what do you eat for breakfast and lunch?

What's sunflower seed butter?

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Originally Posted by Popoki_Nui

Wow. You folks eat a lot.:eek:

Breakfast (about 10am): ~4oz grilled beef, chicken or fish. Small chunk of cheese. Tea or decaf coffee, black.

Lunch: lunch?

Dinner (about 4pm): small mixed salad, no dressing, often with a hardboiled egg. Tea or decaf coffee, black.

Evening snack (not every night): cup of mixed nuts, or a couple cups of popcorn.

Lots of water and plain tea (black, green, herbal) in between. Ride days I'll have my morning protein in a sandwich between wholewheat bread or in a wholewheat wrap. And a juice and power bar midway thru the ride.

Not helpful for weight loss, though. :mad: :mad:

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That's not enough to eat, especially if you're trying to lose weight. Your body sees that it's not getting enough nutrients and is holding on for dear life, literally.

I'm getting some good ideas for new meals from this post! Cool!

For me, I like variety but out of ease, these are my go-to breakfasts and lunches:

B -
Protein banana nut muffins (or the pumpkin version)
or
eggs/whites, wheat english muffin, oj
or
GoLean Crunch with skim milk and fruit
or
protien waffles reheated with power butter and apple butter on them
or
oatmeal with protien powder and PB

Morning snack is usually a Kashi bar and my coffee (with skim milk).

L -
tuna with 2 cups of steamed veggies
or
salad with chicken/shrimp/or tuna on it
or
turkey bean chili with lf cheese
or
leftovers from dinner

Afternoon snack is usually a source of protein and a fruit (like grapes and slices of ham, or lf cheese and an apple)

My meals don't vary in size much, but I use my snacks to up my intake on ride days by adding extra bars, extra fruit, extra whatever... ;)

Dinner is usually some meat on the grill and veggies, salad and a starch (potato, rice, bread, etc).

If I stick to this, I lose weight until I get to optimum weight for me, and then I maintain. Problem is, I let biking tons of miles be my excuse to eat more crap that I could possibly burn off and I gain. :( In the past couple of weeks, I've finally gotten back to this way of eating and I've dropped 5 lbs already (only 20 more to go!).

Just curious GLC, how many calories per day do you eat when you are actively losing weight, and roughly how many miles per week are you cycling (commutes included)? I can't imagine you needing to lose another 20 lb though, you look quite lean in the pics you have posted.

I'm 5'4" and at 155 (160 two weeks ago). I'm fittest at 135. I don't think I can go lower than that without dumping muscle, so that's my goal. I've still got a ways to go!

My calories really vary a lot, but when I'm losing, I log about 1300 to 1700 calories per day. I'm not the best 'logger', so realistically add 10% to that for fudge factor. I'm probably eating more like 1450 to 1900.

I average about 120 miles a week and I do weight workouts twice a week as well or at least, that's the plan. I've really sucked about getting them in like I should. :o

As my milage increases (which it will as I try to commute more and train more), I'm pretty sure I'll have to up the calories. I'm trying to not get ahead of myself just yet though as I've been really inconsistant in my riding since February. What I used to find myself doing was planning to increase my eating, not get in my rides, and still ate the extra food. Not good! :p

Breakfast: 4 fruit smoothie or 1 wheetabix
Snack: Yoghurt or grapes (something small!)
Lunch: Eggs or some wheaten bread (things along those lines)
Dinner: Chicken with some green veg, or something with wholemeal bread or pita like chili/tuna or beans on toast.

Usually only have meat n veg for dinner, but if i'm riding in the evening, i would put some carbs in like wholemeal pasta/bread.

Would take some protien shake after some rides to aid recovery.

:p I'm reading through all your diets to get some tastey ideas now!