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Originally Posted by GQchris  I used to be All into Strict eating, I would buy Twinlab, chicken breasts.. and then I finally said, what the heck am I doing all this for, so now I just follow a reasonable diet and eat the foods I enjoy eating. I am not trying to be some metrosexual fag who needs to have 2%bodyfat all the time. I train at a Muay Thai/Boxing gym, the last thing I want to be is some pretty boy so some rough beasts can pound me, lol. |
GQ, not trying to talk you out of your diet if it's working for you, but sometimes I think natural diets get a bad rap. The very fact that you call it "Strict eating" makes me wince, and as soon as people starting talking about "chicken breasts", I know we're in trouble
To compare to a processed-food diet (not suggesting you eat that way!):
In a lot of ways, eating natural isn't so strict -- I can eat anything nature provides. Everything in the produce section, almost everything in the butcher section, many of the items in the dairy section, whole grains, almost everything at my local farmer's market. Once you make the transition, it is not "strict" (though the transition from chemical food to real food itself can be difficult). Moreover, too many people make the mistake of thinking that eating "healthy" means eating chicken and brown rice every day. A food diet should be
better than a processed-food diet, IMO. The eggs sauteed with spinach, onions, and mushrooms I had for breakfast taste way better to me than some processed/extruded grain flakes from a box. Ditto the grass-fed beef sirloin steak and roasted artichokes and giant bowl of local-grown cherries for dessert, better than most of the junk before I switched to real food.
For me, it isn't about a metrosexual desire to be 2% bf, it's that eating this type of food really makes me feel better, it's healthier, and tastes way WAY better than the processed junk I used to eat. It feels "strict" at first because you don't have many recipes, so your choices are limited until you develop more options (versus processed food, where I can always get a new flavor of TV dinner). Now that I've figured out how to cook all this stuff, and also have recipes for when I'm limited on time, it's easy. I would never have transitioned if Twinlab and chicken breasts were a big part of my definition of a healthy diet.