Topic: Recommendation for a more healthy lifestyle

[albinoboy]

I think my current diet could use improvements and I am wondering where to start.

Gracias.

[Johnny Boy]

it would help if you told us what your current diet is.

[albinoboy]

Im looking for general suggestions in hopes of eliminating Fatty and sugar-filled foods from my diet completely. I want to know what I can replace them with.

[Kiba]

Apples, Oranges, fruits in general, water, low fat candy bars, ect. btw if you want to cut down on general meal mass drink alot more water, in most americans the thirst senses are so low, most people think they're hungry when they're really thirsty.

[Gearsighted]

Please drop the low-fat idea, it's crap, and unhealthy. Low-fat candy bars? So you should survive on pure refined sugar!

Base your diet around lean protein, lots of vegetables, nuts, seeds and healthy oils (olive, canola, avacados etc.) fewer fruits, little starch (bread, potatoes...limit or exclude them completely) and no sugar.

Eat 5-7 meals spread evenly throughout the day, each balanced with a bit of each of those elements. Kiba was right about the water though, drink as much as you can tolerate. You could easily get away with a gallon a day!

[The Manilla Gorilla]

little starch (bread, potatoes...limit or exclude them completely)

Gear you always are bad mouthing the potatoe! How come, or is it just you inner Dan Qualye Biases

[Gearsighted]

Potatoes are low in overall nutrition and are so entirely carbohydrate dense (and hi-glycemic-index carbs, at that) that your body sees them as nothing but pure sugar. There is really no nutritional reason to eat them.

And to have a Dan Quayle bias you'd have to spell it "potatoe" like you just did. Potato is singular, potatoes is plural

[The Manilla Gorilla]

touche gear touche indeed

[LCTDeuce]

One of my frat buddys who's dad is a nutritional coach at my University said that optimally I should drink a gallon of water for every hundred pounds of body weight. What do you think about that? I already probably drink a gallon or more a day... but I could step it up a notch.

[Gearsighted]

I've heard a ton of recommendations, but the one I like the best is around one ounce per pound of bodyweight. According to this, I try to get around 170 oz a day, or around 1 1/3 gallon. This all depends on your activity level, etc. but I would assume that if you're dedicated to Parkour and supplemental training, this should be a good minimum (not counting anything else you drink during the day)