Healthy Diet

[johnmarley]

Make sure you have enough water or sports drinks like Powerade or Energade to quench your thirst. Sports drinks are better than water, because they contain fluids, carbohydrates and electrolytes. Avoid alcohol for at least 24 hours before your round. Otherwise, have a good healthy breakfast before your tee-off.

[zeg]

Originally Posted by johnmarley

Sports drinks are better than water, because they contain fluids, carbohydrates and electrolytes.

Yes and no, if you're working out very hard and consuming large quantities of water without food, this is true and can be a life-saving fact for, e.g., triathletes or marathon runners.  If you're snacking, you should be getting plenty of electrolytes from the food so I'd think for a typical golfer, even on a very hot day, you'd be fine drinking water.  A lot of the sports drinks contain many more sugars and calories than you really need, and I prefer to get calories from food.

[michelles]

Well...I've eating lot of junk for the past many days..hell lot of icecreams..chocolates ( my husby use to buy this for my kids and I use to eat all of it ) and now I am not even ready to eat rice coz avoiding rice would really make much difference in loosing weight.. so avoid rice and eat more dry fruits and stuff..I will make much difference for sure and would increase your resistance.

[ks8829]

I watch a video on the ten best things to eat and the ten worst foods to eat on You Tube that helped me understand foods to eat.

1) Eat 5 small meals instead of 3 big meals

I had a physical and my doctor mention several good points

1) men waist line should be 36, women 34.  Reduce your belly fat

2) Please check with your own doctor prior to doing any exercises.  my doctor recommend that I work to keep my heart beat up for 30 minutes at least 3 - 5 times a week.  The formula for what your heart beat should be is

180 - age

180 - 53 = 127 beats for me

My doctor also said that you can spread the 30 minutes into separate sessions of

10

10

10

and still get the same benefit of getting the blood flowing in your body and exercising your heart.

Please check with your own doctor prior to doing this exercise.

[saevel25]

Waist size is dependent on the person, but yea, 36 and below sounds realistic

I like HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) cardio, you burn more calories in a shorter period of time, and you increase your metabolism as well and burn more through out the day.

I the 5 meals is good for keeping energy balanced and not getting cravings during the day. I find buying groceries per week helps, because i buy what i only need. So i have to ration, and it keeps me from over eating and snacking.

[JoelCochran]

I used to be a vegetarian but after reading "Why we get fat" by Gary Taubes I am now extremely low carb.  My diet is primarily meat, eggs, and cheese, with some green vegetables.  Since January I have lost 28 lbs and 4 pant sizes.  I'm still losing about .5 lb per week, only 30 more lbs to go!

[ks8829]

I heard that it is better to eat 5 small meals a day rather than 3 larger or in another words,  grazing all day on the right foods, walnut, almonds, salads, chicken etc.

[GpGolfFitness]

It is better to eater smaller, more frequent meals throughout the day...

Through a factor called the "thermic effect of food," you will automatically boost your metabolism by following this meal plan. It is easy, effective, AND you get to eat all the the time.

I have been doing this for years now and not only is my metabolism running high, but my energy is consistent  since this strategy helps stabilize blood sugar. Great for golfers, great for anybody!

-Grant