Want to stay on a specific eating regimen? Learn how to make the foods taste good
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I had a nice talk with Chef Mary yesterday. She is the head honcho at an exclusive country club and we talked at length about infusing diet foods with taste. Its not hard for a real culinary pro to make innumerable tasty dishes from a few basic ingredients. Give a top chef a piece of fresh flounder and they can prepare it fifteen different ways. Thats important because when trainees swings into a Performance Eating regimen they are faced with a relatively limited menu and imaginative preparation becomes paramount. Performance Eating is different than dieting in the PE supports intense physical activity: weight training and cardio whereas dieting simply lowers the current caloric ceiling. Performance eating requires we provide ample amino acids to accelerate muscle recovery and growth. There are 22 amino acids, some are manufactured by the human body and some not. Those that arent need be obtained from food on a regularly reoccurring basis. The dilemma is to obtain supplemental amino acids from protein sources not laden with saturated fat. There is no sense obtaining our essential amino acids from a piece of prime rib because while the amino acids are the meat these amino come with so much saturated fat that the drawbacks outweigh the advantages. The cure is worse than the malady: a piece of prime rib will derive 60% of its total caloric content from saturated fat.
A gram of fat contains 9-calories and a gram of protein or carbohydrate contains 4-calories. In addition to constricting arterial walls and clogging heart valves, excess calories derived from saturated fat are easily converted in body fat. Lean protein is virtually impossible to end up stored as body fat the conversion process the body must go through in order to store protein in fat storage depots located around the body is so difficult (though not impossible) that the human body will usually use protein amino acids to repair or build new muscle or pass it through in urine of feces. Ditto fibrous carbohydrates it takes as many calories to break down and digest a carrot as the carrot contains. Purposefully Primitive Performance Eating is centered around lean protein and fibrous carbohydrates and this loops us back around to the culinary arts: I dont need a dietician or a medical doctor or a nutritionist to tell me what to eat or how much to eat or when to eat I already know that I need a food pro to tell me how to creatively deal with continually reoccurring ingredients. Show me a dozen ways to prepare a perfect chicken breast, show me how to throw together a vegetable medley or an exceptional garden salad inside ten minutes. Teach me how to bake, broil, saut or poach whatever fresh fish or shellfish is available how do I make a perfect roast turkey? Can flank steak be rendered tender and delicious? Once we have an arsenal of quick recipes that we love, once we are empowered to create our own food without having to depend on others, once we look forward to eating foods that lie safely within the Performance Eating guidelines, physical transformation is not a matter of if but when.
Crazy Joe Divola: Of all the visiting characters on Seinfeld, my favorite is Crazy Joe Divola: got to love a guy who cries listening to opera with his face painted while bench pressing. Anyway, what a lot of folks dont know is Joe Divola is an actual person who was a producer for Seinfeld. Same guy, same name. One day Larry David and Jerry said, Hey, lets work Joe into a show. The gag was amplified by having him keep his real name and play a psycho: I happened to see the episode last night where they originally introduced his character and was struck with this non-actors manic intensity. Perfect casting. Interestingly, my wife and daughter are big fans of Smallville and in the credits one of the producers is, you guessed it, Joe Divola. I think I like his Crazy Joe persona because it reminds me of a training partner I once had. Prior to a workout this guy would sit in a plastic lawn chair at Chaillets Gym with a 100-pound barbell plate in his lap. He would listen to his walkman and stroke the hundred lovingly. After 30-minutes or so he would stand up and pronounce himself ready to lift. I remember once while our friend was going though his pre-lift ritual Chaillet has a couple of civilians come to the front desk to inquire about a membership. Mark was showing them around, making his sales pitch when they wandered by Psycho-killer (quest que se) I was warming up on the adjacent lifting platform and looked over as the wide-eyed business types walked passed the man in the chair stroking the plate Psycho Man happened to look up and caught the eye of the woman. Do you know how people listening to headphones will talk real loud? Psycho had worked himself into such a lather that he had a tear running down one cheek. The gal was wearing a stylish suit and skirt. With a tear-stained face and bug eyes he blurted out at the top of his lungs, YOURE FREAKING HOT! He was shouting over his headphone cacophony and the attractive lawyer-babe literally jumped backwards three feet quite frightened. The guy she was with about peed his pants and Chaillet was typically nonplused, Oh, dont pay him no mind, hes freaking insanecmon let me show you my new leg press machine. Mark lost that sale.
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