Food
Food is such an odd thing, I’m not a scientist, but I’ve read that weightloss and gain is 85% Food Intake and 15% exercise. I definitly agree on the surface, but one encourages, and discourages the other. If you’re eating like a cow you are less likely to workout. If you’re eating healthy you are more likely. Perhaps that is just me, but it has been my experience.
This is why CrossfitFire works for me:
I want to get better, stronger, faster at the WOD’s.
So I eat good.
If I work out in the morning, it gives me great incentive to not “ruin” my workout by eating poorly.
So I eat good.
If I work out in the afternoon, it gives me great incentive to not eat poorly b/c whatever I eat I will have to carry around while I do the WOD.
So I eat good.
Eating good makes me lose weight.
Which makes me look,feel, and PERFORM better, stonger, faster.
Which makes me want to get better, stronger, faster at the WOD’s
Rinse. Repeat.
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What I’m Eating:
Breakfast: 3 eggs, omlete or scrambled. Try to have some sort of meat in there, pork sausage or turkey sausage. Water. Chase the eggs with a couple pieces of fruit. Blueberries or Watermelon seem to work best. (straight eggs started to make my tummy icky about a year ago, so the sweet somehow makes that go away)
Lunch: Meat, usually a couple chicken breasts and if I remember some raw brocceli with ranch sauce.
Dinner: Same as lunch, only usually with more veggies cuz Julie is preparing.
Basically its the Crossfit eating motto:
Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar.
No Dairy – when I started, I ate Cottege cheese as a protein source, but have since gotten off of it.
No Peanuts – Not a nut, a legume
No Soy
There is a bunch of other stuff, that I will take a picture of and post on here, b/c it is super helpful!
Cheats: Yep, I do, but not much and not often. I’ll take a bite of Julie’s toast, or I have “cheater” mountain dews (half can size) that I drink when I need some variety. One of the best things I picked up from Wild Bill, is that if you’re going to cheat, do it, and get right back on the wagon. Don’t beat yourself up over it. I also have benchmark reward meals. Q. and I went out for yummy Chinese food when I hit 215, and when I hit 197, I’m going down to the South side for some yummy chicken tetrazinni. I will have rewards for 190, 180, and 175, but I haven’t thought about those yet, keeping my eye on the next rung of the ladder! If I feel like I’m getting sick, I’ll have orange juice and not think about it.
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I believe that Truvia (which is the Coke/Cargill new product) is possibly the best, safest artificial sweetener on the market. The good is that it comes from Stevia, which has been used in Japan for 1000s of years and health food stores here for about 30-40 years. The bad part is that in order to use the Stevia, Coke/Cargill have to process it like mad and add a bunch of extra junk into it to make it work for their products.
This is the worst thing I found about it thusfar. Since they couldn’t patent a leaf, they patented a part of the leaf that contains the chemical which is rebiana. They break that down and process it to make Stevia.
•Study
Multi-generational/ reproductive toxicology
•Top-line Findings
Daily consumption equivalent to a 150-lb person drinking nearly 1,000 8-ounce servings of a rebiana-sweetened beverage had no negative effects on general health, reproduction, growth or development of adults or their offspring
•Implications
Refutes studies (1968, 1985, 1998, 1999) suggesting potential adverse effects on male or female fertility, or health of offspring
Rebiana does not affect reproductive health or health of offspring
My thoughts on artifical sweetners in general are not so good. I have very little research to back this up, but this is how I have come to think of it, I may be way off base, but its my note, so I’m allowed. So…you know how “they” say that when you eat too few calories, that your body realizes it and actually conserves any food that you eat and turns it to fat to make sure you don’t starve? Well, I believe that something similar is happening with the artifical sweeteners. After (X) time period of eating regular sugar flavored things, your body knows what it should do when you eat something sweet, it uses that energy for fuel. When you drink that first Diet Coke (Diet Mtn Dew in my case way long ago) your body looks for the energy, but its not there, so it goes to your fat, which really, is what you want. “So, that’s great right?” Right! For that time, but you’re going to have another diet coke, and another and another, your body will realize that you have no fuel coming in so it will stop burning (not altogether obviously) when it comes in. “Well thats not so bad, right, I mean its a zero-sum effect then, because the coke has no calories or carbs, nothing needs to be burned and I still get to drink a Diet Coke, and I love the flavor.” Wrong! You have now taught your body to not burn things that are sweet…So what do you think will happen when you cheat a little bit and have a cookie, brownie, or even a bagel? That stuff is going to go straight to your stomach, hips, abs, butt, face…whereever it goes on you….Thus, making you more fat, not less, and lessening your ability to burn fat.
After I came up with this thought about 2 years ago, I stopped drinking Diet soda, I was drkinking about 4 bottles a day of Diet Mountain Dew, I wasn’t working out at the time. I switched and cut my intake to about 3 a day, not because I was trying to cut down, just b/c I was more full from them. (Yes, I realize that is a butt load of soda) – I gained absolutely nothing, I actually lost a little weight. Not much, like a pound or two over 3 months.
If you are smart enough to solve for (X) time period to know when your body resets after drinking one or two Diet Sodas, then go on that interval, I’m not, so I generally try to stay away from them. If I’m going to drink any soda at all, which isn’t really likely, it’ll be regular soda - High quality H2O for me.
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Here is a link for some great paleo receipes: http://www.stevepaleo.blogspot.com/
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Study about Diet Soda vs. Regular Soda
For regular soft-drink drinkers, the risk of becoming overweight or obese was:
26% for up to 1/2 can each day
30.4% for 1/2 to one can each day
32.8% for 1 to 2 cans each day
47.2% for more than 2 cans each day.
For diet soft-drink drinkers, the risk of becoming overweight or obese was:
36.5% for up to 1/2 can each day
37.5% for 1/2 to one can each day
54.5% for 1 to 2 cans each day
57.1% for more than 2 cans each day.
