Nutrition Help!!

[push-up]

I am 17 years old still in High School i am 6'3 and weigh 260 i want to be about 220 and i do workout on the bowflex so i was wondering what is good nutrition for lunch instead of high school food. If you have a link you can give me then please help me.

[gymmer13]

I am 17 years old still in High School i am 6'3 and weigh 260 i want to be about 220 and i do workout on the bowflex so i was wondering what is good nutrition for lunch instead of high school food. If you have a link you can give me then please help me.


This depends whether or not you want to gain, maintain or lose weight as to what you eat.

If you're just looking for good nutrition, it is pretty much the things you hear all the time. Vegetables, fruits, whole grain breads and pastas, lean meat, not a bunch of processed stuff. Do you get where I am coming from? It really varies person to person depending on their view and what they are trying to accomplish, but this is the real basis of good nutrition. Yay for whole foods!

--gymmers

[gymmer13]

I also just realized I can't read and missed the part that said you wanted to weigh 220. Dammit, I fail. But I still stand by what I said. But if you're serious about going down in weight, it's not ust nutrition you need to be thinking about, but I am glad it was high on your list. But along with the bowflex, I would think about running a couple times a week. :)

On a side note: A lot of people think the atkins diet is amazing, now not to ruffle any feathers or anything, but it's bad for younger people, and bad in long term use. It really isn't good for you if you workout a bunch, because it takes away your main source of energy (carbs!).

just my two cents

--gymmers

[push-up]

well thanks for the help, i will consider running a mile at least 2 times a week. I may eat a salad 3 times a week with meat cut up in it for lunch so i don't get burn out on salads.

[gymmer13]

Yeah, salads get tiring. Try looking for different kinds of salads, mandarin oranges, grapes, and other fruits are good in salad and add a flair to it... but that might be too girly. *lol* Fish is super good for you too.
Running or walking for about 20 minutes twice a week would help, its not the distance, its the time... I hope that helps.

--gymmers

[cfog3291]

This may vary from what alot of people say, but it sure worked for me. I was reading up on a gymnast diet. It was 60-70% percent protein, the rest from carbs and fats. I was at 145, and wanted to go down to 135, to help out with the bodyweight and gymnastic exercises.
After the first day, the very first day, I lost 5 Pounds. I have to admit, I was shocked and pretty hungry the whole day. I'll probably go back up to a Carb diet when I lose 5 more pounds. This was my diet:

Breakfast:

6 Egg Whites (Hardboiled)
1 Orange
12.0z. Milk w/ Protein Powder.

Lunch:

1 Cup of Rice
1 Can of Plain Tuna (No mayo or add-ons)

Dinner:

Chicken
Peas
24 oz milk with 2 protein packets

Snacks:

1/2 Cup of lightly salted Peanuts
1 Protein Bar
Protein is hard on the kidneys, so be sure to drink at least 64 oz of water, and be sure to take 2-4 multi-vitamins.

This was a 2400 calorie diet, so this plus my daily 3 and a half hour workout which included Calisthenics (PT), Running, Strength, Gymnastics, and Swimming yesterday.

That was what I did Monday, and today I am 5 pounds lighter.

Hope this helped,
Charles

[alphacatone]

After the first day, the very first day, I lost 5 Pounds.


Losing 5 pounds of actual weight in one day is nearly impossible. When you have a gigantic one-day loss, most of it is water. If you actually lost that much in one day (that is, lost it and sustained the loss for a week), it would be muscle, which you do NOT want to lose!

In order to lose a pound, you have to use 3500 more calories than you take in. In order to lose 5 pounds, you have to use 17,500 calories more than you take in. 3.5 hours of workout can't even come close to that. Even the guys in BUD/S consume only 6-8,000 calories a day, and they are moving constantly.

Weighing yourself every day is a sure path to the nut house. Weight can fluctuate by several pounds a day. Weigh yourself once a week, always at the same time of the day, wearing the same thing (preferably nothing).

See http://www.calorielab.com/faq/idx/0/012/article/How_many_calories_are_in_a_pound.html for more info.

[mattyc]

Losing 5 pounds of actual weight in one day is nearly impossible.


