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I'm still very exited about this, and I think I can keep it up.
I'm currently eating a couple fresh sweet potatoes that I boiled for roughly an hour. Nothing else.
This morning I cooked a pile of chicken by throwing it into a pan, waiting for it to get crispy, flipping it, and waiting for it to get done. I still need to work on the options of adding water and a lid. Only the one ingredient.
A bunch of my meals have been a large can of chicken, drained, with the heads of a thing of fresh broccoli, mixed and microwaved for three minutes, followed by a sliced apple.
I'm sure a couple weeks ago this would have sounded gross to me, and not worth living through. It's nice how quickly taste recovers when you stop eating garbage - this stuff tastes great.
I'm currently eating a couple fresh sweet potatoes that I boiled for roughly an hour. Nothing else.
This morning I cooked a pile of chicken by throwing it into a pan, waiting for it to get crispy, flipping it, and waiting for it to get done. I still need to work on the options of adding water and a lid. Only the one ingredient.
A bunch of my meals have been a large can of chicken, drained, with the heads of a thing of fresh broccoli, mixed and microwaved for three minutes, followed by a sliced apple.
I'm sure a couple weeks ago this would have sounded gross to me, and not worth living through. It's nice how quickly taste recovers when you stop eating garbage - this stuff tastes great.
So I think it depends partially on the person. I ate about as healthy as possible as a kid (as I was forced to by my parents) and thought everything tasted good then as well. The way I perceived the taste of food never really changed. It possible once I filter all the crap out of my body, things might start tasting even better. I guess I'll know soon enough.
Hear, hear. :)
Dunno if this fits within your diet
Sugar and associated evils.
The things which I'm doing include:
* Crossfitting: www.crossfit.com (There is an awesome Crossfit gym in Boston. I know you were doing some Olympic-style weight-lifting before, and this incorporates that but also includes elements of cardiovascular exercise and gymnastics. It scales very well to where ever you're at, and it's designed around results while remaining pretty affordable.)
* Paleo-Zone diet: http://library.crossfit.com/free/pdf/cf
* Brasilian Jiu-Jitsu: This is very similar to Crossfit in its full-body workoutedness. I am working up to being able to do both this and Crossfit regularly.
* Reducing or removing: Sugar, corn, potato, rice, pasta (in that order.)
I've been eating a lot of eggs, chicken/apple sausage, chicken, fresh vegetables including (peas, asparagus, broccoli/cauliflower, radishes, etc.,) and myoplex shakes (to try to dull my hunger in the early evening for sugar,) whole milk, yogurt, hummus, and lentils .
The Crossfit Journal has a very interesting series of video lectures by Dr. Barry Sears (author of the Zone diet) which talks about inflammation, controlling it through reduced insulin production, and the use of judicious amounts of fish oil. (Between 2-4g a day for myself.) Actually, that's all you really need to know. The paleo-zone diet + fish oil is his theory on reducing inflammation which causes us to hold onto toxic fats.
Keep up the great work! It's fucking hard. Seriously.
Re: Sugar and associated evils.
Oh, if you're still consuming any sugar, I highly recommend going cold turkey. My first three days were miserable. The rest of the first week was kind of hard. But after that it's been easy. I got through the first three days by realizing I wasn't interested in eating healthy food, so it wasn't actually hunger I was feeling, it was craving what I'm addicted to. And substantial fear of continuing that life of addiction.
I have been extremely happy with going very strictly to only water, lean meat (~60% of calories), vegetables (~20%, no white potatoes), and fruits (20%) - no juice, as it's too addictively refined for me. And I do highly recommend it for a sugar addict. I really think I'm getting more enjoyment out of apples and sweet potatoes now than I was out of candy bars a couple weeks ago. Well, most candy bars :/
Stupid addiction.
I've been meaning to go to MMA (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Muay-Thai) classes for a while now. I just can't bring myself to pay to be drilled on jumping rope, since I still need so much work on that. So my long standing plan has been to start going after I'm able to do the jump-roping first - same as Muay Thai matches: five rounds of three minutes each, with a two-minute rest between rounds. Although my primary exercise goal, and plan for the rest of my life, is to maintain optimal heart rate in any way for half an hour three times a week (on non-sequential days), since that seems to be a pretty good definition of healthy.