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Hi GoRun,

How can you not trust this face!  Everything I know about nutrition I learned from Dr. Clyde Wilson.  I learned how to build meals so that they are balanced well, and now I don’t have to think about it.  Its second nature.  I don’t count grams of carbohydrates or weigh my food.  Essentially I eat between 2400 and 3000 calories a day and I follow the plate-as-a-pie principle:  Half the pie is vegetables/fruit, 1/4 of the pie is starch/carbohydrate, and 1/4 of the pie is protein.  Most of my snacks are carbohydrate-based with a little fat or protein to make it enter the blood stream a little more slowly (i.e. Peanut butter on sprouted grain toast).

-Lauren