Not if it was all water weight. Ever see that show "The Ultimate Fighter." That had guys that needed to lose 20+ pounds in 24 hours and did by sweating themselves in a sauna for a couple of hours.

[alphacatone]

Losing 5 pounds of actual weight in one day is nearly impossible.

Not if it was all water weight.

Gee, duh much? Was that not the very next sentence in my post?

[mtgman]

That had guys that needed to lose 20+ pounds in 24 hours and did by sweating themselves in a sauna for a couple of hours.

You cannot lose 20+ lbs. in 24 hours. Unless you cut off your legs. That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. I hope it was a typo.

[mattyc]

You cannot lose 20+ lbs. in 24 hours. Unless you cut off your legs. That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. I hope it was a typo.
[/QUOTED]

Watch the show (second season) and see for yourself.

[Duckkie07]

You cannot lose 20+ lbs. in 24 hours. Unless you cut off your legs. That's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. I hope it was a typo.


Watch the show (second season) and see for yourself.
[/QUOTED]

I hope you relize that show is on T.V.. They can do and say alot of things on TV and alot of people will believe them. For example a guy losing 20 lbs in 24 hours is what they call tv magic. A gallon of water was maybe 5 pounds so 20+lbs the floor of that sauna would be ankle deep water when he stood up. It's just stupid to believe it when someone says they lost 20 lbs sitting in a sauna for a few hours, espicially being immoblie, and when they say it on TV.

[Burner1]

A gallon of water was maybe 5 pounds

A gallon of water weighs aproximately 8.3 pounds. So thats about 2.5 gallons of water. Just for the record. A bit more actually...

[mattyc]

Gee, duh much? Was that not the very next sentence in my post?


Sorry! I did not read your post.

[mattyc]

hope you relize that show is on T.V.. They can do and say alot of things on TV and alot of people will believe them. For example a guy losing 20 lbs in 24 hours is what they call tv magic. A gallon of water was maybe 5 pounds so 20+lbs the floor of that sauna would be ankle deep water when he stood up. It's just stupid to believe it when someone says they lost 20 lbs sitting in a sauna for a few hours, espicially being immoblie, and when they say it on TV.


I never said he made it. I said he had to lose 20 pounds and they made him sweat it out in a sauna. He tried but became quite hostile and quit...he lost a lot weight though (at least 15 pounds if I remember correctly). As far as it just being on TV and not knowing whether it is real or hype, I agree. There is a lot of fabricated news on TV, however the organization the guy was fighting to get into was the UFC and they are very strict about maintaning their weight classes so I doubt they'd be lying.

And if you still don't believe me, go to http://www.ninjastar.tv/content/view/310/1/ and look for the name Kenny Stevens (paragraph 9).

[gymmer13]

I know I'm like 4 months delayed on this topic. School caught up with me. The thing about gymnastics diets (you need to trust me on this, I've been on them before) is that they have a tendency to be used to maintain weight after a gymnast meets his or her "ideal" weight. The reason people think gymnastics diets is that in order to meet the "ideal form" they cut the food they already eat in order to become smaller and thinner.

It's hard to believe you lost 5 pounds in one day, even if it was water weight as you said. Unless you didn't follow your own diet as it said...



Protein is hard on the kidneys, so be sure to drink at least 64 oz of water


So if you drank all that water its hard to believe it could be all water weight...

My advice, dieting is all good, but just making healthy choices and working out more, and if you still can't lose the rest of the weight you want... well, sorry to say it may not be healthy for you to lose it.

Just my two cents from someone who's been there...


-gymmers

[lelee28]

I'm also really late, but if you find that at first actually running a 1 mile is too hard, for whatever reason, try walking on an incline. My knees don't hold up to the running, so when they are acting up I just power walk on the highest incline to keep my Hear Rate up. That will help you get started on cardio. A side note cardio is great, but as far as weight loss goes, you won't necessarily lose a lot. Reason is, when cells need oxygen they start preforming anarobic respiration which basically means "not burning fat". A good rule for knowing if you're in the weight loss zone or the pure cardio is if you can still talk or sing.