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Article: Should We End The Diet Wars?

Coming from a person on a salaried job with a wife in the same boat... it's insanely tempting to eat out more and more... especially when you love your family and want to spend more than three hours with them before its time for bed. I've been home off work a week now cooking all meals and, like I tell all friends who want to get healthy, the nutrition is more work than the gym!! It's exhausting to cook a nice meal and clean up for the day, you either want it or you don't!
 
bono1132 said:
Coming from a person on a salaried job with a wife in the same boat... it's insanely tempting to eat out more and more... especially when you love your family and want to spend more than three hours with them before its time for bed. I've been home off work a week now cooking all meals and, like I tell all friends who want to get healthy, the nutrition is more work than the gym!! It's exhausting to cook a nice meal and clean up for the day, you either want it or you don't!
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I agree!! Limiting restaurant occasions to one night a week or less is so difficult. Working full time, picking up the the little one from day care then coming home and preparing a meal for the family gets ridiculous after awhile. You can really tell the difference in the mirror though.
 
as somebody who is trying to finish a doctorate (trying being the keyword there) and working full time, and still trying to remain in shape- with all the added features yall stated above- it makes following a diet plan nearly impossible.

thats why, IMO its best to learn the principles of dieting and how each component of a diet affects a desired outcome. In my case-if im lucky, i will see my child for an hour before he goes to bed and my wife maybe 3 hours...on a good day! This makes the more famous diets out there impractical for me (namely CBL, any IF variant, Anabolic Diet, Body Opus and the like). There are times where I just come home and eat what my wife has cooked because thats all we had available and its something that the boy would eat.

What makes this worse is that the game we chose to play (or the life we chose to lead) is a full time job in itself. Unfortunately-just like everything else in life- sacrafices must be made in order to recieve a benefit.
 
MANotaur said:
as somebody who is trying to finish a doctorate (trying being the keyword there) and working full time, and still trying to remain in shape- with all the added features yall stated above- it makes following a diet plan nearly impossible.

thats why, IMO its best to learn the principles of dieting and how each component of a diet affects a desired outcome. In my case-if im lucky, i will see my child for an hour before he goes to bed and my wife maybe 3 hours...on a good day! This makes the more famous diets out there impractical for me (namely CBL, any IF variant, Anabolic Diet, Body Opus and the like). There are times where I just come home and eat what my wife has cooked because thats all we had available and its something that the boy would eat.

What makes this worse is that the game we chose to play (or the life we chose to lead) is a full time job in itself. Unfortunately-just like everything else in life- sacrafices must be made in order to recieve a benefit.
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Agreed man, it's all worth it in the end but there's times when everyone falls off the wagon, if only there were more healthy alternatives on my end of town, best we have is jimmy johns. My wife and I are to the point now we can't handle anything fried cuz we've been off the wagon so long can't handle any fast food really, on bad days just throwing some chicken on the grill is what we do now
 
bono1132 said:
Agreed man, it's all worth it in the end but there's times when everyone falls off the wagon, if only there were more healthy alternatives on my end of town, best we have is jimmy johns. My wife and I are to the point now we can't handle anything fried cuz we've been off the wagon so long can't handle any fast food really, on bad days just throwing some chicken on the grill is what we do now
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another thing thats really important for people to learn is how certain ratios of macros and even certain micros affect them individually. Some people (my self included) respond extremely well to low carb or ULC diet plans. Im fine with that since i could forgo carbs or any veggie and be perfectly happy for the rest of my life. my wife on the other hand- gets really bad stomache issues if she eats too much meat w/o something else. Other people cant grow outside of a standard 40/30/30 diet plan-while the lucky few can eat what ever they want and only lift 2-3 days and keep a body akin to zeus himself.

thats why any kind of diet out there is crap in my opinion. there set in such a way to where you have to do A, B and then C or else it wont work and will usually fail.
 
MANotaur said:
another thing thats really important for people to learn is how certain ratios of macros and even certain micros affect them individually. Some people (my self included) respond extremely well to low carb or ULC diet plans. Im fine with that since i could forgo carbs or any veggie and be perfectly happy for the rest of my life. my wife on the other hand- gets really bad stomache issues if she eats too much meat w/o something else. Other people cant grow outside of a standard 40/30/30 diet plan-while the lucky few can eat what ever they want and only lift 2-3 days and keep a body akin to zeus himself.

thats why any kind of diet out there is crap in my opinion. there set in such a way to where you have to do A, B and then C or else it wont work and will usually fail.
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There's a book out called eating for your body type, a lot better perspective than any fad diet, I respond better to chicken or steak at dinner then a protein shake or greek yogurt before bed, have most of my carbs and fat before 5 helps me feel lean in the morning but that's just me and its taken years to figure that out, plus having a gas grill makes cooking so much easier, especially since its a lot less cleanup
 
bono1132 said:
There's a book out called eating for your body type, a lot better perspective than any fad diet, I respond better to chicken or steak at dinner then a protein shake or greek yogurt before bed, have most of my carbs and fat before 5 helps me feel lean in the morning but that's just me and its taken years to figure that out, plus having a gas grill makes cooking so much easier, especially since its a lot less cleanup
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I gotta look into that bud! You got an author or isbn?
 
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Ment blood type, there is body type but blood type is the one I've heard about, I've got some friends that have read through this and was really great
 
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