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Eating is fundamental with exercise in order to change your body. Doing anabolic steroids without weight lifting would get you no where. Its a combination of changes. Eating properly is actually more important in body changes than exercise but combined is where you get the health benefits and see really good changes. You can custom fit your diet to whatever you're trying to do with your body. Here are some samples.
Trying to add muscle/strength: High protein with heavy weight training
Trying to lose fat: Low fat combined with lots of cardio
Toning: Low fat, high cardio, light weight training
Endurance: High healthy carbs, heavy cardio, moderate/light weight training
You could go on for forever based on your fitness goals. Things you want to avoid pretty much universally are enriched white flours like white bread, white rice, whole milk unless going for weight gain, potatoes are pretty much crap, filler foods like lettuce/refried beans, anything thats been processed (ham, bacon, sausage), anything microwavable, anything that has strange food additives that are codewords for MSG (natural flavoring, autolyzed yeast, modified food starch, etc..), soy foods, etc...
Eating is fundamental with exercise in order to change your body. Doing anabolic steroids without weight lifting would get you no where. Its a combination of changes. Eating properly is actually more important in body changes than exercise but combined is where you get the health benefits and see really good changes. You can custom fit your diet to whatever you're trying to do with your body. Here are some samples.
Trying to add muscle/strength: High protein with heavy weight training
Trying to lose fat: Low fat combined with lots of cardio
Toning: Low fat, high cardio, light weight training
Endurance: High healthy carbs, heavy cardio, moderate/light weight training
You could go on for forever based on your fitness goals. Things you want to avoid pretty much universally are enriched white flours like white bread, white rice, whole milk unless going for weight gain, potatoes are pretty much crap, filler foods like lettuce/refried beans, anything thats been processed (ham, bacon, sausage), anything microwavable, anything that has strange food additives that are codewords for MSG (natural flavoring, autolyzed yeast, modified food starch, etc..), soy foods, etc...
I drink gluten-free soy milk, and have never had a problem with it.
Soy foods increase your estrogen levels and can decrease your ability to shed fat and put on muscle. It affects people differently though. I think some people are way more sensitive to it.
I agree you have to watch what you eat somewhat. If you ate zero processed things, the proper amount of meat and got your fruit and veggie count in that should get you to a healthy weight. Junk food, meat,nuts and fats can put on weight because its so calorie dense without the volume to make you feel full. So by the time your brain catches up to what you put in your stomach of processed or dense high calorie foods, you already may have overeaten accidently.
This quote sticks in my head:
" you can't out train a bad diet"
That's quite interesting. I guess this just shows how there are individual differences in all of this. I eat cereal almost every morning for breakfast. And, I always put gluten-free soy milk on it. I guess I've been lucky, because I have not gained any weight. I excercise 5 days a week, and have maintained less than 6% body fat for a little over 2 yrs now. (I should say that I typically do not eat sugars -- or foods that turn to sugar quickly in your body.) In fact, I have excersized about the same for quite a few years, and have always had about 9% body fat. However, about 3 yrs ago I significantly reduced my sugar intake, which seemed to help reduce my body fat percentage more.
I also strongly believe that your diet plays a significant role in your overall health. Exercise alone is insufficient.
I bet eating the low sugar helped cancel anything out. I don't really notice a huge change in my body other than when I drink a lot of soy milk my skin looks great. I think its the vitamins in it though.
If you want to do some reading on it if you are bored:
Google: warrior diet
They say drinking also increases your estrogen. Not with that I do notice a change in my body. But that has the sugars too! So that + bloating could be it. I know its a lot easier to lose weight on the same amt of calories when I have zero drinks and zero estrogenic foods. But its not enough to keep it as practice.
If you exercise enough, is it still necessary to watch what you eat, or do you think that you can burn off the calories and maintain an equilibrium with exercise. Just wondering what your personal experiences have been on this. I know that in some countries where people do a lot of walking and burn off calories that way, they do not place the emphasis on watching what they eat the way we seem to, and the populations are much slimmer.
This is true for many other countires because their food supply isn't so heavily subsidized that virtually 90% of the "foods" contain sugar. Almost everything in a US supermarket is laden with sugars and chemicals, and its impossible to eat that kind of crap and stay fit and healthy. This is why 60% of our society is overweight or obese. It isn't a coincidence that the overweight/obesity rates skyrocketed along with the rates in which corn syrup and other sugars were developed as the cheapest and most common calorie in the supermarket.
People who know my age look at me and ask what is my secret, what is my diet etc, and it's pretty simple - stop eating garbage and exercise regularly.
Soy foods increase your estrogen levels and can decrease your ability to shed fat and put on muscle. It affects people differently though. I think some people are way more sensitive to it.
I agree you have to watch what you eat somewhat. If you ate zero processed things, the proper amount of meat and got your fruit and veggie count in that should get you to a healthy weight. Junk food, meat,nuts and fats can put on weight because its so calorie dense without the volume to make you feel full. So by the time your brain catches up to what you put in your stomach of processed or dense high calorie foods, you already may have overeaten accidently.
This quote sticks in my head:
" you can't out train a bad diet"
Eating is fundamental with exercise in order to change your body. Doing anabolic steroids without weight lifting would get you no where. Its a combination of changes. Eating properly is actually more important in body changes than exercise but combined is where you get the health benefits and see really good changes. You can custom fit your diet to whatever you're trying to do with your body. Here are some samples.
Trying to add muscle/strength: High protein with heavy weight training
Trying to lose fat: Low fat combined with lots of cardio
Toning: Low fat, high cardio, light weight training
Endurance: High healthy carbs, heavy cardio, moderate/light weight training
You could go on for forever based on your fitness goals. Things you want to avoid pretty much universally are enriched white flours like white bread, white rice, whole milk unless going for weight gain, potatoes are pretty much crap, filler foods like lettuce/refried beans, anything thats been processed (ham, bacon, sausage), anything microwavable, anything that has strange food additives that are codewords for MSG (natural flavoring, autolyzed yeast, modified food starch, etc..), soy foods, etc...
I agree with many things you've said, but what's wrong with lettuce? It has vitamins, fiber, no fat and practically no calories.
I agree with many things you've said, but what's wrong with lettuce? It has vitamins, fiber, no fat and practically no calories.
Iceberg lettuce is basically a "nothing" food. Rule is the darker the leaf, the more nutritional qualities it has. If you want greens or salad, make it with baby spinach instead. Lettuce really has almost ZERO nutritional value.
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