male gender help

MeekMeals
MeekMeals Posts: 517 Member
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
A friend of mine needs to eat 2000 calories and needs some menu and snack ideas {healthy of course}. can't give him my meal plan, well i tried, but he ends up hungy! So "men" what should he eat???? Thanks!

Oh i did tell him he needs to up his workout. and incorporate weight training too. whats a good workout schedule for him, here's what i suggested:

15-20 mins intervals cardio and 3 sets of 10-12 reps for different parts of the body each day. he was previously just doing all cardio, and lost about 23lbs!

Thanks Again!

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  • lutzsher
    lutzsher Posts: 1,153 Member
    My husband and I eat the same thing, but he gets additional or bigger portions. I also only eat the weight wachers bread but he likes the sprouted grainy ones which are double in calories of what I eat.
  • Scncartist
    Scncartist Posts: 173
    My fiance also pretty much just eats larger portions of what I eat. :-)

    We do buy him more "diet" snacky things for him, crackers (he loves carbs), cereal bars stuff like that. He can eat almost a thousand more calories than I can. The different eating can get frustrating for both of us.
  • If he follow your menu maybe double his meat portions it should add up for him or just make his portions a little larger if you have a cup then he get a 1 1/2 cups that should help that's what I do for my hubby!!~~
  • hroush
    hroush Posts: 2,073 Member
    my intake is also for 2000 calories and i usually have no problem meeting (sometimes exceeding, but getting better) that goal due to liking to eat. =) i usually have a bowl of cereal for breakfast, two sandwiches for lunch, and lately i've been doing some sort of rice meal with veggies and some meat (chicken, fish, shrimp, etc.) for dinner. This is good for about 1300-1500 calories. As for snacks i like to have an apple, slim fast shake, or a granola bar, the last two are good for 200 calories a piece.

    I like to try to stay a couple hundred below my target because i know i have a slow metabolism..
  • melodyg
    melodyg Posts: 1,423 Member
    If he follow your menu maybe double his meat portions it should add up for him or just make his portions a little larger if you have a cup then he get a 1 1/2 cups that should help that's what I do for my hubby!!~~

    This is about what I do as well. My husband isn't trying to lose weight though, so I might be a little more careful about it if he were. Usually I measure out my portion, give my 4 year old about half of that (which he usually only eats about half of... I don't know how he keeps growing!) and give my husband the rest or at least more than me. Thinking I could eat what he did is what got me in this situation! (And it is still *so* frustrating that he can eat junk and lose weight!)
  • MeekMeals
    MeekMeals Posts: 517 Member
    Thanks! Good ideas!
  • KristyO
    KristyO Posts: 126
    Joy Bauer, the nutritionist for the Today Show, was just giving a married couple advice about this. She said pretty much what others are saying here. She advised that the husband can put advocado, croutons and creamy dressing on his salads. He can eat big portions of trail mix. He can have 2% milk and he can eat a double portion of cereal in the morning. Basically just adding "good" fats and carbs to his diet.

    But I still think it's sad for the wife to sit there with her balsamic vinegarette dressing and crouton-less salad :frown: Such is the lot in life that we women have! :cry: :laugh:
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