Here's something for you I-Am-Someone:
You need enormous amounts of discipline to be able to eat clean,
especially when you have friends and family egging (pun intended) you
on to eat chips and fries. In our culture, its ok to exercise, but if
you pay the same amount of attention to nutrition, then you must be
downright weird! Screw em. Nutrition is your ticket to a great
physique and superior athletic performance.
You probably think you have an idea of what good foods are. Well you
don't. What mainstream media tells you is healthy, is pretty much
crap. That low carb, low fat stuff is loaded with high fructose corn
syrup and sugar ethanols, and will wreak havoc on your body. I'd like
to set up a few general rules about food:
If the food has a perishable date (expiration date) then it is probably good.
If it has a shelf life of 20 years and is no where near the
refridgerated section, run far away.
Here are some examples of good foods: beef, chicken, turkey,
vegetables (the greener the better), fruits, oatmeal, wheat products,
cheeses, eggs, beans, natural pb, almonds+walnuts. For a more complete
list, look at this:
http://www.t-nation.com/findArticle...article=314kit2
http://www.t-nation.com/findArticle...cle=04-006-diet
Now that you know what good foods are, what about the bad foods?
Anything heavily salted, added flavors, and anything that is manually
(changed by humans) low fat or low carb. If it is a natural food that
was in the good foods category, disregard the above statement. Any
fats that are solid at room temp. are bad. Basically, if it does not
have an expiration date, then it is bad.
Liquids are pretty simple. All you need to do is avoid every drink
except for water and green tea. Ouch. Yes thats right, even milk is
suspicious. Although I will say this: If you are bulking or a teenager
that is not hardcore dieting, go ahead and drink milk, its a good
source of protein and calcium. But generally speaking, its sugar
content is cause for concern. Soda should never be drank unless its a
cheat meal or a situation where you have to drink it. Soda has the
single worst dietary ingredient known to man in it: High fructose corn
syrup. HFCS is a type of sugar that when metabolized, has a
predisposition to metabolize into fat, instead of available energy.
Water should be drank all times of the day. If you are not pissing
multiple times per day, then you are not drinking enough (or you just
might have the largest bladder ever). How do you know when you have
had enough? Well a good indicator is the color of your piss. The more
"clear" it is, the better.
Its not easy to find the right foods. You will have to put forth alot
of effort to find good foods. First, take your ordinary supermarket.
They will probably have the basics like fruit, vegetables, meat, and
nuts. But you should probably check out high end market shops for good
cheeses, peanut butter, leaner meat and other high quality goods. It
may be expensive, so try to implicate your parents in this. Tell them
that you are trying to live a healthy lifestyle, and trying to avoid
the obesity epidemic.
