Rules for an awesome healthy fit life

Read labels on foods. If you don't know how, learn.

Stay away from foods that you don't know how to read ingredients in them. Which mostly means stop eating outside, if you do stick to chicken salads with vinaigrette dressing.

It's 80% about what you eat and 20% your workout. So find your self top meals you like to eat. Make those meals composed of (lean red meat, chicken breasts, fish) and veggies.

As a rule of thumb for a day; 1.5-2 pounds of lean meat, 2lbs of veggies + 1-2 fruits.

Limit your carb intake to 10-20% of daily calories. So cut rice, pasta, etc.... You can have carbs on working out days. But clean complex carbs like whole grains and sweet potatoes.

Flaxseeds is something you should think about adding to about everything you eat. It's awesome!

Eat whenever you feel hungry. As longs as it's clean food. You can have a sweet cheat meal once a week.

There is no pills to burn fat. It's all BS. Eat fish (salmon or cod, something low in mercury) at least once a week and eat flax seeds (each 33g has 2400mg of omega 3). You can take a natural multivitamin to aid in digestion and get missing minerals like opti-men multivitamin brand.

Juice is not that good for you. It's mostly sugar. Your favorite drink should be water or a protein shake with fresh spinach, kale banana, berries, etc... (whatever you like). Your protein shake should not have more than 2g of sugar or fat, 5g of carbs.

For working out, forget about abs, walking, and running. Pick three of below and do 3 times a week. Do 5 sets of 5 reps. Balance upper and lower body. Start with low weights, but you want to be almost reaching failure on 5th rep:

Front squats, back squats, bench press with dumbbells, shoulder press, dead lifts, pullups, or chinups.

The gym is not to chat or socialize, neither it's not a place where you're comfortable. You need to be sweating and keep your heart rate pumping. You need to push yourself. Every week you should be adding 5lbs to your weights. That's how you measure your progress. After a while you cannot progress that same way as muscles need more time to recover.

Don't jump among lifting programs. Pick one and stick with it at least for a couple of months.

Stay focused and keep it real.

Follow this for 2 months, and come thank me. Remember you want to live a healthy life style, it's not a temp diet, you need to enjoy food you're eating and going to the gym. You can also do all workouts at home with minimal equipment. Just stop being a p**** and do it.

If you know about ingredients used in restaurants you won't even feed their food to stray dogs and cats. You deserve better.

Anything to add?

Lol where did you find this? I don't agree with a few of these

take omega 3's , drop the flax

veggies and fruits are carbs


post is silly on multiple counts, go have sex

Why drop flax? veggies have fiber, which does not count as carbs. Sugar in fruits is carbs.

Originally Posted by wasp9166

take omega 3's , drop the flax
veggies and fruits are carbs


post is silly on multiple counts, go have sex

I made it.

Originally Posted by DILLA

Lol where did you find this? I don't agree with a few of these

The only issue here is that if you have carbs at 15-20% and protein comes from lean sources, where is your fat intake?

I should make that clearer. Fat 40%, protein 40%

Originally Posted by dabears

The only issue here is that if you have carbs at 15-20% and protein comes from lean sources, where is your fat intake?

1.5-2.0 lbs of meat a day?

Yes, meat meaning fish/chicken/lean red meat.

Originally Posted by breiwa1

1.5-2.0 lbs of meat a day?

Originally Posted by breiwa1

1.5-2.0 lbs of meat a day?

Absolutely. If you ate 2 lbs of meat a day, you would satisfy your protein requirements without needing supplementation (whey protein).

Zoo, if all you ate was lean beef / chicken with occassional fish with some flax, veggies, fruit and occassional complex carbs, you would be nowhere near 40% fat... on a 200g protein diet thats roughly 100g of fat, and considering only about 10% of oils from cooking gets into the food you need to have a fatty meat source as well (ribeye steak is a great choice) on days when you do not consume fish.

I think you made some good points, but it's definitely hard to walk the talk! The 80/20 rule for diet/exercise pertaining to results can also be applied to your diet... if you eat well 80% of the time, you will see great results. No need to kill yourself over a bad meal here or there!

You are bringing too much bs to this forum.

Originally Posted by BreakMyWallet

You are bringing too much bs to this forum.

I'm too nice

I disagree with a lot of this...did you get this from bodybuilding.broscience.com?

You must have a much faster metabolism than I do because if I ate 2 lbs of meat a day I would be 300lbs in no time.

Originally Posted by breiwa1

You must have a much faster metabolism than I do because if I ate 2 lbs of meat a day I would be 300lbs in no time.

2 lbs of lean ground beef is 1400 calories? I eat 2500-3000 calories a day, because I am active. It is much less for poultry as well. Nothing to do with metabolism really. Average male should be around 2000 calories maintenance level per day, which is easy to adhere to with 1.5 to 2 lbs of meat per day. If it was all from bacon, then you'd have a problem.

Parts of it.

Originally Posted by BMW_Matt

I disagree with a lot of this...did you get this from bodybuilding.broscience.com?

How about you point out where BS is exactly? Your response does not help much

Originally Posted by BreakMyWallet

You are bringing too much bs to this forum.

I eat 1.5 lbs on lifting days and it has been good. If you look at program used for 300 movie actors and the new Spartcus, they follow 1.5-2 lean meat lbs a day with a CF workout.

Originally Posted by breiwa1

You must have a much faster metabolism than I do because if I ate 2 lbs of meat a day I would be 300lbs in no time.

Originally Posted by BreakMyWallet

You are bringing too much bs to this forum.

Thank you.

what foods are suggested for whole grains?

What works for one person does not always work for others.

For the record I am 37 years old, 5-10 and 165 lbs. I am telling for a fact that eating 2 lbs of meat a day would not work out well for me.

Originally Posted by z00

Parts of it.



How about you point out where BS is exactly? Your response does not help much

I eat 1.5 lbs on lifting days and it has been good. If you look at program used for 300 movie actors and the new Spartcus, they follow 1.5-2 lean meat lbs a day with a CF workout.

brown rice or whole wheat pasta. I mostly stick to sweet potatoes.

One great seed I have been using and it's a power house is chia seeds. Expensive but it got so many good things in it (fiber, protein, omega 3). I add it to pancakes or shakes.

Originally Posted by 217Bimmer

what foods are suggested for whole grains?

Originally Posted by breiwa1

What works for one person does not always work for others.

For the record I am 37 years old, 5-10 and 165 lbs. I am telling for a fact that eating 2 lbs of meat a day would not work out well for me.

Fully agree! Your maintenance level is actually right on 2000 calories! (Thats with a sedentary job and minimal/no exercise). I don't know your body fat levels, but you do not need 2 lbs of meat a day, as you are most likely in the 1.5 lb range, which is about 1000 calories for lean ground beef for example. That leaves 1000 calories for additional fat and carbs, which should be plenty

I was just trying to point out that 2 lbs of meat isn't such a crazy amount, though it may seem that way.