Trying to create a diet plan...

Hey all!

I have recently decided that its time for a change. As i've said in the "new member" section, Im looking to lose weight and tone up over the next few months.

Over the last few years I have picked up some bad eating habbits, due to a number of things such as settling down with my girlfriend and also having my appendix removed. These are small excuses but my motivation decreased rapidlly. As i've said, I used to be VERY active in my teens, but cannot really say the same for now.

Anyways, over the last month I havent touched junk food, and have pretty much lived off fruit (and lots of it) and soup around lunch time, then decent meals such as chicken with rice on a night time.

What i need help with is getting a good idea of what foods I should be eating and what not to eat. I bought some Granary bread the other day, thinking "yeah this is much healthier that white!" but when i looked at the daily guidelines, there really wasnt much of a difference to a white loaf of bread we have in the house. Why is wholemeal/granary bread much better than white?

Basically, im just after some hints and tips with what foods I should be eating and also what I should be avoiding. Also, how many calories I should be eating and burning at the gym.

My aim is to go to the gym 4 times a week, obviously focusing on cardio more than anything for now.

My knowledge on nutrition is faily limited, so hope you folks can help me out over the next few weeks!

This looks like a great forum - I've been looking for a decent one for ages!

Thanks :-)

Chris!

Chris - Have a good read through of the Diet and nutrition section on the fitnessuknet website:

http://www.fitness.uk.net/diet.htm

You can find out what foods you should be buying from our healthy shopping list here:

http://www.fitness.uk.net/shopping%20list.htm

You can find healthy recipes here:

http://www.fitness.uk.net/recipes.htm

Any specific questions please ask. You may also like to consider looking at a personalised diet and nutrition plan:

http://www.fitness.uk.net/onlinetraining.htm

Very helpful garthy I can see myself referring to these links loads during my training/healthy eating :-)

No problem buddy - just ask if you want to know anything in particular and we will help you out :-)

There is nothing 2 create or something u can control ur intake for food items.....
u need 2 have proper food such as fruits vegetables in ur diet 2 have a good diet......
u can do so at home by adding those foods 2 ur diet plan....

hope this helps u..

Thanks.......

http://www.totalhealthguide.net