Does anyone think that eating too "healthy", is actually unhealthy?

[ohashi]

If you don't think it's good to eat properly, then eat shit for a couple of weeks, like you want to - fast food, junk, etc. See if you like that "lifestyle" better.

 

[serbyte]

I agree with you CPA22. If you were skinny and picked on, all you want to do now is get huge. If you were slighly huskier or ugly, you just want to get ripped and look like an underwear model.

 

[sconoscuito]

so far I came to realise that as long as you dont eat after 8pm, dont eat pure junk like mcdonalds and you train your ass off in the gym everything will be just fine

Im in the bball season and tried all them diets that would help me recover better so I can lift too but the only thing that worked is no junk food and hard work... well maybe some junk food on the weekends


if you are stressing out too much and cant sleep at night whats the point?
if your doing this for the girls than all these stress will only bring your game down... thats all I know

 

[serbyte]

Thats what im talking about. I tried that. And what i mean by junk food isnt mcdonalds. Im talking about a meal with a lean steak baked potato and salad will get me fat. Eating even a modreate ammount of carbs makes me gain fat, with the quicks. Im trying to slowely adjust my body right now, but i am getting depressingly fat. I admit i have a complex, and when i am at 12%, i feel like a lard ass, and i feel like shit. What are some ways to help me boost my metabolism, and get me back on track.

 

[thelegacy again]

Thats what im talking about. I tried that. And what i mean by junk food isnt mcdonalds. Im talking about a meal with a lean steak baked potato and salad will get me fat. Eating even a modreate ammount of carbs makes me gain fat, with the quicks. Im trying to slowely adjust my body right now, but i am getting depressingly fat. I admit i have a complex, and when i am at 12%, i feel like a lard ass, and i feel like shit. What are some ways to help me boost my metabolism, and get me back on track.

Man--thats what i call a clean meal--steak and potatoes!!!
Anyways, are you on any type of stimulate fat burner like ephedra? If you are get off for a few months cuz those can slow the metabolism after awhile of usage. During that time off get on a non-stimulate lipotropic fat-burner (a good product is Bio Burners by BiogenicsTNT) and that will help some---let the body get back to the natural state it was in-----this is all considering you use excessive fat burners or diet pills. well good luck man--also flax oil and essential fatty oils can help with fat burning if used properly

 

[silver_shadow]

When i first started working out 3 years ago, i had no clue what i was doing. I knew how to lift, but i was oblivious on how to eat. I basically just kept my diet the same and added more protien to it. I immediatly began taking cell tech, and eating junk and protien. My meals comprised of stuffing myself full of wendys tripple and quadruple stack supersized meals, with a non diet coke. I went from 155 to 173 (168 after water left), at about 12% bf . I stoped the cell tech and kept eating the same way, and without any cardio, i dropped some fat and got down to . Later i skrewed my metabolism by going on a no carb diet and living off of energy pills. Ever since then, i have not been able to eat normal, nor did i want to because i thought that eating healthy for the rest of my life was what i was supposed to do. Now i realize that you cannot live like that, and i will adjust my body to work normal again, eating psudo-healthy and training hardcore.

now that really sucks bro. i keep things simple. eat clean all the time. keep a good intake of carbs and moderate fats while bulking. then reduce the carbs while cutting. don't do away with carbs entirely. u need it especially around ur workout. it's worked for me. maybe how much of proteins,carbs and fats each person needs will vary but that is up to them to find out. i listen to my body to know whether it's really feeling good.

 

[ronmolina]

It depends how you define healthy eating. I find the way people eat on these boards and all the latest diet crazes to be unhealthy eating.

 

[trig1967]

I'd reiterate a point made earlier in the thread in that you have to find what works best for you personally. Some can get away with a less clean diet or more carbs than others can.
But I'd also say that what has helped me the most in the past couple of years is to change my diet every few months. Your body will adapt to whatever you're doing eventually, so after a long time of very low carbs, then increasing your carbs to even a moderate level will make you gain weight (fat, but potentially muscle too).
So here's an idea. Keep your protein moderately high, and increase your carbs also up to a moderately high level (keeping mostly clean) and include some fat (a little bad fat along with the good fat). Then lift like a madman. You'll gain some fat but you should gain some muscle too. Do this for a couple of months. Then as your body starts to adjust to this higher carb/calorie diet, make a big change. Go to a low (though not extremely low) carb, all clean diet and focus more on your cardio. Again, don't do this for too long (8-10 or 12 weeks?) You should be able to lose the fat and break the pattern that your body got into after a long very low carb diet.