- Hi, I'm Chris Bosh
and this is everything I eat in a day.
(happy music)
Well, the first thing I do when I wake up,
I get up pretty early.
6:30 is very quiet in the house.
I sit, I reflect, get my breakfast, get my coffee.
And I just use that time to kind of write
and get some reading in.
So the first thing I usually eat in the morning,
I always-- I love the yogurt parfaits
'cause you can do them so many different ways.
So I always have some Greek yogurt.
It's good for the tummy.
Some granola, put some mixed nuts in there,
berries, definitely put some local honey on there.
I always like to support our local beekeepers
because it's good for your immune system as well, right.
I usually have my coffee black.
Preferably some really nice beans,
maybe from Colombia or somewhere like that.
Some really, really nice coffee beans.
I take some water in and I'm ready for my day.
So I usually do my workouts in the morning,
right after breakfast.
As soon as I, you know, get my reading and writing done,
I want to make sure I get my workout in.
Hit the weights, really just get that heart pumping,
get the exercise going.
I find that really helps my mind
really just be more creative and it starts working.
Then it's time to hit the office
and get those things done that need to be done.
So after workout,
usually I try to get lunch in fairly quickly.
Usually, I like to have a nice protein with a salad.
So a Cobb salad is always pretty cool.
It's got your veggies, your avocado,
your chicken and bacon if you like those things.
A little bit of crumbled bleu cheese,
a little dressing, if you, you know, if you like dressing
you can put some dressing on there, too.
Bleu cheese, ranch,
maybe even a nice lemon vinegarette on some days.
It's always a very, very good way to put that protein back
from losing it during the workout.
So I'm a huge snacker
and I don't want that to mean a bad thing.
It's a good thing.
But we've turned it into a good habit.
We try to have some mixed nuts, some granola,
some dry fruits, some freshly chopped vegetables.
I know that my kids are watching me
and they're probably going to eat
some of the same things that I eat.
So we try to put those things out in the open
so everybody can see them
and we can just snack on them during the day.
You would be surprised
how much your fruit and vegetable intake
would increase if you keep it out in the open.
A typical dinner usually is something
we like to be a little more adventurous.
So you know, a lot of kebabs, has chicken,
it could be a steak, some Greek yogurts,
some nice Basmati rice.
Maybe sometimes it might be a nice stir fry.
And the best thing about stir fry is so flexible.
You can put different kinds of vegetables in it,
whatever you're feeling that day,
you can put a different kind of protein, whether that's
chicken, fish and you can dress it up health-wise
if you're not filling the carbs with the white rice,
mix it with a little bit of quinoa.
I love sparkling water with my dinner.
I'm a huge, huge fan of craft beer.
So sometimes I'll have that, you know,
as an accompaniment with my meal and sometimes
me and my wife like to open a nice bottle of wine
and pair it with our food.
(laughing)
I'm a huge dessert person
and it has bled down into my children.
(laughing)
They love baking.
If we let them do it every day, they'd do it every day.
My daughter, the other day made a poppy seed muffin.
And then before that last week she made a carrot cake
and that's with the cream cheese icing too.
So it was sweet. It was decadent. It was moist.
It was amazing.
I mean, I've never seen the whole house
eat a cake that fast.
I don't have a strict rule of eating after eight.
I always, like I told you, I'm a snacker so most nights
I'm going to reach for that mix.
Those mixed nuts and pretzels.
Some nights though,
I'm gonna just get that pint of ice cream and get a spoon
and act like nobody's watching me.
(laughing)
Yes. I am someone that gets hangry.
I believe we all get a little hangry sometimes.
Talk to your friend about being hangry.
That's usually what I do with my kids.
If they're just having a little bit of rough
of a rough day and maybe feeling a certain way,
we'll check in and make sure
they've eaten something substantial.
If not, then let's eat something
and then we'll figure it out.
New York by far is my favorite food capital.
Pastis is a great place.
Avra is definitely, definitely one of those places.
If you love fish, that's one of the best places for fish
and really I'm a world traveler.
I love going all over the world
to try different kinds of foods.
Tokyo, anywhere in Italy and Provence, France.
One of my favorite cities obviously would be Toronto.
Some of my most favorite,
most cherish restaurants are there.
Soto Soto is wonderful Italian food.
Jacob and Company, if you're looking for a good steak.
Toronto has some of the best curries
and some of the best pastas.
If you're into squidding pasta, man,
that's where I got my, my food license.
When I was living there, we would try everything.
So in Miami, some of my favorite places
include Michael's Genuine, very very good.
Zuma. Very, very good.
Il Gabbiano. (exhales)
So one of the things I always loved doing,
we're getting into gardening
and getting into using more fresh produce.
I love to cook them any kind of way,
whether that's flash cooking them in the grill,
take pick a nice protein, those nice fresh herbs,
put her right in a skillet and just saute it just lightly,
Man. It's nothing like it.
And that's everything I eat in a day.
Thank you so much for watching.
Make sure, please make sure that you check out my book
Letters to a Young Athlete, out June 1st.
Very proud of it and make sure you get a good meal.
So you could go and accomplish something. You can do it.