Food ideas for the "fats" ?

[OzzyC]

Hi all,

I was reading Dr Berardi's articles on T-Nation about nutrition and he suggests eating Carb and Protein dishes around your workout and the rest of the time Protein and Fat.

My question is : for those Protein and Fat meals what can you eat to get you those fats? What do YOU eat for this? Do you have any suggestions? All I can think of is bacon, full fat milk and yogurt, olive oil, nuts. He also sais to watch the proportion of each kind of fat we ingest also.

Suggestions would be appreciated very much!

[pliny_2001]

re: proportions of fat -- here, you need to read up about your omega-3 and omega-6 fats.

re: the idea of only protein/fat at times not around working out. I haven't read the article, so I can't really comment on it, though I will say that your diet will never be poorly served by adding in some vegetables of various colors (w/ an emphasis on dark green).

[JoeBAR]

Originally Posted by pliny_2001

re: proportions of fat -- here, you need to read up about your omega-3 and omega-6 fats.

re: the idea of only protein/fat at times not around working out. I haven't read the article, so I can't really comment on it, though I will say that your diet will never be poorly served by adding in some vegetables of various colors (w/ an emphasis on dark green).

That's the gist of the article. Example:

B/F: 3 whole eggs + 2 chicken sausages (PROT+FAT)
Meal: Steak and veg - Fish + veg , etc... (Prot + Fat)
...

What Berrardi stretches is that No CARBS means Low GI, ie, stuff with less than about 35 index are ok in non-carb meals, so you can have broccoli, cauliflowers, etc... which are not quite carb-free.

It's important to remember that a BALANCED diet allows for 30% calories to come from fat, and up to 1/3 of that from saturated (search many posts here by Adonis and Doughboy on the subject).

I dieted following Berrardi's principle, and I lost 14lbs in 6 weeks, and I have managed to keep a good 10~11lbs of 'em from coming back since then (2 1/2 weeks) by keeping to the principle. I've onlychanged the B/F to carb+prot on training day to resume my normal calorie intake and carb/prot/fat balance (during diet, I was low carbs obviously, but still ate about 100g fat / day). I also got stronger in DL (+45lbs) and bench (+15lbs), but seemed to have lost a bit on the squats... Low calorie diets kill my stamina