Simple Diet Principles!

Diet

I am no dietician. 

But just like everything else I focus on, I break it down to essential principles. In my opinion, The rest are just details.

Just like the Pareto principle, 80% of your results comes from 20% of your efforts. It takes a little bit of critical thinking to break that down for yourself, but essential to do so. For the sake of efficiency and optimizing every bit of effort you put in. And for your own goals. Right now, my goals are health/vitality, and steady easy weightloss. You may have different goals, so you may have to evaluate differently. So what are these principles for these two goals? Not the fine details, but the 20% of efforts that yield 80% of your results.

->eating healthy non processed foods (no shit)

->enough protein (around 150g a day for myself)

-1600 calories (for weight loss)

-Lots of fruit and vegetables

Track it all with MyFitnessPal 

I keep it very simple, I do not want to put anymore thought into it daily, than necessary. How?

Let’s pretend this is a building for a moment.

My foundation:

To fuel my workout, allow me to get stronger and recover. 

Around 1g of protein per pound of bodyweight (if you’re not severely overweight)

I get this mostly from chicken legs, chicken breast, cheese, tuna, and protein powder to hit the mark sometimes. many times I prepare these meats 2 weeks in advance.

Literally, the rest, I for the most part, fill with fruits, vegetables and grains.

In a typical day, that includes:

A banana, apple, orange, some random vegetable like carrots, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower. And fill the rest with oatmeal,cause I love that shit.

This need not be expensive. Here’s a minimal sample meal plan that is basically my staples. And can be changed as your income fluctuates!

Eat like this everyday. You’ll be healthy. Once you get this down, then the added benefits of for example, eating organic, or superfoods, or all other things will help you further. But eating organic isn’t going to undo the day’s worth of junk food.

With that in mind, a few essential supplements I use daily, that are inexpensive:

-balanced multivitamin

-Vitamin D3 (because I’m brown and without sunlight I’m depressed) literally 6,000 IU

-Creatine (to help me gain strength)

With a plan like this however, one can enjoy restaurant meals, and a good time as well. No need to be super rigid, just making this your primary (that you do most of the time) will have a huge effect on your energy levels, the way you feel, think and express yourself!