Nutrition

Eat Your Egg Yolks

I have a confession.

I've been discriminating against egg yolks for years.  Believing the egg white was the only healthy part of the egg, I've been dropping egg yolk after egg yolk down the drain.  I would cringe as my friends and family dipped their toast in the yellow goo spilling out of their eggs. 

I shudder to think how much time and nutrition I've wasted trying to pick every last speck of egg yolk out of my hard boiled eggs - when they would crumble and not separate from the whites nice and easy. 

I'm ashamed of my part in promoting these lies about egg yolks.

Turns out - egg yolks have been getting a bad wrap.  They aren't evil after all.

To all the yolks I've wronged - I'm sorry.  And now it's time to set the record straight.

Weekends are evil for boxers and their training plans.   Actually they are evil for anyone trying to control what they eat and train.  While they are just like any other day of the week, there is something mystical about a weekend that has us all partying hard Friday night, sleeping in late on Saturday only to repeat the cycle again Saturday night and Sunday morning.  It's a vicious war and the casualties are our training and nutrition.

The one bright spot, is that on occasion, you have a fight one of those nights which keeps you focused, but if you're not following the weekly routine on the weekend, you're going to end up cheating on your meal plan, skipping the gym, and overindulging in food, alcohol, and whatever else may be within reach. 

So how do you mitigate the damage, while still ensuring you have a little fun in the process?