"Peter Allen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:Well_I_Wonder said:Two different questions but maybe linked..
Is it good to have milk as part of your diet? Does it contain too
much fat? Even semi-skimmed? I'm drinking at least a pint of
semi-skimmed a day.
Milk is good unless you have some medical issue with it (intolerance). You
don't. If you're really worried about it having too many calories you can
always go for skimmed milk.
Quoted message said:Also I'm a skinny guy (6'2" 75kg) but with a big pot belly, I'm
making good improvement with the amount I can lift and I'm generally
looking more muscular, however my stomach is as big if not bigger
than ever. Does this indicate too much fat in my diet or is it just
something I have to put up with until I've put a good bit of muscle
on. Although more defined I'm still pretty skinny elsewhere.
Fat in diet doesn't mean much. Except that too little fat in your diet
means
problems: some fatty stuff is required for your body to work properly, use
google. Fish oils, that sort of thing. And too little fat is associated
with
low testosterone levels. On the other hand trans-fats (mainly found in
processed food, look at labels) are probably not good news.
Quoted message said:I think my diet is generally good, 5 meals a day, apart from the milk
and the odd bit of butter I can't think where else I get much fat
from.
So you probably should put some olive oil, oily fish or nuts or that sort
of
thing in your diet. You should know this by now having used google...
If you want to lose weight, you need to cut your calories overall. Which
means eat less, particularly carbs (you're probably eating a lot of sugary
/
starchy stuff). That will make your belly get smaller. Cutting all the fat
out of your diet will not, it'll just make you unhealthy. But you're my
weight, I'm three inches shorter than you, and I am not exactly muscular.
So
you might want to learn to squat and deadlift and do that for a bit before
you think about losing your belly (you'll find it hard to put on muscle
and
lose your belly at the same time, do one then the other).
Peter
Hi,
Thanks both, PV I do a bit of cycling rather than running, more short bursts
up hills than long calorie burning runs though, don't know if this helps but
it seems to be strengthening my legs at least.
Peter, I eat almonds and pine nuts several times a week, I also eat quite a
lot of tuna, does that count as oily fish?
Up until now I was concentrating on bench presses, flys, rows, curls etc to
improve the look of my upper body and arms. Recently I just started doing
both squats and deadlifts, which I find really satisfying as I can feel them
working almost my entire body, though my thighs are aching a lot at from
them, is that normal?!
Thanks!
W.
