my cutting diet

[JamesBOMB]

right im absoltely hopeless with fitday i can never seem to find anything on there

my diet for today was

breakfast

2 peices of brown bread with peanut butter, glass of milk

a banana before my workout

after workout protein shake - 50g of protein

lunch

tin of tuna/glass of milk

snack

chicken leg - 30 g protein

dinner

mince with rice

snack - another chicken leg and some prawn cocktail

im doing 30mins on the crosstrainer 4 times a week and my diet is pretty similiar to that everyday..what do you think..i need to lose about 40 lbs eventually

[Built]

www.fitday.com or no one will look at your diet.

Sorry. :(

[JamesBOMB]

cals 2255 fats 74 carbs 170 protein 228

[JamesBOMB]

anyone

[Built]

Okay - reading... :)

[Built]

Okay - diet looks not bad, but a little low in cals. I don't know what your maintenance cals are, but I suspect they'd be over 3000 a day at your height and weight? I don't think I'd like to see your cals regularly go much lower than 2400-2500, unless you decide to do something more aggressive, such as PSMF.
On a conventional dieting strategy, a pound or just slightly over a week is prudent. More may cost you too much LBM and drop your metabolism too much.
Protein looks sufficient, fat could afford to come up a little, but isn't too bad.

You might consider moving your "mince with rice" to right after you train instead of later in the day. What's your lifting split look like?

[JamesBOMB]

mondays - chest
tuesdays - legs/deadlifts
wednesday - off
thursday - shoulders
friday - back /bis

30mins cardio 4 x a week

[Built]

What specific exercises do you do?

[JamesBOMB]

monday

Flat Barbell bench
Incline dumbell bench
Dips
flies
close grip bench

tuesday

Deadlifts
Squats
straight legged deadlifts
leg press
leg extensions
Calf extensions

thursday

shoulder press dumbells
military press
side raises
shrugs
reverse pec deck

friday

wide grip chin ups
lat pulldowns ( v bar)
bent over rows
seated rows
hammer curls
preacher curls with cable