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Old 10-23-02, 09:30 PM
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What do you eat in a normal day?

What do you all eat in a typical day for breakfast, lunch, and dinner? what about snacks?

Breakfast: Protien shake with fruits
Lunch: Sandwich
Snack: Tons of Cold Oranges (Hmmm...)
Dinner: Sandwich with a salad.
After Workout: Another Protien Shake
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breakfast - Protein shake with granola bar OR eggs and hashbrowns
Lunch - (can be anything as it is served through work)
snack - (fruit)
Dinner - (once again anything but usually between 500 and 750 calories - chicken, beef or fish for SURE)
snack - (fruit OR protein shake)

When in peak condition or being a gym rat I throw in an extra meal in between break and lunch. I ALWAYS consume 30 to 50g protein per meal if not more.

I avoid break, and most carbs except for essential carbs for athletics.
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I eat pretty much the same:
Breakfast: Protien Shake and 3 or 4 Wheet Bix
Morning Tea: Protien Shake
Lunch: Chicken and Vegies
Post Workout: Protien Shake
Dinner: Lean Meat and Vegies

I try to aviod any processed foods like bread and pasta and anything starchy. I prefer to get my carbs from fresh vegies.
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Do you still contine on the protien meals even if you didnt work out for a day or 2?
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Protein shakes are a staple in my diet. I was even using them when I wasn't working out at all.
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My friends keep telling me that if i dont work out, im gonna gain more weight from the protien. While my work out buddies say other wise. What do you all think?
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Your body uses more calories to digest a gram of protein rather than a gram of carbs, even more if it is solid food (chicken, tuna), but make sure that you keep your proportions even, eg 40% carbs, 40% protien and 20% fat (good fats). Protein is essential especially after a hard work out on the bike or in the gym to help your muscles recover and rebuild.
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I'll agree with serg. Protein is the best thing to eat as long as your calories are ok.

Also make sure you aren't referring to a weight gainer. There is a MASSIVE different between a weight gainer and a protein shake.
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Your right, there is a massive difference in Weight Gainers and "Protein" shakes. Weight Gainers have enourmous amounts of carbs and calories. I use a whey protein with a small amount of carbs (8-10g) per serving that also has 3g of glutamine. The glutamine really helps with my recovery and reduces the sorness after a hard workout.
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breakfast: chcolate bar, cheese sandwhich...whatever's in the fridge

lunch: mcdonald's, KFC, any fastfood burger

snack: chips, bread, whatever I feel like eating...somethings nothing at all

dinner: rice, chinese food, native food, soup, fruit cup
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breakfast. special K w. skim milk and a 3 egg white omelet.
3 hours later- veggies and fish/ chicken
every 3 hours later or when i am hungry - veggies and chicken/fish/ sometimes a steak.
usually have about 5 meals a day... sometimes last meal is just a protein shake.
tons of water
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Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs, toast, 2 cups caffeinated coffee
snack after bike commute: Nutrigrain bar, decaf
mid-morning snack: Orange (in season), decaf
lunch: Chicken or tuna sandwich, pretzels, water. Caffeinated coffee afterwards.
afternoon snack: Animal crackers or fig newtons
post commute, bike workout day: large water bottle of Cytomax. If the work-out was really hard, Endurox R4 after.
post commute, run day: nada
dinner: Wife makes... finally some variety
evening: Usually some kind of snack. Yogurt or ice cream are typical.
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Breakfast - All Bran, Banana, Orange Juice and a Coffee Mid-Morning Snack - Tea and a small pack of biscuits
Lunch Tuna and a couple of pittas
Afternoon Snacks - Apples and Oranges
Dinner - Whatever the wife makes
Evening Snacks - Bag of crisps, chocolate
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im gonna be cranky this morning. pulled all nighter, fell asleep by accident and didnt have my protien shake this morning.
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Breakfast: lucky charms with skim milk
lunch: peanut butter and jelly
snack: fig newtons
dinner: peanut butter and jelly
late snack: lucky charms with skim milk



I think I may need to change my diet up a little bit. I bonk easily. I'm a poor college student though so sandwiches are cheap. I also notice that I go through peanut butter very quickly.
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06:30 breakfast: two glasses of orange juice

09:00 first lunch: two cups of coffee / 4 pieces bread / bannana & pomme

12:30 second lunch: two cups tea / 4 pieces bread / pomme & kiwi

15:00 snack: pomme

16:00 snack: energy bar

18:30 diner: vegetables / patatoes / beef / yoghurt
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06.30 Energy bar, bananas and coffee

