My brief food philosophy

I just recently I found my new passion for food, well for cooking to be exact, I always been passionate about putting food in my belly. But cooking became a new and exciting experience! Since I started studying sports nutrition macros and calorie counting became more understandable and even more enjoyable. I try to experiment with cooking and combine “healthy” and “delicious” in my meals. Every nutrition expert knows that your well balanced meal must contain 50% carbohydrates, 30% proteins and 20% fats. However, I’m not going to bore you with all the numbers, because believe me, they get boring and complicated. The reason calorie and macros counting seems so damn boring, because people assume it’s all very mathematical, I agree, If you want to be precise and count every single calorie that goes into your body you’ll have to use few equations and mathematical part of your brain. However, I don’t think it’s always necessary! Nutrition is not all about calories and macronutritients, it’s about balancing your daily foods.

I’m all up for nutritious and healthy eating, but I would never say no to a big cheesy pizza or a Diam bar. The thing is many people think that if you want to be lean and have athletic physique you have to contain your cravings, suppress them and put them into a box with chains and leave them in the darkest corner of your mind in order to forget them and then look for healthy substitutions. Did you know that when you are craving chocolate, you’re actually craving carrots?! And when you’re craving crisps, what your body actually wants is a handful of spinach?! And when you’re craving sweets, you actually want a handful of soil?! All sarcasm aside, NO, when my body wants chocolate, it means it wants chocolate, when it craves crisps, it means i want crisps and when I crave for sweets, I definitely want sweets! When my body wants carrots I know that too, because I love carrots, especially with hummus, but that does not mean chocolate = carrots.

We all know that some foods are more beneficial for our health than the others. We also know we like to eat foods which are less beneficial because they are tasty af. Denying yourself of certain foods is not only unnecessary, but also creates a “forbidden fruit”mentality. You want it more. Resulting in you “caving” into your craving and eating probably twice or triple more of said food than you would have if you’ve have just eaten it when you initially wanted it.

Of course eating higher energy foods in excess, which don’t provide us with essential vitamins and minerals isn’t going to make us feel good in terms of energy and overall wellness. But they can ABSOLUTELY be included in your diet - no guilt, no earthy substitute is needed.