spoonful of cottage cheese.
I have a buddy that puts sugar free jello mix in his cottage cheese to help the taste. Looks funny but he said it tastes pretty good.
Good luck on the diet. Please keep us posted.
"BTW - does anyone have any good tips for supplementing the taste of cottage cheese. "
tips for supplementing the taste of cottage cheese.
How about a lean steak or some fish? Maybe some bread, cereal, pasta or other grains. Fruit is always good with cottage cheese.
I put sliced up fruit in my cottage cheese. I eat it every day for my first breakfast before my first work out of the day.
You must have all the will power of a celibate monk.
I tried restrictive diets in the past and once I arrive at work and have blown through my lettuce,carrots and tofu by 9:30, I inevitably end up ordering pizza or hitting the Chinese buffet for lunch. If I don’t have serious food after my workouts I get light-headed and grumpy. So I listen to my body and eat.
For me, I try to be less restrictive and well balanced, just avoiding the empty and highly processed calories when I don’t need them, the exceptions of course being before, during, and after workouts.
And I think it would behoove you to ask yourself what is the goal of your diet? Do you want to race anorexic? lose a couple pounds? Look better in a speedo?
I like having energy myself, and if that means not starving myself to look like an underwear model I do it.
And by the way, CARBS RULE SCREW ATKINS!
I recommend stocking your bathroom with lots of reading material.
Apples got carbs, Gatorade has carbs, Clif Bars have carbs… or at least they did last time I checked.
I also had cottage cheese about 15min after I got home from my 6x1mi repeats
As I mentioned in my first post - this is the first week and I’m first learning how to eat every 2-3 hours and will be tweaking nutritional requirements accordingly.
Micromanaging a diet is a pain in the ass to begin with, but I want to qualify for IMH in 2007 so no better time to start than now.
The cottage cheese is almost all protein, if it is lowfat and /or rinsed. But over all, I agree it doesnt add up to a lot. How many calories are in the BNasty diet. P.S. By “diet”, I don’t mean “lose weight diet”, I just mean your eating regimen.
BNasty–are you trying to lose weight AND train? Does your coach sell apples along with pull bouys, hand paddles and fins?
That does sound tasty…
BNasty–Eating every two/three hours is fun. You are never hungry. But if you go past a feeding, watch out, you will become an animal. Keep some power bars around–the nasty kind that get soft in your car but don’t melt. That way if you get caught in traffic, or have to be out of the office/whatever, you can ingest a controlled amount of fat/protein/cabs, without making a bad or uneducated food decision at a fast food place. You will love this. You will become the LORD OF DISCIPLINE. You will control food. P.S. I eat the same thing almost everyday, so I don’t have to think about it or make stupid choices.
How many calories are you eating?
Flavored jello in the cottage cheese does sounds tasty, but why not get away from the sugar taste? Although I guess I get that from the yogurt.
I actually went to Costco and picked up a pallet of water, pallet of gatorade and a box of Clifbars. They were for a race the other weekend, but they have turned into the lifesaver in case I get the “munchies.”
How has the diet worked for you?
I’m still working out the calorie balances - right now I think its a bit low and I’ve asked my coach what I can do to “supplement” it a bit with the right foods.
Ok, here’s what I ate today just to give you a different perspective.
5:00 am 1 or 2 tablespoons of Hammer Gel and 24 oz water.
6:00 swim for 40-50 minutes. 24oz Cytomax
7:00 EAS Advant Edge soy shake(old stock w/o whey) while driving to work.
7:30 Oatmeal, raisins, apple and rice milk (all organic), egg white omelet with homemade organic tomato sauce and flax oil.
10:30 organic apple and part of a banana
1:30 big salad with brown rice, spring mix, carots, celery, green beans, sweet potato, beets, raisins, apple,egg whites, olive oil, flax oil, balsemic vinegar.
5:00 organic peach,cup of organic strawberries and organic cherries.
7:00 Bike ride fairly hard for 45 minutes. 24 oz Cytomax
8:00 homemade fish stew with brown rice, tomatos, redskins, cod and veggies.
I also drank water during the day and took some vitamins and minerals with meals.
For the record, I’m 55, 5’10" and weigh about 155 and the Tanita scale says I’m about 4-6% bodyfat and I run really slow. I used to eat a lot of what I now consider junk and gradually changed my diet over a period of 10 years. I don’t think this is hard, it’s just a matter of gradually changing one thing at a time until you’re happy with what you eat, how you feel and how you look.
Richard
Wow…You guys don’t seem to eat much. I did an easy 40 min run at 9, an easy 3k swim at 11, and a 1 hour spin on the PCs at 5. I’m 6’5 and 180lbs.
Today I didn’t really train long or hard. On those days I eat quite a bit more.
7:30 : 2 bowels go lean cereal with raisins, walnuts, blueberries
10 : 40 oz Cytomax, 1/2 cup peanut butter
12:30 : 40 oz planet smoothie with bananas, peanut butter, chocolate, lean body mix
2 : 3 slices cinnamon raisin toast, 1/4 cup nutella, 1/4 cup peanut butter
4 : 2 cups mueslix, 1 qt chocolate soy milk
7 : big salad, 4 pieces dominos pizza
8 : 2 cups chocolate soy milk, 5 peppermints, finished the peanut butter jar