Did it ever occur to you guys that those that SELL nutrition plans do so because they may know what theyre doing?
There are a zillion different nutrition plans. With five minutes on google we can find ones that say you
must eat food X, and then others that say you
must not eat food X.
"Drink a gallon of milk a day," says one guy, "But milk isn't a human food and it has chemicals that will kill you," says another. And so on, with rice, soy, corn, salt, meat, eggs, and a zillion other foods all the subject of someone's pet hate or fetish.
They can't
all be right.
We can have a variety of diets and training plans and still get decent results. It's amazing the crap people shovel into themselves, the bad training habits they have, and they don't actually hurt themselves, and actually make gains. The human body is pretty resilient.
Aside from actually bad diets, there are a big variety, not only in simple things like vegetarian vs non-vegetarian, but in more funky things like how much protein to have to grow muscle. Markos I understand advocates 4g protein per kg bodyweight daily - so for an 80kg person, 320g protein, equivalent to 1.2kg steak, tuna, a whole small chicken, etc. Whereas the AIS advocates 1.2-1.8g, or 96-154g daily, equivalent to 400-600g steak.
Who's right? Which is it, do I have to eat a whole chook a day, or just a big chicken breast? Let's look at results! Do either of them have everyone come down with gout, kidney stones, or protein deficiency? Nope. Strength results? Well... they
both get really impressive results. Conclusion? Eat the breast, if you want to eat the whole chook you can, it won't do you any harm.
Apparently the body is pretty resilient and versatile. The mind, however...
In
Red Dwarf once they explained why Rimmer had never become an officer. He had to sit an exam for it, and when the exam was three months away, he'd do a big elaborate study plan. It'd take him a week or two to do it, by which time his plan needed to be updated. Which would take another week, and then... it was the day before the exam, and he'd write up a final 24 hour cramming plan. Then pass out from exhaustion, show up late for the exam and write "fish" down the page.
This sort of thing happens in physical training. People look for the One True Perfect Workout Plan and Diet, and spend so long planning it that they never actually get out there and just lift heavy and eat some good food.