This weekend I’ll be attending the 2010 Ontario Naturals Bodybuilding, Fitness and Bikini Championships to support a couple of my athletes who’ll be competing. While I’ll have more on their stories and some advanced fat loss strategies in the weeks to come, I did want to share one dead simple recipe that has been going over like gangbusters with these ladies.
Protein pudding.
Now I realize that on first inspection pudding doesn’t really seem to qualify as a killer body transformation strategy, but when one of your goals as a nutritionist is to create meals using healthy ingredients that are not only appropriate for physique competitors, but also appeal to the lay public, pudding takes on added significance.
Whereas no one will deny that broccoli and chicken breast are awesomely healthy foods, the prospect of eating these foods every day for 16 weeks is enough to bring any physique athlete to tears. Likewise, broccoli and plain chicken breast aren’t the easiest sell to “new to healthy eating” dieters who believe they should be commended for choosing fruit juice and granola bars instead of a can of pop and a chocolate bar.
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For reasons that are only partially driven by biology, humans place a strong emphasis on physical appearance. I have no problem with this as I too enjoy looking fit. Unfortunately, our society has developed a real sense of entitlement that everyone should just automatically look good.
This is a line of thinking I’ve never really understood.
We don’t expect to become a doctor without going through med school or anticipate becoming rich if our career aspirations start and end with serving fries at McDonalds.
Yet, somehow, people have decided that it’s appropriate to yearn for a 6-pack, but are unwilling to accept the reality that without many hours of physical activity each week and careful attention to their diet, it probably isn’t going to happen.
As 8-time Mr. Olympia bodybuilding champion Ronnie Coleman is fond of saying,
“Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder but nobody wants to lift no heavy ass weights”
In other words, we often want great things, but are unwilling to invest the time and energy required to make those dreams a reality.
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A short while ago, I did a post on insulin and body fat (Insulin, Body Fat and You). As I pointed out in that post, among insulin’s many roles is that it serves as a pro-storage hormone that promotes the formation of new tissue.
Whenever you eat foods that provokes a substantial insulin release from your pancreas, your body is signaled to build either fat, muscle or both. Obviously, the more structured resistance training you follow and the better you time your insulin spikes, the better able you are to use insulin’s mass building effects for muscle growth and not fat. Sadly, the common eating pattern in North America is to eat insulin producing foods without much foresight, which is part of the reason we battle the bulge.
Wild swings in insulin also tend to provoke increased hunger, which is not good if you are trying to control intake and by extension, body weight. I think it goes without saying that teaching people how to avoid crazy swings in insulin is a good thing.
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