stu21t

I need help
As above, I'm trying to cut carbs but I'm constantly starving, from when I wake up to when I go to bed.

Heres a Brief outline as to what I'm doing,

I recently found out I was eating a lot of carbs. I was having most of the rda in just my cereal in the morning (about 250g of crunchy oat cereal, about 180g of carbs)
Have an all in 1 supplement at 11ish
Then I usually a huge chicken salad to eat throughout the day (500g of chicken prob well over a kilo of salad) plus fruit.
Then an evening meal.

If I was training I would have chicken or mince with pasta, roughly 300g of each, so another 170ish grams of carbs in the pasta. (I also over cooked the pasta which greatly increases the glycemic index) But i wouldnt get an evening meal due to training times. i would just have a heinz big soup (chunks of meat/potato/veg) and after training id have another shake and about 100g of wafer thin chicken sandwich filler.

Since trying to cut the carbs I'm having
70-100 grams of cereal and a boiled egg for breakfast
Supp at 11ish sometimes with another boiled egg
Chicken salad for the rest of the day and fruit
Evening meal
Some nuts and a spoon of peanut butter in the evening

On a training day it's the same in the morning but lunch is
600g steak mince with 80g pasta now cooked properly, with peas, mushrooms, peppers & tomato based sauce
Then a big soup for before training (again all I can stomach)
Chicken slices or drumsticks after training again.

All pastas/rice/bread if I have any (rare).... Are brown.

The problem is I am constantly starving

Is this a bad diet? How should I change it? Or what else can I eat to stop feeling hungry. Even 10mins after a meal I'm really hungry.

Cheers.

J1mbo

iTrader: (1)

Stu I'm no pro but have a few ideas, have done a few diets and recently found the best one, not the fastest but the healthy way.

My diet roughly consists of porridge in the morn, at 8, toast with eggs and tomatoes at 10:30, chicken salad or light sandwich with water and healthy bar of some sort meal at 6 is meat and salad, normally chicken.

Basically keeping my diet balanced and not having carbs at night. I lost 3 stone nearly over 6 months and now can havea week or more off diet eating shit and not put more an a pound or two on which comes straight back off where before I'd put masses of weir on through having bad days and have to work hard to loose it again. Carbs after 6 was my biggest thing and just drinking lots and lots of water as it fills you up.

I found going bed earlier helps as I used to be so hungry late at night.

stu21t

I never thought of the water, that's a good one. Will defo drink more of it.
I do drink a fair amount of tea/coffee which probably doesn't help
I'm also cutting down on carbs at night, evening meal is 7pm ish and I will have minimal carbs.
I'm not doing this as a diet per se but like the idea of eating less carbs, more proportionate to what I should, instead of a mad hit in the morning and again on training days.

If it matters, I'm 6'2", 34" waist, 12.5-13 stone so fairly lean but would like to lean up a bit more without losing size, weight or muscle while still building muscle.

Aforbes88

You ever thought of carb cycling?

I've do e it a few times and its cut me up really well

Also you drinking a all in one shake like a mass gainer? I'd drink just whey that'll get carbs and calories down.


Andy

Aforbes88

Also if you get hungry late at night just have a piece of cheese no carbs and moderately high in protein. Obviously not the whole block just a sensible amount.

Andy

mercury grey minter

I,m on low carb at the mo.I find porridge and water keep hunger pains at bay.
Porridge keeps you full for longer, and with the water I found out that 6 times out of 10 hunger pains are thirst pains.

Aforbes88

+1 on the feeling hungry but actually thirsty

StephenC

I don't think you should be cutting the carbs, more changing the carbs that you eat. Carbs aren't evil, sugary carbs like cereal are best to be avoided though. Brown rice, sweet pot, gluten free pasta, all good carbs that should help you feel full and won't make you retain fat. Also, not sure if your eating such huge meals due to time constraints but 600g of mince is 3 meals worth. If you could spread that out over 6 hrs you'd probably notice a big difference.

stu21t

i am starting to drink more water, just need to get in the habbit of it.

the shake is a bit of everything, meant for lean gains.
dunno what carb cycling is? i guess 2 weeks with, 2 weeks without carbs?

im gunna swap out the sugary cereal for plain oats.
i do sometimes have brown rice

the 600grams of mince today was split into about 3 meals.
i had breakfast at 8, cereal
a boiled egg and protein shake at 10:30
some mince at 12
more mince at 2ish
the rest at 4pm ish
due to timing i missed eating again before training so just had an apple
trained 8-10
then had a protein shake, 2 chicken drumsticks, another egg and a spoon of peanut butter.

what should i be doing to strip the fat while keeping size?

Aforbes88

Carb cycling is

Mon-low carb
Tuesday-medium carb
Wednesday-high carb
Thursday-low carb
Friday-medium carb
Saturday-low carb
Sunday-high car

Then repeat.

To loose body fat I'd do 30-60 mins fasted cardio in the morning before breakfast at a steady pace say number 4-5 on a exertion scale of 1-10.

Yes I agree wat more whole carbs but you can still over eat them and put on BF especially if your carb sensitive.

Andy

James B

Eat more protein, it takes longer to digest thus filling for longer.

I'd swap out apples for bananas personally

Also do you have much fibre?