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Post by Nick on Sept 15, 2003 11:42:18 GMT -5
Right, as of this week I'm back in the gym for the first time in seven months, and consequently back on the high-protein, high-carbohydrate diet. Which means I'll be getting through a sack of spuds a week again. Force-feeding is go!
A question: What's high in protein, apart from chicken and turkey? I'm thinking pork. Maybe. Hmm.
There's a reason why I should be eating broccolli. I forget what it is. Anyone?
Is it late enough in the year to start eating porridge again? It is still very warm, after all...
Is it worth buying another pair of shorts for the gym, or can I get away with just one? Why not?
Are the Sainsbury's fruit smoothies that claim to provide you with 'three of the recommended five daily portions of fruit and vegetables' lying? It sounds too good to be true.
Four or five smallish meals a day is possible, isn't it?
Will I stick at all this?
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Post by jamie on Sept 15, 2003 11:54:14 GMT -5
Why don't you take protein supplements after exercising instead? Those high-protein diets make you feel really bad and apparently you have lots of unpleasant side effects including wind and diarohea(sp)
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Post by Andrew* on Sept 15, 2003 11:54:25 GMT -5
Protein:
Fish(tuna is quite good) raw spinach possibly(which i love), dont red meets have alot of protein?
Good luck on ya though
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Post by Nick on Sept 15, 2003 11:57:45 GMT -5
Red meat doesn't have as much as chicken and turkey, generally. At least, not the cuts I can afford (in large quantities). Lamb's very expensive, y'know. But I'll buy the scrappy bits, and casserole it (I like casseroles).
Jamie: the protein supplements go hand-in-hand with this. Otherwise I'd be having six or seven small meals a day. Which would be a bit stupid. I'll risk the wind, but thanks.
I have to teach myself to like tuna. Hmm.
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Post by Antlerman Alfred Logan on Sept 15, 2003 12:02:54 GMT -5
i recently learnt that my diet almost entirly consists of carbohydrate.
which probably explains a lot.
dietary supplements just strike me as crap and poncy.
but i'm a bit of a luddite like that.
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Post by Nick on Sept 15, 2003 12:05:36 GMT -5
dietary supplements just strike me as crap and poncy. but i'm a bit of a luddite like that. You're right, they are. But they taste all strawberry-y, and convince me that it's worth going to the gym. So, in a placebo kind of way, they work.
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Post by max on Sept 15, 2003 13:15:41 GMT -5
A question: What's high in protein, apart from chicken and turkey? I'm thinking pork. Maybe. Hmm. Quorn? Eggs ? Cheese, Fish...... its full of magnesium, Selenium,iron and antioxidants which fight cancer and soothe fatigue and joint problems. You should also get some spinach whhich you can throw into sandwiches, pasta, stews, onto pizza anything. no, it isnt too soon. Add some honey and dried fruit to make it a bit more interesting. The honey helps ward off colds as it has antibacterial properties. sweat pongs - buy some special ones for the gym check the amount of sugars - it can be very high - sugaer is either burned immediately or stored as fat. yes, i do it. <shrugs> hope this helps.
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Post by born under a quick snog on Sept 15, 2003 13:25:30 GMT -5
brocoli - high fibre and more vitamin c than you can shake a stick at
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Post by Nick on Sept 15, 2003 13:30:17 GMT -5
Thanks again. I'm off to Tesco in a bit. Probably.
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Post by YumPOP on Sept 15, 2003 13:36:06 GMT -5
Are the Sainsbury's fruit smoothies that claim to provide you with 'three of the recommended five daily portions of fruit and vegetables' lying? It sounds too good to be true. As Max said, too much fructose (i.e. sugar) in fruit juice and smoothies compared to the fruit itself. As I understand it, the juice contains only the bits of the fruit highest in fructose, leaving the not so high in fructose (but equally good for you) bits behind. The Government's five a day programme recommends that you get no more than one portion of the daily five from fruit juice. www.doh.gov.uk/fiveaday/index.htmThe claim for the smoothie is true enough, mind.
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Post by jNyasu: Geekspert And Utopian on Sept 15, 2003 13:37:20 GMT -5
Thanks again. I'm off to Tesco in a bit. Probably. You cheat on your employers? !heathen!
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Post by Nick on Sept 15, 2003 13:40:06 GMT -5
You cheat on your employers? !heathen! They're not my employers any more! I buy my veg from Sainsburys, but their meat is scandalously expensive. Pfuh. Screw them. They keep me stocked with sacks of potatoes, if nothing else. Do potatoes count as 'fruit and vegetables'? Nope, didn't think so. Damn.
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Post by Jen from the Olden Days on Sept 15, 2003 13:47:37 GMT -5
I work beside a man who lives in the gym, and he appears to survive on tuna since he says it's the cheapest way to get his protein intake.
This is unless he's working up to a competition, when he starts on foul concoctions of milk with liquidised tuna, raw eggs and peaches. In the same glass. He takes his breaks alone on those days.
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Post by Nick on Sept 15, 2003 13:54:13 GMT -5
Raw eggs = not a good idea.
And disgusting.
I'm not that obsessive.
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Post by Jen from the Olden Days on Sept 15, 2003 14:13:01 GMT -5
Well thank god for that then, because if he's anything to go by, you'd soon have no friends left.
Altho' that could be less to do with the raw eggs and more to do with him being a complete prick right enough.
Oh, and spinach is the vegetable of the gods, by the way. There is no meal which can't be improved by the addition of a few leaves of spinach. And it's packed full of good things, none of which I can remember off the top of my head, but I'm still sure that my daily spinach intake makes up for the lack of exercise and the excess of cigarettes and alcohol. So if you were healthy anyway it would surely turn you into some kind of superhero.
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