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Originally Posted by GreenLantern
It does as much as I allowed it to be answered. Sorry I am still new to the whole diet side of working out. I was one of those guys for years who just lifted weights and slammed protein shakes and my natural metabolism did the rest for me. Now that I am getting a bit older I am finding that dieting is becoming as important as it should have been all those years ago  I guess the bottom line is that my luck is running out.
So, educate me if you would please, I want a high protein, low carb diet. I understand the difference between "good" and "bad" fats. What snacks for a 10 AM or 10 PM time slot (or any time for that matter) would you recommend? I love yogurt.. I imagine I could stomach cottage cheese if I just piled in the raspberries..
I also love cheeses, although I know they are heavy in the "bad" fats. Are there any websites/books you would recommend to help build a healthy diet?
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LOL, I hear ya - I did the same when I was younger too.
If you do not really like cottage cheese, I wouldn't worry about it - find something you enjoy...if you force yourself to eat something you most likely won't stick with it anyway. My wife does not like the texture of cottage cheese, so she blends it with with one of those hand held blenders to make a shake - just thought I would add that if it is a texture thing.
In all honesty, I try to avoid cottage cheese a bit as I find it a bit too processed and I try to stick with whole foods as much as possible.
Be careful of the yogurt you eat though, as most of the stuff in the store has so much stuff added to it - especially sugar, in many different forms.
As far as cheese goes, just get as high a quality cheese as possible...if you can get unpasteurized stuff that has an ingredient list of Milk, bacterial cultures, salt and microbial enzymes that is the best...especially if it is from grassfed cows. But that is usually quite expensive. That is what you want from a health perspective. If you are trying to get really lean, some of the fattier meats and cheeses may hinder that. Also, if you are referring to saturated fat as the bad fat in cheese, there is nothing wrong with saturated fats - this is a good read about it:
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/saturated-fat-healthy/
If you want to know what I do, I just try to stick with whole foods and follow a paleo/primal approach to food. I learned most of what I do from these sites, so that is what I would recommend to build a healthy diet/lifestyle from:
http://robbwolf.com/
http://www.board.crossfit.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/
http://www.fitnessspotlight.com/
The supplement I would recommend the most is fish oil. A high quality one that is tested. I use the last one on this page...the liquid one
http://www.healthfirst.ca/EFAs.html
It takes time to change eating habits and I have slowly for the past 3 years educated myself and changed things as I learned about them.
In a nutshell, eat a wide variety of meats, eggs, fish and poultry (try to get as naturally raised as possible - grass fed beef, pastured pork etc) as quality is important. Eat as much green vegetables as possible, some fruit - mostly berries. And a wide variety of fats (not trans fats) including avocado, nuts, seeds, olive oil, coconut oil, butter, dark chocolate (I eat 85% and higher cocoa content).
If you are more concerned with performance in the gym or in competition of some sort, than post workout have something starchy like sweet potato (I like to cut them like fries and add cinnamon and ginger after coating them in a bit of olive oil and bake them) or something higher in the glucose type of sugar like blueberries. I like to use this site for nutritional breakdown of foods:
http://www.nutritiondata.com/
And also - allow yourself to indulge every once in a while! I usually have a couple of meals a week where it may be considered a 'cheat' I guess although I would just call it a part of a healthy lifestyle. It is usually Nachos and Cheese with homemade salsa from our garden for Hockey night in canada (GO FLAMES GO!)...sometimes a pizza is ordered or a massive piece of homemade cheese cake.
I hope that helps - I tend to get rambling sometimes.
