Below are resources that you may find helpful if you are looking to fuel your body and optimize physical performance.
Glycemic Index:
This is an easy first step in revamping your nutritional habits.
CF Journal 3 – Glycemic Index charts out high-glycemic foods, “bad foods,” and low-glycemic foods, or “good” foods.
The Zone Diet:
CrossFit’s best performers are Zone eaters. This way of eating involves block charts, basic arithmetic, weighing and measuring portions.
CF Journal 21 – Meal Plans provides an in-depth outline of what constitutes a block, block charts and sample meal plans.
Another good resource is www.ZoneDiet.com. Login, create an account and under Helpful Tools (left hand side), click on Zone Block & Body Fat Calculator. Enter in your stats and your blocks will be calculated.
Eat none of the following:
· Grains- including bread, pasta, noodles
· Beans- including string beans, kidney beans, lentils, peanuts, snow-peas and peas
· Potatoes
· Dairy products
· Sugar
· Salt
Eat the following:
· Meat, chicken and fish
· Eggs
· Fruit
· Vegetables (especially root vegetables, but definitely not including potatoes or sweet potatoes)
· Nuts, eg. walnuts, brazil nuts, macadamia, almond. Do not eat peanuts (a bean) or cashews (a family of their own)
· Berries- strawberries, blueberries, raspberries etc.
Try to increase your intake of:
· Root vegetables- carrots, turnips, parsnips, rutabagas, Swedes
· Organ meats- liver and kidneys (I accept that many people find these unpalatable and won’t eat them)
After reading that, (if you are still interested), aadditional resources include:
Paleo in a Nutshell Part 1: Food.
Note: recently posted was Part 2 in this series on Exercise. I have to give credit to CFDV, as that is where I came across this video.
