Diet Plan

[Youngblood]

Dieting and training, while often going hand in hand, are very different creatures.

A person can work out all they want, and yes will get fitter, but never any thinner unless they are experiences a caloric deficit. So it is important to get yourself educated on the calories you are putting into your daily diet, healthy, unhealthy, amount of etc...and have some understanding of that before you begin with. Then you can look at your workouts, and get a sense of how many you are burning. There are many workouts, many diets. But the first thing you really require is a working knowledge of the basics.

Here's some basic sense. Eat from the 4 food groups daily, in moderation. Don't eat processed food. That means anything take out, or comes wrapped and loaded with preservatives. Eat throughout the course of the day, again in moderation, 4-6 meals beginning with a good breakfast. It is your first bit of fuel for the engine otherwise known as your body. Send an empty car on the road, you're far more likely to run out of gas.

As for the training, well, are lots of ideas and plans. Donny makes good points about fueling your workouts properly that I totally agree with, before and after with carb loads, proteins to feign off catabolism as well etc. But remember, there is more to your day then just that.

So start simple. Get rid of bad eating habits (drinking habits incl) and start learning some good ones. Hit the 4 food groups, in moderation. Hit the gym.

[Tam Seddon]

Dieting and training, while often going hand in hand, are very different creatures.

A person can work out all they want, and yes will get fitter, but never any thinner unless they are experiences a caloric deficit. So it is important to get yourself educated on the calories you are putting into your daily diet, healthy, unhealthy, amount of etc...and have some understanding of that before you begin with. Then you can look at your workouts, and get a sense of how many you are burning. There are many workouts, many diets. But the first thing you really require is a working knowledge of the basics.

Here's some basic sense. Eat from the 4 food groups daily, in moderation. Don't eat processed food. That means anything take out, or comes wrapped and loaded with preservatives. Eat throughout the course of the day, again in moderation, 4-6 meals beginning with a good breakfast. It is your first bit of fuel for the engine otherwise known as your body. Send an empty car on the road, you're far more likely to run out of gas.

As for the training, well, are lots of ideas and plans. Donny makes good points about fueling your workouts properly that I totally agree with, before and after with carb loads, proteins to feign off catabolism as well etc. But remember, there is more to your day then just that.

So start simple. Get rid of bad eating habits (drinking habits incl) and start learning some good ones. Hit the 4 food groups, in moderation. Hit the gym.

Thanks for the reply and I will definatly take everything you have said into consideration. I use to be an amatuer boxer when I was younger so I do know all the training methods, its just that it was a long time ago and it will be good to know if there is good fresh advice to help me with the training again. I know I will have the determination to stop drinking and the bad eating habits because I am sick of the way that I have been living. I am going to try and go the whole year without drinking because I did far too much in 2010. I am bored of the whole having to drink to be able to socalise in a university enviroment. I have my friends now and I know they are going to respect my decsion to avoding the drink and hitting the gym so this will be a good start for me when i go back. It will all just be on me, and I want this more than anything now so I am going to give up the bad habits for sure