Warrior, Anabolic or Paleo Diet? Why not all?

In the last two years I've been experimenting with different dieting systems. So on this blog-entry I will tell how I feel about those three systems mentioned in the headline.

Paleo Diet

This was the first one that I tried. Big minus was the fact that you couldn't have anything that "normal people" eat, but you have to strive for organic food. Second, if you don't have good instruction, you will be pretty much lost and confused about what you can and can not eat. Plus, buying organic food is much more expensive than buying ordinary food. Eating every three hours has also always been a problem for me. And if there is no "correct" food available, you will skip a meal, which in the Paleo-diet wasn't allowed. So I kinda lost hope every couple of days, because of binging something outside the diet. I did learn a lot from this diet and had I then known, what I know today, maybe it would be a different story.

Anabolic Diet

Now this was fun! I could eat as fatty food as I wanted and then splurge in the weekends, right? Wrong. I ended up messing this diet because I really didn't care about the type of fat I was eating. So I ended up eating almost 100% saturated fats. And the weekends? I ate everything in sight: pizza, candy, ice-cream, hamburgers, coca-cola, you name it. So although this diet allowed more freedom, I exploited the freedom too much. I couldn't keep it moderate and I didn't have patience to calculate everything that went down in my throat. But once again, I learned a lot about fats, the good and the bad.

Warrior Diet

The biggest problem with this diet is and was insufficient feeding and nutrition. I pretty much overtrained with one session. And not to mention that I sometimes trained 2 times a day. What I really liked about it though, was the freedom of not living with a clock. All you need is one main meal in the evening and you're good to go. This diet is probably the one closest to my current eating regimen.

My current eating regimen

I've been following a diet that is a combination of all three diets. I try to eat only two larger meals per day, supplemented by healthy snacks. This far I've been able to seriously narrow my waistline, which is very motivating. My general well-being has also improved. I've lost 7 pounds in weight, which I think is mostly fat. And I don't crave for sweets anymore, either.

So far so good.

Sprinting.

After much thought I decided to change writing language into english. First of all, all those that do read my blog know english enough to read it. Second, Google corrects my spelling as I write. Third, I get good practice for writing in english.

I have a couple of texts waiting to be transferred here, I just need to translate couple of them first. Or I might leave as they were. We'll see.

Training for today

Sprinting 4 x 4 minutes almost as hard as I could

Sprinting 4 x 50 meters

That was a lot of work for such a short time. But it was worth it, afterwards I felt great! Though I'm a bit sore, haven't been running for a year or so.

A friend of mine started keto-diet today and as I watched myself in the mirror, I thought that I better get myself in shape as well. So I started doing the Anabolic Diet by Dr. Dipasquale. Have been on this diet on several occasions but so far it has been the best diet plan that I've used. So my eating today went something like this:

Nutrition for today

Eggs for breakfest, some seeds for snacks, sausage for lunch, pork chops in the afternoon and then some cheese and pepperoni for late-night snacks. So far so good.