My diet normally consists of:

2 Quarts - 1 Gallon of water a day. Every day. Special Note: The water I drink is well water, and it has minerals in it. Mostly Calcium, and some Iron.

Breakfast or what I eat as soon as I wake up: 2 bowlfuls of Cereal, each bowlful consisting of about 1.5 servings of Cereal. Cereal is normally Captain Crunch, sometimes Fruity or Coco-Pebbles, and rarely some other brand. Just over 1 Cup of whole milk for both bowls.

Lunch, my noon-meal: Whatever I find lying around, most often a can (sometimes two) of chili (1 for lunch today) or ravioli. Yesterday; Two home made pancakes, with more than a little syrup, 6 sausage links, and two biscuits, with home made gravy from milk.

5 P.M. Dinner time, kind of: Today; Three hot dogs, regular, on hot dog buns. Yesterday; Two roast beef sandwiches on French Bread, with Ou Jou, tortilla chips, and salsa.

9 P.M. - Whenever I go to sleep: Not everyday but frequent enough to mention; Light meal of yet again again whatever I find just laying around.

Is this a bad diet, and if so how can I improve on it?

Firstly, not to be an ass or anything, but did u miss the big bold blue letters for the forum titled "Diet" ?  

lol

Just bustin on ya, but i am sure this will be moved there....

With that said, I can give you my opinion.


Terrific.  Keep this up.


Absolutely terrible.  Not only is your breakfast over 80% carbs with minimal protein, but all of the sugars are refined sugars in these candied cereals.

Eliminate this breakfast completely.

Make a meal that is pretty much an even balance.  Pint of whole milk, Oatmeal, peanut butter and an egg or two, for instance.  If the egg is too much work, prepare some meat the night before, like chicken, to eat in the morning.  Or invest in protein powder and mix that in your oatmeal.

Pretty much anything is better than that breakfast.  The only plus side is that you eat breakfast every day, which is very important.  If its between this and skipping, eat breakfast.  Otherwise, you need to make a big change here.


Once again, a lot of carbs.  Any time a meal consists of "whatever i find lying around", its usually god awful....even when I do it -- and i am anal about my diet.

Chili isnt that horrible, but its probably highly processed and filled with preservatives (chemicals..).  Ravioli is mostly carbs, once again, not good for performance.  Pancakes & syrup, over 90% carbs.  Sausage links -- actually not that bad, maybe can be a bit leaner though if u want to lose weight.  Biscuit = carbs.  Gravy is probably not too bad.

In short, make your lunch a bit more planned.  Eat some nuts with deli meat (or if u have the time/availability), grilled chicken or something like that.  Nuts, meat and veggies.


Cut out the buns.  Replace with veggies.  Like most people, all of these food items just have too many carbs with very little fiber.

The plus side is that you are getting some protein in these meals.  Replace the breads and chips (i know, i LOVE chips too..) with fresh fruits, veggies and beans.  An ounce or two of nuts or olive oil and u will be set, depending if u want to gain or lose.


Either fix what is lying around (that is, replace things like cookies with carrots), or plan each meal out so you don't eat crap that has been just lying around....which leads to bad tendencies.

EDIT: Want to say carbs are not the enemy - but you need to limit them much more than you are doing.

Based off of your nutrition data for rousong, i would say that the breakfast is a great start/base to work from.  However, on a whole, the meal is a bit carby.  You may need to reduce the oats or fruit/yogurt from the breakfast.

The Rouson is pretty much a nice, well balanced meal, in and of itself, though.  When you throw in things that are not balanced (like oatmeal), the ratio starts to favor carbs, especially where oatmeal is calorically dense.

1 serving of rousong to .5 serving of oatmeal would be a better ratio for that meal - even though that is still a bit carby, but its a step in the right direction. 

Remove any calorically dense fruit from the meal, imho.  This includes things like apples and bananas.

The addition of the soy milk should be just fine.  Fruits that are not calorically dense, like strawberries, melon, blueberries and grapes, however, would be just fine in a small quantity.