Fitness Notes: What’s an Easy Diet I Can Follow?

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This is Chris Albert, and I'm here to remind you of one thing. Someday, you're going to die. Now that's not some morbid statement or scary idea. It's solid fact. Your time here on this earth is limited.

You need to be reminded of this as much as possible for one simple reason, to live your best life while you can. This is the Warrior Soul Podcast.

You know, one of the problems as I see it with nutrition these days is that a lot of people try to complicate it. Alright? So if they are trying to lose weight, they're always trying to find the best trick, the best shortcut, the best thing they can do to lose the weight as quickly as possible, or to put on muscle, or do whatever else they're trying to do in the fitness realm. And it's a it's a lofty goal. And because people out there know that these are goals that people have, living in the Internet age as we do, you have hundreds of different people out there trying to get your attention, trying to push this trick or this pill or this powder or this potion into your face and telling you that this is the best way to go.

And they're trying to make it like it's the most convenient, the the the most effective, the most, you know, the the the best thing since sliced bread. And it can get confusing. It can get confusing because you hear so many different things. You hear vegans, you hear keto people, you hear carnivore people, you hear paleo people. What I'm gonna try and do today is I'm trying to I'm gonna try to break it down into some very very simple techniques that you can use to eat healthier.

And then if you want to go advanced and you want to try something else, can do that. But we're gonna get into that today. For those of you who haven't listened to the podcast before, my name is Chris Albert. This is the Warrior Soul Podcast, and this is a podcast focused on helping US Military Veterans to live their best lives. Now what does that mean?

Well, over the past decade and a half, we've heard a lot about veteran suicide. We've heard a lot about veteran homelessness. And a lot of these issues were always there, but where you were getting a lot more awareness to the issues because we had been going through war. And I started this podcast because when I heard people talking about veteran suicide, I was seeing a lot of awareness raising. I was seeing a lot of people talking about it, but I wasn't seeing a lot of solutions.

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So this is it. And it's gonna be surprisingly simple.

When you walk into a grocery store, walk around the outside of the grocery store. Only get your food from the outside. Now, why is that? Well, the outside of the grocery store, the outside walls, that's where they keep all the vegetables. That's where they keep the meat.

That's where they keep this stuff that's either lived or grew at one point, or, you know, the the stuff that's got the single ingredients in it. Right? They keep all the crap in the middle. Right? All the cookies, all the stuff with sugar in it, all the stuff with a lot of ingredients that you can't pronounce.

That's where they keep all the crap. So if you're looking for a better way to eat healthy, just buy your stuff from the outskirts of the grocery store. Now, there's another element to this because a lot of people don't know how to cook. Right? A lot of people don't know how to cook.

They don't know how to put food together in a way that's gonna tantalize their taste buds. And this day and age, everybody's so used to prepared food. So used to to food that's been packaged and flavor enhanced and things like that. A lot of people's taste buds are dead. Right?

But here's some advice for you, those of you who don't know how to cook. Prior to going to the grocery store, Google a bunch of your favorite recipes, like favorite meals that you have, right? And Google healthy versions of them. Right? Now this is true if you're keto, if you're paleo, whatever, you could find recipes for all of them.

Okay? And you Google those recipes, you find out how to make them. Right? And there's usually instructions up there, and you'll get an ingredient list. Right?

And and you'll be able to find most all those ingredients on the outskirts of the grocery store. Right? That's the simplest thing I can tell you. Just shop on the outside of the grocery store. Right?

Another big thing, another real simple thing. Drink water. Nothing else. Right? If you want coffee, you could have coffee.

You want tea, you could have tea. But don't drink anything else besides that. Don't drink anything with sugar in it. Don't drink sodas. Don't drink fruit juices.

Don't drink, you know, any sort of weird concoction that they got out these days. Drink water. Alright? Drink water. That will help you get rid of a lot of useless calories, and it will definitely help your health.

Okay? Now, here's a question that somebody brought up to me. They're concerned about whether or not they should be eating organic. Alright? Why should people spend the extra money to eat organic foods?

Alright. This is a good question. You know, at first, here's what I would say. If it's if if it's a matter of you for your budget, you just can't afford organic food, then screw it. Right?

Just just go with the vegetables you got, go with the meats you got, and things like that. And that will improve your health from eating all that other pre prepared crap that you've been eating. But why would you want to eat organic in the long run?

Well, there's a couple of different answers for that. When you're talking about meats, you're talking about omega six fatty acids and hormones. And again, my goal isn't to complicate this for you, my goal is educate you on something here. Omega six fatty acids raise levels of inflammation, right? And because they raise levels of inflammation, if you're eating too many of them, you could get some health complications for that.

Right? So and why do we have a lot of omega omega six fatty acids in in meats? Well, if they're factory farmed and they're non organic, they've been feeding on a lot of corn. Right? They've been feeding on a lot of corn.

And that could raise their omega six levels and that could lead to higher chance of disease like diabetes, like heart disease, like like all kinds of different things. Right? Now here's the other thing. Here's the other factor that you should consider here. Right?

Your vegetables. Right? If they're not organic, one big thing is that they they've had pesticides used on them. And particularly for men, majority of the people who listen to this show are men, But also women. Women need to be concerned with this too, because of estrogen dominance.

But the pesticides, they can mimic estrogens in your body, and that can cause hormonal imbalances. Right? That can cause a lot of hormonal imbalances. So that's a reason why you might wanna choose organic vegetables. And if it's a choice between the two, and you're trying to figure out whether you go with organic meat or organic vegetables or both.

You know what? Eventually, you'd wanna get to both when you've enough money to do so. But if you have to choose between the two, go with organic vegetables. They're gonna be cheaper than the meats and, you just you still even if you're you're you're just eating plain old beef, it's going be better than than eating a lot of the fast food you're eating. But the vegetables, you want to try to choose organic vegetables because they've had so many pesticides used on them. If they're not, and you really want to stay away from anything that's going to mess with your hormonal balance, particularly for your long term health. So real quick one today guys, that's my take on nutrition. I get a lot more out into the weeds on my YouTube channel, the Warrior Soul Agoge YouTube channel.

And if you're looking for tons of free information on nutrition, you can go there. You can also sign up for our newsletter and our private Facebook group at menshealth.warriorsoulagoge.com, and I will get as complicated as you want me to. But the goal for today was to give you some simple advice that you can take right now as far as improving your health, improving your nutrition without making it too complicated. So with that guys, I wanna thank you for listening. If you like this episode, if you found it helpful, go ahead and write us a review on iTunes.

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So thank you guys so much. Now get out there and live your best life while you can.