I Am A Not A Nutritionist, Trainer, Or A Medical Professional

I am a not a nutritionist, trainer, or a medical professional. You should always consult with a professional before undertaking any new exercise regimen or substantive change in diet. What follows is not medical, fitness or nutritional advise. It should be read for inspirational purposes only. Please do not go to the gym, hurt yourself and then sue me. Seriously, I cannot stress this enough. I am not giving you professional medical, fitness or nutritional advice. End legal ass covering. There is this weird dichotomy in contemporary American life. On the one hand, we celebrate eating by worshipping at the altar of high-calorie, high-carb, high-sugar, high-fat foods. If you’ve avoided looking at the ingredients list/nutritional chart on†¦show more content†¦I am not particularly fit, by my own reasoning, but I guess that one is all about your sample group. Compared to gym rats, I’m in abysmal shape. Compared to the couch potato who would have an aneurism trying to do 10 pushups, I’m in AWESOME shape. Healthy†¦I probably eat better than about 80% of the population and I have few physically self-destructive habits†¦I’ll give myself a B/B- for health. Taken as a whole, I’m probably averaging a C+ across the fitness/thinness/health matrix. That being said, I have started taking active steps to improve my overall health/fitness. (I don’t care about thinness, except as an incidental byproduct of a reduction in overall body fat.) For one, I’ve started limiting my sugar intake. To be fair, I wasn’t eating a lot of sugary foods. I eat very little candy. There aren’t many pastries in my life. I maybe knock back a bowl of ice cream once a month. Where I really fall down on the sugar is in my coffee. My father loved coffee and loved it SWEET. I learned to drink coffee from him, so I always took my coffee sweet. Lots of sugar, yeah baby! Then I discovered flavored creamers†¦ (Insert Homer Simpson voice here) Mmmmmmmm, French Vanilla! Yeah, yeah, you can supposedly get them without fat or without sugar, but anything that sweet is filling you with calories you don’t need. And, I’d add sugar on top. Long story short, my approach to coffee consumption was directly contributing to my weight gain.