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My “Fight Club Rules” of Dieting
I read a ton on nutrition and diets mainly as I wanted to figure out what a) the healthiest way to live is and b) what the best diet for my running regime would be. There is a lot of conflicting information out there plus a lot of information which is built on top of the food advice from 40 years ago…
My personal advice (and be aware - I am not a nutritionist but only someone who’s piecing his own information together) is rather simple. Let’s call it the “Fight Club Rules of Eating”:
1. Avoid sugar.
Sugar is toxic (literally) and beside the fact that it makes people fat it also makes people ill. Avoid it where you can. Read more about it here.
2. Don’t drink your calories.
Drink water, tea, black coffee. Don’t drink anything with sugar in it (softdrinks but also juice, smoothies, etc) and avoid stuff with sweetener (it doesn’t have the calories but it makes your insulin levels go up which has a lot of negative side-effects).
3. Avoid fast-burning carbs.
Bread, pasta, rice - all that stuff just adds calories and does very little for you.
That’s it. And every week give yourself a day off - if you have cravings during the week, write them down and promise yourself that you can eat the stuff on your day off. Don’t starve - your body needs food to function. Eat veggies, salad, meat, fish, etc - there is a ton of stuff you can eat and really fuel your body. If you can - go shopping at a decent supermarket such as Trader Joe’s here in California - their stuff is cheap and really good quality. :)
Personally I stopped eating pretty much any sugar (as much as you can avoid it as there is sugar in pretty much everything these days) and cut out fast-burning carbs (mainly I don’t eat bread, pasta or rice) and lost about 20 pounds since Jan 1st — which is huge for me, as I am already skinny (I am now down to just a few percent bodyfat and feel absolutely great!).
Last piece of advice (and I think this is important): Don’t be anal about it - I do eat all these things from time to time. I do get a Starbucks Caramel Macchiato from time to time. I’m just good about 90% of the time - which is great and surely enough to live a very, very healthy life!
