When I write a diet for a person the first question I ask is, “What do you want to eat?”
I don’t care what goes into a client’s diet. It’s not my diet. I don’t eat the clients food. I eat my food. Chosen by me. So I let the client choose what they want to eat.
To an extent I’m also not particularly fussed with what’s “healthy” or not. What is “good” or not.
The best diet in the world with the best ingredients is still useless if it isn’t followed.
So I say pick foods you actually want to eat.
So long as I can make the foods work with the ratios of protein, carbs and fats and the calories I’m after, I do not care what goes in.
I have put ice cream into diets. I have put chocolate in. I have put all kinds of stupid foods that people crave and need to make their life continue. Do I agree with 99% of them? Hell no. I think its the height of stupidity to eat ice cream and chocolate if you’re trying to get lean. Especially when eating ice cream and chocolate is what made the person fat to begin with. But once again, it’s not my diet.
All I ask is they eat the same food every day for 7-14 days and then lets measure what the chosen foods have done. If it’s a good result, cool keep doing it. If it’s a bad result, because the same foods have been consistently eaten over that 7-14 day period, we know the problem is in there somewhere, so we can make a change.
Little tip : choosing foods that have a very strong flavour is a really good way of getting sick of something in a few days. That really strong sauce you like gets really old when you have it multiple times per day. More bland tasting foods, while they may seem boring in comparison to highly seasoned foods, are usually a lot easier to eat over a long period of time.
An effective diet is a consistent one. Just like training, find what works and stick to it.
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