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Diet-Fitness-General Wellness Your Thoughts?

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http://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/unhappy-meals/

Excellent article there's much more on the link
Unhappy Meals

By Michael Pollan
The New York Times Magazine, January 28, 2007

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. I hate to give away the game right here at the beginning of a long essay, and I confess that I?m tempted to complicate matters in the interest of keeping things going for a few thousand more words. I?ll try to resist but will go ahead and add a couple more details to flesh out the advice. Like: A little meat won?t kill you, though it?s better approached as a side dish than as a main. And you?re much better off eating whole fresh foods than processed food products. That?s what I mean by the recommendation to eat ?food.? Once, food was all you could eat, but today there are lots of other edible foodlike substances in the supermarket. These novel products of food science often come in packages festooned with health claims, which brings me to a related rule of thumb: if you?re concerned about your health, you should probably avoid food products that make health claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it?s not really food, and food is what you want to eat.
Uh-oh. Things are suddenly sounding a little more complicated, aren?t they? Sorry. But that?s how it goes as soon as you try to get to the bottom of the whole vexing question of food and health. Before long, a dense cloud bank of confusion moves in. Sooner or later, everything solid you thought you knew about the links between diet and health gets blown away in the gust of the latest study.
Last winter came the news that a low-fat diet, long believed to protect against breast cancer, may do no such thing ? this from the monumental, federally financed Women?s Health Initiative, which has also found no link between a low-fat diet and rates of coronary disease. The year before we learned that dietary fiber might not, as we had been confidently told, help prevent colon cancer. Just last fall two prestigious studies on omega-3 fats published at the same time presented us with strikingly different conclusions. While the Institute of Medicine stated that ?it is uncertain how much these omega-3s contribute to improving health? (and they might do the opposite if you get them from mercury-contaminated fish), a Harvard study declared that simply by eating a couple of servings of fish each week (or by downing enough fish oil), you could cut your risk of dying from a heart attack by more than a third ? a stunningly hopeful piece of news. It?s no wonder that omega-3 fatty acids are poised to become the oat bran of 2007, as food scientists micro-encapsulate fish oil and algae oil and blast them into such formerly all-terrestrial foods as bread and tortillas, milk and yogurt and cheese, all of which will soon, you can be sure, sprout fishy new health claims. (Remember the rule?)
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Some new things on the fitness front. I finally invested in some more weights. I'd topped out and for the last 6 months I was basically maintaining. My two workouts with more weight have been great, I'm having to wipe my face every two minutes and I feel like a wet noodle afterward. I've also gone on a high protein, lo carb diet. I'm eating mainly chicken breast meat, egg whites, greens, avocados and other assorted fruits and vegetables and protein powder. Every other day I'll have a serving of steel cut oats for some extra carbs. Bad news is my BMs have really slowed down, I'm fucking constipated even with all of the greens, fruit and the Psyllium supplement I've been taking. My belly is swelled like a balloon right now. Is this some kind of normal adjustment or what?
 
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DubCoffman62;2174376; said:
Some new things on the fitness front. I finally invested in some more weights. I'd topped out and for the last 6 months I was basically maintaining. My two workouts with more weight have been great, I'm having to wipe my face every two minutes and I feel like a wet noodle afterward. I've also gone on a high protein, lo carb diet. I'm eating mainly chicken breast meat, egg whites, greens, avocados and other assorted fruits and vegetables and protein powder. Every other day I'll have a serving of steel cut oats for some extra carbs. Bad news is my BMs have really slowed down, I'm fucking constipated even with all of the greens, fruit and the Psyllium supplement I've been taking. My belly is swelled like a balloon right now. Is this some kind of normal adjustment or what?
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You drinking enough water? Maybe more broccolli, cauliflower, asparagus, etc. instead of the leafy stuff from time to time.

Also, are you taking a bunch of vitamins/supplements? That can do it as well.
 
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You drinking enough water? Maybe more broccolli, cauliflower, asparagus, etc. instead of the leafy stuff from time to time.

Also, are you taking a bunch of vitamins/supplements? That can do it as well.
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Drinking plenty of water. I had brussel sprouts yesterday, a good amount of them. The only supplements I take are the psyllium and fish oil (and the protein powder which is basically powdered milk).
It just so happens right after I posted this earlier the dam busted and I finally had a pretty good movement, i feel much better now.

Dub:

Small snippet recommendation: substitute real eggs in for the whites. I'm of the belief that the yolk is of more value than the whites.

