Everybody gets on me about the way I eat... or the way I always walk around with no shirt... So I thought I'd lay down a little insight on diet and try to be educational for once.
Weigh in pics at 118lbs (left), 108lbs (top), and 110 lbs
Diet makes all the difference.
Remember when you were in middle school and you used to do those math equations that were like….
“If Sally has 2 green shirts, 1 blue shirt, and one pair of
jeans, how many different outfits can sally make?”
Well that’s what the “Nico Ball Diet” is like… I mean,
really its how every fighter and body builder here in Brazil eats. “Chicken and
sweet potatoes” is the key to achieving what Brazilians call “being dry” or cut
or ripped or just down right sexy!
Drying out, it should be noted, is different than bulking up.
The goal is to develop more muscular
definition and functionality as opposed to full on mass.
The magical diet combination includes: Chicken breasts,
sweet potato, whole grain rice, and whole grain pasta. You can throw in fish too, but my lack of
cooking skills leaves me eating canned tuna, which is filled with sodium and
other preservatives.
On top of the basic combination, I eat a ton of fruits and
vegetables. Every Tuesday, I go to a farmers market and stock up on a ton of
colorful things, some of which I have no idea what they actually are… like
Cacui.
But whatever, its healthy.
So basically, all I ever eat is…. Chicken with sweet
potatos, egg whites with sweet potatos, chicken with whole grain rice, and tuna
with whole grain pasta. Then add in some colors (fruits and veggies) to make it
pretty and get the right vitamins and viola… abs
Oh yeah, I forget to mention…. The don’ts
I don’t eat fat or
sugar and I cut out any unnecessary sodium and carbs.
Anyone that truly knows me, knows that I consume and
unhealthy amount of coffee with a ridiculous amount of sugar on a daily basis!
Well not anymore! I use honey to substitute sugar and I
don’t drink juice or soda. Yeah juice is just as bad as soda must of the time,
worse if you consider that fact that it tries to disguise itself as healthy.
This also means no acai! Whomp whomp! No that’s a lie no one goes with no Acai
but I only have 1 a week, if not every two weeks. So basically all I drink is
water and supplements, AAAAND, I make a lot of natural juices with fresh fruit
(and spinach) when my body can’t bare any more water intake!
Fruits, veggies, and a ton of vitamins!
Nothing frozen, nothing processed!
One of my friends even has me drinking (and even worse,
enjoying) beat and carrot juice. I throw in some cucumber to sweeten it up
which is ok. What isn’t ok is putting in orange. It’s a really common to find
the combination of beats, carrots, and oranges, but apparently, the acidity
from the oranges messes with the nutrient absorption of the beats and carrots,
so you end up gaging down beats for no reason!
Beats, Spinach, and Carrts baby!
No fats!
That
means I don’t eat butter! I’m sure there are many other things that fall under
this category but butter is the big one. I cook with olive oil (because I can’t
afford coconut oil). The only kind of cheese I eat is “quejo minas”. I’m not a
foodie, so, I can’t explain why this cheese is the only kind of cheese I
can eat, but whatever, I do as I’m told. I have heard from a friend that quejo
minas forms a big part of the Gracie diet as it balances out the acidic levels
from the massive amounts of fruits the Gracies try to shove down your throat!
From a more practical perspective… cheese is yummy especially when you can’t
put butter, salt, or ketchup on stuff to get some of that good old American
super-processed taste that I know and love!
No turn up!
But all science aside, take into consideration my sport of choice:
MMA. Ever get punched in the liver when it’s filled with Henny? It hurts… a
lot. Your capacity to deal with a hard body shot is increased incredibly when
your liver isn’t busy trying to save you from alcohol poisoning!
Get Hip
The physical work is not enough, if your only paying attention to your training and your recovery YOUR NOT DOING ENOUGH!!! No amount of hard work can balance out diet deficiencies!
I come here every Tuesday to buy my
fruit. We talk about fighting and he
feeds me!
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