Originally Posted by
calv
For real, man. What sucks is that now I know I should cut out all of the bull**** but sometimes it's hard to cut out things cold turkey. Might break down and binge eat. Luckily soda and alcohol is almost gone from my life, and I'm introducing a lot more healthy options now that I really want to be in shape to ride at the velodrome.
I quit drinking sodas years ago but I did it in steps. It took about two weeks of drinking diet coke before I was used to the taste. Then, regular Coke was too sweet. A year later, I just quit drinking sodas altogether. Now, I might mix a little fruit juice(with no added sugar) to some club soda.
I gave up fast food years ago, too and do not miss it at all.
I try to avoid vegetable oils and instead use butter, olive oil, coconut oil, and lard. Bacon grease for cornbread and cooking kale and collards.
Cutting out sugar is HARD. No doubt about it. I still have chocolates now and then. But if there's no ice cream in the house, I'm fine. I used to always have several flavors in the icebox. I've discovered that I can drink espresso and Lungo coffee at my desk at work without sugar but the coffee at home from the Mr. Coffee desperately needs it. I try to substitute almond milk instead. It is not the same.
And those damn potato chips. Can't eat just one handful; must go for the kill on the entire bag. Those are terrible for you. Sugar and omega-6 to the max. blech. But they taste so good. I won't buy them myself but if my wife does, they are worse than crack.
I eat Greek yogurt with raisins. We get grass fed beef from our son-in-law's farm. I grow a lot of vegetables in the backyard organically; just had a big mess of kale(cooked in the bacon grease saved from Sunday morning) last night.
I learned to cook when it was just me and my dad. If I wanted to eat, I had to cook. When I was a poor student in New Orleans, I learned to cook cheaply. Red beans and rice would last for days and I could eat on a whole chicken for several meals, the carcass finally being used for chicken soup and stock.
You guys that aren't yet 30, your metabolism WILL slow down. You don't believe it anymore than I did when I heard that from all the old fat people but it WILL happen. It is depressing to know that you used to eat 8,000 calories of whatever you wanted every single day and couldn't gain an ounce and now just looking at food makes you gain weight. So just be ready for it.