Your diet...(the mountain-bikers special)

Weekdays

Breakfast
2x Weetabix
Brunch
Crunchy Nut Cornflakes (80g+)
Lunch
Pasta meal or something similar, or a chicken burger with onion rings and mayo
3pm
Another bowl of cereal or something similar
6-7pm
Evening meal, pretty healthy
10pm
Rice pudding or chocolate sponge or something like that.

Then weekends tend to be a little bit more, and if I can swing it, I get two roast dinners on Sundays.

Am I a big lad??? I weight 54 kilo's, and cannot put on weight! :shock:

Then if I go for a ride, I tend to have chocolate bars, jelly baby type sweets and energy drink... Hopefully I won't drop in weight!

Golden rule number 1: NEVER miss breakfast!

My typical day:
Breakfast: branflakes with sultanas plus a glass of grapefruit juice
9.30am: 2 kiwi fruits
11am: chocolate biscuit/cereal bar
Lunch: bagels with pate and cucumber or crispbreads with houmous, olives, tomoatoes - something along those lines
4.30pm: banana
Dinner: BIG dinner but healthy - pasta/rice/potato based dish usually with lots & lots of veg....
Pudding: don't be silly, I wanna stay size 8 :-) Well, maybe on a Sunday as a treat...
10ish: someting chocolatey


Weekends are a bit more unpredictable, but fave breakfast before hitting the trails is a big bowl of porridge with a gross amount of syrup - yummy

I might only be a size 8 girl but I'm not afraid to eat! I just keep it balanced and as a very habitual person my metabolism knows what to expect - none of this skipping meals business for me! Oh, I'm veggie too which I think helps - v low fat diet.

I agree, moderation is definitely key. I've been known to polish off more than a few doughnuts/cream cakes in one sitting myself :oops: but as long as you recognise you've had a binge and adjust your intake later that day/the next day, you can't go too far wrong.

It's all part of a balanced diet in my view - if you eat a cake, eat an apple too

A typical day's eating for me consists of...

Breakfast: Beans on toast
Elevensies: Banana
Lunch: Vegetable omelette sandwich or homemade soup and bread or mackeral sandwich
Snack: Choccie bar and cup of tea
Dinner: Pasta, curry, risotto, pizza, paella - massive portions
Snack: Bag of crisps or two
Drinks: OJ, water, squash, 2x beer or half-bottle wine

Obviously there's things I could improve there, but nobody's perfect.

I grow a lot of veggies too - how have your courgettes been this year Matt? Mine have been a bit disappointing - only started fruiting at end of August. Spinach and beetroots have had the best summer for me - along with the garlic.

Blimey reading all these has made me realise my diet is a complete load of crap!!

No breakfast, numerous cups of tea throughout the day
Brown baguette from canteen, filling varies, today ham, chicken mix with mustard mayo with cucumber and lettuce.
Yesterday it was a sausage, bacon and egg mix with cheese and onion.
Being a bachelor living on my own who doesnt like cooking unless in the mood for it (not very often) usually consists of pizza, frozen meals, home made spagbol, brattwurst & wedges, pie & wedges, thngs like that.

I might drink a litre of organe juice a week, as well as a 2 litres of coke zero, and lots of water.

Never eat fruit

Breakfast - porridge every day.....mostly with some soft fruits thrown in there (blueberries, raspberries....whatever I have got)

Lunch - usually a boots meal deal (sandwich/wrap/salad with crisps and a smoothie), but sometimes (at least once a week) I have either a filthy subway/macdonalds/nepalese curry/pizza hut buffet.....etc.

Dinner - usually a whole bunch of organic veggies (organic box delivered every week) prefereably with fish, but meat about 3/4 times a week

Add about 6-7 pieces of fruit in there everyday (and to be honest a couple of bags of crisps :oops: )

Breakfast - toasted teacake/orange juice

Snack - oatbar
another snack - crisps

lunch - pasta or rice salad

snack - apple and plum

Dinner - whatever is in the freezer usually chilli or curry

Too many cups of coffee, but I try to have 3/4 pints of water in the evening.

Jacked in the alcohol mid week, but seem to be making up for it at the weekend!

everdays the same for me really..

brekkie...big bowl of cereal, toast tea..

get to work...fruit & 0.5 litre of water..

mid morning brown toast..tea

lunch...sandwhich, crisps,fruit

dinner..lasagne, curry - the usual thing..

late on at night...tea & toast..

my main problem is I eat too much white bread & crisps but in saying that I dont eat much else rubbish wise as I dont smoke or drink that much at all...some days I am like a machine in cycling home and some days I take forever...cant figure it out to be honest..

I would like to know how many folk are telling the truth here in regards to what they munch per day/week as there is a lot of fruit/pasta/water menus on the go :roll:

"There is no reason to drink except when you are thirsty. The idea that people should drink 64 ounces of water a day was developed by bottled water companies so that they would sell more product.":
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/blog.php?b=5072

And over-hydration can lead to "hyponatremia":
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hyponatremia/DS00974

Thermo1 wrote:

"There is no reason to drink except when you are thirsty. The idea that people should drink 64 ounces of water a day was developed by bottled water companies so that they would sell more product.":
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/blog.php?b=5072

And over-hydration can lead to "hyponatremia":
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hyponatremia/DS00974

Very good points. When sweating you do need to replace the fluid - AND electrolytes.

i work nights so have a bit of strange timing to eating

2pm wake
oats for breakfast usually sometimes an omollete
4pm chicken and rice
6.30pm main dinner usually rice/pasta/potatoe/veg + meat etc.
9pm omollete or steak and egg or something along those lines
12am beef chilli with rice
2.30am sandwich of some vareity + fruit
6.30am usually have a pint of milk or something before bed

may seem like alot but eat quite healthly and dont eat alot of junk so it only adds up to around 3000kcals a day, the weekends usually go to pot though

Breakfast Usually somethign like a "Eat healthy" bar and some water on the way to work in the car

Mid-morning Sometimes a bag of walkers crisps and a choccy bar, more water though

Lunch Typically a wholemeal baguette with chicken/tuna and salad, no butter or marg and either light mayo or minty youghart sauce, and a slice of home made cake

Dinner somethign like pasta or rice with spag bol, chilli etc (all home made) or fish, mash spuds & veg

and that sums it up, mainly drink water all day and at home but will have a can of fanta or coke zero with dinner.

Weekends is another matter, generally beer, pizza / curry or eat out

Sod the diet thing I eat what I feel like. Its a bit diffcult try to say my diet because its never the same

I always have porrige oats for breakfast maybe with some fruit (no sugar) mid morning I tend to have a cereal bar, lunch is usually a steamed chicken/ pasta meal, mid afternoon either yogurt toast or some fruit and the evening a large meal. :twisted: BUT :roll: I drink to much which is my downfall :oops: