Chinese Food = great for losing weight.

[Morphiex]

Yeha so ive been recently only eating chinese food , like proper homecooked chinese food , not the crap from the chinese take aways.

Alot of vegetables , capsicum onions mushrooms garlic beans cabbage etc etc , with a mix of some small beef or chicken.andd tofu mixed with chicken delicious. absolutely delicious. Lost about 10 kg in one month , feel waaay more energetic , wake up at 9 am everyday by myself no alarm clock feeling ready to go , even if ive went to sleep at 4 after partying out drinking.

Ive doing alot of cardio , 50 mins of high and low workouts 4-5 days a week now. started only 30 mins twice a week. I got so much energy girls keep commenting wow you look great etc etc . and its all because i stopped eating the bad western food , stopped eating fast food like french fries or hamburgers etc etc.

so my advice is learn to cook proper chinese food its simple , very simple cheap and very tasty and healthy for you.

 

[kickureface]

Yeha so ive been recently only eating chinese food , like proper homecooked chinese food , not the crap from the chinese take aways.

Alot of vegetables , capsicum onions mushrooms garlic beans cabbage etc etc , with a mix of some small beef or chicken.andd tofu mixed with chicken delicious. absolutely delicious. Lost about 10 kg in one month , feel waaay more energetic , wake up at 9 am everyday by myself no alarm clock feeling ready to go , even if ive went to sleep at 4 after partying out drinking.

Ive doing alot of cardio , 50 mins of high and low workouts 4-5 days a week now. started only 30 mins twice a week. I got so much energy girls keep commenting wow you look great etc etc . and its all because i stopped eating the bad western food , stopped eating fast food like french fries or hamburgers etc etc.

so my advice is learn to cook proper chinese food its simple , very simple cheap and very tasty and healthy for you.

i've given up chinesefood. way too catabolic.

 

[I-tallionStallion]

You will have to pull the hamburger out of my cold dead fingers

 

[ATX1001]

9am? Man, I wish I could have a 3 hour sleep-in every day!

 

[Triple T]

Nothing beats a tasty chicken stir fry!

 

[Bible_Belt]

Morphiex, do you eat white rice?

I know several fighters cutting 30-40 pounds this month, and most of them are eating lean protein and vegetables for every meal, combined with intense cardio. Your description of Chinese food is not far off. But Chinese places always try to give me a lot of white rice with every meal.

 

[Kerpal]

The only problem is the rice.

 

[Throttle]

But Chinese places always try to give me a lot of white rice with every meal.

His first sentence explicitly referenced home cooking and NOT take-out. What's the mystery?

 

[insidious]

Interesting. I too love Chinese food, but the take-out American style loaded with corn starch & fried to the bone

You are right though....I follow the spirit of Chinese cooking so much in my own diet. I am a simple eater and I don't need complex tastes or elaborate sauces to satisfy me. I could literally eat 3 or 4 times a week a a combo of sliced vegetables sauteed/stewed with a meat of my choice. And I do. It's not necessarily "Chinese", I don't use soy sauce or oyster sauce or ginger...but it's the same thing you speak of. I'm not trying to lose weight, but this manner of food prep is the easiest way to keep your diet on track if you lack motivation in the kitchen.

 

[SkillzthatKillz]

Chinese food is very healthy when cooked right. That crap they sell from take-out joints isn't the real thing. When i was 230 pds, and wanted to lose weight i ate a basic Japanese diet and did lots of cardio, it worked. My goal was to get down to 200 pds, instead i over shot it and ended up at 180. Now im trying to bulk.

 

[kickureface]

what was the japanese diet like? from my impression of what they eat, i'm guessing it's just LOW calories for a 230lber.
anyways, i haven't experienced chinese food success without rice. it seems rice is almost necessary.
it's simpler for me just to eat meat and veggies for the time being.

 

[SkillzthatKillz]

There’s a lot more to Japanese food then chicken and rice, there’s also a lot of fish, sea food soup tastes amazing. Also the way its laid out, it has little portions, not really made for big north American, at first I was starving, but then my stomach adjusted to the lack of food.

Honestly I have a few friends that are Japanese and after that experience I can see why there so skinny. I found it to be a healthier way of eating, if your trying to cut it’s the perfect diet. Now that I’m bulking I eat a sh!t load of everything.

 

[Throttle]

duh, japanese diets CAN provide lots of calories (sumo wrestlers, anyone?) they just usually don't.

stir frying & related asian cooking methods produce phenomenal flavors out of simple meat and veggies, but it's tough to do true stir frying on the average home cooktop.