2) Skip sugars. They will make you hungry. Especially skip fruit, since the fructose can bypass normal carb metabolic processes to jack up your insulin even more. They feed rats fructose-only diets in labs when they want to create a diabetic state to test new diabetes drugs.

3) Avoid wheat & dairy. While folks may not be text-book “allergic” to them, many have an intolerance to some degree or another. Dairy has both lactose (sugar in milk) and casein (protein), both of which tend to screw up many people who are not some type B or AB blood. Wheat gluten is a wonderful substance that can desensitize your body to its own insulin, thus making your body crank out more insulin which can cause more hunger and fat storage. There’s a reason body-builders eat lean chicken and rice, not lean chicken and bread.

4) Skip the processed fats…including oils. Yes, olive oil, peanut oil, etc … even cold-pressed, they could still be considered “processed”, since just like fruit juice they’ve been distilled from their natural state. Eat natural, good fats, like real nuts, and, yes, eggs…whole eggs. Egg yolk is chock full of nutrients, and many body builders consider it natural steroids since the cholesterol in it alleviates your body from having to make its own. When trying to lose weight / cut-up, don’t scarf down a ton of whole eggs or nuts. 1-2 eggs a day, or a handful of nuts spread out over the day works fine. Eat your fat with your protein meal, since protein will release glucogon which is a fat mobilizng substance.

5) Only drink purified drinking water or distilled water. I don’t mean bottled “spring” water…no, I’m talking about water that’s been run through reverse osmosis, UV radiation, heat distillation, etc. “Drinking” water versions of this are merely distilled water that’s had some minerals added back. Why do this you ask? Because normal water has fluoride in it. Contrary to what the ADA has been brain-washing you with, Fluoride does not make strong bones and teeth. Fluoride causes bones to increase in density, but become more brittle, hence elderly people having more hip fractures. It was also used to treat HYPER-thyroidism until it was deemed too toxic to do so. Yes, Fluoride shuts downs your thyroid. And yet we dump this crap in our drinking water. It’s dumped so it’ll “optimially” fluoridate the water, but because many foods use water to make their end result (cooking, baking, etc), fluoride can get concentrated in many food items. Cut the fluoride from your drinking water. Likewise, the UV radiation used to purify distilled/drinking water also kills off germs and bacteria that sometimes slip through municipal water conditioning and can cause problems in some folks.

6) Vegetalbes suck. Cooking them sucks. And it takes time. So, to cut down on excuses like “it take to long to cook them”, buy those flash-frozen, steam-in-the-bag veggies in the freezer ailse. Don’t get the ones that have extra crap added (like Asian Medley)…just gut the plain-old veggies. Nuke them in the microwave for 5 minutes and you have the base for a good meal. Top it with protein+ fat or carb, add some seasoning, and you have your meal.

7) Work-out while watching TV or playing video games. Ok, so you don’t want to be a body-building gym rat that hits the sweaty gym 2 hours a day. You can go home and zone out in front of the TV, or you can work-out while watching TV. Do isometric exercises while watching TV. Do Tabata Cardio (like squat thrusts, etc.). My fave is to play an online FPS game, and every time I die I do a set of exercises. By the time I’ve played for 2 hours, I’ve pretty much done a whole body work-out. You don’t have to have a gym membership, and you don’t have to be a gym rat to look good.

Sometimes eating protein and eating healthy sucks. Well, if you’re like me and are “all business” when at work, keep being “all business” at lunch and stick to your diet. Stop going out with friends and pissing away tons of money at restaurants. Instead, crack open a couple cans of tuna and chow down under a shade tree. Good tuna is about $1.50 / can (for good, solid-pack albacore, not that mushy crap). $3 for some lunch. Can’t beat that.

9) Getting back to eggs…try eating them raw. Raw yolk is better since it hasn’t been denatured by heat. You can separate out the whites and cook the whites if you choose. Folks who have stomach issues with cooked eggs maybe surprised to find they can handle raw eggs just fine. Salmonella can be a risk, but eat a clove of garlic (raw) at the same time. Garlic is nature’s panacea, and will cure almost anything.