The pros diets include pizza, gummies, candy.... Nick Willis: "We eat a lot less healthy than everyone thinks we do."

wejo wrote:

Lopez Lomong followed up, "I'm definitely not healthy (with what I eat)... Sometimes I eat a lot of pizza. I eat anything I see myself. The only thing I won't eat too much (of) is ice cream..." He then said he doesn't eat ice cream because it is delicious and too cold. If they made a warmer ice cream sounds like he might eat more of it.

Lopez Lomong is so cool

One can fuel a Ferrari testarossa with gasoline full of lead an alcohol, and it will still run for a while, but not as long or as well as it otherwise would. I cannot help but think these athletes would have a longer and more productive careers, not to mention better overall health, if they would eat properly.

Health and fitness are not synonymous.

Food is not nearly the panacea some people think it is.

wejo wrote:Lopez Lomong said he doesn't eat ice cream because it is delicious and too cold. If they made a warmer ice cream sounds like he might eat more of it.

Thoughts?

I think warmer ice cream will just be cream. If it's still delicious he may not eat it though.

It's more important to have a balanced diet with enough of all the essentials (carbohydrates, protein, vitamins, minerals...) than it is to avoid the bad stuff. Still, I would have thought many would be quite strict.

coach wrote:

Health and fitness are not synonymous.

Bingo! I would add in performance as well.

Now when they get older and their competitive days are behind them, their diet will need to change.

coach wrote:

Health and fitness are not synonymous.

Yep.

wejo wrote:Lopez Lomong followed up, "I'm definitely not healthy (with what I eat)... Sometimes I eat a lot of pizza. I eat anything I see myself. The only thing I won't eat too much (of) is ice cream..." He then said he doesn't eat ice cream because it is delicious and too cold. If they made a warmer ice cream sounds like he might eat more of it.

Thoughts?

Lopez needs to incorporate ice cream into his diet.

Reminds me of Bill Rodgers autobiography talking about eating spoonfuls of mayonnaise right out of the jar.

bill rodgers spoonfuls of mayonnaise wrote:

Reminds me of Bill Rodgers autobiography talking about eating spoonfuls of mayonnaise right out of the jar.

Don't forget that he used to smoke cigarettes as well.

wejo wrote:

Sometimes I eat a lot of pizza.

Pizza is the poster child of unhealthy food. Whenever someone here wants to refer to a bad diet, it 's always pizza.

Why? What exacty is wrong with pizza? It's basically bread, tomato and cheese - a cheese and tomato sandwich.

Hey bro, what was your dinner? I had salad - sun-dried tomatos, fresh basil, mozzarella, mushrooms roasted with garlic, a drizzle of olive oil, and grissini breadsticks on the side.

Oh man, I just had a pizza, I suck :-(

Unless you live in a country that has no food culture and you put pulled pork, bacon, icecream, nachos, steak, chocolate and beer on your pizza, there's nothing wrong with it.

Cathy the 13 year old from the land down under should see this thread and not be afraid of pizza. Deep dish pizza is of course crap but a thin crispy base won't hurt you. Just be careful of your ingredients. Banana bread is a good desert for after dinner. I consider banana bread can be a healthy desert.

coach wrote:

Health and fitness are not synonymous.

This.

QuackQuack wrote:

Food is not nearly the panacea some people think it is.

No, but eating junk is as detrimental to your health later in life as most people will caution it is. FWIW, I don’t include pizza in the junk category, but anything with a list of ingredients you can’t pronounce.

eurogourmand wrote:

Unless you live in a country that has no food culture and you put pulled pork, bacon, icecream, nachos, steak, chocolate and beer on your pizza, there's nothing wrong with it.

Many of my favorite things are above. But if nothing is wrong with pizza. What's wrong with nachos? Cheese, tortilla chips, veggies and a meet of your choice.

I remember in high school going to 7-11 and a lady stopped me and said "oh my god you're going to have to tell me what you eat (because I was so skinny)." I had never thought about it before, "whatever I want." I then went and left with a slurpee.

While health and fitness are not synonymous, notice they didn't say they ONLY eat junk food. They just pointed out that they do deviate from "healthy" options from time-to-time.

wejo wrote:

Thoughts?

Whatever works.

Steve Jones: marathon WR holder on a steady diet of Mars bars, Coca Cola and meat pies.

Sad Epic wrote:

Mikeh33 wrote: I cannot help but think these athletes would have a longer and more productive careers, not to mention better overall health, if they would eat properly.

No, thinking is what you aren't doing. Nick Willis ran 3:29 and he is 35, thirty fucking five!

NO, you are not thinking! That's like saying that, if somebody who smokes lives to 100, then there is no problem with smoking! No, if they hadn't have smoked they might have lived to 105 or whatever.

Likewise, maybe Nick might now be Olympic Champ if he had paid more attention his diet.

One thing a great diet does - obviously - is make sure that your immune system is in great shape. And, that will result in less infections, less cold and flu and less time lost in training and less below par days when an athlete is under the weather.

I have no doubt that hundreds of athletes have failed to reach their highest possible level of achievement because of their poor diets.

wejo wrote:

eurogourmand wrote:

Unless you live in a country that has no food culture and you put pulled pork, bacon, icecream, nachos, steak, chocolate and beer on your pizza, there's nothing wrong with it.

Many of my favorite things are above. But if nothing is wrong with pizza. What's wrong with nachos? Cheese, tortilla chips, veggies and a meet of your choice.

I remember in high school going to 7-11 and a lady stopped me and said "oh my god you're going to have to tell me what you eat (because I was so skinny)." I had never thought about it before, "whatever I want." I then went and left with a slurpee.

Tortilla chips are a fried food in case you didn't know. They take tortillas, cut them up and then fry them in oil.

Elite runners are eating around 3000+ calories a day. So they could easily eat 2000 calories of a healthy well balanced diet+ 1000+ calories of junk food to prevent getting too lean.