I see that you're eating Avocados, but are you consuming any other sources of fats?
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Besides avocados I use lots of bacon, bacon fat and some table cream. I also eat quite a bit of cheese (root of constipation maybe?). I've been not eating yolks because I'm trying to cut, I bulked up around 20lbs and while it did my chest, shoulders and legs wonders it left me with some love handles. I'm trying to cut as much fat as possible without losing too much muscle and the way I've been told to do this is by eating a diet high in lean protein and cutting fats and carbs to a minimum. My desserts have been about a cup each of strawberries and raspberries with a dollop of Greek yogurt. Good stuff.
 
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If you are trying to cut weight, I would only eat the carbs (including fruits) directly after a workout. I would eat a little more fat as well, and cut down on the dairy. Drink some black coffee in the morning. That should help clear you up. I think greens are the best source of veg 50/50 spring/spinach, not sure why that would constipate you. More likely it's one of your supplements. I've ate primal 80/20 for a a year and half, when i eat strictly primal i can set a watch to my bowel movements. TMI.
 
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OneBuckeye;2174573; said:
If you are trying to cut weight, I would only eat the carbs (including fruits) directly after a workout. I would eat a little more fat as well, and cut down on the dairy. Drink some black coffee in the morning. That should help clear you up. I think greens are the best source of veg 50/50 spring/spinach, not sure why that would constipate you. More likely it's one of your supplements. I've ate primal 80/20 for a a year and half, when i eat strictly primal i can set a watch to my bowel movements. TMI.
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The constipation is under control now. It started when I went to the high protein diet about a week ago. For lunch I was having about 5 eggs, 6-8 oz of chicken breast meat plus my protein powder. I usually cook a pot of greens for dinner Cooked with bacon/grease, onions and garlic). I had been pretty regular until I cut out the steel cut oats which Is why I started using the psyllium. I've used it before, it's not a laxative rather a supplement that adds volume to your poops. It's really good stuff.
 
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I decided to start keeping a food diary instead of leaving up to guessing. I'm trying to eat 190g of protein a day and keep my calorie count in the 1,500-2,000 range. What I'm really shooting for is getting my body fat in the 8-10% range. I've written everything down and I've figured out that 6oz of chicken breast, 6eggs (6 whites two yolks), 4oz of smoked salmon, 2oz of cheese, i Met-Rex shake and one cup of Greek Yogurt will get me to 187g of protein and only cost me 1,140 calories. That leaves plenty of room for about 5 servings of vegetable (cooked in about 1 or two tablespoons of olive oil) and one avocado. That right there will keep me in my target range. I workout twice a day (strength training in the late morning/early afternoon about 45 minutes to one hour) and I do about one to one and a half hours of cardio about 5 nights a week (not running mind you rather climbing steep trails with weighted vest or sprinting for 15-20 seconds uphill followed by about 1 minute cool down, I usually do this for about 20 minutes and then walk through hilly terrain for about another 45 minutes). I could probably up my intake to 2,000-2,500 but I'm going to start low and see what happens.
Oh yes, almost forgot, I'm mixing about a cup of raspberries and a cup of blue berries to my yogurt. Gotta get some fruit, need that fiber.
 
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DubCoffman62;2176247; said:
I decided to start keeping a food diary instead of leaving up to guessing. I'm trying to eat 190g of protein a day and keep my calorie count in the 1,500-2,000 range. What I'm really shooting for is getting my body fat in the 8-10% range. I've written everything down and I've figured out that 6oz of chicken breast, 6eggs (6 whites two yolks), 4oz of smoked salmon, 2oz of cheese, i Met-Rex shake and one cup of Greek Yogurt will get me to 187g of protein and only cost me 1,140 calories. That leaves plenty of room for about 5 servings of vegetable (cooked in about 1 or two tablespoons of olive oil) and one avocado. That right there will keep me in my target range. I workout twice a day (strength training in the late morning/early afternoon about 45 minutes to one hour) and I do about one to one and a half hours of cardio about 5 nights a week (not running mind you rather climbing steep trails with weighted vest or sprinting for 15-20 seconds uphill followed by about 1 minute cool down, I usually do this for about 20 minutes and then walk through hilly terrain for about another 45 minutes). I could probably up my intake to 2,000-2,500 but I'm going to start low and see what happens.
Oh yes, almost forgot, I'm mixing about a cup of raspberries and a cup of blue berries to my yogurt. Gotta get some fruit, need that fiber.
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Sounds like a pretty solid approach but it would make sense to start with higher calories then taper them down as your weight/ fat loss slows.
 
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Bucks21;2176261; said:
Sounds like a pretty solid approach but it would make sense to start with higher calories then taper them down as your weight/ fat loss slows.
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We'll see how it goes. I'm trying to cut back a little because I'd been really living up for a few weeks and put on a bit in the middle. Once I get that back down to where I want it I''l kick it up a notch.
 
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