Diet thread

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G`day Gents.




Many of you guys seem very serious with your training, but no one have mentioned their diets and habits, since the right diet is essential for a well working body and stands for 50% of the resuluts you will get from exercising. With that said, what is your diet, what do you eat everyday for breakfast, meals, lunch etc?

[Yao]

Im on a high protein diet right now so its basicly:

BF: Always peanut butter sandwitch and protein shake
Lunch: some type of meat and carbs dish; ex: rice and chicken, meat snadwitch...
afternoon: another shake and fruit or some kind of carb snaks
Dinner: a high protine meal; ex:Stake, eggs, etc....

[DevilD]

breakfast: coffee and pastry of choice (it's quick, and i've grown accustomed to it)

3-4 more meals of about a handful of protein and a handful of carbs. TIME PERMITTING, swwometimes i take what i can get.

protein: usually egg whites, or any other animal source. sometimes tofu.

carbs: usually white rice, sometimes tortillas or maybe baguette.

usually take in about 125grams or so of protein a day. carbs i don't know, enough so not to pass out. i can eat as much as i want.

occasional binge on a whole cake or pie or a half gallon of ice cream ect..

jagermeister late at night.

i stopped counting every little gram of everything a long time go. once you do it you get a feel for what ya need and no longer need to be so anal.

[Swety]

If you are thinking about joining the FFL. then you should start eating like them.
With what i have read, is that they dont eat as much as a person should eat with that type of training they have every day. So push your self with training and less food. and them work your way up to a minimum with what you can survive on. You got more money at the end of every month.
I run every other day ( 5 - 15 k) with boots and once a week with a loaded backpack and climb 2 times a week. And my jobb is very hard on the body, I deliver IKEA furnitures to customers around Stockholm.
I have found that the body dosnt need all that food to survive.
Im not skinny if you think that. im 188 cm and 84 kg.

I hope something what i have written might come in handy.

/ Tyrone W

[Martin Scott]

Im on the seafood diet. I see food and I eat it............................:D :D
Three squares a day............................................... .......................
Going on a diet soon.........................................NOT:D :D

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Im on a seafood diet too right now. Reached my goal and now im in the middle of destroying it. Feels really nice though:D

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If you are thinking about joining the FFL. then you should start eating like them.
With what i have read, is that they dont eat as much as a person should eat with that type of training they have every day. So push your self with training and less food. and them work your way up to a minimum with what you can survive on. You got more money at the end of every month.
I run every other day ( 5 - 15 k) with boots and once a week with a loaded backpack and climb 2 times a week. And my jobb is very hard on the body, I deliver IKEA furnitures to customers around Stockholm.
I have found that the body dosnt need all that food to survive.
Im not skinny if you think that. im 188 cm and 84 kg.

I hope something what i have written might come in handy.

/ Tyrone W

So how many calories do you take in?

[DevilD]

i'm enjoying all of the foods of which i'm most familiar and love. won't see them again for a little bit. french cuisine is good, but is not what my palate craves. last time in france i had some of the s***iest asian cusine ever. so while i'm still home, i'll appreciate home for all the things that have made it good to me.:)

if i make selection next time, there will be plenty of time for acclimation and training.

[ausarmy]

Any of the blokes who have done military service will agree with me, I reckon the best diet in any military environment is to eat as much as you can. Whenever we go on exercise out bush, I manage to eat everything single shred of food in the rat pack, and when back in barracks I eat as much as I can there as well, load up the plate like Mt Everest. What I am trying to say is basically eat as much as you can, no matter what it is.

If you join the FFL, you won't get fed that much, but you still need to eat everything they put in front of you. Besides having an increased energy requirement due to the vastly increased levels of activity, coupled with the hunger you will constantly feel, you will probably eat everything anyway!

As some of the others have said though, pre-enlistment, try to build up mass and energy reserves that you body will use as energy supplements in the training priod where you don't get enough calories. Try eating loads of proteinous foods, and try carb loading.

