How's my eating??

[Megan Simpson]

Ok check this out:

Breakfast: 2 fried eggs, smaller than palm sized pork chop, 3 handfuls of spinach cooked in coconut oil.

Workout: 3 rounds: 30 deadlifts 85 lbs, 15 burpees

3 rounds: 15 50 lb. thrusters, 30 crunches

Post workout: chicken breast, piece of bacon, half of banana

Lunch: about a cup mashed roasted acorn squash, fried egg ( in coconut oil)

That's it for now. I'm 5'9" 155-160 I want to lose body fat

[Megan Simpson]

I usually eat more fat. Help is appreciated!

[Susan W]

Breakfast looked good but lunch looks whimpy. Post workout should not make your lunch smaller.

How often do you work out?

[Megan Simpson]

Tell me about it. Almost everyday..

[Megan Simpson]

Occasionally twice a day..

[Megan Simpson]

And here's dinner: palm sized London broil, handful spinach with olive oil and olives, some boiled asparagus

[Susan W]

Okay, I am officially mad at you. Kidding. Melissa recently popped in and left an AWESOME post regarding this very thing. Can't link it because I am on tapatalk. Let me know if you can't find it.

[Megan Simpson]

Lol oh my god I'm looking

[Susan W]

I am too. I don't have my laptop so can't link. I may do the old fashioned thing and find it and write the link down..on paper. :0)

[Susan W]

So fun. I did a "melissa" search and it popped right up. It's the "falling asleep at my desk" thread. Now go read it and listen to our head diesel.

Editor's addition: http://forum.whole9life.com/topic/7852-falling-asleep-at-my-desk/

[Tom Denham]

What Susan said!

The chicken breast was good for a post workout meal, but the bacon and banana are problems. Post workout meals should include lean protein. Bacon is fat and slows digestion - not good for a PWO meal. I can't remember why, but I remember Melissa Hartwig explaining in a workshop once why a banana was a bad choice for a post workout meal. If you want carbs, sweet potato is a much better choice. If you are wanting to lose weight, you can skip carbs in your post-workout meal. It will reduce your energy levels some, but you might like the trade off.

If you are exercising intensely every day and sometimes twice per day, you are probably hurting your health and slowing your weight loss. I know that seems wrong, but we see it all the time. Your body goes into conservation mode when you stress it that much and it holds onto weight more tightly. Exercise less and eat more overall, and your body relaxes and quits holding onto fat so tightly.

[Susan W]

What Susan said!

The chicken breast was good for a post workout meal, but the bacon and banana are problems. Post workout meals should include lean protein. Bacon is fat and slows digestion - not good for a PWO meal. I can't remember why, but I remember Melissa Hartwig explaining in a workshop once why a banana was a bad choice for a post workout meal. If you want carbs, sweet potato is a much better choice. If you are wanting to lose weight, you can skip carbs in your post-workout meal. It will reduce your energy levels some, but you might like the trade off.

If you are exercising intensely every day and sometimes twice per day, you are probably hurting your health and slowing your weight loss. I know that seems wrong, but we see it all the time. Your body goes into conservation mode when you stress it that much and it holds onto weight more

tightly. Exer

cise less and eat more overall, and your body relaxes and quits holding onto fat so tightly.

Thanks for posting the link Tom..or Robin. Tapatalk has a drawback or two.

[GoJo09]

I like the use of the term conservation mode, rather than the stock standard starvation mode - that's a much more appropriate phrase.