hey everyone i'm two-time nba champion chris bosh and this is everything i ate
during the season and everything i ate during the off-season let's go
during the season a typical day for me food wise in the mornings i would always try to have
oatmeal now it's two reasons that i would have oatmeal one is because you can have it at home
and then two usually in a hotel they have oatmeal as well i would dress it up with some brown sugar
i'll put some honey in it some days i'll put some pecans or some mixed nuts or some mixed fruit or
something like that that was always a good way to kind of get me going sometimes i would have
a bagel with cream cheese maybe even some locks on there every now and then but those were the things
that i needed because i knew i would be running miles and miles and miles if it was a game day or
sometimes even during practice during the lunch phase i try to have something light like a fish
or a salad they ate a lot of sea bass a lot of salmon some nice hearty fish with some
rich omega-3s you need that to help the brain power and usually i'd like to have a nice salad
on the side to keep those veggies going and really really get my nutrition in for the day
and usually at dinner i'd have something a little bit bigger in proportion a nice steak
some potatoes vegetables again maybe a salad again one of my favorites was always always a nice steak
i mean there's nothing better than a nice steak in the evening to kind of help you wind down
so during the off season this is when me and my wife we would love to get adventurous so in off
season you could find us on a beach or traveling somewhere or walking some mountains with the kids
or going on some field trips so that's when we try to get the really really cool worldly stuff
in you might find us in province france you know having a nice you know rotisserie chicken you
might find us on the coast of italy having some nice fish or a very very nice pasta but we'll
always try to be more adventurous and a little bit leaning on the guilty pleasures in the off season
i would have to say my favorite indulgences the first in no particular order is craft beer i
love beer and have always been a fan of local craft breweries so support your local brewery
another indulgence is whatever my kids bake they've gotten into the routine of baking
multiple dishes a week and my daughter made a carrot cake the other week that was just
amazing anytime they make something i might not let them know but i definitely take a piece off
and have something for myself my favorite win of course was game six in the 2013 nba finals and a
foul call against san antonio blocked by bosch game over there'll be a game seven we won by
the hair of our chinny chin chin but afterwards we went to prime 112 to put all those calories back
and it was a very dramatic win and that was definitely the most important game
and we had the most important meal right after then we had to do it again i never had any
food based superstitions during the season my superstition was always to not be superstitious
that was my superstition one of the things i never wanted to do is eat something on game day that i
know i would regret later so i would try to keep it as light as possible not a superstition but
more so being smart about it so heavy sauces heavy chili or something like that before the game no
good you want to make sure you're eating the right way and having something that you know will fuel
you for later in the day so what did i eat before the championship game six and seven i can't really
remember all the way but i can tell you i worked myself up to such a habit of having simply grilled
proteins simply grilled vegetables sometimes or easy to eat vegetables something easy to digest
and break down into that fuel that you need a lot of carbs because we were going to be expending a
lot of energy and you know i was just so focused in my routine i can't even tell you exactly what i
ate but i can tell you that it worked so anything that would give me energy and help me function
later that was always the goal what foods do i think help me perform best i always try to eat a
little cleaner if i'm performing so if i'm eating some sugar i want to make sure it's natural sugar
so i try my best to maybe have some local honey in my tea or on top of my oatmeal or my granola mix
in the morning i'll always try to have something high in omega-3s like i said before helping that
brain function and give that tissue and those joints the lubrication that it needs to move
and i would always try to not do too much sometimes performing on a full stomach can
be the wrong thing to do and you don't want to have a wrong situation so i always try to eat
a little cleaner have a little more veggies be a little more aware of what i'm taking into my body
a nice dose of complex carbs like quinoa or brown rice something that can sustain you for
later and your body can really break down in the energy later the foods that slow you down
oh that's easy big steaks big heavy red meats red sauces or sometimes just eating too much
that can definitely slow you down so if you think of it in terms of whatever i'm putting
into my stomach is it heavy or is it light right now that would kind of be my my measure
and if it was too heavy sometimes that was the thing that i knew would hold me down a little bit
which city had the better food miami or toronto hey guys come on come on come on you guys asked
me to choose uh it's it's a tie it's a tie we all tie here let me tell you something toronto
they've got the caribbean influence and the indian influence and so many european influence
and asian influences there miami you've got that latin flavor a lot of rose con pollo
and you actually have a lot of mediterranean dishes that you can get into down there
they all have their different flavors and on top of that they have phenomenal restaurants so
i have to say i cannot choose all i can say is you won't be disappointed if you have a meal
in either city you know what honestly my weird and unique food habit is trying weird and unique foods
and that started back when i was 19 a rookie in toronto i had a buddy of mine who got mad at me
because i said i didn't like something before i tried it that was razor clams and black bean sauce
he pretty much guilt-tripped me into eating it and i ate it and it was really good so then every day
after that moment i told myself that i would try something at least once and one of those weird and
unique foods that i had the pleasure of trying was crocodile carpaccio now i don't know where
you can find it but i've had that before it's very good the teammate with the strangest eating
habits i'm gonna have to go with my good friend dwayne wade and it was strange in the sense that
he didn't try anything he would just have chicken every day and i'd like to think that i was one of
the first persons to get him to try vegetables and salad he didn't have any salad elite athlete
with these things and i give it to him they found a way to make chicken different every
day now he's uh he's eating a lot more his his palate is is a lot more broad and i like to think
that it has something to do with it so congrats to you wait i'm glad you had your first salad
and your first bite of vegetables everybody it's not too late to try things well one of the things
that i found that helped me with my performance when i was playing was a little bit of juicing
on game days i'd like to have some beet juice it's a nice beet juice i felt that it really
got me going and i came to enjoy beets i used to hate beets as a kid and then i found myself
drinking beets and we found a certain particular recipe that was energizing for the body so i
would always drink that one before a game and then usually on off days we're trying to recover that's
when i would drink my green juices the ones you don't want to drink that aren't necessarily sweet
put those vitamins and antioxidants back into the body and help aid the recovery process so i could
be ready for the next day one thing i wish i could have eaten all the time was burgers and fries
i mean you can eat burgers so many different ways they have them in every city you can get clean
burgers you can get messy burgers you can get big burgers you can get small burgers you can get
all kinds but that necessarily wasn't always the best thing to eat during the season three things
you will always find in my fridge eggs for sure you can eat them for breakfast lunch or dinner
and that's usually one of the first things you learn how to cook lunch meat so that we can make
sandwiches you know you can be very flexible with lunch meat and we're always going to have those
cut up veggies some kind of vegetable or fruit in the fridge we want to make sure we
have something healthy to grab at all times the most i've spent on takeout and delivery
i usually don't look at the bills but i can definitely tell you well a few hundred bucks
okay i can't tell you how many few hundred but definitely a few hundred i try not to look at it
my diet has changed just a tad since i've stopped playing i'm more so looking at things that will
aid me in long-term health like i said before it's very important to get omega-3s but fiber protein
things that the body really needs to be able to function and give it that longevity and you know
i'm trying to encourage my kids to make healthy choices as well so a lot of fresh fruits fresh
vegetables and i've come to kind of really really appreciate cutting down the carbs just a tad i'm
not running around as much i'm not doing as much but anything that can help me prolong my health
that's what's most important to me now so i try to bring that to every day in my food choices thank
you so much for joining me today delish thank you so much for having me i do want to say go
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