P90X Get The Results You’re Looking For
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14 Sep 2009This topic came to me this evening, while I was talking with a friend of mine. He went into this whole story of why he didn’t see the need to work out, because he never “notices” the results in the mirror. Now people, you might be under the illusion that getting results is all about how much weight you can push on the bench press, for the P90Xers out there it could be how many pull ups/ push ups you can knock out, but the simple truth is that’s a very small portion of it. The ONLY way you going to get the results you desire is by changing what you eat. P90x and Tony Horton set up a nutrition plan, to go along with the videos. Now you don’t have to use the P90x nutrition guide, but you will need to make some changes to your diet, to achieve maximum results.
You can exercise all you want, and lift all you want, but if you’re not doing some kind of nutrition you’re not going to get true visible results***RIPPED ABS!, I’m not saying you won’t be in amazing shape, you just won’t have amazing definition. When I started P90X I went a little far, I completely cut out soft drinks, processed foods (for the most part), sugars, fast food, and anything else I thought was junk. Now I know that’s not realistic for everyone, but everyone can make little changes to get them on the path. I I thought I would give you a few ideas, buy telling you all what I eat on a daily basis. I’m not saying this is what you have to eat, just giving you a little food for thought so to speak
I can’t think of anything more important than what I’m about to tell you, so pay close attention because this is the key to a good nutrition plan make SURE you eat breakfast every day. I know that everyone is in a hurry in the mornings, and a lot of times breakfast is the last thing on our minds, but the truth is by not eating breakfast you’re sending your body into starvation mode. Now think about this, you should stop eating 3-4 hours before you go to sleep, now assuming you do that, and most people get at least 6 hours of sleep, and you decide to skip breakfast and eat lunch some where around 12:00, and you went to sleep at 10 the night before and stopped eating at 7, that’s 17 hours you went with out eating. That sends you body into starvation mode, slows your metabolic rate, and you body becomes extremely efficient, and doesn’t like to burn calories unless absolutely necessary, that means there are less calories being burned and more fat being stored, which is extremely counter productive. The purpose of that huge run on sentence up there was to explain why breakfast is soo important .so eat something in the mornings!!!
For me breakfast doesn’t change much, the only thing that really changes are the days I that I eat certain things on, it always pretty much consists of: Turkey sausage, some kind of fruit, slice of wheat toast, and a glass of juice **the rest of the day it’s nothing but water** Protein shake and fruit 8ox Oatmeal, fruit, and juice 3 egg whites with chopped onions/mushrooms/ham, slice wheat toast, and a glass juice. And that pretty much takes care of breakfast, those for things on a repeating cycle.boring I know but as I said before it’s what works for me, and that’s what’s important. Sometime after breakfast but before lunch I’ll have a snack, now by snack I don’t mean run out to the gas station and load up on a 44oz soda, and hoho’s, snack’s are fruit, nuts, turkey jerky, or a protein bar/shake.
Sadly to say lunch never changes for me, I’ll have a can of all white albacore tuna, I don’t mix it mayo and pickles and all that, I just eat the tuna, sometimes I’ll put a little balsamic vinegar on it, with a salad. If I can’t get home, and have to eat lunch out, I’ll normally find a deli, have a half of some kind of sandwich on wheat, along with a salad.
Dinner is the most important meal of the day, by this time of the day I’m really looking for a good meal, that is going to last me till morning, so I really try to do something good for dinner. For example I would do a grilled chicken breast, maybe through some vegies on the grill with it and some wild rice. Something along those lines would be a good dinner that would keep me happy till morning. I cut a lot of red meat out of my diet now, so it’s mostly tuna, pork, chicken. Now I’m not saying red meat is bad, it was just a personal decision, and I still love a great steak, just not as many as I used to love. Do whatever works for you, like I said this is what works for me, the important thing is to put some kind of plan into action, and follow through..GOOD LUCK and STICK WITH IT!!!!!
