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You often hear people quarreling about nutrition. And what you’ll notice in conversations like these is how confused everybody is about what to eat, and just how much they disagree. One person will say (for example) that you should only eat things with a certain, low amount of fat in them, and then another person will say you should follow the Atkins diet–because that is how they lost those 75lbs last summer. A third person will then come to inform you that none of those things matter so long as you are tracking your macronutrients properly. And a fourth person–let us call this person Larry–well, what Larry from California will say, is just how powerful juice fasting is, and that anybody who has never done it, should really try.
What interests me about these remarks, even from our friend Larry, is how people with such a disparity of opinion could all have found success in some way. Perhaps there are some underlying factors that are not being brought to the front of the conversation, some important statistics that are shared among all of these people who’ve had success. So, let us assume each of these people has had success, and lost weight and kept it off. Let us assume none of these people are lying, not even Larry. How could it be that people who follow such different diet plans could all be right?
The answer I believe is that most diet plans when successful do share some very common traits. Calories are one of them. But quality (generally speaking) is another. People who lose weight, even when they lose weight following different diet plans, are not really doing all that many different things at bottom. That is what I would like to submit.
If I were to tell you my greatest secret to a successful diet plan that secret would be simplicity. A diet is only good to the extent it focuses on the fundamentals and then stops while it’s ahead. Eat foods that are relatively close to nature and minimally processed. Increase protein and drink plenty of water. Avoid: Frankenstein Fats and Cardboard Carbohydrates. And put more veggies on your plate of the fibrous kind than of the starchy kind. Follow these tips and the weight will come off. But also use other tactics if you need, like strategic meal replacements, for controlling hunger and calories and making things convenient. Exercise, also very important.
So, something like…
Meal 1 – Protein shake with fruit and nut butter.
Post workout – Protein shake with fruit and nut butter.
Lunch – Big Butt Salad. (I have kids now. This blog is officially PG.)
Dinner – Lean protein, healthy fat, lots of veggies. Salmon, chicken, turkey, or whatever. Leafy salad with olive oil dressing. Roasted sweet potato.
You get the idea.
– Pat
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