How Important Nutrition Is - Now I have something to tell my clients

My first taste of what good nutrition is was many years ago when I realized that it was not good enough just to be large and strong. I was carrying excess fat.

I did not look obese but I know that I could have been quicker and leaner.

I decided to go on the first "diet" of my life! Well actually it was just cleaning up my nutrition habits.

• Eating often keeps metabolism high
  
• Eating no starchy stuff unless after training (replenish glycogen stores, after training starches don't make us fat).
• Eating more fruits and vegetables (I'm starting to really like some veges, broccoli, spinach:) hehe never thought id see the day!).
• Drinking only water and green tea.
• Eating more protein with each meal.
• Eating healthy fats from nuts and fish.
• Eating un-processed foods. (best foods are from their natural packaging, things in pretty packages with shiny wrappers are usually 99% of the time BAD for us)
• 3 months later I was down 10kg and looking alot better!

I did NOT count calories, weight food or starve myself. I simply trained hard and made good food choice.

For history's sake, here are the before and after pics from that diet many years ago.

92KG Before

82kg After