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    If you're struggling to stick to your diet, it could be that your diet is too varied. While the typical advice is to include as much variety as possible, from a practical perspective it might be the worst piece of advice. When you wake up, you shouldn't have to think through which one of 20 options you're going to have for breakfast. Same for dinner. It's a waste of time and only causes you to burn through energy that could otherwise be spent on your more demanding pursuits. If you're wasting mental energy on breakfast or lunch, you're setting yourself up for diet failure later in the day.
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    The Willpower Factor – Two things are clear: We use willpower to make decisions, focus and be creative, and we only have a limited amount of daily willpower. If you use too much early on, your decision-making becomes lazy by the end of the day. Now think about when you're most likely to cheat on your diet. It's probably after dinner. That's because you've depleted your willpower. You've spent all day making decisions and handling regular life issues, and now your ability to make quality decisions has diminished.
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    But what if you already know what you're going to eat? Now there's no risk of choosing something that'll derail your goals. You can just execute the plan. If you can standardize all the "non-creative" components of your day (like meals), you can save all your thinking for other things. For at least 80% of the time, eat a habitual, standard diet. Use the remaining 20% to be a little more adventurous with recipes, social meals, or dining out. Save this for the weekends or periods when you have more time and mental capacity.
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    Good look at it. Mine is pretty boring. I have weighted out veggie, weighted out meats and rice and that about it. I have oats or bran cereal with protein powder in the milk for breakfast and one day a week on the weekend I have a sit down breakfast right before I hit the gym. So on that meal I do what I want. Pancakes, sure! Waffles, sausage, bacon doesn’t matter but I make sure to use that nutrients immediately. The rest of the week is boring. I change the meat once a week, I change the veggies once a week too.


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    I just try to keep it basic, so I don't have to think much about it.
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    My diet gets pretty boring, not a lot of variety, I eat portions based on instinct than a ridged set rules, although when Im pre-contest it gets more exact.

    Right now I'm trying to get a tad more lean but I still take a huge cheat meal thats dirty at least once every other wk
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    I mess up yesterday and didn’t check my fridge for my meals and woke this morning to nothing prepared for me. So this threw my day off big time. All the way to my lifts as well. The intensity was there, the strength was there. We are creatures of habit at times and when something gets throw off it can mess with us. I feel that I still got my nutrients in, maybe not as clean but that one thing stayed with me and....well I felt as if I wasn’t prepared for my lift just like I was prepared for my day.

    When you fail to prepare then prepare to fail.


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