Food/Diet and training hobbies
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@keith-anderson I drink a lot of diet fizz, am cutting it out gradually at the moment!
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Down to 1 can of Coca-Cola per day. It was as much as 4!! (I know, awful). Sometimes it is one every two days. Just depends how bad my headcahes are. Swapped out my bi-weekly McDonlads (normally BigMac Meals) for either a McPlant Burger or a Chicken Wrap (single items, not meals).
Also juts bought myself an Apple Watch. Hoping to improve fitness
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Am Yisrael Chai
When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game
But you don’t get a win unless you play in the game... -
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@matt-wood Calves take a pounding!!!! I have found as well that if I switch to anything else I am ruined now, I have fully converted for every pair of shoes lol
Did you feel easier running as well? I feel light when I run now
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@Ryan Tested out my barefoot shoes this last couple of weeks since the weather has improved here.
Now I understood all the science and reasons for using them, but this is my first experience with them.Calves take a bit of a beating don't they!! Still I have noticed I run a little more upright, which will be good for my back.
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I have also heard the advice about that too @Matt-Wood and strangely enough it worked.
I tested Vegan for 6 weeks when the wife was pregnant and I had read finding ultra by Rich Roll, strangest thing I was the best I'd ever been.... I didn't bother with meat substitute as it wasn't about that, I made all my meals with natural high quality ingredients.
It wasn't about being vegan it was that I had zero processed sugar in that time - ZERO. Wow I was a machine.
I need to get back to that kind of thing just with meat in there.
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Agreed @Matt-Wood . To me that basically boils down to eating as little processed food as possible.
There's a great book by Robert Lustig called Metabolical which goes into great detail about this, well worth a read / listen.
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A little bit of general blanket diet advice. Even though it is not really possible to provide blanket advice as we are all unique.
When I was in college many many moons ago I was friends with a guy who took part in amature body building contests. He was there for the A & P classes not the nutrition. I asked why he didnt do the nutrition classes, he said he had been doing it for so long he was not sure what he would get from the classes.
He told me one day, "If it didn't have a face, or it didn't grow, don't eat it"
Laughing I never really understood until a good few years later. He was really telling me that if your food is nothing at all like it is in nature, don't eat it. Made a lot of sense when I got it. Anything that looks like nothing in nature has been messed with by people in labs so much that we probably shouldn't eat it.
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@matt-wood Cheers Matt will take a look - been following with interest some of your stuff on here
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The other thing to think about too is that other than growing (which we have all finished quite some years back) exercise and food digestion are the most energy intensive things the body does. So imagine you are spending 12 or more hours a day dripping food in constantly. Your digestive system never gets a break.
Also by never giving it a break you are not allowing your body to make repairs on your digestive system as it wont really do this at all whilst trying to digest food. Giving it that 16 hour break from food will allow it to make any repairs it needs.
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@keith-anderson Biggest bang for your buck in the beginning is restricting the timing of your food intake.
By this I mean give yourself an 8hr window during the day (try to make it consistent day to day if poss) and only consume food during that window. Outside of this window have drinks such as water, tea and coffee if you like but avoid big calorie drinks as it would constitute food consumption.
Within the window try as much as possible to stick to 2 or 3 meals. Dont snack in between them if you can avoid it.
This will feel odd and probably rough until you get used to it. What it is trying to do is level out your insulin spikes. In my experience this is the number one issue people have.
Trying to move insulin levels from pic 1 towards pic 2. This will help with energy levels and hunger. When most people say they are hungry they may not actually be hungry but their body wants an insulin spike.
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@keith-anderson I’m in the same boat
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I actually need help with my diet
My diet is really poor and I've noticed my energy levels have dropped significantly. Also my mood too.
Actually don't know where to start!
le jeu avant tout
Am Yisrael Chai
When you got skin in the game, you stay in the game
But you don’t get a win unless you play in the game... -
@mark-maguire Bad sleep is really crappy! I suffer from this too, opposite way around to you though, I'm usually asleep by 9pm but then a noise, the toilet or pain usually wakes me up around the 1-2am area and thats about it for me.
If you wanted to learn some more about it I can highly recommend the following book:
The Circadian Code
by Dr. Satchin PandaHe is probably one of the worlds foremost experts on the circadian rhythm and the research done into this area.
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@Adam interesting this - I've been dabbling with Keto and occasional fasting to find more energy - based on some of Matts stuff here. Struggling with sleep at present (never get to sleep before 3am) and agree that its time wasted but better sleep quality for a few hours would be bloody brilliant.
I guess I should seek out a more formal keto regime and follow it properly for a bit
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@dan-mackinnon said in Food/Diet and training hobbies:
@matt-wood going to sleep is fine. It’s just that I wake up earlier and have a lot of energy. I never feel like my sleep has suffered. I just wondered if you had similar experiences
Same as me. When doing strict keto and/or fasting, I find I need less sleep, but the sleep I get is much better quality.
I see it as a massive win tbh, as I hate the fact that we normally "waste" 1/3 of every day sleeping, especially when only 1/3 of that sleep is restorative.
It felt like a huge cheat code when I first started.
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@dan-mackinnon That's like Adam!!
