Eating consciously is Bullshit
WARNING: The rage contained in this post may be fueled by me having watched "RocknRolla" twice, everybody in it being fucking RIPPED, except of course for me, sitting on the couch, not working out, lazy fat bastard that I am.
Ok.
When I talk about my diet to people who know absolutely nothing about diet, they always say something like the following:
"I don't think [insert any diet concept] is really necessary. If you just choose a balanced diet and eat consciously, there's nothing wrong with that."
I hate those people then. Of course many of them are offended just by the idea that you think differently about diet than they do. It's a little like religious people. By choosing a vegetarian or - god forbid - vegan diet, you attack their way of life and their belief that killing animals to eat their flesh is alright. And by choosing any kind of restriction on your diet, like no sugar, you attack their unhealthy habits. But this is not what makes me angry. People behave stupid all the time when you're not like them in some way.
BUT: I also think it's wrong. Eating consciously? When I eat consciously, I want it to taste great. I want it to be special. I will take a lot of time and cook something very tasty. And something very tasty isn't always something healthy that will actually fuel me.
Now there are some things that are healthy and taste great, sure. But there's also a lot of stuff that tastes amazing and gives you ZERO fuel and is perfectly poisonous. Everything with sugar, for example.
So I say: down with conscious eating! When I eat consciously and to enjoy it, it's highly likely that I will choose a non healthy meal. When I treat food as fuel though, eating healthy becomes much easier (and also fixing food is quicker).
Now depriving yourself of eating with pleasure for ever is not going to work, obviously. And here I will be stealing shamelessly from the amazing Tim Ferriss: he eats "routine" every breakfast and supper, and enjoys his dinners. He also eats for pleasure on saturday, his diet-off-day.
(From Tim Ferriss)
5. Don’t strive for variation—and thus increase option consideration—when it’s not needed. Routine enables innovation where it’s most valuable. In working with athletes, for example, it’s clear that those who maintain the lowest bodyfat percentage eat the same foods over and over with little variation. I’ve eaten the same “slow carb” breakfast and lunch for nearly two years, putting variation only into meals that I focus on for enjoyment: dinner and all meals on Saturdays.Since I'm on the Warrior Diet, I only really eat two meals a day: my fruit shake and dinner. The shake is almost always the same, healthy meets tasty here. No problem. But for dinner I often buy things that aren't really healthy (fake soy meats, white flour pasta). So I should really do a "fuel" diet as a 30 day Trial.
The Fuel Diet
Weekdays: just eat to fuel. This means one or two standard meals that are easy to fix and healthy. Shake (from the Thrive Diet):- Bananas - vitamins and "good" sugar
- Flaxseed/Sesame - healthy fat and a little protein
- Dates - more good sugar and gives great texture
- Almonds - healthy fat and for texture
- 100% pure Cocoa powder - taste and color
- Water - everybody loves water!
- Brown rice - for texture, carbohydrates, a little protein and vitamins
- Beans/lentils - for protein
- Canned tomatoes - to make it soupy and for some vitamins
- A little olive oil/coconut oil - for healthy fat
- [some green vegetable] - more vitamins and nutrients - thinking spinach? Have to try
