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Originally Posted by bm bradley
myoplex protien shakes all day and pizza or chicken salad for dinner... lots of water...
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Myoplex is poison.
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/m...rink/index.htm
Food quality is much more important than food quantity. Exercise (preferably some of type of weight lifting and high intensity interval training) should be a part of your routine at least 2-3 times per week. Also try to get 8 hours of quality sleep every night.
The fear of fat and dietary cholesterol is irrational and there has been no actual link shown between cholesterol intake and blood cholesterol levels. Your body needs saturated fat and cholesterol to maintain organ insulation, produce hormones (including sex hormones), etc. Naturally fatty foods are very healthy and also far more satisfying than any sugar-ridden or artificially sweetened reduced fat items.
If you're eating processed carbs every day, but eating lean meat because you think it's the way to go then you're probably going to end up as a diabetic if you aren't already one. The only scientific studies that have ever linked heart disease and high blood cholesterol to high saturated fat and cholesterol intake left out key data that proved there is no correlation at all later on. High blood cholesterol is a symptom of damage already done to your body and the cause for the damage is not your dietary cholesterol.
Unfortunately, by now most people somehow believe that humans should be eating 65%+ of their daily calories in carbohydrates. This dietary advice over the last 20 years has netted us a massive increase in diabetes, heart disease, etc. The only thing keeping people alive longer is modern medicine, so even if you have a heart attack at age 40 because you sit on your ass all day and eat garbage, you might still live to e 75+. A shitty life, but you'll be alive.
Once you actually educate yourself about what a person should be eating, you will be shocked reading labels at the grocery store. Why the fuck is there high fructose corn syrup in most processed meat products?!
What you should REALLY be avoiding (instead of animal fat and cholesterol) is vegetable oils, all processed foods (they tend to be packed full of sugar and/or preservatives), cereal bars, pasta, bread, candy, chocolate, etc. If you're a vegetarian, you're pretty much fucked in my opinion.
What you should be eating: Fresh meat (any kind), fresh fish and seafood, vegetables, nuts, avocados, sweet potatoes, rice, potatoes, eggs, high fat dairy, fish oil and some fruits. Keep your salt intake as low as possible. If possible, only use fresh sea salt (not the white kind, but the kind that is slightly gray in color and semi-wet). Eating salt other than natural sea salt will bring up your water retention.
Healthy snacks: Homemade beef jerky, vegetables with some type of homemade high fat dip (i.e. fresh guacamole), nuts (almonds are great), fruits (by themselves or with fresh almond butter) or fruit with mascarpone.