13.00 Salad roll, soup and banana

15.30 energy bar or banana

19.00 Main meal - vegetarian, tofu or soya, veggies etc.
With coffee or wine and usually a pudding (dessert)

22.30 Glass of soya milk.

I drink at least 2 litres of mineral water a day.
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0730: Porridge or cereal, cup of coffee.
1030: Breakfast bar.
1200: Sandwich. Often cheese and something, occasionally other stuff.
Afternoon: Whatever biscuits/cakes/doughnuts we've got in at work. (Sometimes we have apples and bananas too!)
1930: Dinner. Whatever meat I've bought this week made into something I think will be tasty. Quite a lot of turkey, sometimes bacon! Often a glass of orange juice or a beer.

Not a protein shake in sight!

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1st meal: 5 or 6 large sourdough pretzels, 8 oz. chili beans, 3 steamed carrots, 3 oz. albacore tuna, banana, 6 or so prunes, apple or pear

2nd meal: pretty much the same as 1st but steamed broccoli instead of carrots

3rd meal 1/3 box (25.5 oz.) raisin bran, prunes, banana, apple or pear

Also take a multi vitamin and drink at least a gallon of water a day. In the summer 2 gallons of water easy.
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Do any of you take centrum?
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Originally posted by killerasp
Do any of you take centrum?

I take a cheap grocery store name brand vitamin that according to the nutritional content is the same as centrum, $5 cheaper.
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ok here's mine:

8:30--am Double Espresso
9am--First cup of Yerba Mate tea
10am--1 Banana
10:15--Second cup of Yerba Mate Tea
12:30pm Lunch- usually 2 nonfat yogurts, 1 apple
3pm--Another Banana
5:30pm--Another Apple, on my way home from work as I drive
Dinner-- Usually some kind of chicken, pasta, or whatever the wife feels like
Desert-- Lately Either a small bowl of Sherbet, or some Frozen Yogurt..

and water.. lots of it all day long... at least 3 liters.. somtimes more

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Gosh you all are a healthy bunch. I've reached the age where the benefits of good eating are more than counter balanced by the first 30 years of bad eating so my motivation to change is low. Breakfast: 2 or 3 cups of coffee, a multivitamin, 400 U vitamin E, 400 U Folic Acid, 750 mg Glucosamine, 600 mg Chondroitin Sulfate, 500 mg MSM. Lunch: peanut butter on whole wheat bread, maybe a pepper or carrot, maybe an apple, 500 mg calcium supplement. Evening browsing period: bean soup, bread of some kind, some vegetable (kale is my favorite), a bowl of oatmeal, a yogurt, and just before bed a cup of coco in the winter.
Week-ends some pop-corn will fit in there someplace.
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05:30 - Breakfast, cold cereal, usually something healty, but if its in, Frosted lucky charms, They're magically delicious, and Well then, two bowls... first stop, large coffee.
If I dont make the 05:30 call, its 06:00, and well Toasted bagel, or bread with peanut butter

08:00 Coffee, usually large.

10:00 large coffee,

12:00 if Im lucky, Peanut butter and jelly, if not so lucky, peanut butter.... maybe a banna or apple, 12:1
If Im really unlucky, some sort of burger or soup if I can find it Re: the not getting out of bed early enough to make lunch / breakfast...

between 14:00 and 15:00 large coffee.

between 17:00 and 18:00 coffee for the drive home

19:00 if Im lucky some sort of dinner... your guess is as good as mine.
 
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Originally posted by Jean Beetham Smith
Gosh you all are a healthy bunch. I've reached the age where the benefits of good eating are more than counter balanced by the first 30 years of bad eating so my motivation to change is low. Breakfast: 2 or 3 cups of coffee, a multivitamin, 400 U vitamin E, 400 U Folic Acid, 750 mg Glucosamine, 600 mg Chondroitin Sulfate, 500 mg MSM. Lunch: peanut butter on whole wheat bread, maybe a pepper or carrot, maybe an apple, 500 mg calcium supplement. Evening browsing period: bean soup, bread of some kind, some vegetable (kale is my favorite), a bowl of oatmeal, a yogurt, and just before bed a cup of coco in the winter.
Week-ends some pop-corn will fit in there someplace.
If I don't eat properly I will end up a fat bastard (said in the austin powers way). I have a pretty serious disposition to easy weight gain so I have to be careful.

Hey Scooby...you really like coffee eh?
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