I'm still playing now despite my age..

Still Semi-Pro, and earn the rest of my income from instructing and organizing the youth section in the club. And work part time as an Hotel Security guard.
For 3 years, I was a full-time player, but in a semi-pro league.. Had a good year the previous season so had a solid base to get a decent pay-cheque.
But from 25 (and counting) active years in football (no Eddie, not "soccer"

), where most of my youth years was in one of Swedens biggest clubs, we had tons of health/food/gym classes in order to give us the tools we need to suceed aside from the actual game only.
And thru the years, I've learnt that it might not always feel perfect despite your efforts to eat and drink correct.
But what really does make an impact is when you eat and drink properly over a longer period of time.
In the beginning, your brain will start telling you that you need candy and stuff. That's a part of the brain that's called (directly translated from Sweedish) "reward-center".
It want you to "reward" your body with sweets..
So why is that?
It was'nt long ago that most of us on this planet had a limited supply of food.
If we go back only one century, we still needed the "reward center" to tell us that we need to eat when we get the chance.
Evolution takes a lot of time for a species that live in 75 year cycles.
The modern world and what it can offer us simply ran away from us too fast.
Now, while still beeing slaves to our "reward center", with the unlimited sources and channels to come across sweets have made us a fater species.
We can tame our "reward center" thru a strict diet.
Not strict as in no food.
Strict as in knowing what we're eating.
It's all about making your body used to less sugar/carbonhydrates. To a level that our bodies are still designed for.
I can guarantee that following a low carbonhydrate intakte will give you a healthyer body and feeling within 2 weeks. And within a mounth, you'll start to see results.
Add 2 sessions/week to exercize and results will show quickly.
It's all about motivation. And as we all know, if we can't see results, our motivation goes down.
So take a picture prior day 1, and always compare to that photo, and you'll see the results.
Just comparing with what you saw yesterday in the mirror will not give you any indication of your progress.
How much calories you can eat depends on how many calories you're using.
If you have an active job, you need to eat more carbonhydrates compared to if you're a multi-billionaire who only watch tv 7 days a week.
Something that can be worth mentioning is that when I refer to chicken as a source of protein (buils muscles), and mention pasta with long boiling time (13-15 minutes) as a good source of "slow" carbonhydrates is that both contain protein and carbonhydrates.
So why does chicken end up in the protein box, and pasta in the carbonhydrate box?
It's what the food contains most of that decides where it belongs.
The body need carbonhydrates, remember that.
But your body needs the right kind (slow) and the right amount of carbonhydrates.
When I'm in a period of 2 weeks without training, I remove the pasta from my plate and eat chicken and wedgetebles only.
A good sallad is defenetly a good way to make your meals tasty..
Here's a recepe to you who want to try something healthy and extremely good taste.
Cucumber
Tomato
Red Onion
Onion
Olives (not too much)
Feta cheese (not too much)
Walnuts
Bread croutons (not too much)
Alligator Pear
1/2 chicken
Slice all ingridients (not the chicken. The chicken can be go in ghe sallad slightly bigger) in small parts (1/2 inch pieces).
Add some *olive oil and vineger.
Add a tad of salt and black pepper and mix it all up. 👍
Last part:
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Oil.. There's tons of different oils to use for cooking and eating.
There's 3 categorys of oil.
Oil from vegetables = vegetable oil
Oil from animals = animalic oil
Oil used to frie french fries in = Trans Fat
Oil from vegetables are much healthier than animalic and trans oil.
Some animalic oils are ok, but in smaller doses. Something like Omega 3 (from fish).
Trans Fat should be avoided at all costs.
Red meat and pork contain a lot of not desired animalic fat and should, if not be avoided, at least not base your food intake on it.
Birds and fish are good sources of protein.
Eggs and beans as well! 👍
That was it for this time.
I'm pretty interested in the subject and love to "talk" about it.. Hence this wall of text.

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Take care out there!
And I'll see you guys soon on track again!
Oh, just one more thing..
Since all in here are petrol heads, I'll try to explain it in short terms.
Protein = engine, tyres, Diff, Gearbox etc.
Carbonhydrates = Fuel
Vegtebles = the welding, bolts and screws that holds the car together..
How about that one?
