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2006/02/19, 05:49 PM
By Chris Shugart
Modern life: busy, hurried, hectic. The modern attention
span: short. This new blog series: pithy.
The Hurried Man's Guide to Diet
* Don't eat so goddamn much.
* Eat smaller amounts of healthy foods often. Never be starved. Never be stuffed.
* Protein is good. Eat lots.
* Fats are good, but eat mostly healthy ones with omega-3s and stuff. There's a difference between fish oil and grease.
* Never eat trans fats.
* Carbs are tricky. Get most of yours from veggies, oatmeal, post-workout drinks, and fruits, not flour and sugar.
* If you're drinking full-sugar sodas all day long, stop it. You might as well smoke.
* Food log: Keep one for a few weeks. Learn more than you ever imagined.
* You know all that junk food and fast food you eat? You know it works against your physique goals, right? So stop eating it. Control yourself. Have some pride. Stop acting like a stray dog who eats whatever is dropped on the ground without even sniffing it.
* If you're not making the progress you want to make in the gym, it's probably your diet. Most people can't out-train a crappy diet.
* Your two staple food supplements should be Metabolic Drive and Flameout.
* Fiber. You probably need more than you're getting.
* Plain water: ditto.
* You can learn to like healthy foods and dislike unhealthy ones. If people can learn to enjoy black coffee, sushi, and chewing tobacco, you can learn to like cauliflower and spinach.
* Vegetarians: Please. Embrace reality and have a steak.
* Even the most dedicated and hardest training person in the gym can get home and become a "diet wussy."
* Choose as many "natural" whole foods as possible. Your peanut butter's ingredients should list "peanuts" and that's about it. Your oatmeal should list only "rolled oats." Avoid too many packaged and processed foods with hundreds of ingredients you can't pronounce.
* Food is not a reward, a treat, or an escape. Food is fuel.
* If you want to stay faithful to your spouse, avoid filling your house with nubile, nymphomaniac college girls. If you want to stay faithful to your diet, avoid filling your house with fattening, seductive, "slutty" foods. If they're there, you'll pork them sooner or later.
* The older you get and the more advanced you get with your training, the more important nutrition becomes.
* Most overweight people have "food issues." The mental / psychological / emotional side of things must be addressed to make permanent lifestyle changes.
* Beer belly: Yeah, there's a reason they call it that. See if you can figure it out.
* Cheat meals often backfire because we train ourselves to see bad food as a reward or something positive. Cold turkey tastes best. Cheat meals should be few and far between.
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Enough said.
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Iron and chalk.
Pain is only temporary, it is in your mind. If you can still walk, then you can still run.
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2006/02/20, 07:54 AM
Nice, where di you find that? Can you post a link to the blog so we can read it?
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Never, never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
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2006/02/20, 08:18 AM
That is great! I printed it out and posted it at everybody's station at work!:laugh:
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2006/02/20, 08:23 AM
Words to live by!
I'm gonna print this out too. Thanks Wrestler.
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2006/02/20, 01:59 PM
Its by Chris Shugart, for testosterone.net.
http://www.t-nation.com/readTopic.do?id=931871
Chris' blog isn't always about training, but I find it to be a nice change of pace. You can find it off of the t-nation.com homepage, under blogs. I would prefer not to post a link, as some may find some of the content offensive.
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Iron and chalk.
Pain is only temporary, it is in your mind. If you can still walk, then you can still run.
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2006/06/29, 07:51 AM
great article....
I used to love to eat crap.....now after completely avoiding every fast food place and junk food, soda, etc in general I get sick when I do eat it....my body is now allergic to hamburgers, pizza, KFC fastfood, fast food places, etc...it's beyond me how people eat there....makes me nauseous just thinking about that food....
I am in the minority of people in that I LOVE to eat healthy....because I feel well when I do.....and it helps me get stronger.....
t-nation has some awesome content....A lot of it however is not for little kids that's for sure....LOL
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2006/09/07, 07:50 AM
"* Vegetarians: Please. Embrace reality and have a steak."
:laugh:
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