Dad On Fire! Week #1 Diet
Posted on January 8, 2012 by admin
Hi! I believe in making changes to your diet week to week as opposed to giving you a diet to follow, cold turkey, off the bat. When you make small changes, it ensures that you change not only your habits but your entirely lifestyle. It takes away the rebellion aspect of dieting and is the most successful way to diet. So here we go!
Mike has been writing down his food and he likes to eat lots of high fat meat (like a lot of you guys), beer, fattening condiments and fruits, vegetables and complex grain are almost totally absent. He does drink lots of water and has started drinking green to so that’s a big plus! I believe in a moderate fat diet, filled with lots of protein (I’m definitely a carnivore), fruits and veggies with whole grain carbs. I also believe in eating every 3 hours to keep your metabolism moving! Mike chose to ditch alcohol altogether but on this program you can have 3 glasses of wine or 3 beers a week. So plan them out!! 
Here’s his program for this week:
Breakfast: 7am
Water
Coffee with milk
3 fried egg whites, 1 slice cheese, 1 piece of Rye bread, 1/4-1/2 Cup broccoli or asparagus
Snack: 10am
Choose 1: piece of fruit and handful of nuts (almonds or cashews) or piece of fruit and 1 part skim string cheese
Lunch: 1:00
Open faced sandwich on whole wheat bread with lite mayo, mustard or lite Russian dressing. 4-5 slices of turkey, lettuce and tomato. Water or seltzer. Green tea (with 1T honey if you’d like)
Snack: 4:00
Whey protein shake (1 scoop of Whey protein powder, 8 oz skim or 1%, almond or coconut milk, 1/2 cup frozen berries, 1 T peanut butter or almond butter)
Dinner: 6:30
(no white flour…so no pasta, bread or pizza)
8 oz of protein (prepared any way except deep fried–you can sautee in a little butter or olive oil), 1 Cup of Veggies (steamed or boiled…you can add 1 t of butter if you’d like or a little grated 2% cheddar cheese), 1 Cup of grain or potato (rice, brown rice, potato, sweet potato, quinoa, cous cous….you can add a little butter or olive oil). Water or seltzer.
After dinner:
If you’re thinking you need a little something after dinner decaf coffee or tea with 1 T of honey is great. If you need something sweet, 1 serving size of pudding (snack packs rock)
Please write me with any questions! Below is a picture of Mike’s food shopping for the week. Totally a workout carrying this home!! Lol.
Good luck!!
xoxo
L
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