Would Not Eating A Full Balanced Diet Affect Your Energy Dramatically?
hey i used to play soccer ran all the time and had alot of energy. i was in very good shape. i used to not eat alot because i would throw it up with all the running, so i ate big dinners. i felt fine then a year after i was training really hard i was eating alot of junk food. fast food… whatever. and i started to get reallly tired. all the time. and a lot less energy. i didnt think about it til now but could it of been because of my diet. i am still sluggish and its been a while. could that be because of my diet…? if so what would a good nutritions diet be like?
Absolutley, your energy levels are affected by your diet more than any other factor. When you eat lots of sugary or floury foods, your body overproduces insulin in an attempt to deal with the sugar rush. Insulin overproduction causes insulin resistance in your cells — which makes your body produce more insulin, creating an energy-draining cycle which will eventually result in constant torpor and morbid obesity.
The solution is to CUT OUT all flour and sugar. This sucks really bad for the first two weeks — you will literally find yourself laying on the couch, willing to kill a hobo for a cookie. But if you can make it through those two weeks, following the diet below, you will find your energy begins to return, your hunger pangs vanish entirely, and you’ll start to regain health and vigor.
The diet is simple. Eat about 40% of each meal in the form of meat, as raw as is medically advisable (i.e., cook your chicken, pork, and eggs through, but leave your beef, lamb, and hamburger as uncooked as you can stomach it). Eat about 30% of each meal in the form of vegetables — preferably 2 different colors of veggies at each meal, and at least 5 different colors across the day. Eat about 20% of your meals in the form of fruit — same rules as the veggies. The last 10% should be dairy, NONE OF IT LOW-FAT. Reduced-fat and skim milk have literally no laws regarding what’s allowed to be put into them, and because of that, they are loaded with garbage to make them look and feel more like real milk. Other low-fat dairy products are loaded with sugars to make them taste like something (no-fat, no-sugar foods taste like cardboard, so if you take the fat out, they have to replace it with something.)
Snack on nuts (not peanuts!), cheese, and seeds. Eat 5-8 small meals every day instead of 2-3 big ones. Any time you’re hungry in the least, have a handful of nuts or some (not American!) cheese.
By eating like this, you’re forcing your body to burn fat instead of carbohydrates, and you’re getting a wide enough spread of foods that you won’t be missing any essential acids, vitamins, minerals, or other nutrients.
The last step is to drink at least 8 ounces of water per 20 pounds of body weight every day.
Do these things, and make it past that first two hellish weeks, and you’ll be feeling better in no time flat.
If you eat a balanced diet and not over eat then it’s good, but if you eat too much that’s when it’s bad and you lose energy. Junk food will really kill your energy so you need to back off of that a little at a time.
Do small doable goals like no junk food for 3 days and keep adding a day at a time. Eventually you won’t have a strong desire for it anymore and will want to eat right.
Yes, your energy levels are partly dependent on your diet. you need a well balanced meal. The simplest thing I would say is put tomatoes on everything. They taste good and are good for you. I had the same problem and adding tomatoes to my diet gave me more energy and I felt more optimistic about everything. Now tomatoes are less available to me because I lost my house and had to move in with my mom and she has none and I feel it.