[quote]LiamBrady wrote:
The whole of Naked Nutrition guide is not contained on this site. All the nutritionists have written TIP-based articles. To make any sense of it, there are many gaps to fill in. Maybe you can fill the gaps in with your experience, but the OP is very new to this. Information overload and MISinformation on the forums leads to poor results and ultimately giving up.
I would say $67-97 is a good value for everything he needs to know in one place. He can start eating EXACTLY right today and have resources to rely upon (which maybe you have, but the OP probably doesn’t).
I got news for you. The contributors to this site do not write here to GIVE away everything they know. They write here to tease you to buy the good stuff. You think Rousell, Forsythe, Hartman, etc. are all morons and just throw everything they know out there for free and then spend months or years writing books? AND THEN, put a 365 day money-back guarantee on it! You can actually buy it, compare it to his articles and send it back if there’s nothing new.
The worst thing that can happen is not wasting $100, it’s failing. I just didn’t want that to happen.[/quote]
In all honesty, I could fill the gaps when I was a total newb too. If I didn’t understand something, I reread it, or read more articles, other articles, or posted a question as the OP has done. But usually I didn’t need to when it comes to applied nutrition. And in any case the great thing about being a newb is that you DON’T need all the fancy stuff. The list posted by yourself above that started with “6-7 meals a day” is pretty much all a newb needs. Control carb (not “no carbs”) as well I suppose.
You apply as you read. Otherwise, yes, analysis paralysis can set in. But the only way to really learn stuff is to actually apply the basic stuff while you sift and analyze the more advanced details and make sure you understand them. It’s understanding the difference between fundamentals and advanced details. Which, IMHO, you shouldn’t need a $70 book for.
I ate exactly right for years without any sort of “Gourmet Nutrition” booklet to tell me. I simply read the articles here and followed the principles. Not the details. If anything, my diet is looser now than it was in any past year of my training.
I agree, the worst thing you can do is fail. But why spend money when there’s easy access to free information here? It worked just fine for thousands of newbs already, me included.