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More about my eating habits

Yeah, everyone wants to know what other folks are doing and eating.

It's like the grass is always greener on the other side. Or maybe it's just plain old curiosity. Truth is, different plans can work for different people, and whatever you do needs to make sense to YOU in terms of a lifestyle change. This makes sense to me... this is good sound nutrition, but if it doesn't feel right for you, then you need to find what does!

My eating habits are NOT my own creation... they are courtesy of John Berardi, author of the Precision Nutrition system.

10 habits

1. Eat every 2-3 hours.
2. Eat complete lean protein with each meal.
3. Eat vegetables with each meal.
4. If fat loss is your goal, eat veggies and fruits with any meal, starchy carbs only after exercise.
5. Eat healthy fats daily.
6. Drink only non-calorie containing beverages, preferably water and green tea.
7. Eat whole foods instead of supplements whenever possible.
8. Plan ahead and prepare meals/feedings in advance.
9. Eat as wide a variety of good whole foods as possible.
10. Plan to break the rules 10% of the time.

Pretty simple, eh? Easy to remember! No food groups are excluded, nothing freaky or faddish! Following these habits, I eat fewer refined or processed foods which is not a bad thing.

When you see me talk about compliance, that's simply whether my meals have followed the above habits or not. If they have, I'm good to go... otherwise, a meal that does not follow the habits is counted as a 10% meal. If I'm eating 5 meals a day, 7 days a week, then I can have three 10% meals. If I'm eating 6 meals a day, then I could have as many as four 10% meals. The catch is... a skipped meal also counts as a 10% meal! That provides plenty of incentive to keep me on top of habit #1!

Now, there's another habit that must be mentioned...

EXERCISE

Ideally, a minimum of 5 hours a week that includes resistance training and cardio. I'm not quite at that mark, but hope to slowly increase again, especially when my plantar fasciitis is better. Currently, I get 3 hours a week from water aerobics, which combines both resistance and cardio and 1 hour from doing my Nordic Track skiier (cardio) on alternate days.