| Having a good and healthy diet is something that | | | | cookies. If you really want to have a good diet you |
| plagues millions of Americans across the country. | | | | need to at least moderately keep track of the food |
| In fact, there are very few people who actually have | | | | that you eat. |
| really figured out how to keep and maintain a good | | | | So, for 3 days I want you to keep track of what |
| nutritious diet. | | | | you eat. At the end of the three days, go ahead and |
| Now, I'm not saying that I have a perfect diet, but in | | | | take the average of your caloric intake. Alright, this is |
| my years of lifting and learning and researching | | | | going to be your starting point for your diet. |
| nutrition, I have picked up a thing or two that I think | | | | If you want to lose weight, then take off 500 |
| can help you to keep a good diet. | | | | calories from that number you just came up with. |
| Alright, so the first thing that you should establish is | | | | That's going to be how many calories you eat per |
| what your ideal weight is. Are you currently at your | | | | day now. That will equal out to losing approximately 1 |
| ideal weight? Could you stand to gain a few pounds? | | | | pound a week. |
| Lose a few pounds? Be honest with yourself here, it'll | | | | Conversely, if you want to gain weight, add 500 |
| pay off, trust me. | | | | calories to your diet. Again, about 1 pound a week is |
| So, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most | | | | how much you'll gain. |
| people wouldn't mind losing a little bit of weight. This | | | | From here it's kind of up to you. Use common sense |
| is going to serve as motivation for you, basically, | | | | when you're eating. As a general rule, keep your fats |
| you're going to decide how seriously you want to | | | | and carbs pretty low. Stay away from soda. Fast |
| lose weight, and then we're going to go from there. | | | | food is bad. You know all that stuff though, so it'd be |
| Now, typically here's what I recommend people do to | | | | pointless for me to go in depth about it here. |
| start their diet. The first thing you need to do is | | | | The real ticket to a successful diet is to keep track |
| figure out how many calories you're currently eating. | | | | of what you put into your body. Start doing that and |
| Yes, this will require that you keep note of what | | | | I promise that you'll start losing weight. Or gaining |
| you're eating. If you don't like that, well, tough | | | | weight if that's what you want. |