The essence of a good diet...

For too long now, my diet has been poor. I admittedly can't resist sweets. From now on however, my diet is going to improve. Completely.

I'm going to stick with myfooddiary. Eliminate all of the shit out.

-Balance 5smaller meals a day.
-More water.
-Eat more greens.
-Eat more nuts.
-No more dairy.
-No fried foods.
-Nothing with flour or pastries. Bye bye pies and pasties.
-No complex carbs after lunch-time.
-No carbs at all after dark.

Anyway, I've found this great article. I'm going to follow this:

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These I've found work very well for me and are based off a variety of sources

*Vibrating with Health Principles*

11 Gifts to Give Yourself

1. Emotionally Free and eating to nourish - this means that you can direct your mind in such a way that you experience positive emotions most of the time in your day to day life. This means that you won't be turning to food as a state change, nor will you turn to food as often. It requires a lot of work but then you treat food as secondary source of nourishment
   
2. Proper breathing - you'll die in 30 days without food, 7 days without water, and a few minutes without breath. So, which do you feel is most important. Take time throughout the day to breath properly. If you're stressed breathe properly rather than reach for food, and watch how you're craving for food will go away. Reason is because eating a lot of food puts food in your gut and makes you breath diaphramatically.
   
3. Adequate Hydration - you wake up in the morning, and feel hungry. It's probably not hunger, it's usually dehydration. We all know the importance, but few people actually follow it...regularly.
   
4. Go green LIVE - read the pH Miracle, but essentially most all food we eat acidic (bad) for the body. Blood is the river of life, so eating live green foods will actually get rid of a lot of acidity plus green foods have a higher energy frequency. You get two bonuses alkalinity plus energy. In the morning, have water with green powder. Then, make sure to have salads throughout the day.
   
5. Oil Up - You'll experience the immediate side-effects of this too. As soon as it enters your body, you'll feel more vibrant and awake. That's because it has a host of benefits that compile to make you feel better. Choose Organic Flax Oil and/or Fish Oil.
6. Proper meal timing and amounts - seen way too many fat vegetarians and vegans, so I know this principle is in effect big time to build a great body. 2 Things first, eat every three hours. We all know this. Second, eat to a level 7 on your own "fullness" scale. If you skip a meal, don't eat to like a level 11 to make-up. So crucial and don't believe what any health enthusiast tells you that you don't have to follow this if you're eating health.
7. Proper digestion - When you eat proteins, your body secretes one digestive enzyme. It secretes other digestive enzymes when you digest carbohydrates. Way too often in the American diet, we like to combine carbs and protein, mean and potatoes, fish and chips, burger and fries. Thing is that this will take digestion from three hours to seven hours and literally zap your energy. To combat this, you need to take digestive enzymes every time you combine protein and carbs. If you don't have any, then you need to eat how some of the healthiest civilizations eat -- concentrated food + vegetables. For example, fish + steamed vegetables + salad OR baked potato + steamed vegetables + salad. Also fruit alone as it digests suppppppppper fast and will ferment if you eat it with other foods.
   
8. Healthy Protein consumption - I tried to eat no protein and lost 20 lbs (and I wasn't fat), so I don't recommend cutting out protein out of your diet. I have also seen a lot of people who don't eat that much protein and I'm not impressed. I recommend eating protein but chose healthy proteins, organic meats and wild fish. Avoid whey protein as it is just as bad as milk.
9. Aerobic Endurance - we all know this, and there are many different types. High intensity, low intensity. Point is that you find something you like to do and do it for your cardio. I like elliptical trainers and i can watch tv. an ideal heartrate for moderate intensity cardio is 180 - your age. For example, say your 24. Your target heartrate would be 156 as your upper limit. And the lower limit is 170-age. So 170-24 is 146. So you want to warm up down in the 110-120 for 10 minutes then for 20-40 minutes go at 146-156. And yes, it may seem slow, but it is the most effective. The Kenyans are some of the fastest runners in the world, and they spend a lot of time in the build phase (which is essentially this type of training) only shortly before a competition do they do higher intensity stuff. It surprised me too.
10. Maximum Strength. For both sexes, especially guys, you want to have a great looking physique not only one that feels great. So, find a weight routine that works well, some like static contraction, body for life has a great program as does shawn phillips' absolution. In addition, i love anything from Tom Venuto. Find something that you like and judge your performance by your level of exertion rather than how sore you feel. I've done the whole soreness thing, and it can drive you crazy. I've also grown when i didn't feel soreness.
11. Light Supplementation - this is last, but still important. Food-based multi-vitamins, probiotics (healthy bacteria), vitamin b, antioxidants (Vitamins A, C, and E.)
    

