ROI NUTRITION Q+ A: What Foods Can I Safely Binge On?

What kind of food can I safely binge eat?

The answer to this question isn't really an answer but more so a strategy. The strategy is to set up your fat loss diet (when most people binge) in a way that includes meals that you really enjoy as well as potentially having a free meal or two per week. Very few people are ever going to be able to forever cut out some of those delicious fat and carb heavy treats that most people enjoy. if you are someone that doesn't ever want to enjoy a good ribeye steak, restaurant breakfast, ice cream, pizza, or burgers then this does not apply to you. For the rest of us humans to prevent the desire to binge stay away from foods that trigger you to absolutely go nuts. I call them escalators. I know personally that my binge cycle most often starts with 1 missed scheduled meal. I then think I want a beer because "I've been working extremely hard and I deserve a beer on (whatever day) to enjoy doing what kept me busy and prevented me from getting in my scheduled meal. It starts with 1 beer which leads to 3 in a half hour which leads to a handful of pretzels which leads to three more beers and crackers with cheese and meat which leads to 3 more beers and pizza which leads to 1 more beer and as much chocolate as I can shove into my cake hole. WHAT I HAVE DONE TO PREVENT THIS IS—— on days that I know I'm going to be extremely busy I prep each of my meals, heat them up in the microwave, and place them in a food jar. That way once I know it is meal time I just simply have to find a spoon and eat my meal. If I miss a meal and it leaves me wanting to cheat on my diet I simply reach for my planned meal and eat it before I make a decision to grab something else. 99% of the time once I get that planned meal in (no matter how behind I am on meals for the day) my desire to cheat disappears. REMEMBER that a successful weightl oss journey and body transformation comes down to 1 simple thing.

1. you must do what you're supposed to do ESPECIALLY when you don't feel like doing it.

If you keep this in mind and place this at the forefront of your mentality you will be in great shape to continue your consistency game to achieve your goal.

If you're falling off the wagon hard then reach for better options than what your typical cheats are.

Examples: Ice cream- make a protein ice cream, choose a fat free ice cream (Kemps) Chips- Pretzel chips are a better option, I personally use rice cakes (white Cheddar flavor) to curb that craving pizza- homemade pizza w/ fat free dough, fat free cheese, canadian bacon, chicken, and vegetables

food that is safe to binge on- Dill Pickles, celery, salad (with no fat and low calorie dressing like fat free italian or anything from walden farms), broccoli, other green veggies.

When I was towards the end of my last cut I lost my shit and had a binge moment. I literally ate an entire bunch of celery with yellow mustard in the rib the entire length of the celery stalk. Although I was bloated for a day after this I did very minimal damage to my goal because celery is not very calorie dense and actually requires as much (some people actually theorize more) calories to digest than you consume from eating it.