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I'm interested in what everyone avoids once they begin dieting for a competition. Joe has discussed certain foods and their nutritive properties despite the labels saying they contain no caloric value. So, what do you decide to leave out or keep in your diets? For example, does anyone completely avoid artificial sweetners? So many supplements (i.e. supercharge, extend, etc) contain them. Dairy? Butter spray? Gum? Diet soda? Fruit? Do tell! |
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Great thread Kori! I'll post again I'm sure: peanut butter, peanuts and other legumes, tree nuts of any sort, rice cakes, hard cheeses, all soft cheeses except for ff cottage cheese, other creams and dairy except for skim milk; dark meat poultry, beef; splenda, aspartame, butter, butter sprays etc, diet soda, apples, nectars, most citrus except grapefruit and lemons, corn, refined flours of any sort, white flours or items made from white flours like pasta, crackers wheat/white bread, cereals etc and baby carrots. oh yeah, ice cream, brownies, popcorn, rice crispy treats, and chocolate, chips, fried foods, fried dough and cheesecake. wow I'm boring.
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Wow Mary...what's left to eat?? I just dropped the spray butter and the artifical sweetners last week. I dropped diet soda's a long time ago since I can't tolerate caffeine. |
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Hi Mary! Thanks for your input... What is your reasoning for some of these foods? p.b.; beef; apples? |
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If its not: Chicken, Tuna, Salmon, Lean Beef, whey/related supps, oats, rice, potatoes, Orange Juice/Fruit, natural peanut butter, or almonds...then I don't eat it. Period. I did eat some Cheerios this last time out, but I doubt I will do that again. I eat bland and basic when dieting. It makes life a lot easier. |
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Oh I know Jane -- but it's nothing I enjoy... or once I start (like peanut butter) it's hard for me to stop -- so I'm better off getting my protein and fat from other sources and I really dont find myself missing peanut butter. Rice cakes are just a high gylcemic blast of energy that's gone too quickly. Personally I prefer something longer lasting -- or if I want quick energy -- I prefer fruit...just me. Tree nuts: Sarah loves pecans and almonds. So I portion them in snack bags for her to take to school. She gets about 6-8 pecans in a bag. Every now and then I'll have a bag of them -- but my throat feels funny afterward (?). She and Dan are not fond of peanut butter, shellfish, nectars or white bread...lots of the same stuff as me on the list. I'm not a pasta fan, so I just cook that particular thing up for Sarah and Dan. It's all good and it works out. I have a lot of turkey, chicken, ostrich, eggs, steamed veggies, oats and rice. Ha..even when I over-eat -- that's the stuff I go for. "That's what I mean by I'm so boring." |
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Kori - Instead of writing what I don't eat...I should have posted exactly the way Sean just posted. That is exactly what I do. I prefer it that way. I fuel myself from one feeding to the next with the appropriate macros. Otherwise I feel weighed down -- or the glucose is gone in a flash--and I can't drive it into the muscle the way I want to. |
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I eat chicken, turkey, fish and shrimp, some beef, egg whites, oatmeal, sweet potatoes, red potatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, zucchini, lettuce, green beans mostly. I ditch the creamer, don't use milk or milk products, splenda, diet coke, no salad dressing (just flax oil/red wine vinegar), nothing processed. I even drop whey about 3 weeks out. I, too, don't take many supplements the last few weeks. I can't say I've ever gotten lean enough to see a big difference with dropping those though.
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Mary ostrich?????? Don't see that in body building diets very often. Are you around a farm?? How does it compare to chx? |
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Hi Bruce - nice results on your diet BTW. Ostrich is leaner, and higher in protein per oz. than most other meats. It's macros for fat are the same as tuna. It's so lean that it over cooks easily. It is a dark looking meat and resembles beef. It tastes closer to beef than to other poultry although it's milder and a tad sweeter than beef. It's less "twangy" than beef, less "gamey" then venison, and not as strong tasting as other birds. I get it from www.blackwing.com Joe turned me on to the idea of ostrich. This farm is all organic - they raise elk, beef, turkey, chicken, bison, lamb as well as ostrich. They feed their animals organic flax seed so the fat the animals do have (which in ostrich is very little) is high in omega. The meat is tested for e-coli and salmonella. |
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As always You are a wealth of info. I'll give it a try |
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Bruce - thanks but I learn from others. I get the ground ostrich burgers, not the ostrich filet mignon or other steaks although I'm sure there very good. Ask Joe too. |
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Mary, I'm curious as to why you drop apples as well. I tend to live on them these days. What about protein bars like Detour? |
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I didn't like their ground ostrich as much as I liked the stuff we got locally a few years back, but since I was their only customer, our lone ostrich farm closed down. Blackwings was drier and harsher tasting. May be a great company, but we tend to find all we need locally.
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My diet is similar to Mary's, but I think hers is more strict; If I'm not mistaken. I never eat or drink: Dairy (except for eggs), sodas, coffee, juices, nectars, artificial sweeteners, granola, protein bars, crackers, pasta, pizza, chips, any fried foods, doughnuts. I'm sure I've forgotten something. When competing I avoid: nuts, rice cakes, beef, butter, crackers, popcorn, corn, beets, carrots, anything with flour, any desserts. I keep it simple:Try to have organic foods. Oats, yams, brown rice, water, protein shakes, chicken, fish, couscous, salads vegetables cherries, figs, Litchees. Sometimes I drink coffee when competing. |
