Caution: porn ahead, of the food type.

I have been getting a lot of questions about how I've been eating and how many calories I take in, macros, water, cardio, training.. Basically my life as a figure competitor has drawn a lot of curiosity. When I first started, before meeting my incredible coach and training partners, I did a lot of google searching trying to figure out the science behind building muscle and losing fat the way the girls I see in competitions or on Instagram do. I knew there was just no way they just "ate clean" and "trained dirty". I go hard at the gym and at CrossFit and I lost some weight and my quads were a force to be reckoned with but I definitely didn't look like Michelle Davis or Dana Lynn Bailey. I was bound and determined to figure out what "macros" were, how to really make the abs everyone said were created in the kitchen and become cheddar.. Of the shredded kind. 

When I met Brian, my sensei of a coach, the first thing he did was turn my paleo world upside down and take fruit away from me. "Too much sugar!" he kept saying. Since then my life just keeps changing weekly to shock my system and keep my body guessing. Judging by how my body reacts at our weekly meetings, Sensei Brian gives me a new meal plan every other week. My vitamins and supplements have remained fairly consistent with the exception of creatine and leucine levels. 

So due to my lack of being able to find what I deemed an acceptable answer to my "how do those bitches do it?!" diet questions.. I hereby give you my 10 rules of becoming a she wolf from a foodie perspective. 

10. Drink enough water. Yeah yeah yeah, how much water though? My coaches answer was exactly this.. Drink more than a gallon? Awesome! Drink less? I chop your pinky toes off. 

9. Quit the fruit. If your goal is to get as lean as the girls you see in those Nike Pro ads, lay off the bananas. Quit with the "an apple a day.." bullshit. Sugar is sugar and sugar turns to fat. Vitamins will keep the doctor away..

8. Take your vitamins. No. Not Gummies for overgrown children. I take numerous Women's Multivitamins a day. Vitamin C, E and Fish Oil. Glucosamine. Calcium Citrate. CoQ10. ZMA before bed. 

7. Become the Jolly Green Giant. Eat every green veggie you can get your hands on. Including lettuce. Spinach, asparagus, broccoli, brussel sprouts, green beans, kale, collards, just do it! And steam them or sauté them in coconut oil or grassfed butter. Yes that's what I cook with. That's it. My other fat comes from almonds! 

6. Eatcha proteins fools! Don't be scared of red meat just be sure it's lean cuts of grassfed antibiotic free stuff! Chicken breasts also antibiotic free. Eggs and egg whites. Salmon. Ground turkey. These will be your best friends. Your portions will vary and it depends on your body so telling you how much I eat will do you no good. But I can tell you I do 4 meals a day of these proteins with green veggies or on a salad. My other protein is whey and casein (before bed) and cottage cheese. 

5. Start loving mustard. Spicy brown and Dijon with low sodium levels will make love to your plate. That and "less than 1g of sugar per serving salsa". Keep it simple. You're eating for fuel remember? 

4. Carbs are a hard thing for me to address because when I'm cutting I have very little and when I do they are post cardio and post work out. Gluten free oats and sweet potato or jasmine rice. White rice is more quickly digested than brown. Yep you heard me. 

3. Coffee. It's a natural fat burner. And it wakes your ass up! My coach allowed me 1tsp of heavy whipping cream per large cup until recently when it became "go time" for my prep. 

2. Truvia. All you "anti artificial sweetener" assholes hush. It is 0 calories. Comes the stevia leaf and it makes my coffee and oatmeal enjoyable. Suck it. 

1. Don't miss meals. Seriously all of the above is what I eat. It seems boring but it works! Just remember why you wanted this so badly. Food is fuel. And just soldie through it. Oh and any Mrs Dash salt free seasoning and Molly McButters cheese sprinkles. You're welcome. 

Not there yet! But progress is being made!

Meal prep! Ground turkey and rice!

Brussels cooked in bacon and coconut oil. 

Cottage cheese, truvia, cinnamon whipped and chopped almonds. Tastes like cheesecake :)

When I was "bulking" - bacon. Vitamins and ground turkey. My lovely gallon o' wataaaaa!

Grilling chicken and ground turkey burgers. 

Broccoli, sweet tater mashed and grassfed sirloin!

Coffee. Yes really iced from dunkin, just black and I add my own tspn of heavy whipping cream and truvia and I'm good to go! 

Cage free eggs, antibiotic free and local!