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February 4, 2009The following enclosed diet is a diet that I have used and continue to use in my offseason training. Although I am not a licensed dietician I believe the diet that I employ has more than shown that it is an ideal way to bring about the desired results in achieving a lean and muscular physique . But much more importantly it has shown to be very efficient in maintaining an ideal intake of nutrients from the major food groups while helping to maintain a healthy digestive tract.
NOTE: Any deviance from this diet will result in poor results
1st Meal:
1 bowl of old fashioned oatmeal w/raisons, (use milk or soy milk
3-4 eggs (not fried), boiled, poached or cooked in microwave
If you prefer not to eat the yoke that is ok but I eat the yokes. While yokes
have fat they also have macronutrients and act as an emulsifier.
(Emulsifiers help the body to pass the fat through the body)
1-2 pieces of dry toast (whole grained breads or sourdough). No butter, period.
Optional: Piece of cheese (2 oz), piece of fruit
Make sure that the oatmeal is the old fashioned variety, it has no added salt or
sugars.
Also keep in mind that if this is not enough to fill you up then eat more from this
2nd Meal:
Protien drink
½-1 cup of dry roasted nuts (no salt or oil added) mixed with raisons. WinCo)
foods sells these in
bulk, Also you can buy the bags of shelled peanuts and just crack them open
yourself (cheaper that way) but remember, no salt or oil .
Piece of fruit and/or vegetable (raw)
3rd Meal:
½ - 1 Cup brown rice mixed with your desired choice of meat: fish, poultry, beef,
Pork, or if your vegetarian then try bean curd)
Vegetable of your choice, as much as you want
Fruit (optional if you already have had vegetable)
Or a sandwich (or two) made with whole grain bread (the whole grain type has the hull included and these are loaded with Isoflavonoids which are essential to the body)
4th Meal:
Same as meal #3 or 1 bowl old fashioned oatmeal w/raisons
Protein drink
Fruit or vegetable
Or
½ cup of raw nuts w/raisons
Protein drink
5th Meal:
Seeing how this is probably your last meal make it a good one. Do not go to bed
on an empty stomache.
Meat (fish, pork, poultry, avoid red meat at this time of day. Read meat fat is just
. too hard for the body to break down, it will only store around the undesired areas
and will clog the arteries
Lots of raw vegetable
Under no ciercumstance is any complex carbs to be eaten: No rice, noodles,)
bread, potatoes, tortillas, crackers, chips or any other starchy food at this late
hour. None at all, period
Notice that these is no cookies, cakes, pizza, burgers, fries, jelly, pancakes, ice cream, etc on this diet. That is because you follow this diet for five days in a row, no deviating from it and on the two days (I like pick Friday and Saturday, those are what I call my cheat days. On my cheat days it is anything goes. I eat what I want, where I want and when I want. This helps the body to keep its metabolism from getting to set in a certain mode of digestion. Plus it helps me to keep my eating habits during the week because I know that I can enjoy my two days.
Now a word about the dirnks. Drink what you want, but stay away from the sodas, and the fruit juices (especially at night) and milk late at night. During the day, go ahead but remember, sodas are poison and one of the most detrimental things to your fat loss goals. Sucrose (simple white sugar) is one of the worst things to put in your body, your body stores it up as FAT. Fruit sugar (from fruits, not fruit juice) is much better because it is made up of fructose , not sucrose( a single molecule instead of the dual fructose/glucose molecule that is sucrose) your body absorbs it much slower and is stored less. Keep all alcohol to a minimum for the five days and wait for the cheat days to indulge yourself. Alcohol breaks down protein , denatures the amino acids (unzips the chain of amino acids) so be careful. It does your bodybuilding no benefit.
I know that this diet seems a bit strict but it really isn’t that bad. There are other healthy foods you can substitute in, I have not listed a lot so if you have any questions you can e-mail me. Adding food, healthy food that is, is encouraged after all this is a diet that yours truly follows and I am a bantamweight. Fell free to tailor it to your caloric needs and to something more to your palate.
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