I’m on holiday this week and have set up the blog to provide you with some reading in my absence. However, that does mean a bonus blog-watch rather than the usual Wednesday article. I’ve often mentioned that I follow a low-carbohydrate diet. I find it helps me to control my figure and was, to a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Diet'
Blog-watch: low-carbohydrate diets
March 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Diet
Tags:Carbohydrate·Diet·Paleo diet
Raw food
March 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Diet
After listening to several radio interviews with Randy Roach, a personal trainer who eats a raw food diet, and starting to read a book that argues the case for human evolution being closely related to, and dependent on cooking our food, I’ve become fascinated by the raw food debate. What does a raw food diet [...]
Tags:Cookery·Diet·Meat·menstrual cycle·Muscle gain·Raw food·weight loss·Women
Lessons learned: low-carb diet for endurance exercise
March 8th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Diet, Training
Two things happened over the last fortnight to get me thinking about whether it is beneficial to convert to being low-carb if you are an endurance athlete. The first was a question on one of my old posts from someone who wanted to know how I dealt with the problem of being glycogen starved while [...]
Workout nutrition: protein, fat or carbohydrate?
March 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Diet, Training
Last week I wrote about the timing of workout nutrition, concluding that pre-workout nutrition is vital to athletic performance and improvements to this performance. However, there’s also debate on the content of the nutrition. I’ve set out below various parts of the debate so that you can reach your own conclusions. Pre workout nutrition A [...]
Tags:Diet·Muscle gain·Training·weight loss·Workout nutrition
Lessons learned: wheat withdrawal and emotional eating
March 1st, 2010 · No Comments · Diet, Psychology
It’s been a tough week for my body. It’s been abused, poisoned and wrecked. It’s been a tough week for my mind and emotions. They’ve been mangled, tested to the extreme and been found wanting. What happened At the start of the week I ate a large, gooey piece of cake. A friend was celebrating [...]
Blog-watch: gut health and fermented foods
February 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Diet, Training
I tried an experiment the other week. I had half a cabbage left over from the tuna coleslaws when I was staying away from home on business, so I thought that this would be the time to try making sauerkraut. It is meant to be very easy to make and I have Mark Sisson to [...]
Tags:Diet·Fermented food·Gut health
Workout nutrition: timing
February 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Diet, Training
The issue of workout nutrition, including how much to have, what to have and when to have it, seems to be cause for extended and heated debate in the fitness industry. Recently a couple of things have got me thinking about the timing of my pre and post workout nutrition. The first was a series [...]
Tags:Diet·Muscle gain·Training·weight loss·Workout nutrition
Selecting your carbohydrate source
February 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Diet, Training
As promised last week, this week I am doing a series of three posts to provide some more in depth information about three key nutrition areas that I have tried to target in the improvements to Chris’s diet: Omega 3 and 6 ratio Acid-base balance Different carbohydrate sources I’m explaining why these are areas to [...]
Tags:Carbohydrate·Diet·Glucose·Muscle gain·Training·Workout nutrition
Acid-base balance
February 17th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Diet
As promised last week, this week I am doing a series of three posts to provide some more in depth information about three key nutrition areas that I have tried to target in the improvements to Chris’s diet: Omega 3 and 6 ratio Acid-base balance Different carbohydrate sources I’m explaining why these are areas to [...]
Omegas 3 and 6 – getting the correct ratio
February 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Diet
As promised last week, this week I will be doing a series of three posts to provide some more in depth information about three key nutrition areas that I have tried to target in the improvements to Chris’s diet: Omega 3 and 6 ratio Acid-base balance Different carbohydrate sources I’ll be explaining why these are [...]
