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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction Chapter 1 Athletic Body Strategies
Athletic Body Lifestyle Strategies Athletic Body Nutritional Strategies Athletic Body Training Strategies
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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INTRODUCTION
Athletic Body Meal Planner is a small FREE ebook we put together to help people realise that gaining weight and making a mess of themselves every day is not a necessity. In the following pages you will learn how to judge what you need to eat and when you need to eat it in order to lose/maintain your weight. Not only that but I will try to help you understand that listening to your body and improving the quality of the food you are eating can be more important than simply counting calories and may be more beneficial from a weight loss and health perspective. Yours
CHAPTER 1
Write it all down. Thats it, simple as that. Even if you dont have a training diary (which you should) you should really take on this practice now. You see, logging what you eat will make you aware of the mess you are making of yourself. Its ok to eat and forget but when the amount you ate is there staring at you its very hard to go really overboard. If you document what you are eating and write down the quantity and time you last ate, when your next meal is due you will not eat nearly as much. Align your eating plans through the days that you are only allowed a meal every 4+ hours. I know its not ideal but its realistic and you could save yourself 3-4 snacks through the day that may add up to 1000s of calories. Lapse-Relapse-Collapse Prevention. As we have mentioned many times already your journey will not be perfect. You will make some mistakes along the way. Whether these mistakes are nutritional mistakes or skipping training sessions, we refer to these as a lapse. When things are going well and you are doing great, something might happen and youll be tempted to stray away from your nutritional plan and or skip a single workout you had planned. This is bound to happen at some stage for most of us but the problem is when you keep having regular lapses and this results in a total collapse and you give up on training and nutrition. Not only do you start adding unfavourable behaviour (drinking excess alcohol/ fast food) into your life but you also cease performing the favourable (exercise, eating your green vegetables). The problem then grows exponentially. You must learn how to deal with small lapses so that you dont get to the point of collapse. The best thing to do is to keep a journal.
Detail why you had a lapse. What events lead to it and write down how you could have responded better to the situation, so that next time you will know what to do differently in the situation. First things first. Shopping List. Youd be surprised how much the general population knows about nutrition and weight loss. The have read South Beach and Atkins and know about carbs, fats and proteins. Yet still they fail. Their weight yoyos and they never make any real progress. I used to get a little confused by this but then I realised its not their knowledge or their diet in general. It is their inability to do their shopping. Huh? Shoppings easy Thats what I thought. But it turns out that people, in their wisdom, know what they should be buying and still they buy the opposite. They know they should buy veggies and lean meat and minimise grains and sugary processed foods. But still they persist in buying them. I think it is ingrained into people these days that when they go to the shop they must buy bread and milk. It must stem from childhood or something but it needs to stop if you really want improve your body, lose fat gain muscle whatever the case may be. In order to get real results your nutrition must be in order...for your nutrition to be in order your shopping list must be planned and arranged in advance. Dont stray from it. If you buy junk you will eat junk. Its as simple as that. Oh, dont try and blame the fact that you have kids on the presence of junk food in your house. If you feed your kids junk foods every day you are making them sick, fat and predisposing them to diabetes. You are just being flat out irresponsible.
Heres an example of what an average shopping list looks like. Im going to have to make one up as I dont shop like this. Bread Milk Eggs Cereal Cereal Bars Yogurt Biscuits Rice Pasta Hamburger patties Hamburger Buns Coleslaw Tomato Ketchup Mayonnaise Oven Fries Chocolate Ben and Jerrys ice cream Total : $60 approx (50 approx) Now Lets look at the so called healthy option! Brown Bread Low Fat Milk Free range Eggs Cereal Low fat Cereal Bars Low Fat Yogurt Weight Watchers Biscuits Brown Rice Whole Wheat Pasta 100% beef Hamburger patties Sesame Seed Hamburger Buns Low Fat Coleslaw Low Carb Tomato Ketchup Reduced Fat Mayonnaise Low Fat Oven Fries only 100 calorie packets of Oreo Cookies Small Tub of Ben and Jerrys ice cream
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Total: $85 (65-70 approx) Its exactly the same just more expensive. In order to get the point across I made this generic shopping list but Id say it looks awfully familiar to 90% of you. You have fallen into a trap set by the confectionary companies thats literally costing you 100s of euros per month and costing you your health. Too many people think that the low calorie option is the way forward. Think of it like this - if a product (I have chosen Oreos because the 100 calorie packet thing cracks me up) has only 100 calories in each packet. You are definitely not going to feel as guilty...and what is the result? You eat 3 packets. Its almost inevitable. And plus the fact is the product hasnt changed. Its still junk in a smaller more expensive packet. List 2 looks a lot better than list one, right? At a glance, yes, but when you really look into it you realise that everything is exactly the same. The only difference in the products is:
The packaging is more lightly coloured and labelled with 100 calorie claims. The packaging is smaller. You receive less of the product. It is more expensive. It may be a little lower in fat but this is replaced with sugar! (Which is worse)
Neither lists have anything lean or healthy in there (with the exception of the eggs).
