In this week’s blog/podcast I (Coach Tadris Parker) will discuss the relationship between your exercise, what times of day you eat, and why it’s important to eat real food sources for better performance. There are times when we may have just the exercise part down, but not the eating. There are times in which we have our eating under control but have not found the time to exercise. There are times in which we go hours without eating, but when we do eat, we eat like an animal. Eating everything in sight. How can we put it all together? Let me start with running/walking/exercise. 

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Running/Walking

When it comes to exercise, it is so important that you schedule it into your calendar. In a world full of a to-do list, are YOU on your to-do list? For me, I love waking up early and doing my runs in the early morning. Life gets busy for me after 6 am. Since I know that, I plan for 5 am runs. I love exercising first thing in the morning so that there are no distractions that may come up in the day that will cause me to miss a run or a walk. I also started a walk or run a mile a day streak to keep me motivated. This way if I did miss a 5 am run, and I do miss them regularly, I schedule another time slot in my day to accomplish my goal. If you are not a morning person, no problem! As long as you schedule yourself that time slot in the day, it’s fine. Treat this alone time or if you run with a partner as any other appointment. When someone asks you for your time during the 5 pm hour, you can say; “I’m sorry, I can’t, I have an appointment at that time.”  

Create Your Routine:

I may have a 400-day walk or run a mile a day streak going, but that doesn’t mean that you have to. What are your goals? Perhaps you are new to running, start with just 3 days per week. 3 days per week free up so much time to do other things that you enjoy doing. 3 days per week is easy to schedule and will not be intimidating. How long should you schedule? Again, this is up to you, 15 minutes to 30-minute workouts are great. You may have more time, then by all means schedule that time for yourself. 

Intermittent Fasting:

I’ve had the privilege of interviewing some great people on our podcast who have used intermittent fasting as a tool to drop some serious weight. The philosophy is simple. Stop/Start. Stop eating after dinner, and give your body 13-hours without food, gum, or anything that can break your fast. Only consuming water, black coffee, or tea. Opening your eating window for breakfast. If dinner was at 7 pm, open your eating window at 8 am. I recommend exercising in a fasted state to maximize your results. In this way, you would have digested your food from dinner. Upon waking up and getting a 30-minute walk or run in you would be targeting belly fat. If you are seriously looking to lose 30-40 lbs then start to add an hour of fasting per week. The target would be to get to a 16 hour fast. We call that 16/8. 

Whole30/Whole60

In March 2018, I tried a round of Whole30 and my whole world changed. my inflammation in my body drastically disappeared. In the 30 days, I lost 8 lbs, in the 5th week, I lost another 6lbs. After eating only real food sources and getting such amazing results, I never returned to taking diet supplements again. My highest weight was 217lbs. So I turned to take diet shakes and teas to help get the weight off. It helped to an extent. 

Why couldn't I lose more? The ingredients had a lot of additives, sugar substitutes, along with soy that was slowing down my progress. The worst part about it was my body age was 50, although I was only 42 years old. I was running half marathons and thinking that I was eating well and my metabolic age would not budge. From 2018 until today, I would do a round of Whole30 before every big race that I would do. Each time improving not only my race times, achieving personal best, but seeing major improvements in my metabolic age as well. 

My fastest one-mile time came during rounds of Whole30. My current goal at the age of 46 years old is to reach a 6:30 mile time. My last mile test was 7:07 and my first step is to get back under 7 minutes. On November 11th, I decided that I would step up my game and do a Whole60 rather than a Whole30. Day one was November 12th. On November 13th a teenager decided to make special brownies and have his mother drive them over to our house. I don’t know why he always makes these brownies during my months of Whole30, he has this sick sense to know I’m doing a round of Whole30. I missed these brownies on two other occasions. Since I was only on day 2, I broke and had them. During quarantine, it was such a loving thing to do with his time. Thanks, Caleb. Day One, back on it on November 14th! There is no weighing yourself during Whole30, however, I weigh myself every race day. We participated in a 5k on Thanksgiving morning. 

Here are my stats in just 13 days:

November 12th 

Weight: 178.6 

Metabolic Age: 49

November 26th 

Weight: 172 (-6.6)

Metabolic Age: 47

Wow, it still amazes me. My goal is to do Whole60, not only to get my fastest mile time but to see just how low my metabolic age can get. 43? 42? 

I also plan on crushing my personal best half marathon time of 1:59:51. We shall see, please route me on! My goal after my Whole60 experiment is to transition to living a Paleo lifestyle 6 out of 7 days a week to hold on to my new accomplishments. 

Day #21

My Latest Instagram Post: 

I'm going to start posting some of my Keeping It Real 💯 Meals that I choose to break my fast with here on Instagram. Look, to become a better runner, I need to keep my nutrition real. If you have health goals are you doing the same? 

People think that Intermittent Fasting is the way to lose weight and eat WHATEVER they want. It doesn't work that way. You may lose some weight but still, be unhealthy on the inside. How do I know? I have a scale that tells me about my metabolic age. At 46 years old I don't want to be 50 on the scale and that's what I am when I intermittent fast and still eat pizza. My number comes down when I intermittent fast and break my fast with real nutritional food sources. 

It doesn't happen in a week either. It takes some time. But it's worth the investment of your time. I like to do 30 days, but I'm currently experimenting with 60 days to test my will, and power to avoid all sugar, grains, soy, dairy, legumes, and alcohol. Those are high inflammatory foods that tend to give people issues in life. We live with these issues thinking that it's normal to feel that way. IT'S NOT! 

Last night's fresh salmon and spinach wrapped up day 20/60 

(1/3 of the way to my goal) ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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-Coach Tadris 

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