How to maintain acceptable weight without limiting food assortment and amount? How to keep alert after lunch time? How to keep high energy throughout the day?
DISCLAIMER: below is my personal practice. I am not physician or diet specialist.
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Morning - high energy
Morning meal is most important one. It should provide me the energy to survive high rhythm from 6:00 AM to 13:00, 6 to 7 hours of morning pressure - getting kids to school, getting through heavy traffic, planning the day, finishing unfinished work from yesterday, completing current work items. I consume carbohydrate rich food for breakfast - cereal, bread, chocolate, honey. Food that transformed directly into energy to start and keep my engines moving.
Morning anti-patterns
- No breakfast.
- Deep fried food.
- Protein rich food (consumes more energy to process it).
Lunch time - supporting energy to move on
Short break to refuel. Feel hungry. I tend to eat either easy-to-burn sea food, which is protein rich or no protein rich ingredients at all - salad and potatoes, pasta, or rice. I am not vegetarian, love meat, but not for the lunch on work day. My body consumes more energy to burn meat than it generates to keep my engines moving. That is why I feel sleepy when I break this rule, when I eat meat for the lunch. In the case when I do eat red meat I mix it with vegetables only, lots of veggies.
Lunch time anti-patterns
- Meat mixed with carbohydrate rich food like rice, potatoes, bread.
- No vegetables.
- Fast/Junk food.
Evening - low energy, recreation
Time for recreation, no energy needed, no carbohydrate rich food allowed. Meat and wine time, fruits and veggies too. Water, just water, lots of water.
Evening eating anti-patterns
- Carbohydrate rich food.
- Lot’s of any food.
- Snacks.
- Alcohol.
The result
I maintain acceptable weight, I did not change my jeans size for last 15 years. I feel good level of energy throughout the day. I breath with full chest. My mind is clear and not overwhelmed.
Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food - Hippocrates
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I’ve been going with no breakfast for a few years now and I don’t seem to have any detrimental effects. Sometimes I’ll eat breakfast (big bowl of oatmeal) and I observe no benefit in terms of energy or mental clarity! Everyone I’ve talked to says that what I’m doing is wrong, but I just don’t personally *feel* any improvement when I eat breakfast. I’m 32yrs old, 5′10″ (with shoes) and 155 lbs. 10lbs lighter than I was when I was 16yrs old!
Am I crazy?
Let me think… Ph. D at 26, kind of craziness
On serious note, I was triggered to write this post by 3 events:
- My recent visit to the US where I saw these antihuman foods and overweight to extreme people
- Your recent post on food an claims
- Currently reading “The power full engagement” book. The authors say there was a research for over 1 Million people involved where they realized that overweight people eat the same amount of calories like the “normal” weight people. The difference was that overweight people ate more calories rich food et night vs morning. It resonates with me a lot and that is what I tried to reflect in my blog.
As I mentioned in my disclaimer – I am not a diet specialist, it is just my practice that works for ME. It *may* work for others (remember those folks among million others in the research I mentioned?).
If something works for you but does not for others does not make you crazy, may be unique. If you are on your quest after self improvement then you may want to try new techniques that may make you feel even better. In case it is not, you can always fall back to the proven track.
There are other sources for high energy beside food, the authors of the book put it very simple and logic, this is what’s my next posts all about
Love it!But…Where you sport actions? where your tennis, walking, joging
Some times we so lazy and it is selective.
We do what we love to do with full passion we have, like above to eat in correct way, but where we need to invest more, for non –interested perhaps, we become to be a lazy. It’s from my personnel practice. So, haw to overcome on selective lazy – this next post from you expecting.
Edward, I’ve been posting on that some time ago - please review it here
http://practicethis.com/2008/02/05/life-architecture-for-personal-achievement/
You pick your life projects that you want to invest and develop yourself. In your case it is sports, you define it as your life time project, with its goals, and techniques to achieve the goals, with resources (time and money) allocation too. Right?
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