Improving your diet in 6 simple phases.

Notice I didn't say easy? The concepts of improving health and fitness through diet and exercise are very simple... but not very easy. I hope that makes sense.

Here is a 6 phase implementation strategy for cleaning up your diet to improve health, fitness and body composition from 70sBig.com.You can (and should) read the whole article here. Something you should know about the good folks at 70sBig.com, they are blunt, straight to the point, and don't pull any punches.

Phase I
- Stop eating processed food (condiments still fine, yogurt fine)
- Stop soda
- Limit milk (or drop it completely if you’re fat)


Phase II
- Cook more meat
- Improve the quality of carbohydrates (single-ingredient sources like oats, rice, whole grain stuff along with obvious tubers/fruit/veggie)
- Increase water intake


Phase III
- Increase fat intake (good oils, nuts, cream, butter, etc.)
- Get consistent with eating times
- Time food intake with respect to training


Phase IV
- Reduce the less natural carbs (like rice and noodles) and get them primarily from tubers, fruits, veggies
- Stop eating chemical sweeteners


Phase V
- Adjust macros for goals (long-term)
- Learn to adjust macros for body fat and weight changes (short-term)


Phase VI
- Tweak specifics for health (e.g. lowering carbs, sodium or fructose to decrease blood pressure)

You are not big boned, ma'am