The Nash Diet

Steve Nash posted about his diet on his facebook page the other day. You can see the original text from Steve Nash himself about the Nash Diet here.

Breakfast. It is the most important meal of the day…. along with lunch and dinner. I feel if your diet is consistent and well balanced (think long term rather than short term) it isn’t so important what you eat right before you play or the night before because your energy levels and recovery will be on target from the quality of your previous three to seven days of meals.

Consistent with most diets that say eat some sort of breakfast to jump start your metabolism in the morning.

-Gluten and wheat free cereal, sliced almonds and almond or rice milk. (If you don’t have the sensitivities I have look for a high fiber cereal. At least 4 grams of fiber.) I will also have a whole fruit smoothie or an apple, banana or orange. Green tea.

We’ll see later that Nash is a green tea fanatic. He also is allergic to gluten so gluten free cereal is something he eats by choice. Note that he also forgoes real milk here, instead opts for rice milk.

Lunch. A salad with grilled chicken or fish, vegetables, raw nuts and dried fruit.

Dinner. Grilled or baked fish or chicken with vegetables. Sometimes I’ll have brown rice.

Many people have quoted Shaq saying that the Nash Diet is “No Meat” (see previous post). This is obviously not true as Nash’s lunch and dinner both go for high protein low fat choices of fish or chicken.

Again, plan ahead. If you get hungry between meals have a plan as to what foods you’ll turn to and make sure you have plenty of them so your only options aren’t will power or ice cream. My snack foods are, dried fruit, whole almonds or whole cashews. All natural, raw foods energy bars. Raw vegetables like carrots and celery. Whole fruit or whole fruit smoothies. It goes without saying drink water throughout the day to stay hydrated. If you feel like you need electrolytes coconut water has the highest concentration of electrolytes but if your diet is good you should have plenty of electrolytes.

He strongly believes that your weapons for cravings aren’t simply will power, they’re being prepared. If you have some raw veggies, fruits, or nuts ready to battle your cravings you won’t succumb to that Cold Stone’s ice cream around the block.