My experiences with nutrition

Over the next couple of days I’ll share some thoughts I have about nutrition, training and health. Note that these are mostly based on my experience with myself and the reading I’ve done. I don’t claim that it is true or will work for everybody.

Over the years I’ve tried many different nutritional approaches, starting with the typical high-carb, high-protein and low-fat diet, the Warrior Diet and some versions of the Paleo Diet. For me, if nutition was only about low bodyfat it never really mattered what and how much I ate as long as I was active. But over the years I’ve come to the conclusion, that nutrition should first and foremost be about health. In my opinion, everything else (weight, performance,...) will follow if one concentrates on achieving health. I believe that if one achieves a certain degree of health the body will naturally find it’s prefered weight. The rest (like body composition) just depends on your activities.

The last couple of months I experimented with the Paleo Diet, still using some high fat dairy like cream, butter and hard cheeses (so it was more in line with the PaNu approach by Dr. Kurt Harris), which have certain very valuable nutrients like CLA and Vit K2. More over I just love dairy although I can’t overdo it or I will become a mucus producing machine.

I was very excited about all the benefits peolpe seem to experience on this kind of low carb diet and was also kinda scared about the performance drop in the beginning, when the body switches from mainly carb fuel to fat fuel. Honestly, nothing really happened except that I didn’t get that carb related afternoon tiredness most get on high carb diets, but I was already used to that because of the Warrior Diet. Of course, my nutrition was already quite close to the paleo approach, so I guess, people with a bad diet will experience more drastic changes.

I’ve also found out that, in terms of food timing, I have a natural tendency to follow the Warrior Diet approach, having one big meal at night. BUT the big difference is that I don’t make a religion out of the undereating. If I want to have more during the day, I will not think twice about it. For me, this is the freedom Ori Hofmekler talks about ion his book. I’m sure that this will be very different for every single person, as some do better with a bigger breakfast, some can’t sleep with too big of a dinner and so on. This is highly individual, so please don’t buy into that garbage that we are all meant to do this or that. In the end it has to work for you and make you happy, not the pockets of some salesmen ;)

This was just a very general overview. In the next days I will post more specific topics, starting with my view on grains. Btw, if anyone has question on my exact dietary habits, feel free to ask. ;)