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Sunday, June 26, 2011

How Certain Foods Improve health For Me.

Even though I make a lot of pastries, which are sweet and huge on the calories, I try not to indulge on them too much and not let my sweet tooth get the most of me. I do take steps to apply the correct diet and I’ve found out what works best for me.

If you like organic foods, buy them because they taste better (ie: pesticides and/or not that Roundup-ready crap), but not because they're any way nutritionally different—they're not. Also, Harris-Benedict is a bit annoying to explain to people, as they're usually horrible at gauging their activity factor—I've always stuck to body weight x 14 for maintenance kcal and x 10-11ish for caloric deficit eating.
But, since someone asked what I do, I'll give a breakdown. Basically, my way of eating is DON'T EAT CARBS. I try very hard to consume less than 30 grams of non-fibrous carbs and 30 grams of fibrous carbs, at least 1g of protein per pound of bodyweight, and a ridiculous amount of fat on top of that. The result? I've lost a ton of weight, my blood sugar has effectively self-corrected to fix my diabetes, my cholesterol is amazing.

I eat -a lot- of meat (mostly chicken, turkey and beef offal—though lately, I've been getting good deals on buffalo offal due to lack of demand), cheeses, butter, go through at least a carton of eggs a week, and go through a good deal of whey/casein. I also eat a lot of cruciferous vegetables, peppers, edamame/mukimame, and other high-carb/low sugar vegetables. I'll occasionally throw some nuts (almonds, macadamias, pecans) into the mix, though the omega-6 in those usually bump up my fish oil total for the day.

Other common stuff, glancing around my kitchen: Greek yogurt, sausages, coffee (usually with cream and stevia), almond milk, refrigerated salad dressing (I.e., not the shelf-stable stuff) and Duke's mayo (though the omega-6 issue pertains to these too), hot sauce, etc.