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On Saturdays, when you have no work and all the time in the world to run around outside or go swimming or climbing or even bike riding, what is it that you eat? Well, what you eat is what you are.
Or at least that is the common idiom. It means that what you are ingesting composes what you are made of, not that you literally are a fish if you eat a fish.
It is plainly obvious that it is not a literal statement, but a lot of people do not know how true it really is. When we eat we are taking the nutrients from our foods and replenishing out bodies with them.
Our stomachs break them down and our intestines begin to metabolize them. There the different nutrients are sent throughout the body through the circulatory system, carried by the blood to all the different tissues and organs in our body.
So every single part of our body is affected by what we eat. It is something we all subconsciously know but it is very seldom that we actually think about it in such terms.
What you eat and what is right for you to eat depends on a few different factors: your size, your metabolism, and how active you are. For average height, regular weight, generically normal white caucasian like myself eating around 2500 calories is about normal.
So what I do in the morning, for substance and protein to keep me energized all day, is eat eggs with bacon on whole wheat bread, perhaps with a yogurt to get my metabolism boosted and to a good start. This wakes me up and prepares me for my routine morning workout.
Then come lunch time I will eat a nice salad and fish combination. The salad usually has a load of broccoli, carrots and onions with a light raspberry dressing on only spinach sometimes mixed greens.
This is where I get my vitamins and minerals, which unfortunately many people do not get enough of. If veggies are not readily accessible to you then you might try getting those v8 juice drinks; they are an excellent veggie substitute.
The fish is a salmon that is fried and then placed on garlic feta cheese. Salmon is full of wonderful brain boosting nutrients and some lean protein as well to further increase strength and energy both physical and mental.
Around eight o'clock is when I eat dinner. It is recommended you eat at least three hours before bed, so you can get the bulk of the digestion done.
I usually have a bowl of assorted fruit and some sort of tofu meat imitation. This is the best Saturday meal plan in existence; follow this Saturday diet plan religiously. Destry Masterson is a health and nutrition expert. She publishes articles for http://www.foodinsurance.com and recommends them for food storage.
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