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So here’s the scenario. You leave the house by 6:30 am. You’re on the move all day – meetings, presentations, etc. How do you find the time to eat right? How do you find the time to burn fat?

That’s the question we all have, right? At least that is the question I get from readers on a weekly basis.

Here’s a sample of the solution. What you see in the picture is how I make eating multiple times during a busy day work. On the right of image you’ll see a bag of white powder – don’t call the ATF, it isn’t what you think .  That is my workout nutrition. Below that is a metabolic drive bar and some almond slivers (Meal 2) which I can eat literally walking from one place to the next.

Below that is an apple and some protein powder. I’ll combine that with some pistachios that I keep at my desk for another really quick meal. For breakfast I’ll have a meal similar to the fat burning breakfast I posted previously.  the other meal that I’ll have today (not shown) was made, portioned, and frozen on Sunday) consists of pork loin, brown rice, salsa, spinach, chickpeas, and olive oil.

What I have just outlined is 1. Easy to do 2. Doesn’t take a lot of your time and 3. Will help you burn fat.

What are you waiting for?

What are some things that you do to make your nutrition fit into a busy schedule (post’em below).

Low Carb Diet Foods That You Should Be Eating

With the explosion in popularity of low carbohydrates diets, low carb diet foods have become very popular as well. This has brought some good and bad foods to the market. While I could go on and on about the bad ones (i.e. low carb chocolate), today I wanted to talk about two great “regular” foods that have gone low carb.

I’m talking about Heinz One Carb Ketchup and Hood Calorie Countdown milk (Chocolate is my favorite). First let’s look at One Carb. As innocent as ketchup looks it always contains a nice dose of added sugar – high fructose corn syrup in regular ketchup and usually cane sugar if you spring for the organic stuff. One Carb is different. Instead of the standard 5-8 grams of carbs per serving as the name states One Carb has just 1 gram of carbs. It is sweetened with splenda so you don’t feel like you are eating tomato paste but it isn’t overboard sweet. I recommend that even people that aren’t on a low carb diet check out One Carb ketchup as it is a great way to cut out unnecessary calories from sugar from an unlikely source.

 

Next up is Calorie Countdown Milk. When Hood first released this onto the market it was called “Carb Countdown.” Apparently branding this product as a low carb product wasn’t working for Hood as they switched the name. Fortunately they didn’t mess with the formula. Chocolate Carb…sorry CALORIE Countdown Milk has only 5 grams of carbs per 1 cup serving compared to 30 grams per serving as seen in some brands and 12 grams as found in regular milk. Not only did Hood remove the added sugar from choco-lating the milk (yes, I made that word up) they also removed some of the naturally occurring sugars in milk (lactose). This is good news not only for low carbers but people afflicted with lactose intolerance (myself included). This stuff is goooood. Now, Hood isn’t exactly giving this milk away as it is more in the price range of organic milk but even if your grocery budget doesn’t allow for a weekly half gallon of this chocolate food science masterpiece you’ll definitely want to treat yourself every so often to glass.

As Frank the Tank so delicately put it “When it hits your lips it’s just so good”. Seriously, you’ll feel like you’re cheating on your diet but you’re definitely not. Again as with One Carb Ketchup even if you aren’t a low carber this should make it into your nutritional rotation.

Reader QnA – Cottage Cheese

Q: I just have a quick question about cottage cheese.  I really like the stuff however I find it doesn’t sit well with me.  I currently am using a 4% one.  Would you recommend I try the lower % fat cheese since it may be the fat content that’s causing me difficulties with digestion?

Mike: The problem here is most likely the lactose (a carbohydrate found in dairy products) and not the fat in the cottage cheese. I would look for the Lactaid brand cottage cheese or cottage cheese that contains live cultures (Cabot is a brand that does).

Lactaid cottage cheese will contain lactase the enzyme responsible for digesting lactose and thus will most likely help relieve your symptoms.

If you buy cottage cheese that contains live cultures the bacteria can help digest the lactose and make the cottage cheese easier on your system.

Fat in 2008? It isn’t your fault Part 2

Yesterday we ended with the following…

Let’s recap so far.

1. People eat away from their homes more than ever.

2. People are terrible at estimating the caloric value of foods.

How does that make you being overweight not your fault?

….you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to find out

Many of you may be wondering where I’m going with this. Here we go.

Restaurants and other foods serving places (those are places that call themselves restaurants but their food is so bad they shouldn’t fall into the “restaurant” category) have begun to do something very sneaky. In an effort to boost taste, flavor, and perceived value they have figured out ways to cram inordinate amounts of calories into “normal” looking foods.

This results in our inability of judge caloric value of foods even MORE detrimental to our health especially when you couple this with the fact that people eat out more than ever. Here are some really good examples (courtesy of Men’s Health):

Ruby Tuesday’s Turkey Bella Burger - Turkey burger. Must be healthy right? It even has portabella mushrooms. It also has almost 1200 calories! 1200 calories!!!! Are they serious? when should a burger ever have 1200 calories? Seriously, give me an example, Ruby?

Massive Burritos – There is a whole crop (crop or crap?) of Franchises popping up that serve massive burritos. I recently spoke with a friend of mine who opted for the lower calorie version (no rice or beans). It still ended up being ~800 calories!!!

Here’s another one

Boston Market Rotisserie Chicken (Dark Meat), Sweet Potato Casserole, and Market Chopped Side Salad - Good? Only to the tune of 1400 calories.

While I know that one would not call these items low calorie but I doubt anyone would guess that they are such high calorie. Also, I am not about giving people excuses for carrying around overweight. Poor eating and lack of exercises are the two main reasons and you have control over those things. But you may not have known about the insane caloric inflation that is going on at restaurants across the country.

But now you know.

You have not excuse for the extra fat around your midsection anymore (well you never did but it made a good title).

Have a great weekend (and be skeptical about caloric values when you eat out)

-Mike

Fat In 2008? It isn’t Your Fault

How about that?

Let’s say you’re a little overweight. Maybe you’re more than a little overweight.

Good news…it isn’t you fault.

Seriously. I’ve been thinking about this a bunch over the past week or so. What do people do more today than ever? Other than sit on their rear end.

Eat out.

People are always eating on the go.

We also know from studies done decades ago (some before I was even born!), that people don’t do a very good job of estimating the caloric value of foods. Let’s be honest. People are TERRIBLE at looking at a food, saying “Yeah that’s about 257 calories.”, and being accurate. So next time you look at that heaping spoon full of peanut butter and say “That’s about 2 tablespoon.”

STOP before suck down what is really ¼ cup.

Let’s recap so far.

1. People eat away from their homes more than ever.

2. People are terrible at estimating the caloric value of foods.

How does that make you being overweight not your fault?

….you’ll have to wait until tomorrow to find out

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