Beyond-Brawn-2nd-Edition

YOUR HOW-TO OF PRACTICAL BODYBUILDING NUTRITION
20.94 As important as a mixed diet is for successful weight training, this does not
mean that you should go to extremes and live almost totally on animal foods.
Some bodybuilders and lifters go to this extreme and have very unhealthful
diets as a result.
Beyond food
20.95 If you can mix almost any foods with no negative reaction, continue as you
are. But if you experience digestive tract distress or any negative reactions to
what you eat, this segment will apply to you at least to some degree.
20.96 No matter how nutritious a meal may be on paper, and no matter how well it
may work for someone else, it may not be good for you. If you cannot digest
it comfortably, and if it seems to “sit” in your stomach for the rest of the day,
and you do not get hungry until many hours later if at all that day, then that
meal should not be repeated. rough experimentation, find meals you can
process so that you start to feel hungry within three hours or so of each.
Experiment by changing one variable at a time, altering components and
quantities.
20.97 e timing of the return of your appetite following a meal is likely to be
related to the intensity of your training, and your training days. Following a
meal on the day after training your appetite may return faster than it does
following an identical meal three days after working out. And your appetite
may be slower in returning following a meal in the early stage of a cycle than
late in a cycle.
20.98 Get “in tune” with your stomach. If putting some fruit spread on your toast
at breakfast time delays your digestion of that meal, do not use fruit spread
in that way. If having a drink of milk after a meal hinders the digestion of
that meal, do not have milk with other food. If milk drank by itself well away
from a solid-food meal digests easily, but when you blend in a banana, honey
or peanut butter it becomes difficult to digest, then stop adding things to the
milk. Drink more milk instead. If cucumber or onion in a salad disagrees
with you, eliminate the offending item(s).
20.99 Discover what mixtures and timings of different foods agree and disagree
with you. en organize your feeds so that you only consume combinations
of foods you digest well. If your digestive tract is in a mess, then even eating
only healthful food is not going to help your gains in the gym. It is what you
digest and assimilate that matter, not just what you put in your mouth.
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