[DevilD]

As some of the others have said though, pre-enlistment, try to build up mass and energy reserves that you body will use as energy supplements in the training priod where you don't get enough calories.

for pre-enlistment, energy reserves that will hold long enough to be used once you get dropped into training=fat storage. wouldn't ya rather be lean and mean?

[ausarmy]

True that..........

[DevilD]

...........word..............

[ausarmy]

Sorry about the ambiguity of my last ("true that.........."), I was agreeing with you devil.

I reckon there are advantages to both points though; having some energy reserves are always useful and can help let the body adjust to the shock of lowered nutrient intake, but as you said turning up lean and mean is quite good as well. I have a metabolism geared towards lean and mean, so I would tend to use your approach, however before our food and sleep deprivation exercises I always try to stack on as much fat as possible.

I think it all depends on what body type and what kind of work you are used to. If you are a big bloke with a high food intake, then it is probably best to have energy reserves until your body gets used to the lowered calorie intake, where as if you are smaller and leaner, then turn up "lean and mean" as you said. Leaner blokes have a metabolism geared in such a way that they can still carry out strenous activities whilst under a diet with a lower calorie intake.

[DevilD]

Sorry about the ambiguity of my last ("true that.........."), I was agreeing with you devil.

I reckon there are advantages to both points though; having some energy reserves are always useful and can help let the body adjust to the shock of lowered nutrient intake, but as you said turning up lean and mean is quite good as well. I have a metabolism geared towards lean and mean, so I would tend to use your approach, however before our food and sleep deprivation exercises I always try to stack on as much fat as possible.

I think it all depends on what body type and what kind of work you are used to. If you are a big bloke with a high food intake, then it is probably best to have energy reserves until your body gets used to the lowered calorie intake, where as if you are smaller and leaner, then turn up "lean and mean" as you said. Leaner blokes have a metabolism geared in such a way that they can still carry out strenous activities whilst under a diet with a lower calorie intake.

oh, i got you were agreeing:) i was saying "word" like "word up" or "word to your mutha". just fecking around. american slang, lol.

i agree with ya though. either way you'll adjust. i'd rather enjoy the things i know i will miss due to cultural differences while i can. at least i won't see them while in boot camp or if sdtationed overseas. can't imagine the cuisine being to great in africa or some other bumf@ck outpost. my metabolism is forgiving .

BTW: good to hear about your knee.

cheers mate

[Geronimo89]

Hello people!
I am 19 and interested in joining the Foreign Legion and I would like to ask you more experienced guys if it is possible to maintain your bodyweight there. Ive been training hard with weights and some boxing for last couple of years and Ive built a solid mass of around 95kg (180cm tall). Its not all lean muscle but I like it as it is. I am wondering if it is possible to keep that mass, or at least not loose much of it, with standard legion diet and training.
Thanks in advance!

[Jean]

i'm enjoying all of the foods of which i'm most familiar and love. won't see them again for a little bit. french cuisine is good, but is not what my palate craves.
if i make selection next time, there will be plenty of time for acclimation and training.

last time in france i had some of the s***iest asian cusine ever. so while i'm still home, i'll appreciate home for all the things that have made it good to me.:)

I thought the French were like the worlds best chefs or something. I guess u cant judge a book. Munch on buddy munch on. haha

[Mise]

last time in france i had some of the s***iest asian cusine ever. so while i'm still home, i'll appreciate home for all the things that have made it good to me.:)

I thought the French were like the worlds best chefs or something. I guess u cant judge a book. Munch on buddy munch on. haha

It probably didn't taste very good to you because there wasn't any monosodium-glutamate or growth hormone in it.

[Nickfury]

MMMMMmmmmmmmm!
Growth Hormone!

[Aurelie3]

mmmmmmn MSG!

*Edit: Some men I've dated should be actively encouraged to liberally sprinkle growth hormone on their food.

[Nickfury]

hehehe...
Poor guys...

[Mise]

mmmmmmn MSG!

*Edit: Some men I've dated should be actively encouraged to liberally sprinkle growth hormone on their food.
YOU PUT IT ON THE FOOD!!!!!!!! Now they tell me