Trainers are often asked "so, what do you eat and what exercise do you do?". To ease your curiosity take a look the food and exercise habits of a Personal Trainer below.

Linda's Food & Training Diary

Note: My meals are frequent but fairly small. My muscle mass and activity levels requires around 1700 calories a day. 

 

Monday 1st August Breakfast: 5.30am Homemade Quinoa Cereal  & organic light milk. PT Sessions from 6am-8am Breakfast #2: 10am: One poached egg on wholegrain (no butter) Lunch #1 1.00pm: Bowl of Vegetable Soup Lunch #2 4pm: Small bowl of sauteed  red cabbage and small tin of tuna Dinner 7.30pm: Grilled Chicken thigh & salad of baby spinach, cherry tomato and chevre

Training: 5.30pm Body Attack class.

 

Tuesday 8th March Breakfast: 5.30am Homemade Quinoa Cereal PT Sessions from 6am-8am  Lunch #1 12pm: Grilled fish with steamed greeen beans #2 3.30 pm: dark rye chicken & salad sambo  Dinner 8.30pm: Veggie Soup

Training: 6.45pm Body Pump class.

Foodie Tips

1. Keep Track Of Calories This is crucial to weight loss! Download this food diary to keep track of your food intake. Writing down everything you eat will really open your eyes and help you make little changes here and there that will actually make a big difference in the long term.

 

2. Protein? Real food and real protein are always the best option. A blood types do really well on protein diet with main sources being white meat such as chicken and fish, tofu is also quite beneficial to the A type.  The O blood types do well eating red meat, choose lean cuts of red meat (the greater the marbling the higher the fat content) and be sure not to consume more than the size of your palm. 

 

3. What about protein shakes? Protein shakes are useful and handy to help with hunger management when you're on the go or don’t have time to prepare and your eat breakfast at home. I prefer to buy the powder such as Horley’s Sculpt, 180 Nutition.

 

4. Carbohydrates? You will often hear people say “I am not eating carbs”. First of all, we need carbohydrates to function, your body will utilise glycogen from carbohydrates for mental and physical function. The bigger issue is the over-consumption of white refined carbohydrates from pre-packaged and convenience foods.

 

5. Caffeine? One good quality coffee is my thing. Recommended coffee dealers in Richmond and surrounds are..

 

Gypsey and Mosquito (Bridge Rd)

3 Bags Full (Abbostford)

Coffee Supreme (Grosvenor St Abbotsford)

Demitri’s Feast (Swan St)

Pillar of Salt (Church St)

Other favourite coffee dealers in Melbourne’s North & North East

De Clieu (Gertrude St)

Rosamond (Collingwood/Fitzroy)

Penny Farthing (Northcote)

Cavallini, Mixed Business & Two Bob (Clifton Hill)

Seven Seeds (Carlton)

Twenty & Six (Nth Melbourne)

Sugardough (East Brunswick)