Meal 1 - Cut out the hashbrowns and syrup
Meal 2 - No BBQ sauce
Meal 3 - No BBQ sauce
Meal 4 - No cheese
Post workout - two scoops of whey and some better carbs...bananas are LOW GI
Meal 5 - Whole wheat spaghetti...orange chicken has a lot of sugar in the sauce. Fried rice is jasmin...again, high GI. Egg roll = high GI + lots of bad fat.
Meal 6 - What kind of crackers? They're probably high GI. Is it plain yogurt? How many grams of sugar per serving? What kind of bread?
Just getting rid of the syrup, BBQ sauce, cheese, egg roll, and orange chicken eliminates a bunch of shitty carbs and bad fats. It adds up. I mean if you eat like that every day and you're over your maintenance calories, then you're probably going to be adding more fat than you need to. I am nitpicking the hell out of your diet BTW. But just to prove a point.
Oh, and get in protein at every meal. Your meals after your workout don't always have protein in them. These are some of the most important meals of the day..........
I will find some stuff about mind muscle connections when I have time...studying for exams right now though. I hope, I hope, I hope that someone else beats me to it though.
