Hello everyone,
I’d like to hear how you change your life to adopt good eating habits. I know there are a lot of willpower related to this, but I need to hear the stories of people who changed their habits.
To explain a bit, I’m 25 years old, and say that I have known several phases regarding my nutrition and physical activity. When I was training in my teens, it was easier because I had a lot of free time and little responsability. Now I have my house, a wife, several jobs, and many other things. I am happy and that is not the problem, but it is more difficult to achieve a physical ideal.
Anyway, enough writing. Here are my questions:
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For men who have a girlfriend who just eat anything and not gain weight, what do you do to stay on the right track? My wife loves junk food and she never gains weight. Tip someone?
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I have tried many diets (anabolic diet, velocity diet, body for life) and I know that my body has played yo-yo, going from 160 pounds with 10% fat to 190 pounds with 25% fat. Looks like I do not know where to start or who to believe to eat well. Your opinion?
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Are there other websites, books or reliable resources to help me back on track once and for all?
A huge thank you, and sorry if I made spelling mistakes, English is not my first language.
Check out Precision Nutrition and search for their articles on habits.
In reality, first you have to identify why it is you do what you do on a daily basis. Then identify why you want to change, and then keep asking why you want that. Get deep, get to the core of what you really want and why.
If you figure out your why you will be further along than most.
Hint, no one wants to gain or lose 20#s, they want what comes along with that.
Forget dieting, slowly change your eating habits over time.
I’d also strongly recommend the book “Power of Less” by Leo Babuta (last name may be misspelled)
BTW- Your English looks better than most that have it for their first language 
As far as who to trust on what good nutrition is, I’d still suggest the Precision Nutrition team, but in the end, trust whole real foods. I can’t think of one real unprcoessed food that is unhealthy for us barring intolerances or allergies for the individual.
As Jack LaLane said years ago, “If man made it, don’t eat it.” Pretty much holds true today.
meat, seafood, eggs, veggies, nuts, seeds, fruit. Natural oils like coconut, olive oil, etc.
A really good book that just came out that is perhaps among the best in the Paleo community is “Practical Paleo”, she’s not die hard Paleo as some non Paleo foods are recommended, but the book talks some how conventional dietary wisdom is flawed and why real foods are a better option.
[quote]gematria wrote:
- Are there other websites … to help me back on track once and for all?
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Yeah, this one, which has HUNDREDS of articles on nutrition.
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
[quote]gematria wrote:
- Are there other websites … to help me back on track once and for all?
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Yeah, this one, which has HUNDREDS of articles on nutrition. [/quote]
Surely you’re joking. Nutrition articles? How would one find such gems
[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:
Check out Precision Nutrition and search for their articles on habits.
In reality, first you have to identify why it is you do what you do on a daily basis. Then identify why you want to change, and then keep asking why you want that. Get deep, get to the core of what you really want and why.
If you figure out your why you will be further along than most.
Hint, no one wants to gain or lose 20#s, they want what comes along with that.
Forget dieting, slowly change your eating habits over time.
I’d also strongly recommend the book “Power of Less” by Leo Babuta (last name may be misspelled) [/quote]
Thank jehovasfitness for your advice. I’ll take a look on precision nutrition for sure!