|
I used to live with a guy who was into body building. When I first met him he was a skinny runt, so he was trying to do the opposite of you - putting weight on - but specifically muscle. He was in the gym every day and I was amazed at the amount of food he packed for lunch each day - he didn't do three meals a day - he did about 6 smaller meals. Lots of nuts/dried fruit/wholegrain bread sandwiches (quite often cheese on these). Porridge/Oats for breakfast and the main meal at night was often boiled rice and skinless chicken or fish. We had a rice cooker and he'd put the chicken or fish in with the rice and it was cooked at the same time with any number of vegetables on the side. Also, he drank buckets of water.
He never looked like putting on fat, and he turned out looking like a smaller Arnie (basically anybody *could* look like that if they put the effort into eating correctly and exercising correctly).
He concentrated on weights at the gym, but also did circuit classes (high aerobic workout).
He was also happy to go out boozing and eat out, but you just have to realise all of this in moderation.
I also want to emphasise what others have said - weight is not a good measure of progress.
Keep up the good work!
__________________
who hid my keyboard's PANIC button?
|