Overwelmed!

fanders13
fanders13 Posts: 4 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
so, i just got the p90x basic kit and i feel overwelmed with the nutrition plan! is it possible to have a healthy diet that isnt the p90x plan and still have progress?

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  • jasmineruth
    jasmineruth Posts: 88 Member
    I think the thousands of people using MFP and progressing would say yes. I've lost 41.5 lb without ever even seeing this plan. I would take what seems useful from the plan and form your own plan.
  • fanders13
    fanders13 Posts: 4 Member
    its really confusing to me! i honestly have troubles with the "eating healthy" part of it all. i never know what to eat or how much unless if it says "one stick is a serving size" for like a cheese stick or something. and how many calories should a snack be?
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10012907/logging-accuracy-consistency-and-youre-probably-eating-more-than-you-think/p1
  • rushfive
    rushfive Posts: 603 Member
    yes.
    easiest way to explain diet is.... on your plate have 1/2 of it in veggies, 1/3 meat (chicken,pork,beef, the rest carbs. rice,pasta,etc.
    this can be done in a salad style also.
    check out the recipes on this site to get some good ideas to eat.
    you don't need to make it hard. Do your best in the measuring.
    when logging your foods, look at all the options available of the food you are looking for and chose the one that is yours.
    good luck.
  • mgreen868210
    mgreen868210 Posts: 1
    fanders13...i have found that carb cycling is the easiest nutritional plan to follow....by simply watching your carb intake each day, having a high followed by a low day, and EXERCISING you can see excellent results in 3 months....contact me if you want some more info about it and my success story
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    mgreen868210 wrote: »
    fanders13...i have found that carb cycling is the easiest nutritional plan to follow....by simply watching your carb intake each day, having a high followed by a low day, and EXERCISING you can see excellent results in 3 months....contact me if you want some more info about it and my success story

    I'd be interested in hearing about it. Can you explain further here for the rest of us? :smile:

  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    Op I have no idea what p90x is.... Just weigh, measure and log your food here. Don't make it harder than it should be :smiley::wink:
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    fanders13 wrote: »
    its really confusing to me! i honestly have troubles with the "eating healthy" part of it all. i never know what to eat or how much unless if it says "one stick is a serving size" for like a cheese stick or something. and how many calories should a snack be?

    Why not use MFP for that? If you put your information in MFP with, say, a 1 lb/week goal it will give you a calorie goal. That's assuming you don't exercise, so you will also log exercise as you do it and eat back some of that (lots of people do 50%, as the estimates for exercise calories are hard to do and often too high).

    Start logging what you are eating now and see how your calories and macros (fat, protein, and carbs) are and then look over it and see how to make changes.

    Often people discover that they are too low in protein or getting lots of calories from non filling foods, and so they change that. Many people find that eating more protein and fat and veggies or higher fiber foods (like whole grains or beans) can be filling. But you won't know 'til you log and see.

    I find it easy to focus on getting some protein and veggies at each meal and the add some other foods (fruit, dairy, starches) to fill it out. I do this while also eating according to my preferences, though.
  • sttammell
    sttammell Posts: 3
    edited March 2015
    The nutrition plan is important. So is eating enough, not too little. Do this for the first thirty days 50/30/20 Percentage of calories, that is protein/carbs/fat. You can just plug that into your goals. I printed a guide offline with samples of foods for the different groups, if you can somehow send me your email address I will send it to you. It is easy to follow, very easy because you learn how many grams each protein, carbs and fat are in foods.
    1 gram of fat has 9 calories, 1 gram of protein is 4 calories, 1 gram of carbs is 4 calories.
    After this you will go to a more moderate split.
    After all I think Tony says it is 80 percent the nutrition plan.
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