there's working out and there's eating out!

Ha ha, not quite what you all expected when i said eating out huh?

well what started out as a comment on a previous post evolved into this post. The people have spoken and eDot has responded:

"Here's my take on eating.

1. Breakfast is very important. you should always start your day with breakfast. I keep some Honey Nut cheerios at my desk and some skim milk in the fridge. Yeah I said skim milk...you got a problem with that? I'd still whoop yo ass with some skim milk!

2. You don't have to stop eating the food that you like, just control the portions. Eating normal sized meals and snacks through the day is a lot more helpful than the 3 meals a day idea. For those of us that eat out a lot, I've found the easiest way to do this is to split your food soon as you get it. That way you eat half off top. By the time you're done with your half of the food you shouldn't be inclined to eat the other half. So you're actually getting 2 meals for the price of one!

3. Drink a lot of water. Did you know that fat is removed from your body through perspiration and urination? So the more water you have to sweat and pee...you get the message. When that junk is clear, you know you're burning at full capacity

4. Snack healthy. Boy I'll tell you, if you ain't never had some plain almonds that you eat with some vanilla yogurt, boy that's the bizness right thurrr!

5. You gotta get some sleep. If you're putting the right stuff into your body, it works on overdrive when you're resting. You ever notice how cut you look early in the morning? It's cus your body was on that serious grind.

6. Here's what a typical meal for me, mind you i work and i don't have much time to cook so i'm always hitting up fastfood places. but i've found the lesser evils:

Breakfast: 2 egg mcmuffins from McD's and some skim milk
Snack: handful of almonds and some vanilla yogurt
Lunch: subway club and some water
snack: trail mix and some water or almonds and yogurt again
pre workout: peanut butter and jelly sandwich and some skim milk
post workout dinner:some meat and some salad (i've typically gone to dennys after the gym for some steak and eggs or porkchops and eggs and it highly satisfying)

7. As far as carbs and such, it's really about portion control. The whole purpose of carbs is to provide energy for you through the rest of the day. So ideally if you had most of your carbs earlier in the day and then cut back at night, you would typically be fine. What you need all that energy for at night? If you're trying to bang-bang and skeet skeet, don't have no bread...get yourself some red bull or a monster and keep it pushin (literally, LOL!)

8. Drink a lot of water, I typically drink about 4 32oz big gulps of water throughout the day, so i'm always at the head takin a leak. A lot of times when you think you're hungry, you're just thirsty.

9. Like the bully said, fiber is your friend. Try to have it at every meal during the day and maybe not so much during dinner. You can get fiber from milk, whole grains (if it's brown its healthier for you than white). All that fiber will help clean you out.

10. Lastly, continue to enjoy the foods that you like. While there's a "eating plan" you gotta splurge on whatever you want at least once a week. So if wanna get dirty with some ribs, knock yourself out. After all that healthy eating and working out, you probably deserve it.

After about two weeks or so of eating better and working out, you'll start to see results. The most immediate change you'll see is on the scale. I've lost like 8 pounds in 2 weeks and haven't really changed in size.

Reason behind this is, if you're eating properly and lifting and building muscle, then you're burning all that fat even when you don't know it. So even though I was the same size, the weight i dropped was mostly body fat.

That was a pretty long post but hey, the people spoke and I have responded!"