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Fran
I'm glad people are liking the article. Thanks for reading it. My nutritional advice is to first get off of sugar and all those fake sweeteners, diet soda, etc. Then I want people to get off grains and legumes and eat quality protein and fat. I tell them to live on meats and produce. The health aspects (proteins that are bad for your gut, etc) are explained in Loren Cordain's Paleo Diet books, but just as important, if people can give up grains, they are giving up junky, starchy, sugary carbs. They need to replace these calories with high quality good-sized meals.
It is sooo much harder to get trainees to change their diet than to start lifting. And some people try it for too short a time, or they have other problems I'm not able to figure out, such as thyroid, pituitary, who knows what else. I'd like to be a stronger leader for my trainees in the nutrition area. At some point I lose confidence and have to butt out.