the proper fuel

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forgive me if i sound rude, but I'm gonna have to take you all back to school to start from scratch and to start from scratch we definitely need to be able to read the food label on any given food item, i dont have a doubt in my mind that some people are gonna be the very stubborn type like i was and say, ah he is wrong I'm rite that's nonsense,but if you look at the truth and open your mind you will see that i am very much rite, if what a lot of people were doing was rite 66% of the united states would not be obese, so back to the food labelfirst of all we have energy, which means how many calories are in the food you are consuming and the first key point to remember is that a calorie is not just a calorie, it very much matters which source of energy the the calorie comes from, just off topic for a second, i was working in the gym one day when a guy came up to me all frustrated and asked me why he was not losing weight, he told me he was only having a thousand calories a day and putting on weight, my first question was how do you no you are only eating a thousand calories a day and he said" ah just a guess its about a thousand with a few nibbles on stuff here and there,and there was mistake one i will explain again, then i asked him what was he eating and he said" ah the good stuff pasta bread and potatoes big mistake two but that's for later and mistake three i asked him how many times he was eating a day, and he said your not gonna believe me but i only eat twice maybe three times a day and i said i very much believe that, see your body is way smarter than you and i will ever be i will explain all again, phew back to the food label, first one on the menu protein, protein is our friend we like protein it helps keep our muscle when we are burning fat and keeps you satisfied till your next meal and it only has 4 calories per gram, our main food we want to be getting protein is from any animal dog cat etc ha-ha Na the usual steak chicken duck turkey, vegetarians can get it from protein shakes and beans, next on the list is carbohydrates, oh you mite say now the good stuff and I'm gonna say oh The bad stuff just to a degree, i am not going to go deep into why it is bad just yet,and your gonna say but you need your carbs, that's funny just say we had two islands one with just carbs on the island and the other one with just protein and fats, the island with just fats and protein wood be healthy fit individuals regarding they were not alcholics and smoking all the time on the island ha, and the island with just carbs sorry to surprise you but not one of the people on the island would survive unless he was after sneaking in a bit of fat and protein off the other island,how is that possible you ask and i will tell you again i dont want to fill you with to much information,i will just say that man didn't evolve from walking around a field eating grass all day ah we be all big fat cows, he had to hunt for his food to survive sorry for upsetting vegetarians but its the truth, carbohydrates have 4 calories per gram as well,under carbohydrates you will see of which sugars, there is only two time times in the day in which us lada cars can tolerate these types of carbs and that is strictly in the morningg and just before and after training and i will explain why again,the Ferrari,s on the other hand can tolerate these all day and i will explain why again the types of these carbs are found in sweets chocolate pastry ah all the sweet stuff but there are ways to satisfy that sweet tooth without the damage, the picture you see is a bottle of sugar free syrup that literally has zero carbs but all the yummy taste so no damage to the engine, and no lies i have one of the sweetest tooth's in Ireland and have it well sorted oh the joys of splenda,the other type of carbohydrate you will see on the food label is fiber now thats the the great stuff for us lada cars, you see the body cannot cannot digest fiber and has to use it as energy so that makes it a free food for us hungry people out there, types of high fiber foods all green veg some other types of veg, bran and fruit to a degree the best source are berries, im starting to sound like a parrot but that's for another day ,then there is the last one and by far not the least on the list is fat,oh that's the bad stuff you might say, that's funny seems there was another study done on two groups in the usa one group was on a high carb low fat low protein diet and i am not my own critic they didnt die,i said low fat low protein not no fat no protein and there intake of energy was 1500 calorise,the other group was on ,yes you guessed it a high protein high fat diet and as much green veg as they wanted consisting of 1500 calories as well, and after 10 weeks of this study the high fat diet had lost eight times more weight than the high carb group and there bad cholesterol levels were lower,but the main thing that struck me was that the high carb dieters complained about always being hungry and tired and over half of them left the group i guess the rest of them just needed the money and food, now the high fat high protein group did not complain once and they all said that they had higher levels of energy than they ever had before,one guy even said he felt he could run and take off ah he must of sneaking drugs in ha-ha jus kidding na but no one left early just the lad on the drugs. 90% of them stayed on the diet after the study,ah i hate that word so our new word for diet is lifestyle,people always feel restricted on a diet,if you take any thing in from my articles i can only hope its for life because if its only for a day week month or year at some stage you will go back to being the broken down lada and we dont want that,if you take in one thing from this article please let it be that, you do not i repeat, do not get fat from one two or even three bad cheat meals it is when we are constantly putting diesel in the petrol car that we break down,phew again back to fat,types of fats, the good fats are oily fish salmon sardines types of nuts seeds olive oil some dairy products eggs cheese not milk parrot boy will explain again,bad ugly fats are tran fats which consist of donuts margarine chocolate, cake and vegetable oils, sodium on the food label means salt which isnt a big thing rite now for us,so ther you have it, i hope that helps you out a bit, in the next article i will explain why carboyhdrates can work with us and very much against us,thank you for reading

yours in health and fitness
robert gorman cpt