In the books and movies, James Bond’s diet is rich with red meat, eggs, bacon or sausage, and coffee. His favorite breakfast includes scrambled eggs, coffee, and cream. He’s also not shy about trying the local cuisine wherever he goes, and real world spies do the same, adapting to rich and exotic cuisines while staying in fighting shape.
FOOD. REAL FOOD.
Contrary to the “health” advice of the past 50 years, this turns out to be a very good example of what you really should be eating: lots of good fat, meat and vegetables, and only a moderate amount of simple carbs and sugar.
The Gentleman Spy Diet is another take on something that has been getting a lot of attention these days: the paleo/Bulletproof/ketogenic diet.
A lot of folks make money making this really complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Just eat real food.
What is real food? Meat and vegetables, good fats, some fruit, little starch and no wheat or sugar.
If you can kill it and cook it, or pick it off a tree or out of a ground and eat it without processing, it’s real food.
Don’t dismiss this as something you can just blow off. Yes, time in the gym is required to build the perfect body. But what you eat has an equal – if not greater – impact on your body composition and how you feel.
It’s time to ditch the junk food, the empty calories, and the TV dinners. Start eating real food.
The good news: all the best foods fall into this category: the perfect steak with grilled veggies, eggs and bacon, and everything from chicken tikka masala to sashimi.
If you’re eating the Gentleman Spy diet to get or stay in great shape and you feel like you’re missing out on your favorite foods, you’re doing it wrong.
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If you want to start incorporating these changes now, the best place to start is the Bulletproof Diet cheat sheet, The Paleo Solution and The Primal Blueprint for more in depth information, and Eat Stop Eat on how to incorporate intermittent fasting for spectacular results.
In order to get the best results, you need to be cooking for yourself at home instead of eating out all the time. Tim Ferriss’ The 4 Hour Chef and Alton Brown’s I’m Just Here For The Food are good places to start. Bonus point: women love a man who can cook!
More information is available inside the full Gentleman Spy program.