I just had a brilliant idea.  I know it will be practically impossible to pull off, but I’m gonna give it a go.  That’s how I roll.  Like to think I can break boundaries, but doubt myself the whole way through.  OK, I’m going to start, as much as possible, writing a short blog every time I eat something.  As you probably gathered from the title, I’ll keep referring to it as “what I’m eating ATM”.   I say this will be next to impossible to pull off (if I were to actually note EVERYTHING I eat), because I’m eating every 1-2. hours.  OK, so here goes.

ATM, I’m eating organic, spelt wholewheat pasta with a lean steak that was cooked in garlic and chilli paste and olive oil.  Additionally, I’m eating (more like staring at) little mini yellow squash with the meal.  You may have picked up on this vital piece of information on an earlier blog, but it is highly recommended to eat some kind of veggie with every meal.  At least your main meals.  Also, I’m having whole wheat (avoid processed foods… ‘whole’ wheal means the wheat is still “whole” and hasn’t been processed… or broken down and screwed with… i.e. bleached, etc.) pasta AFTER my workout.   It’s also highly recommended that if you are trying to keep a solid, tight figure (or loose weight), that you should eat carbs during a 1-3 hour window AFTER you’ve done some kind of activity.

You see, throughout my late teens and all through my 20′s, I tried every type of “diet” or “lifestyle change” I could think of.  The Atkins diet, the ‘fat free’ diet, south beach diet… hollywood diet.  The anorexia diet, AND the bulimia diet.  Hell, I even tried Jenny Crank!   None of that shit works.  I’ll be the first to tell you.  When my 14 year old niece was here visiting for the past two weeks, I had to get on her case, and remind her to start eating more!  I thought back to when I was her age, and remembered that it made practical sense in my mind, that if I didn’t eat, I’d loose weight.  Right?  WRONG!  Every morning I was in her ear, “have you eaten breakfast yet?!”…. you know why it’s called break-fast, right?  Because you are “breaking” your “fast”!  You’re body has been deprived of any caloric intake for the past 6-8hours, and hence has been in a “fasting” state.  Also, your body will NOT let go of it’s stored fat if it feels as if it’s never going to get any more coming in.  Your body actually needs GOOD FATS.  So much of it, that 30% of your caloric intake should be coming from healthy fats!  (why isn’t this shit taught in primary school? hmmmmm????)

Well, what the hell is a “good fat”?  We can go into that in another blog.  But in short, I tried to remind her that she needed to have breakfast.  She needed to have good fats in her diet so her body would let go of the stored fat.  The human body is AMAZING!  it’s crazy how these machines work.  I told her to think of her body as a car.  It gets us around from point A to point B.  In this lifetime, does she want to drive a Porshe or does she want to drive a Ford pinto?  Would you put shit gasoline into your porshe?  NO!  You’d put high octane premium fuel in your Porshe.  Just as with your body, are you going to fuel it with crap food?  NO!  My body is a finely tuned machine.  Capable of doing extraordinary things.

I got a little off topic, but you catch my drift.