A cup of full cream milk is only 160 calories.
What is the rest of your diet like? You maybe able to drop a bigger calories from other areas and replace them with another food item that keeps the 'volume' of food the same but has a much lower total calories. Just an idea my friend as there are many ways to skin a cat
My diet is not ideal in the sense that I don't count calories. Basically, I live at home, my mum makes most of my meals (never measures anything) as I am either studying or at work or at the gym or at the girlfriends.
Excuses aside, I think my diet is reasonably good. I avoid processed carbs completely, although I am forced to eat pasta every so often (yes forced). I basically reason that if I don't lose weight in a particular week, I ate too much (or exercised too little) and will amend accordingly. A typical days diet might be as follows:
Breakfast: 4 eggs, scrambled
Mid morning: Some form of meat/veggies (usually a casserole or something), occasionally with a bit of rice
Lunch: Something similar to the above
Mid arvo: Something similar to the above
Dinner: Whatever is on offer, usually similar to the above.
Late night: Small amount of meat/chicken/tuna etc
Before bed: Shake as described earlier.
Ok, so that probably isn't all that helpful, but some general pointers that I try to follow:
- If I must have pasta, I'll have it on a training day, usually before training.
- I generally eat quite low carbs, what carbs I do get are from veggies mostly (my mum makes a bit too much potato which I reluctantly have to eat)
- I generally eat very little fruit, usually none at all.
- I don't snack inbetween meals.
- If a meal is just meat/veg (ie no good fats), I'll have 5-10 almonds as well
As mentioned above, if my weight doesn't go down week on week, then I'll reduce the size of my meals, or do more exercise
Also, on training days, I will have 15-20g WPC and 40-50g powdered oats post workout, followed by a basic meal of meat and veggies about 30 minutes later (usually no carbs in this meal).
