People have different opinions and approaches to their diets and health routines – that’s fine. However, what isn’t is peddling nonsensical food advice when you lack experience, education, and knowledge.
At times, I’m almost speechless at what some young fitness trainers say about how to eat and train – 90% of it is wrong, annoying, frustrating, and leads their poor clients down the wrong garden path!
They loosely tell you how to train, lose weight, build muscle, and how to best feed your body to achieve these goals while having no education or training in this critical topic.
On the other hand, I have decades of first-hand experience under my belt, along with serious and in-depth health, food, training, and wellness education.
I learned the hard way!
From training like crazy to perform with the world’s elite at the Olympic Games to severe injury and recovery experience, followed by years of becoming fat, unhealthy, and depressed, to fixing that big mess in 3 months!
I have the experience — I have the know-how — I have done time to get there!
A young trainer, lacking any responsibility made several false nutritional claims online.
This guy wrote a long-winded story about carbohydrates being absolutely fine for excellent health and fitness.
That’s simply not true!
“Excess carbohydrate intake places a large metabolic load on the body. When the body constantly has high levels of blood sugars (the end point of food sugar and starch) to deal with over time, this leads to weight gain, poor metabolic health and an increased risk of heart disease.” The Heart Research Institute
The truth is it’s not at all. So, I politely exposed him and his story as being wrong.
A high-carbohydrate diet coupled with heavy daily strength training is a one-way ticket to eventually becoming unhealthy, burnt out, and potentially developing heart disease, as the referenced article above, by the Heart Research Institute points out.
Please watch my video where I talk about the “Real Carnivore” way to eat:
The Metabolic and Mental Health Meltdown comes with time
I’ve been there. I got into my terrible metabolic and mental health mess by my early 40s.
I was 65 lbs. overweight, with a hugely inflamed belly. I couldn’t sleep, was anxious, and suffered terrible headaches. I was stressed and horribly depressed.
Before, overweight, sluggish, and weak. After my change, I am lean, strong, and powerful.Photo by Rob Hourmont
The doctor’s office and pharmacy were my most frequented places!
Finally, I suffered a stroke. That was a blessing in disguise. It got me on my bike to do something about my disastrous health.
I didn’t want to be stuck on 10 types of meds, including statins and blood thinners, for the rest of my life.
The cause of my poor health was clear: High calcium, plaque build-up in my arteries, and terrible cholesterol levels.
I was only 45 at the time.
The turnaround and food that saved my life
In search of why I had a stroke, I studied, took courses, and learned about food and how the body works.
My health declined because of all the sugar-laden carbohydrate-rich foods I’d been consuming for decades.
I also thought my daily strength training and running routine would keep me fit and healthy. I was wrong about that too.
“Overtraining significantly affects your stress hormones, including cortisol and epinephrine. This hormonal imbalance can cause mood swings, unusual irritability and an inability to concentrate.” www.acefitness.org
The constant pressure and stress added to my heart with the excessive cortisol (stress hormone) released only made it worse and my health more fragile.
Long story short on how I fixed my health: I ditched all carbohydrates — grains, everything made from them, and all forms of sugar.
I turned to the high-fat and protein keto diet. I prefer to name it the “proper diet” for humans
Within 3 months, I lost all the excess fat. Within 6 months, my depression disappeared, and my mind was crystal clear again.
That’s my story, in a nutshell. I started my clean-up and health journey in early 2016 and haven’t looked back.
My Motto:
“Living Life by Following Natural Principles.” Rob Hourmont
I maintain my ideal body weight and composition by eating only twice daily, primarily meat, walking a lot, and light to moderate strength training 2 to 3 times a week.
My diet and food recommendations clarified:
My goal is to make the keto-carnivore diet accessible to everyone who is interested in it, and to make the switch easy for them!
That’s why I don’t spend time in the “extreme corner,” only recommending eating rib-eye steaks.
Instead, you can enjoy an array of wonderful foods to add to the spice of life — variety!
I eat meat, fish, seafood, eggs, healthy animal fats, good-quality dairy products including cheese, cream, and full-fat yogurt, select lectin-free vegetables, berries, and lots of herbs and spices.
Personally, I rarely eat any of the select vegetables, but I recommend them as healthy and perfectly fine options.
Please also read my related story about the proper way to follow the keto-carnivore diet:
Being a Carnivore or Meat Eater is NOT Only About Eating Beef Rib-Eye Steaks – That’s a Fake Myth!
Final Thoughts
The bottom line:
Food isn’t complicated — it’s actually quite simple if you understand it.
Here’s the “reality snap-shot” about bad foods:
→ Carbohydrates convert to sugar in your bloodstream.
→ Your insulin works overtime to push the sugar into your fat cells.
→ That daily process causes insidious weight gain, eventual insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, obesity, and diabetes.
Eating natural and real foods does not!
Rob
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