Main meal recipes

sharlenepascoe
sharlenepascoe Posts: 2 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I lost quite a hit of weight last year and have just started the gym to tone up. Up until now I’ve been having the same meals as my friends who are with slimming world as they are healthy and enjoyable. However, I would like to try a ‘bodybuilding’ diet and was wondering if anybody had any decent recipes and substitutes for things we have in our diet on a daily basis that might be a bit bad with this particular diet for e.g milk, cheese, butter? MyFitnessPal has given me the goal of 2010 calories a day.

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  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,889 Member
    I'm not sure what you're asking. If you want to eat a "bodybuilding" diet, you'll be eating lots of chicken breast, broccoli and brown rice, eggs, oatmeal and protein shakes. You can't substitute the basics. But if you're already on a diet you find healthy and enjoyable, why do you want to switch? And anyway, you can eat anything you want - a healthy diet is about balance and variety, not specific foods to eat or avoid. You should avoid things that are bad for you, not things that are bad for the "diet" - your diet is just what you eat. You can make any diet exciting and enjoyable, it's just about attitude.
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,750 Member
    An "Old school" bodybuilders diet consists of lots of chicken breast, egg whites, broccoli, rice, peanut butter, oats, sweet potato, protein powder.

    It's completely unnecessary. What is you goal? Bodybuilding as it bulking, or bodybuilding as in getting lean and looking more toned/defined?

    Bulking requires a surplus (small, to minimise fat gain). Looking more toned/defined requires a deficit. Eat sufficient protein (especially in a deficit) and follow a progressive lifting program. You don't have to eat specific foods - flexible dieting is popular amongst bodybuilders/fitness people.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    sharlenepascoe wrote: »
    I lost quite a hit of weight last year and have just started the gym to tone up. Up until now I’ve been having the same meals as my friends who are with slimming world as they are healthy and enjoyable. However, I would like to try a ‘bodybuilding’ diet and was wondering if anybody had any decent recipes and substitutes for things we have in our diet on a daily basis that might be a bit bad with this particular diet for e.g milk, cheese, butter? MyFitnessPal has given me the goal of 2010 calories a day.

    What bad about cheese, milk or eggs?
  • sharlenepascoe
    sharlenepascoe Posts: 2 Member
    My personal goal is to become more defined, tighten up all the areas where I have lost a big amount of weight.

    I have been going gym about 4 times a week, I just needed some good meals
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    edited February 2018
    sharlenepascoe wrote: »
    My personal goal is to become more defined, tighten up all the areas where I have lost a big amount of weight.

    I have been going gym about 4 times a week, I just needed some good meals

    ok, but whats bad about cheese, milk or eggs?

    also, it can take 12 months plus for skin to tighten back up
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,889 Member
    Good meals are food you like, eaten at convenient times, in the right amounts and proportions to fit your needs. If you want specific recipes/recipes with specific ingredients, google it.
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