Too much carbohydrate period. (Unless this person is a marathon runner or a triathlete they definitely do need all of this FUEL)
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Too much SUGAR Sesame seed Buns? (Like thats your problemnot enough sesame seeds in our diet) Cereal bars (aka bars of sugar) Garbage low fat gimmicky products that will actually make you fatter than their unhealthy counterparts.
Now heres how a shopping list should look. A friend of mine actually laminated it and brings it with him every week. What a cool idea? If you choose what you buy each week from this list you cannot fail and your diet will be squeaky clean forever. Guaranteed.
Meat/ Fish Chicken Beef Turkey Duck Lamb Dairy Eggs (omega 3 Enriched) Live Natural or Greek Yoghurt Lactose Free Milk Coconut milk Salmon Tuna Sardines Oysters Shrimp Prawns Vegetables Asparagus Broccoli Cauliflower Green Beans Spinach Tomato Celery Peppers/ Capsicum Lettuce Kale Fruit Blueberries Raspberries Black berries Strawberries Apples (minimise) Nuts and Seeds Almonds Cashews Pecan Hazelnut Walnuts Sunflower seeds Sesame seeds Milled flaxseed Oils/Spices Olive oil Fish oils Coconut oil Garlic All herbs All spices
* Weigh nuts and seeds and never have more than 30g in a serving.
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Mondays
Tuesdays
Wednesdays
Med-Low Carb Med-High Fat (Any carbs should still be consumed 1st thing in the morning/post workout)
Thursdays
Fridays
Saturdays
Sundays
Cheat meal
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Day:
Date:
Meal/Snack
(Contents)
Protein
Carbs
Fat
Time:
Total No
Calories
Carbs
Fat
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People will leave you alone! On a side note, potato is the sole cause in five patients out of twenty-two with eczema in one study. Im not saying anything. Just some potato for thought. Its funny slating potatoes actually. Being Irish and all; Eat your spuds! was the common term around the dinner table. After all we did live on them for 100s of years. That was necessity. If Im literally on the brink of starvation I may just have a potato or two. Until then Ill stick to my vegetables thank you. If you know me I am a big advocate of cheat meals but one thing I have learned the hard way is that you must not keep cheat foods in your house. If you are going to have a cheat meal you should only buy enough food for one cheat meal at a time and cook at home. Do not keep cheat meal foods stocked at home. I know this is hard but be strong! At least minimise the amount of crap you have around you.
1) If you tell yourself you can't have something you're going to crave it even more and this is simple human nature. So I like the idea of having the occasional treat, provided it remains an occasional treat. This is what we refer to as the 90/10 rule. Also, you will need to do something to earn that treat, so if you're sitting on your backside all day long watching the Simpsons, then a treat or cheat meal is a no-no for you. 2) The less you train, and the less active you are overall, then the less likely it is that you should even consider having a cheat meal or treat. That why on the Athletic Body System program you are not permitted to cheat more than once on the days you do not train. So choose wisely what your cheat is. A glass of wine or a small piece of cake?
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3) Will you be able to make that one cheat meal or treat remain one cheat meal or are you the type of individual who knows that you will snowball, and soon that one cheat meal will become two, and then three? If so, avoid cheat meals unless you are already full of clean healthy food. If you are full, there is only so much cake you can eat. 4) How important is attaining leanness/maintaining your physique to you? Is your need to temporarily please your taste buds more important to you than all youve worked towards for the last few months/years? REMEMBER it's called a cheat meal. It Is NOT a 3-course cheat meal, and most certainly not a cheat week. Can you make a cheat meal just that, a cheat meal? Without it turning into a full on cake day, or a cheat week?
Alcohol
I read something recently drink the alcoholic beverage of your choice in great quantities and still make progress. I dont think so. Having a spirit drink and diet/sugar free mixer is fine but they still contain a lot of empty calories in the form of ethanol. Ethanol has 7 kcals per ml.
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Not a bad breakdown. A captain morgans and diet coke would have 120kcals in it. These kcals cannot be stored, so whatever you eat is almost certainly stored. Before you ask, dancing will not burn off 1000 kcals of Captain Morgans followed by a Big Mac meal. If you are drinking try eat clean and low calorie before and after no minimise the damage. Enjoying special occasions such as Christmas and New Years and the rare party but do not make a habit of it or you will be in an uphill battle with your physique forever. Over the Christmas you will be faced with an unlimited number of opportunities to drink wine and gorge. Try stick to spirits, diet mixers and clean food.
