Diary of a novice strongman

Charlts

It's a good mix of everything to be fair, I'll get something up later.

Charlts

To give an idea of what my food intake looks like, this is pretty much my basic intake and I'll adjust the amounts depending on whether I want to be bigger or less fat. At the moment I'm eating this as a minimum and doing more conditioning work to drop some bodyfat. On training days I'll have some flapjack and/or a banana on the drive to the gym, occasionally a redbull or similar.

Breakfast - 250g porridge, handful blueberries, scoop whey, 2g creatine, 4g dextrose

Mid morning - packet of 7 oatcakes spread with peanut butter

Lunch - Approx 1.5 Chicken breast, two handfuls rice/pasta, veggies, flapjack, 2g creatine, 4g dextrose

Mid afternoon - 250g porridge, scoop of whey

Dinner - Chicken/Turkey/Steak, sweet potato's/rice, veggies, 2g creatine, 4g dextrose

Pre bedtime - Greek/Natural yoghurt, flapjack/mixed nuts, shake if I'm still hungry

Drinks wise, I get through around 10-12 pints of water in the day with a couple of cups of green tea and during training I'll drink a 2l bottle of water.

sheriffwoody

what is an oatcake?

Charlts

It's basically an oat biscuit, cover it in peanut butter and it's a cool little snack.

windymillers

A good alternative to Greek yogurt is quark cottage cheese...its virtually fat free and just mix with a bit of protein and it's quite nice

windymillers

Also try quinoa as an alternative to rice/pasta

Charlts

Cheers, I'll look into them as long as I'm eating then it's happy days.

windymillers

Also look on YouTube for the home made protein bars...they are quite nice

reiteration

yep, I make a batch of protein bars on a sunday afternoon - and take them to work and have them with my morning cuppa...
5-6 scoops protein powder,
oats, bit of honey, bit of peanut butter, handful of crushed bran flakes, chopped nuts, and loads of mixed fruits like prunes, dates (all chopped up), sultanas, ginger, mixed fruit, desicated coconut and cherrys...oh - and I mix then dry then add a small pack of chocolate rice / almond milk...

tho, I made some the other week and made them into flapjacks (as I had some butter that was nearing it's sell by date) and added the butter instead of the milk - and a lot more honey... nice

windymillers

You bake or chill that?