My Diet

My cousin recently disagreed with my diet.  He referred to it as a starvation diet.  I only try to eat two foods, white rice and meat, preferably, pork or chicken.  Will I pass on a nice steak or tuna? Certainly not, I love a bloody steak, and as for sushi, (particularly, tuna and salmon) that's meat and rice perfectly combined.  I will still grab a slice of pizza once a week or so, and there are of coarse other substitutes that happens as well.

But generally speaking, my diet is chicken or pork and rice every night.  I love it.  I play with the seasonings and the way I prepare and cook it; I don't get bored with it.  I have been eating this diet for years.

Why does my cousin consider this a starvation diet?  Well, if you noticed, I haven't mentioned a single vegetable yet.  I don't hate vegetables like a child.  My body has never "accepted" vegetables and eating them is basically a waste of time, literally, sorry.

I like vegetables and highly encourage people to eat them.  Spinach with olive oil and garlic is amazing.  Spinach is high in vitamin A and particular ones are high in vitamin K, which is great for cuts and skin.  Carrots are great when fried, green beans with black pepper is good, and asparagus is nice when grilled.

As for me, there are no vegetables in my normal diet.  I also eat large portions twice a day.

You can find your suggested calories intake in the link below, I set mine to little or no exercise.

http://www.webmd.com/diet/healthtool-metabolism-calculator

I round in about 2200 calories a day.  That gives me 1100 per meal, which gives me a better meal that can be greasy and taste better, verses those that like to eat 5 small meals a day.

But what about your metabolism, it will be slower?

I know I'm not a scientist, but it doesn't matter.  I don't like eating breakfast and for most trainers and workout enthusiasts they think that is a big no-no.  I don't agree, and here is why.  Not scientist disclaimer already mentioned.

When you wake up in the morning, your body has basically been starved for eight hours, give or take your eating habits, which means, while you slept, if you didn't engage in gluttony the night before, your body used some of its reserves to function and repair your body.  And your body reserve is fat, not muscle (it would take days of starvation before you're body started eating muscle to maintain).  You can measure how much fat you lost by weighting yourself before you go to sleep and weighing yourself before "all morning" activities.  I found that based on workout activities the day before I range from .40-.80 pounds in weight loss.  Since my body is in reserve mode when you wake up, the time when you lose the most weight (beside exercising and running, which is water weight mostly), why would I want to stop it immediately?  If you are trying to lose weight, you want to have your body in that mode as long as possibly.  Therefore, forgoing breakfast makes that happen.

As for me, my weight does fluctuate.  There are some days I don't care to stick to my diet and calories intake plan.  But I'm currently 180 and dropping.  A few months ago I stuck with it and made it down to 177.  I'm going to try to stick with it longer this time and make it down to 175.  But just like I mentioned in an article previously, water is the key to it all.

Mr. Felder