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"Healthy" is a very relative term. We often affiliate health with some salad bowl that looks picture perfect and think that whipping up something healthy at our kitchen everyday is something close to impossible.

This meal is something that was made in literally 20 mins and it tastes absolutely delicious. Its Ghee rice with some fish fry and sauteed capsicum and onions. This is literally as tasty as it gets for a lot of people. In order to sustain a diet you need to learn to work within things that are easily available and tasty.

Your fitness journey is not a sprint and the sooner you realise that the easier it is going to be. We need to start having a deeper look into how we plate our foods. We need to understand what a diet truly means.

Lets take this plate for example,

Fish fry - Proteins and fats

Ghee Rice - Carbs and fats

Veggies - rich in fibre.

Now as long as the carbs, fats and proteins in this meal are within the goals of your overall caloric and macro intake this meal is a winner!!

You do not need to avoid foods to reach your goals. You just need to understand them better :)

This is an unpopular fact, but it's true.

We often meet clients who want to hear of a type of food that will help them lose fat.
Or a time period during which they can eat without worrying about calories.
Or a time when they can sleep (yes we actually get this question) that will allow them to lose weight.

There is no such thing.

You can eat anything you like as long as you keep an eye on portion sizes and calories.

You can eat at anytime you want or skip a meal as long as your day as whole ends with you eating fewer calories than you burn.

You can choose any dieting strategy you like (keto, paleo, IF, etc) as long as it allows you to find a way to eat fewer calories while helping you maintain your sanity.

You cannot fool your body into believing it can't store a calorie because there are no loopholes.
You can only fool your mind.
Stop doing that

And just like that after 6 years of almost no change to our staff,
we say goodbye to another phenomenal coach

Wherever you choose to go, you'll continue to be coach, friend and beardo to everyone at The Unit.

Thank you for sharing our passions, our dreams and our hopes for a generation of stronger humans in and around Chennai. We were lucky to find you, luckier still that you chose to stick around this long.

We can't wait to see what you do next and we already know you'll be awesome! ♥️

Recipe ideas from our community! This is from .
1/2 cup pomegranate
100 grams of Greek yogurt
1 tsp honey
Optional add in: Almond butter for fat

A snack of under 100 calories in 5 minutes.

Tag us if you try this out.

Today is not Monday. It's also not the 1st or the 15th of a month.

But it's as good a time as any to start your workout!

Go!

If you understand nutrition, you can "fit" any food you like into your daily diet and lose weight.

If you're a beginner that doesn't understand nutrition, you'll need a strategy that lets you eat less without any knowledge of how you actually did it.

Like for example:
Keto/Paleo/vegan: you cut out an entire food group, there's a good chance you'll eat less (at least initially)

Intermittent fasting: Skip a meal and there's a good chance you're eating less.

So what happens if you gave your diet a fancy name, but ate lots of food?
You won't lose weight.

Think of it this way.

If you have a pet and your vet told you he/she needs to lose weight, would you buy it food that is 3x more expensive but feed it exactly the same amount or more?

The human body isn't more complex than that. It's our brains that have evolved over time.

Our bodies are quite simple. There's isn't a magic process by which lemon water will enter your bloodstream, attack fat cells that it has no quarrel with and "burn fat"

If anyone tells you otherwise, you're about to lose a lot of money for no good reason!

Our two cents before we hand it over to a doctor:
Arnold felt the effects of plants more than usual because his diet was devoid of them. If you already eat veggies like your mother told you to, you're unlikely to find this more useful.
With that said, over to .

James Cameron, Executive Producer – is CEO of Verdiant Foods, an organic pea protein company with the goal of becoming “the largest pea protein fractionation facility in North America.” He invested $140 million.

Do you wonder why he made a movie to encourage you to go more plant based?

There is so much wrong I cannot cover it all.
James Wiliks, the main character injured in 2011 for 6 months, claims he spent 1,000 hours reading peer reviewed research on nutrition. That would mean that 1,000 hours is 8 hours of reading and research per day, for 125 out of the 180 days he was out of training.
There is not one human being I know that can do that, let alone an individual who is not trained to evaluate studies.
The integrity of the material you are told is none. What is true are the emotional tactics used.
Here is an example of how you are misled in the first 5 minutes, which is the theme of film.
It quotes a study that gladiators didn’t eat meat. It’s actually an article, not a study. It highlights that gladiators ate “a vegetarian diet rich in carbohydrates.”
The info doesn’t say the gladiators ate “no meat,” but just ate high carbohydrates (plants) to help with performance and gaining fat.
The gladiators were slaves, and fed like slaves, with a life expectancy of 2 years. McGregor vs Diaz fight from 2016 in which McGregor (meat eater) is defeated by Diaz (plant eater). They highlight that Diaz was given 11 days’ notice of the fight, as if he was the underdog, actually McGregor had to go up 2 weight classes to fight Diaz, and was 15-20lbs lighter than Diaz in the ring. Maybe McGregor needed to eat more carbs, but maybe he just got beat by someone bigger.
Can someone excel with high carbohydrate/low quality protein? Maybe with extreme energy output, but not the average athlete or person. Its metabolic consequences are devastating.

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