Steve Maxwell’s Diet – What Steve Eats, with Pictures

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Like a lot of people, I’m amazed at the vibrant health of Steve Maxwell. At 61 years of age, he’s in better shape than most 40-year-olds, and he does this whilst traveling constantly and without frequenting a gym! It’s incredible.

Seeing him in such good health makes you want to emulate it. In this post, we’ll look at the details of the Steve Maxwell diet.

Steve Maxwell lives a very minimalist lifestyle. He travels the world running seminars and only carries what he can fit in his 45L carry-on. His bag is a Thomas Binh Aeronaut. Inside the bag, he packs clothes, barefoot shoes (currently he likes Vivobarefoot), and one or two gadgets. Including his trusty Fitbit, his Monkii Bars for bodyweight training, and an iPad Air 2 from which he does Skype coaching. Just as Steve travels like a minimalist, he eats like one too.

Steve eats 3 meals per day:

• A fruit-based meal, sometimes with yogurt.
• A mostly raw vegetable-based meal. This is often combined with a protein source such as chicken or turkey.
• And a starch-based meal

If he wants to lean out, he subs another veg meal for the starch meal.

A sample day can look like:
Breakfast: Berries and yogurt
Lunch: Sweet potatoes
Dinner: Cobb salad

Why does he eat this way?

• He bases this approach upon the Gracie Diet – who ate using food combining principles. It’s worth pointing out that Steve is close friends with members of the Gracie family and learned about their diet first hand, rather than reading their book!
• He believes strongly in not overburdening the digestive system, and part of the idea with food combining is that your body can’t digest certain foods efficiently when they’re combined
• He believes that toxicity is the reason for a large number of human ailments. This is based on the work of J H Tilden, who wrote Toxemia Explained (link to free PDF or physical book) in 1926. Steve also uses fasting to avoid the issue of toxic build-up.
• He also says it’s very difficult to overeat when practicing food combining. Part of the reason is that our taste buds don’t get overstimulated.

Steve also touches on his approach to diet in some of his podcast interviews:

• Joe Rogan Experience Episode 491
• Joe Rogan Experience Episode 504
• Ageless with Steve Maxwell on the London Real podcast
• The Garage Warrior Interviews Steve Maxwell

He also semi-recently (March 2013) wrote a piece on ‘How To Eat For Increased Muscle Mass‘, where he touches on his dietary principles.

Below are some example meals of Steve’s meals (via his Instagram):

It’s worth noting that Steve hasn’t always eaten this way. He has experimented as much as anyone when it comes to diet. A post on his old blog, from 2008, notes that he tried:

• Lacto-Ovo vegetarian
• Vegan
• Raw-food vegan and macrobiotic
• Arnold Ehret’s Mucusless Diet System (book link)
• Herbert Shelton’s Food Combining system (book link)
• The Hunza diet
• Paavo Airola’s diet system
• The Gracie diet
• Ori Hoffmeklar’s Warrior Diet
• The Atkins diet
• Dr. Ellis’ Diet Solution

Before he finally settled on a relatively low carbohydrate diet which leaves him feeling in optimal health.

If you can contribute further information on the ins and outs of Steve’s diet let me know in the comments or via email.

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