Do you want to build muscle or get lean?
If you want to “slim & trim” cut the bread out, minimize the pasta & noodles, or up the cardio. It’s one or the other. Now, you can make deals with yourself; wheat bread better than white, portion control is a HUGE deal! Eat more rice, instead of pasta, then, try to go w/ brown rice. Tortillas are better than bread as well. Now, I get being hungry & needing calories, BUT no matter what your size or goals, one needs to eat “more smaller meals” throughout the day! Eat breakfast (most important meal of the day!) then 2 hours later, a snack; apple, unsalted almonds, banana, yogurt etc. Then lunch; eat a huge chicken salad, it will fill you up. Have a side of brown rice, eat 2 chicken breasts, or fish. Since you’re eating more often, you will not need to eat as much at “lunch”. 2 hours later have another snack; protein bar, piece of fruit, almonds, veggie sticks, etc. Then it’s dinner; same thing, try not to intake many carb’s, fill up on “good fuel” - ‘Want to be lean - Eat CLEAN!”
Really, pick that which you want to be and then be that; make decisions accordingly. Do you want to be “comfortable”? Do you want to be more muscular? Or do you want to be lean? Pick one. Then, work backwards to “what & how” to achieve said goal.
Trust me, I try to eat when I am not hungry; not that hungry, eat a little, not that hungry, eat a little. Then you don’t starve yourself, you won’t binge & you won’t “crave” - we always crave salty/carby foods. If you’re not too hungry & you crack open a tin of tuna & throw some mustard & almonds on it, wash it down w/ 16 oz. of water, trust me, you’ll get full. You cut up 2 chicken breasts & put it on a big salad, with some veggies that you like, balsamic vinaigrette dressing, you’ll be full, plus you are snacking in between.
This will take planning; “Fail to plan, plan to fail”. This will take “effort” - “Deem yourself worthy of this effort!” Lastly, repetition is the key to everything, the more frequently you do anything, the more comfortable you get, the better you get at it & the easier it becomes.
“7 days to instill a habit. 21 days to break one”
It’s weird, but you need to look at “what you are going to eat” & ask yourself, (ie. pasta) where on your body, do you want that? Look at food & ask yourself, “How is this going to make me look & feel?” If it’s a good answer, eat! If it’s bread, you don’t want that bread “on your belly or booty” & it isn’t going to do anything for your body as far as fuel, it will only fill you up! You could put “jelly” in your gas tank, your gas gage might read “full” but I doubt your car runs very long! Efficient fuel burns more efficiently, thus, one has to up the amount of good fuel, because it burns faster! Take pro body builders (not what we want, I know, just a good example) they lift, then eat, then rest, then lift then eat then rest. They have to eat so often to keep caloric intake up, to maintain energy needed to workout hard enough to build muscle, but they don’t want, or need, bad fuel.
- tjd
Consistency & Frequency…
Make your world go round.
