good eating guide

Only Natural

How clean do you really eat?

Reading this you have obviously got to be concerned with your health. I personally got into bodybuilding, not only to build myself up but also to be healthy. When I first took up a barbell, I said to my Dad ‘I want to still be training when I am 70 years old’ and I still think that to this day.

Along with my new life of working out came the health conscious diet. Out of the window went sweets, fish and chips, pizzas and other foods kids like. I must have driven my Dad mad! From 16 years old I dropped them all like a bad habit.

Clean eating has got to be the way for a health conscious individual. If it’s gains you want, you have to put in the best possible nutrients. Half measures will just not do! I am not saying live like a monk and never have these things, but keep it to a minimum. Once a week a cheat meal will not do you any harm, but rubbish foods 2-3 times a week will. You will not look your best or perform your best. To top that, you will also be wasting your time in the gym. If you are really serious about your gains, the way you look and your health in the future – read on.

Just what is healthy clean eating?

For a start you must eat foods in as natural a state as possible. Tinned foods are out, they have been in tins for so long they have lost all their nutritional value. Most of them contain preservatives, and sugar and salt, which you just don’t need. Keep away from processed meats, and high fat meats like lamb, pork, mince and other like rubbish.
Keep away from sugar loaded cereals, also supermarket bread is way out, so many chemicals, salt, sugar and preservatives, you would be better eating the bag! Even chicken, meat and fish in supermarkets is a high volume food, mass-produced and loaded with drugs and crap, and low in nutritional value.
It seems like I’m giving supermarkets a bad rap here. They are fine for normal people, but for the health conscious who want to look their best, they are not tops.

Some supermarkets do have organic sections and this for us is ideal. The nutritional value of our food has got to be very high. It’s not what you eat, its what you digest that counts. All these other substances in food just inhibit absorption, so you have to eat more to get the same value and therefore load yourself with more rubbish not to mention harmful toxins. Just now you are probably thinking ‘what the heck can I eat?’
You can eat tons of foods that taste better and are better for you.

Tracey Abbott

Organic foods.
Buy organic breads, yoghurt, cheese, oats, fruit and vegetables. They may cost a little more but will do you so much more good.

Eat only free-range eggs; normal eggs are very low in nutrients and are not worth eating. The hens are fed rubbish and never ever see daylight and are artificially made to lay eggs. Free range ones live outside, eat real food and lay eggs naturally and they are therefore so much more nutritious.

Try goats milk. Again it is not mass-produced, it has a better protein content and is more digestible - it has more vitamins and minerals plus tastes tons better.

Organic Live yoghurt is much better for you than yoghurts loaded with sugar and preservatives. It also puts bacteria back into your stomach to aid in digestion of other foods.

Free-range meats – you already know what rubbish they feed hens. Get free-range meat. It tastes so different and is so much better.

Fruit and vegetables - buy them organic or from a small fruit and veg shop that deal with smaller numbers. They will be much fresher. Cook them very little to keep in nutrients.

Drink plenty of bottled water to keep your system clean and working at top notch. You may think all this will be expensive. I promise you it is not when you stop buying all those little treats. You actually SAVE money! Are you not worth the best materials?

Tracey Abbott