Where's My Six Pack: Processed Foods, Metabolism, and your digestion

So here are the foods that I got on sale:

Sweet Potatoes(.79lb) 3 large
bagels(2 for 1 bag)
arnold whole wheat bread (2 for 1 loaf),
turkey meat (2 for 1 packs)
blueberry sale (1lb)
fat free organic milk (2.99 gallon)
split breast chicken (2 for 1 packs - 3 breasts each)
pure protein bars(10 @ $1 a piece - regular $1.39-$1.49)
tomato(from my garden- having a surplus at the moment)

For me this is a good savings, I support my food with my beachbody business so I an afford of few extras, but this would still be low or what I consider a good deal.

Ok, let's break this down into categories that will be helpful in planning.

Starchy Complex Carbohydrates Not Processed:
Sweet Potatoes(.79lb) 3 large

Starchy Complex Carbohydrates Processed:
bagels(2 for 1 bag)
arnold whole wheat bread (2 for 1 loaf),

Fibrous Complex Carbohydrates:
tomato(from my garden- having a surplus at the moment)

Proteins Processed:
turkey meat (2 for 1 packs)

Simple Carbohydrates:
blueberry sale (1lb)
split breast chicken (2 for 1 packs - 3 breasts each)

Milk:
fat free organic milk (2.99 gallon)

Carb/Protein:
pure protein bars(10 @ $1 a piece - regular $1.39-$1.49)

Now lets talk about my favorite subject, digestion. The goal for maximum nutrition and fat loss is to have things moving smoothly in your digestive tract. When your digestive track is slowed or blocked you are not getting the nutrition you need that will give you the energy to complete workouts or just do your daily job. You will fatique. This will slow that wonderful metabolism down causing the fat burning process to come to a screaching halt. This is why you see people working out like crazy, go wreck their nutrition with tons of processed foods and it kills their metabolism thus killing their fat burning machines, thus no weight loss or muscle gains.

Rob your muscles of nutritients when they want it and watch how fast they rebel. It's a chain effect. If you aren't feeding your muscles adiquatly because you are eating to much digestive blocking foods close together, the muscle may look elsewhere for muscle building proteins. Guess where it looks? Itself. Muscle will canabolize itself for the proteins it needs to survive. This in turn will slow your metabolism even slower. The more lean muscle you have the faster your metabolism will be, thus burning fat.
The goal in this blog is to analyze the food so that all the slow digesting/processed foods are eatin in such a way as to reduce the slowness that may occur from eating it. This goes hand in hand with budgeting for food. Many processed foods are on sale.That is why many people are over weight. What I want to show is how to eat some of those things and still reduce body fat.
This blog is not intended to promote processed foods and would advice to reduce all of your processed food intake and only eat whole foods. That would be my goal. These are steps to help mitigate the intake when you get the two for one turkey meat.

Quick lesson on macro nutrients:

Carbohydrates: fuel for your body
Protein: slow burning fuel used for repairing your bodyFat: The glue that holds both carbohydrates and proteins together

Starchy Carbohydrates: high powered fuel
Non-Starchy Carbohydrates: normal fuel

Some definitions
Non-Processed: not run through a machine, picked from a plant, it walked, it flew, it swam and went straight to our plate. chicken breasts, carrots, etc.
Processed: it was run through some sort of machine, it's has wrapper on it, you don't see it in nature. breads, protein bars, candy bars, luncheon meats, etc.

Now that we have some definitions that match my grocery list lets talk about the overal plan.

Rules:
You want to reduce the number of processed foods you eat back to back OR the amounts. If I have bread(processed ) in the morning, then I dont have a processed food for my next snack. Spread them out.
If you have two processed foods a day then try to eat more fiborous foods with or in between your processed food meals. Preferably with. You should acutally eat a good amount of fiborous foods anyway, but especialy on high processed food days.

Part 3: I'll talk more about how to use the carbohydrates as fuel and combining that with processed foods and how it travels through the digestive track.

Coach John

Coach John Cowart
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