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Diet-Fitness-General Wellness Your Thoughts?

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As for the diet, Tapout XT came with a program but I am going a different route.
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My doctor says that I need to stop "living to eat and start eating to live" which rings true because I love me some food. What my wife and I are doing is using the MyFitnessPal app for Android and iOS to keep track of our daily intake and staying within a Calories and Fat Gram number while ensuring proper protein. That app has really opened my eyes to how bad our diet has been. We've cut out all fried foods and I used to drink 2-3 cans of Pepsi every day, now I drink 1 or 2 per week.
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This is kind of vague. Fried & pop are big problem areas, but many of us are just as wary of processed foods, allegedly "healthy" whole grains, etc.
 
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DubCoffman62;2168484; said:
Once you stop eating processed food it gets easier. That shit has additives just like cigarettes that make you crave it. Forget about flavor, think more like "how am I going to feel after i eat this?".
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Yup, when I stop buying a candy bar at 2-4 evening sporting events per week, suddenly I stop craving them as much.

But the bigger thing is, when I stop consuming it regularly, then when I do break down and have one, my body feels worse afterwards than it did when I was eating them more frequently.
My sister and father passed through town the other day and they wanted to meet me at some mexican restaurant. I used to love Mexican food, like the kind serve to gringos but now all I taste is grease and salt, it was nasty.
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This is very true. Your body adapts to what you feed it.

Not that Taco Bell or Mac & Cheese made my body feel good before, but if I go off the reservation badly for a couple meals in a row (like tailgating on gameday), my stomach complains a lot, which makes it easier not to indulge myself regularly.

When you start learning to eat right, your body starts craving that refreshment and purity from healthy foods. I used to eat vegetables begrudgingly, now they are much more satisfying.

I still eat a lot of pizza but I eat a thin crust made with fresh dough cooked in a brick oven. It's delicious and not too bad for you. You just have to walk off some of the carbs afterward.
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We have really enjoyed Cauliflower Pizza as a healthy alternative, though it's more of a distant cousin of pizza than a replacement (the crust doesn't crisp up).
I indulge in some ale too every now and again.
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There are nights where the wife and I both get home late and are too exhausted to cook anything. Regular pizza is on the menu those days, once every 5-12 days.

Mark Sisson recommends an 80/20 ratio for eating right, which is similar to other dieticians.

Never eating fries ever again is not realistic.

Never eating mouth watering food again is not possible for me.

It would be a lot harder to give up bread, grains, most processed foods if I wasn't eating eggs, steak, fruits, tasty vegetables regularly. Before changing what I ate, I used to try and limit how much I ate, eating smaller portions, not eating 2-3 hours before bedtime, and I failed miserably over and over.
 
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jwinslow;2168512; said:
Yup, when I stop buying a candy bar at 2-4 evening sporting events per week, suddenly I stop craving them as much.

But the bigger thing is, when I stop consuming it regularly, then when I do break down and have one, my body feels worse afterwards than it did when I was eating them more frequently.
This is very true. Your body adapts to what you feed it.

Not that Taco Bell or Mac & Cheese made my body feel good before, but if I go off the reservation badly for a couple meals in a row (like tailgating on gameday), my stomach complains a lot, which makes it easier not to indulge myself regularly.

When you start learning to eat right, your body starts craving that refreshment and purity from healthy foods. I used to eat vegetables begrudgingly, now they are much more satisfying.

We have really enjoyed Cauliflower Pizza as a healthy alternative, though it's more of a distant cousin of pizza than a replacement (the crust doesn't crisp up).There are nights where the wife and I both get home late and are too exhausted to cook anything. Regular pizza is on the menu those days, once every 5-12 days.

Mark Sisson recommends an 80/20 ratio for eating right, which is similar to other dieticians.

Never eating fries ever again is not realistic.

Never eating mouth watering food again is not possible for me.

It would be a lot harder to give up bread, grains, most processed foods if I wasn't eating eggs, steak, fruits, tasty vegetables regularly. Before changing what I ate, I used to try and limit how much I ate, eating smaller portions, not eating 2-3 hours before bedtime, and I failed miserably over and over.
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I don't think that I could do a cauliflower pizza. I know the recipe for the dough and the sauce where I eat. The dough is just flour, salt and just enough sugar to feed the yeast and a little lard of course. The sauce is just canned tomatoes, olive oil a little garlic and fresh basil. Not consuming much sugar anymore I can really taste it when it's there and I don't like it. Refined sugar leaves an aftertaste.
 
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It's an excuse to eat a pile of cheese, sun-dried tomatoes, onions, peppers, sausage in a pretty simple meal. It can't replace real pizza. Knowing the recipe definitely helps.

As for sugar, I rarely eat it at home but when a 1-2 hour photoshoot stretches into a 4 hour one, it's easier to break down at halftime and grab something.
 
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jwinslow;2168511; said:
Which is?This is kind of vague. Fried & pop are big problem areas, but many of us are just as wary of processed foods, allegedly "healthy" whole grains, etc.
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The point we were after was simplicity for us while meeting standards, which for me was under 60g of fat and under 2000 calories while taking in 90g of protein. outside of no fried foods and limiting pop, we eat reasonably.
 
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Bucknut24;2168534; said:
Brick Ovens are amazing..

one of my friends girfirends has a brick oven in her parents place..so everytime she's back in town we go over there for a pizza party...

I get so fat those nights :(
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The surprising statement of this is, you have friends that are girls? :lol: jk
 
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BuckeyeMac;2168571; said:
The surprising statement of this is, you have friends that are girls? :lol: jk
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fanaticbuckeye said:
Any tricks to learning this lesson? :lol: Occassionally I hear a commercial or drive by Chic-fil-A and the fries make my mouth water. I know it's all about discipline, but I'm just over two weeks into the new eating routine and I try to convince myself everyday to go ahead and cheat, you've done good so far. MMMM Pizza
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There are many schools of thought to this but to start things, I recommend implementing a cheat day. By focusing on what you are eating 6 days a week and then "cheating" on the 7th, you condition your body to eat right for most of the week.

Eventually you can switch to a cheat meal once a week (Saturday during football season).

The entire point is quiting cold turkey is not easy to do. By slowly altering your perception of what you need to eat, things become much easier.
 
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DubCoffman62;2171640; said:
I was just looking at some pictures of how fat I was like 6 years ago compared to now.

Me on the right back in 2006 at Ye Rustic Inn on Sunset in LA

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Clean shaven this time about a year later weighing in the 240 range
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Now

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Krokodil is a hell of a drug.
 
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