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Originally Posted by Autumn
breakfast - oatmeal (oats, pb, banana) cup of tea At least your eating breakfast, but you need protein of some sort here.
lunch - pita sandwich w/ lettuce, turkey and a side of one of other vegetable, something sweet like a granola bar Maybe add some cheese to your sandwich here to get fat up a bit. I'd cut the granola bar - its not as healthy as you think and they are generally loaded with High Fructose Corn Syrup. Why not have an apple instead? You get the sweet and the fiber without all the artifical stuff. You could even have some peanut butter with the apple to help up your good fats if you didn't want to add cheese to the sandwich.
snack - yogurt Need some more protein and fruit. Make sure that the yogurt is plain and add your fruit in. You won't get added sugar that way.
I usually go to the gym after work, but I'd love to be able to do it in the mornings.
PWOS (water and pp)<-- need to add a carb of some sort here along with the Protein a piece of fruit would be good
Dinner- a white meat of some sort with at least two vegetables, toast, maybe another cup of tea or some cereal later if I'm still hungry, which I usually am. I'd ditch the toast and add a bit of healthy fat in here. The fat will help with your satiety and you won't have to have the cereal later on.
I shoot for 64 oz of water a day.
(I'm beginning too think I overdo it on the carbs) << I think you hit it right on the head
I do feel fueled enough to get through the workouts so far. I dont know if I could possibly eat less though...
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Autumn:
You need to log your food and figure out how much of each macronutrients you're eating. Just from what you posted here, I'd say you are overdoing the carbs and don't have enough protein and fat in your diet.
Based on the info you provided - on exercise days you should be eating around 1550 calories and on non-exercise days you should be eating around 1350 calories day.
Start with the 40 30 30 ratios and tweak from there.