Betruger wrote:How much do you know about the subject? i'm not sure about FDA conventions, but I've made my diet according to these guidelines:
http://www.exrx.net/Nutrition/DietaryGuidelines.html
You can click a few times deeper from there, for more details. Would you say this diet plan's no good either?
I'll be up front, I still eat grains at home, and occasionally breads on the rare occasion we go out to eat. So it's not like I'm a nazi on the subject. BUT, I know and can observe the effect on my mental state, well being, body composition, etc.
As far as what I know, my entire business depends on me being knowledgeable about how the human body responds to various inputs, from exercise (which is our business), to the foods you put into your body, any supplements (which are unnecessary if you can eat what you're supposed to, but that's pretty rare in our society, just due to availability and schedules). Also how it responds to rest (or lack thereof), sleep, and recovery techniques. We train folks from incredibly fit military members, all the way to folks like Great Grandma Mildred.
On the link:
Small meals, not a bad idea. Obviously it's all dependent on body size, but let's just take me for example, 5' 9", when I eat like I'm supposed to (which has been *not* the last 4 months, long story there, not going to confuse the subject with it)... when I'm eating like I'm supposed to, I weigh around 165# and about 9-10% body fat. So, using that as a base:
As far as small meals, I'd eat a small piece of meat, preferably wild game or wild caught fish, some vegetables, probably throw on some butter for taste, and/or have some nuts on the side if the veggies I picked didn't need butter. I'd eat something along these lines 3 times a day, with one or two snacks throughout the day that are just smaller versions of those meals.
I'd typically have trouble eating "enough" vegetables to not call it "low carb" because you have to eat a crapton to make up for all the absurd amount of carbs we eat in our culture. So in their place I'll typically eat fruits. I'd find the ones that don't leave me hungry in 1.5 hours (like honeycrisp/pink lady apples, I don't care what I eat them with, I'm freaking *hungry* 1.5 hours later, period). If you're hungry less than 3-4 hours after eating a meal, you probably ate too much carbs.
I don't care about fat, I eat fat. I lather my food in butter if it doesn't taste good. I eat bacon. I eat eggs (the whole FREAKING thing, not just the white). I use heavy cream to make sauces for my dinners... Some disagree and say to eat only specific types of fat, but me, I only avoid artificial trans fats. I NEVER cook with vegetable oil, canola oil, etc. I cook with/use olive oil, coconut oil (saturated fat like no other), butter, etc.
Some others say no dairy, it's probably a good recommendation, but honestly, until I have enough money to hire me a lebanese chef full time to cook my veggies and meats in their oh-so-delicious spices, I'm going to have to use dairy for flavoring, cheeses, etc.
And finally, I take a crapton of Fish Oil. The only reason I can afford it is, I go to Costco, and buy their Kirkland brand Fish Oil, 400 pills for $10. I aim to take just shy of 0.5 grams of EPA + DHA (total) per 10 lbs body weight. The pills have 1000 mg of Omega 3 per pill, and only 300 mg is EPA and DHA total, so for a long time, for me that was 27 fish oil pills per day (9 per major meal). Sounds like a lot, but trust me on this one. After a while of staying on that, I cut it back to where I take 20 per day. That's 20,000 mg of Fish Oil (most of it is ALA), 6,000 mg of which is EPA + DHA.
For folks who have medical problems, the recommendation isn't 0.5g per 10# body weight, it's 1.0g per 10# bodyweight. Diabetes, heart disease, cancer, just about anything can be at least helped by fixing your body's Omega 3 to Omega 6 ratio.
Now, as far as what I eat today, like I said, it's not spot-on to that, I'll snack on junk occasionally, eating a cookie or something. I'll have pasta from time to time, and my wife makes a mean lasagna. I do it in moderation, but even just that little bit I can feel the difference.
So, I suppose to answer the question, most of that link is pretty good advice.
