The facts on Food

So today I thought I would talk about food and diet. This is one of the most important components of any bodybuilder's or athlete's training. When I think of diet I think of consistency! This words to me describes the basis of a gooooood for you diet. Let me elaborate.

CONSISTENCY
when it comes to your diet, and diet, not meaning lack of food, but rather the selection of foods you intake in a day, it is important to have consistency in many ways including time and choice. In regards to choice, it is important to be consistent with your meal choices. Eating healthy for a day, or a week for that matter, then going through weeks of eating healthy inconsistently will only confuse your body, it will not give you the results you want! Here are some steps to help with consistency!

Step 1 Daily caloric intake
how many calories does your body NEED in a day? for me its around 2000, but you can easily calculate your based on body weight and height. this link will help: (http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm)

Step 2 Food as FUEL
your body needs various nutrients, protients, vitamins, fats, carbs and sugars to survive and maintain health. When you look at food as fuel, you need to consider all of these factors and how you can use food to fill all of these needs. Again every individual needs different amounts according to their lifestyle and body. For me, I have many supplements in my diet, but to me the most important supplements are: fish oil, multivitamin and protien. There are so many benifits from these suppliments, especially if you are an active individual.
Check out these links for more info on the benifits of each!

Fish oil --> (http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/charles2.htm)
multivitamin-->(http://www.bodybuilding.com/store/multi.html)
protien-->(http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/planet38.htm)
    protien can be supplimented, or aquired through various foods such as eggs(whites), fish, chicken, meat

Step 3 Consistency
Now that you understand what you need to be eating and how much its important to make a schedule or a diet plan. Now for basic overall health everything does not have to be the same everyday, for weeks on end, of course this depends on what your goal is. If you just want to clean up your diet, and want results from training use your daily caloric intake along side your daily nutritional needs to find out what foods you should be eating. Not only is the choice important, but the consistency of these choices as well, like we discussed before. Pack a lunch, pre-make food if you are usually busy, and DONT skip meals!

Now that you have your consistency with meal choice down, consistency in the time you eat your food is important as well. Maintaining those levels of sugars, carbs, protiens, fats, ect in your body through out the day is important, so that your body is never deprived of what it needs. This means, small meals through out the day to maintain these levels. For me I eat every 2 hours, and my meals are often a fair size. But, just the idea of eating healthy consistently throughout the day, week, month, year will help your health and with your goals. (http://videos.bodybuilding.com/watch/21521/video-tip-of-the-week-58-jamie-easons-meal-timing-tip)

Here is a great video! -->(http://videos.bodybuilding.com/watch/37831/female-teen-muscle-building-nutrition)

and a good glute workout video just because http://videos.bodybuilding.com/watch/69452/video-article-amanda-latonas-pro-bikini-glute-workout

Enjoy!