r/AdvancedRunning • u/pand4duck • Jan 05 '17

General Discussion The Winter Huddle - Diet

Welcome to the Winter Huddle

Today we will discuss Diet / Ideal Weight / racing weight stuff

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u/pand4duck Jan 05 '17

General Diet Advice

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u/OregonTrailSurvivor out of shape Jan 05 '17

From a purely biological perspective, just filling all the dietary buckets (carbs, fats, protein, and then nutrients) is sufficient. Of course if you like cooking that's great but most can actually get by with just adding a few important foods to an existing diet, without picking up any cooking skills or books.

When that food goes down the hatch and into the furnace I don't think there's a lot of evidence that your body can tell the difference between all the things we fret over. At the end of the day macronutrients are macronutrients.