Eating well can be difficult, but simple

Editor's note: Adam Rees is founder of GRIT Gym, a gym based on results, creating a culture and lifestyle of performance, strength, health and freedom.

You're bombarded with nutritional nonsense and it's really too bad. Eating in a way that's conducive to a healthy, fit life is pretty simple.

Getting to a point where you're prancing around on stage in your skivvies, covered in oil and spray tanned espresso, now that's a different story.

But for everyone else, the movie Bambi teaches enough about nutrition to build a conceptual way of how to eat. The good for you stuff comes first, and you already know what it is.

The world has told you carbs are bad. Sugar is bad. Fat is bad. Meat and all types of protein are bad. Three meals a day is bad. Breakfast is bad. Late night eating is bad. Not that long ago, a study tried to say toasting bread caused cancer.

And in these scenarios I'm wondering, how much bad information do nutrition marketers think people will swallow?

You already know how to eat well. You know a candy bar isn't what makes you fat. It's the three candy bars, a flatbread pizza at lunch and pop with every meal, a Starbucks chocolate drink in the afternoon and barbecue sandwiches for supper.

Everyone knows to eat their vegetables, eat their fruit, have a protein with every meal and drink water. Carbs are fine, but you don't get to eat a whole loaf of bread. Fat is necessary, but don't eat whole sticks of butter. Sugar is fine, but you don't need an 'energy boast' mid morning, you need to let your body adapt.

Basically everything has its place and you already know what to do.

The six-meals-a-day thing isn't realistic nor healthy. It doesn't have any scientific backing to be reasonable or affective, and it harms your insulin sensitivity.

Go back to the basics. It's simple. It's clear. It works.

Three meals a day with no snacks.

Start with a high protein breakfast. Coffee is good for you, and anyone who disagrees lacks understanding or the ability to think objectively.

For lunch and supper, have protein, vegetables, fruit and a portion of carbs.

Drink water throughout the day.

Did I mention no snacks?

It's that simple.

It's not complicated, but it is difficult.

Now you must execute.

• Contact Adam Rees at Adam@GritGym.com