http://women.webmd.com/features/7-diet-mistakes-fast-fixes

WTF is this? .... as my little brother, Fahad, would say... ZONG!!! that's some really fucked up advice right there. I'll tell you why it makes perfect sense to you and it sounds just fine, but it sounds stupid and makes no sense to me. let's take cars for example.

if you are a person who doesn't know how to drive, and you don't know the rules of the road... suddenly you decide to drive without learning, and within 5-10 minutes, you have a car accident. and every time you leave the house, you have an accident. you want to drive so bad but you don't know how and you don't know what the fuck is going on with traffic and all these rules and shit... here's what this article would translate to if it were the situation...

1- never put the pedal to the metal
just go half as fast. because if you do, it'll probably take you double the time to have an accident as it would if you were going full speed.

2- Always make right turns
because taking a left turn is usually more dangerous. if a store is on your left, just turn right 3 times and you'll be there safely.

3- Don't close your eyes if you are about to have an accident
this will only make the situation worse. just try to improvise and frantically turn the steering wheel left and right to try to dodge the other car


... etc

anyone who would read that would go "WTF!!! ZONG!!!" because you actually understand the rules of the road. So this shit wouldn't make sense to you. if you bring someone out of the jungle and tell him these rules, he'd say "oh.. ok. sounds logical"... you see where i'm going here?

most people... nah, i'd say fucking everyone cannot comprehend how diets work, or even how their bodies work. the few who know are considered statistical anomalies and we can't include them here. If you don't understand all that shit, you would believe anything that is spewed at you from, basically, anyone.

At my family's house, i am usually considered the asshole. You know how Dwight is an ass in "the office"? yeah, kinda like that in a way. anyway, I usually repeat the same shit over and over again, especially in ramadhan.
My mom says "god, i don't know why we all feel so tired after eating breakfast". As you know, i can't shut my mouth and say "Ofcourse you don't know. You don't even know that you probably ate 2000 cals worth of fat and sugar in 3 minutes flat! you want me to explain?" and the usual answer would be "our food is 100 times more nutritious than that bland, unhealthy junk you eat. and i don't want you to explain anyway."... but, i do! :) ... and i've probably explained it over 200 times, but it never sinks in.

anyway, this shit isn't difficult. hell, i'm an idiot and i learned it! There is no secret diet or what not. you just have to learn how your body processes food. hell, I even tell you how i setup shit for my clients on this blog! but you still don't know what the fuck i'm talking about. how many of you know how many grams of protein, fat, and carbs an egg has?

I recommended a couple of books to a friend of mine who is trying to lose some weight and gain some muscle. i've worked with him before (was my client) and tried to teach him about ratios and shit like that. the books i recommended to him went into detail about the ratios and explaining how they work and what not. anyway, the guy still calls me up every five minutes to ask me if what he's doing is ok. and 100% of the time it's not. It does not make sense to a person with an IQ score of "1" to conclude that you can eat 2 cups of rice and 1 pint of ice cream for one meal, 8 scoops of why protein for another meal, and 1 stick of butter for a third meal if i tell you to eat 2000 cals per day with a 40/40/20 macronutrient split. yet some people still do that.
this same person whom i taught will go and say "for dinner, i had 2 servings of pasta with some olive oil, and a 200 gram pack of low fat yogurt. that's good, right?" ... I'd immediately say "no, that's horrible. that's worse than eating a big mac. why would you do that? it's an awful ratio you're using there." so his excuse would be "but you said that whole wheat pasta is a good source of carbs, olive oil for fat. and yogurt has protein, right?" still, people cannot understand what to do and how to do it. I can explain this a million times over again, it wouldn't matter. people DON'T WANT TO UNDERSTAND IT.

Another thing... i know people whom when i say "eat 200 grams of blah blah blah", they don't even bother to weigh it. they eyeball it without having any experience. I know someone who was eating 100 GRAMS OF GROUND BEEF!!! when i actually told him to eat 250 grams. when i asked him why (he has to explain himself), he says "it looked like 250 grams to me"...

look, rule of thumb... carbs and fats are usually a lot more than what you assume (in most cases, more than triple your estimate), and protein is usually 1/5-1/10 of what you expected to eat.

For example, we're talking about breakfast. if i tell anyone of you to "make sure to get a lot of protein, moderate carb intake, and just a little bit of unsaturated healthy fat. no need to be (as one of my friends said) anal about the numbers"... people would go and make this:
1 or 2 whole eggs cooked in a little bit of oil or butter
5 slices of whole wheat toast
1 glass of skimmed milk for protein (yeah... sure)
1 glass of orange juice
handful of peanuts for good fats

If one of my clients did this, i'd hit them in the face with my shoe. most of you would say "yeah, looks about right. eggs and milk have a lot of protein. orange juice is healthy, has no calories, whole wheat toast is very healthy... so it's probably protein and a little complex carbs, and nuts are very healthy... the cardiologist said so."
let's break it down here...
Protein: 20 grams (this is counting 2 eggs, and not just one)
Carbs: 100 grams
fats: 25 grams

that "small" breakfast had around 700 cals in it... the ratio was 11% protein 57% carbs 32% fat.



You know what the real killer is? people usually don't get nutritional advice from people who "look" like they should give advice. your fat friend's emails, your fat dietician who over charges you, and your obese doctor and the "authorities" when it comes to this issue. and you wonder why you, and the rest of the world, are actually getting fatter? and trust me, it's not because "i don't exercise", you can exercise min ilyoam ilain bukra (figure of speech, from today til tomorrow) and you won't look a bit better unless you are genetically gifted and you have amazing insulin response when you exercise (some people are like that... around 1% of them... so fat chance, bitches)... It's hard work, it's not easy. simple? yes. but the shit needs dedication and guts. And no... i take back what i said. not anyone can do it. You have to be determined and push everything you have in life aside and keep this as a priority til you hit your goal, then you go back to living like a normal person.




In a nutshell... you'll never look good unless you do this like a bodybuilder would. Otherwise, you'll either look like a small piece of shit, or a big piece of shit.