Fueling the Machine

Food Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, Fat MB loves food, I seldom crave foods, I'm an instant gratification kind of a guy, if I want a chocolate bar I'll buy it even before I start to crave it, in fact I'll probably buy two and eat them both. As I said before I'm greedy, I eat fast, I eat what I want to eat not what I know is good for me and I indulge myself.

Here is a typical menu for a week day

No Breakfast
Snack - Flapjack from health food shop (because its healthy, yeah right)
Lunch - Sandwich (chicken in some sort of flavored mayo or smoked salmon and cream cheese or sausage and bacon or chicken and bacon), packet of crisps, diet coke (isn't it funny how many fat people drink diet coke?), cookie or piece of carrot cake or chocolate brownie
Dinner - Something reasonably healthy but fat too much of it, I'll often be finished before H is even halfway through hers.

During the week I'll probably drink on average half to three quarters of a bottle of wine a night at weekends I'll drink cider or wine whilst watching sport on the TV. Weekends we'll have a lunch from the supermarket of fresh meats lots of white bread, cheese and then a meal in the evening.

Couple this with a sedentary lifestyle and you have a recipe for disaster, I've been growing steadily until we have reached crisis point.

So how have things changed? Well as I mentioned earlier my attitude has changed a lot already, I don't feel like every meal is an indulgence, I eat to fuel the machine and for the machine to run smoothly it needs good quality clean fuel, so that's what it is getting.

Typical week day

Morning workout on an empty stomach to get rid of that glucose that has been released overnight and start burning some fat.
1 hour after workout - breakfast - 50-70g bowl of Bran Flakes with semi skimmed milk - if its a weekday I'll workout, shower, get ready, walk to work and eat there.
Mid to late morning - small brown pitta with ~50g of chicken, turkey or ham (trying to avoid ham due to high salt content but I like it)
early to mid afternoon - another pitta as before
late afternoon - same again
evening - small portion of brown rice/pitta/pasta with chicken/ steak (not too often)/ fish or some other non processed meat, trying to stick with white meat and seafood predominantly.

I'm trying to work veggies in too, usually string beans, peas, carrots sweetcorn with the evening meal and lettuce with my pittas, also some fruit as a snack. I'm very bad at these but I am working on it.

H gets in late from work but I feel it is important that we eat together so the evening meal is a compromise and is often eaten later than is ideal but I don't want to change that.

And thats how we fuel the machine.