TRAINING/NUTRITION BLOG: 03/04/13

[Jim B]

TRAINING:

5PM-

16 TAEKWON-DO HYUNGS, BASIC TECHNIQUE.

05/01, 02, 03

Took these as rest/sick days fighting the cold bug that has been going around. 

NUTRITION:

7am-

1 tbsp coconut oil

small bowl filled with jerky and raw almonds

fish oil

cod liver oil

5000iu vitamin D

130pm-

A couple "BLT" sandwiches:

Leaves of green leaf lettuce wrapped around 6-8 slices of bacon and a sliced tomato. Also threw some pepperjack cheese in there (not a paleo food). 

fish oil

cod liver oil

4pm-

2 Hydroxycut Hardcore caps

930pm-

1 tbsp coconut oil

gigantic local-raised grassfed steak and a huge spinach salad, with a big glass of red wine

cod liver oil

5000iu vitamin D

1130pm-

Zn, Mg, B6, and melatonin

Was informed of an update from a popular fitness and nutrition marketing personality about her personal nutritional regimen -vs- what she recommends for clients. Meaning, she eats much differently than what she recommend to others, and this is the reason for it: 

"The reason my diet plans provide several meals is most people cannot stick with what I do due to lack of discipline or hunger throughout the day. I don't have this problem because I'm conditioned:-)"

My nutritional recommendations are based on what I think is the best advice at the time. I don't personally care whether someone has the discipline to follow it or not! If you decide to deviate, that is your problem. If you want my advice, expect the straight story, not the easy way. 

In good faith, I can't give out substandard advice just because I want to make things easy. Easy and success just don't seem to work well together.

That said, I will say that this very, very fit person follows an eating schedule very similar to mine. Usually trains fasted and then has the biggest meals at night. This is something I have always suspected in looking at her pictures and daily training photos, in which she is ripped every day of the year. These are markers of good insulin and leptin sensitivity, and frequent eating causes the receptor sites for these two hormones to essentially wear out. High insulin = fat storage. Insulin blocks leptin, so if insulin is high, leptin (satiety hormone) is low. 

Also, the fasted training stimulates growth hormone, stimulates lipolysis, and promotes insulin sensitivity. That said, I'm on the way to do some fasted strength training now!