Monday, October 22, 2012

Nutrition Musings

Just a little heads-up... While the hour spent at the gym today is going to influence your results, so is the other 23 hours of your day. Don't neglect this reality. Unless you're a professional athlete, don't jeopardize your goals by thinking you can out-train a bad diet. This isn't just about looking great naked, but also about your HEALTH and WELL-BEING! Even if you can "get away" with eating donuts for breakfast or chugging down a soda and candy bar every afternoon, this is not OPTIMAL. Your training will suffer, your blood sugar levels have probably gone haywire, and eventually this kind of behavior will catch up to you.


Contrary to what you may believe, eating "healthy" does not have to be scary, disgusting, incredibly expensive, overly time-consuming, boring, or wildly restrictive. Forget everything you know about "eating healthy", and everything you think you know about it. (Read: fat does not necessarily make you fat, the idea of "starvation mode" has been taken wildly out of proportion, high cholesterol in your diet does not necessarily translate into high cholesterol in your body, and just remember that the agriculture industry helps to fund the Food Pyramid...) Now listen up.

Simplest Rule of Good Nutrition Ever: EAT REAL FOOD!

Real Food = Meat (poultry, beef, seafood, pork, rabbit, deer, etc.), eggs, vegetables, fruit, nuts, and seeds. If Mother Nature didn't create it, you probably shouldn't be eating it.

Chowing down on a ribeye at Morton's Steakhouse. Perhaps the reason why my boyfriend doesn't take me out to eat anymore... ;-)

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