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Sample Daily Planners NUTRITIONAL
LOG
SHEET
(High
Fat
Low
Carb)
Day:
Date:
Meal/Snack
(Contents)
Protein
Carbs
Fat
Time:
8 1130 130 6
3-4 whole omega egg omelette Low salt lean ham cubes 20-30 g grated cheese 20-30 g nuts/seeds/Nut Butter 200g Tuna/Chicken Salad/mixed leaves+dressing Apple/handful of nuts/seeds* Scoop Protein
930 1130
200g Chicken/Beef Unlimited Stir Fry vegetables* 35 Few Tablespoons (150-200ml) Nat Live Yoghurt/Scoop of protein** 7-10 20
Total No
Calories
Carbs
Fat
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*Based on training day. If not training swap the times and have Meal at 6 and snack later
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Day:
Date:
Meal/Snack
(Contents)
Protein
Carbs
Fat
Time:
2-3 omega enriched eggs scrambled, low sugar/sugar free beans/legumes Apple/berries + handful seeds/nuts 150g Tuna/Chicken Salad/mixed leaves 20-30 g nuts/seeds/Nut Butter 150g Salmon/Fatty Fish, Broccoli, Green Beans . . any Vegetables* Few Tablespoons (150-200ml) Nat Live Yoghurt/Scoop of protein**
20-25 7-10
~10 10-12
15-20+ ~10+
~10 35 7-10 20
5 15-20 7-10 2
Total No
Calories
Carbs
Fat
*Based on training day. If not training swap the times and have Meal at 6 and snack later. Unlimited vegetables. (limited sweet potato or carrots)
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Day:
Date:
Meal/Snack
(Contents)
Protein
Carbs
Fat
Time:
1130 130
Mixed Berries, 150-200ml live natural yoghurt. scoop protein or 2/3 slices deli ham or something similar. 150g-200g Tuna/Chicken Salad/mixed leaves 150g-200g Tuna/Chicken Salad/mixed leaves
20-25
7-10
3-5
20-25 20-25
3-5 3-5
3-5 3-5
6 8-9 1130
Total
No
150-200g Boiled/ grilled chicken Broccoli, Green Beans . . Green Vegetables* Boiled/ grilled chicken Broccoli, Green Beans . . Green Vegetables* Few Tablespoons (150-200ml) Nat Live Yoghurt/Scoop of protein**
Calories
ADDITIONAL NOTES
*Based on training day. If not training swap the times and have Meal at 6 and snack later. Unlimited vegetables. Divide lunch and main meal up into 2 meals and eat 2-3 hours apart.
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Day:
Date:
Meal/Snack
(Contents)
Protein
Carbs
Fat
Time:
1130 130
Mixed Berries, 150-200ml live natural yoghurt. 100g favourite cereal (lowfat/coconut milk)* 150g-200g Tuna/Chicken Salad/mixed leaves 150g-200g Tuna/Chicken Salad/mixed leaves ** Sweets/popcorn/cheat meal Chinese food/pizza (choose 1 or 2) ***
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70-100
5-10
20-25 20-25
3-5 3-5
3-5 3-5
6-9
1130
7-10
7-10
<5
Carbs
Fat
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*No fat with high carb meal in the AM (minimise storage) ** Be good for the rest of the day until showtime *** Eat until satisfied do not cram that extra 1000 kcals into your mouth for the sake of it
CONCLUSION
We hope you have found the information contained within this manual useful and we trust that you will put it to good effect as you set out on your quest to develop a lean and athletically sculpted physique. This is by no means a full yearly nutritional planner and it was never intended to be. The whole purpose of the report is to empower you with the knowledge you need to be able to make educated food choices by yourself. Hopefully after reading youve already changed, or are at least are starting to change, the way you think about goal setting, training and nutrition, and ultimately the way you look at and think about physique development. The human body is an amazing piece of machinery and we should all work with this machinery and fully apply ourselves to working hard and diligently towards becoming the best version of ourselves. Read over this material again and again until you fully grasp all the information. Understand WHY you are doing everything we recommend so that you believe in what you are doing. With the Athletic Body Meal Planner you are now fully armed with all the information you need in order to succeed. Finally the key to the success recipe is now in your possession. All you must do now is use it.
Start applying yourself today, both inside and outside of the kitchen and you will begin to notice some real big changes in your physique within a few weeks time.
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