AVOID THESE POISONS

1. emotional eating of any kind (even healthy foods) - you can overeat almonds and it can be detrimental to you health. Your digestive system is still going to have to work overload to process this food. Avoid this at all costs.
   
2. acid addictions -- alcohol, cigarettes, coffee, wine, sweets. You know these are bad for you despite what antioxidants it has, that's just a push from these corporations to get you to view it as a healthy food. Like wine manufacturers have done a great job and getting people to think that a glass of wine a day is good for you, and neglect to tell you all the harm it will do on your blood stream, your kidneys, and your general health levels. If weed had antioxidant properties, would it make sense to smoke some up everyday. Use common sense. If you do it, do it maybe once a week and follow the other health principles. Don't take a day off where you "relax" and let your standards slip. Instead, do all the other things that you know are healthy.
3. pasturized dairy - anytime i take any dairy, it gives me massive amounts of mucus and i used to have allergies. Not anymore. My allergies used to be so bad that i had to take medication for it. i don't take dairy anymore and don't have any of these problems. Anytime i have any dairy -- cheese, yogurt, anything. It acts up. Some can tolerate it, but in general i think that you should avoid it.
4. unhealthy oils - for a while i was eating salads, but not feeling very energized. Then a health coach of mine told me to get rid of processed oil (canola, corn oil, safflower oil) any of these are terrible as they essentially run bleach through the oil so that it separates it. i found that once i stopped using salad dressings that had these in them, and used instead oils like olive for my salads or coconut for cooking. i feel wonderful. Do some research on them, and you'll find out that canola oil is actually rapeseed oil but they renamed so you'd buy more and that they want you to think that it's a healthy oil when people get sick off these oils all the time.
5. unhealthy animal products or byproduct - you know that the beef from McDonald's is no good. Go to meetyourmeat.com if you really want to find out. Move up in the world and start incorporating more organic meats and wild fish and organic eggs. If you're at a restaurant, and the menu is looking bland (don't go with the chicken as it is usually very low quality) instead get one of the fish. If you're at a good restaurant ask them if it's wild, because the more people that ask the more likely they will be to get it. More and more restaurants are increasing the quality of the products they carry, but it will only happen if demand increases as they are in business to make a profit.
   
6. grains - GRAINS are fed to hogs to fatten them up. A lot of diets are now advocating that you avoid it. My concern is what it does to your system too as they generally pollute your blood stream. If you have to have brain, look for sprouted grains which are a better alternative. Even then, you'll feel better once you eliminate them. The whole carbohydrate addict came from grains, not from other carb sources like fruit, potatoes. When was the last time you saw someone saying, dude, i can't stop eating rice and/or baked potatoes. Never. It's all things like sandwiches, chips, crackers, cookies, cereal -- these are all grains. Fuck whole grains. They're just trying to make it look like a healthy alternative. I say avoid these. If you're going to have grains, have sprouted grains!
   
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And I'm back. I'm definitely beyond a shadow of a doubt following this from now on.

Hopefully, by posting this I can really manifest this into my life... and it'll carry on well into 2008.


-Michael