I have made a 180[deg] turn in my diet in the past two weeks. I have cut out refined carbs and sugar. I am eating a lot more protein, vegetables, and fruit. I have a basic food calculator and my macros have been about 20-25%carbs 40-45%protein 35-45%fat.
Overall I have been feeling great: no more daily crashes, no more feeling sluggish, I feel fuller longer and I find eating this way extremely easy to maintain. I am barely trying and I am doing pretty good. I have two problems though
1)I cannot keep up my appetite to eat enough calories since I strength train. Normally I’m a big eater but on this new way of dieting I can barely get 2500kcals in a day.
2)Randomly I get very nauseous and my appetite goes way down. One day, for the hell of it, I tried some McDonald’s. It was the only day in the whole two weeks I ate anything bad. I did it just to see if the nauseousness was caused by my diet. Turns out eating that shit made me feel better. How do you explain that? (No I have not eaten that since, it was an experiment).
My goals are to lose some body fat while building some strength, I am using the WS4SB program.
Im guessing that I should have eased myself into eating this way.
If you want to get big, you will not always be hungry when you eat
2.You’re nausea is most likely mental, along with your appetite. When you eat junk food you think your hungry because your body craves it, now that you’re actually eating like you’re supposed to, you aren’t overeating. There is no reason for you to “ease” into eating like you’re supposed to. Make sure you drink enough water also, that might help if you are genuinely getting nauseas. But I would be confident in saying that it’s not because you’re eating right.
I stick to things like turkey, pork, chicken and fish for my meats. Last night I almost threw up. Maybe I need more veggies. Also, is whole wheat ok to eat? I normally eat flax based bread but it is very hard to find.
I notice the nausea after eating a really clean meal, too. Digestive enzymes and betaine HCL help a lot.
I think it’s got to do with eating processed foods for so long that our stomach needs to do less chemical digestion, so it compensated with less stomach acid. Now that you’re eating whole, quality, complex foods, your current level of stomach acid is a bit low for what’s needed.
Start with 1 (650mg) betaine HCL pill per meal and work up to however many pills it takes to feel a warm, ‘burning’ sensation in your stomach. You’ll feel it, and I’d actually suggest having some tums or zantac on hand lol. But drop the number of pills by one and then start using that many pills per meal. That’s what REALLY helped me.
Do you eat raw veggies? Or do you cook them first? Apparently some people can’t digest uncooked veggies all that well, so I started eliminating raw veggies and included cooked veggies and that helped as well.
My veggies are both raw and cooked. For instance, today I had a caesar salad with cooked chicken breast topped with bacon and cheese and seasoned string beans. For “dinner” I had a ground turkey sandwich with cheese on whole wheat bread. I also mix a little bit of coconut water with my drinks on occasion. I am guilty of adding sauces such as ranch or honey or siracha, but its not like I drench my food in them.
As another example, when I cook turkey sausage I usually cook it in a medley with onions and sweet peppers. Personally I think I need to eat more greens but I have this bad habit of forgetting. As I said earlier finding flax based bread is very hard to find in your average grocery store. I am also getting full really fast and that it making it hard for me to eat enough calories.
I think I’ll give the pills a shot provided they aren’t too expensive.
Also, is ti realistic to expect losing body fat while gaining strength just from changing your diet alone? I really don’t want to stop strength training as it is one of the few things in life that does not disappoint me.
[quote]Aero51 wrote:
I stick to things like turkey, pork, chicken and fish for my meats. Last night I almost threw up. Maybe I need more veggies. Also, is whole wheat ok to eat? I normally eat flax based bread but it is very hard to find.[/quote]
This happened to me recently too. I think it is more of a psychological phenomenon than anything else. Constantly eating the same groups of clean foods had driven me to the point whereby even thinking of my next meal would make me nauseous. So how did I cure it?
I went on a three day don’t-cook-a-single-meal-binge. What I mean by this, is rather than cooking every single fucking meal from the same fucking groups of clean foods that I always eat, I ate out 2-3 times a day for 3 days straight, and didn’t cook a single thing. I still tracked my calories, and I never exceeded my caloric limit, but after the three days I was actually leaner than before and I felt 10x better.
After that, it was much easier to resume to the clean eating routine.