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General information: What is the TeamLewis Plan? First of all, it's not a diet. If we called it a diet, we'd never follow it and we don't think any of you would, either. What are the first 3 letters of the word? (That's enough to turn us away!) Besides, you can't live your life on a diet. That's something you might try for a quick blitz for a special occasion. Bodybuilding and fitness is a lifestyle of goals. It takes dedication and the ability to stick to a plan, not an occasional diet. Our basic philosophy is to eat a high level of protein every day and limit fat intake. Our carbs are complex and cycled according to our training program. We're always eating, it seems! We eat 6 - 8 small meals a day. Since we don't have time to prepare and real food for each meal, 2 - 4 of our daily meals are 'fake' - well, they are protein shakes or a high protein bar. What do we have here for you? If you're interested, we have our list of food that we eat during contest prep. This list is growing as we do more research and find foods that we think are 'contest legal', as we call them. Next we have our Carb Cycle information. This is just the tip of the iceberg of information that we've researched. If we posted everything, our web site host would make us buy more space on the server to hold all of the info! I've written and published an article on Carb Cycling, the link is provided. Finally, we have some information on the Glycemic Index. This refers to a classification for carbs - low to medium to a high index on an established chart. I've been experimenting with this for about 3 years. I'm reading a good book about this now (info is listed below, in case you'd like to get a copy for yourself from your favorite bookstore). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Links to more info within this site: Team Lewis Food List: foods that we include in our contest prep nutrition. Carb Cycle: how we cycle, or vary, our carb intake each day during contest prep. Published article on Carb Cycling: Variety Feeds Muscle, Starves Fat by Laura Lewis, Sweat Magazine, January 2001 Glycemic Index: information we find useful and interesting about different types of carbohydrates. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ References include: Book: The Protein Power Life Plan, Michael R Eades, MD & Mary Dan Eades, MD Book: The Food Bible, Judith Willis Book: Nutrition Almanac (5th ed.), Lavon J. Dunne Book: The Body Code, A Personalized Wellness and Weight Loss Plan, Jay Cooper, M.S. with Kathryn Lance Magazines that we're reading now: Oxygen Flex Muscular Development NPC News |