Elijah Bryant ditches the word "diet" for a sustainable lifestyle approach. He uses an 80/20 rule, staying consistent most of the time but allowing flexibility, and while traveling for EuroLeague games he prioritizes protein like chicken and steak over pasta unless he needs carbs before playing.
I honestly hate the word diet because I don't believe in diets. I believe in a lifestyle, whether that's a primal lifestyle, whether that's a paleo lifestyle. I believe in lifestyle because a lifestyle is sustainable. You can't sustain a diet. When you mess up on a diet, you feel like, oh dang, well, I messed up, so now I might as well be off the diet. With a lifestyle, you're gonna mess up. It's 80/20. I'm gonna try to be 80% good. When I mess up, I'm gonna hop back on it. Then the next day. So to answer your question specifically, when I'm traveling in EuroLeague, most of the cities we're going to have pretty decent options. So, and if they don't, I try to make the best of what they do have. So let's say we show up, there's pasta, there's chicken, there's rice. Usually I'm trying to eat chicken and rice, maybe chicken and steak. I don't eat too much pasta, um, maybe before the game if I need more carbs, but I try to get my
