Divide your daily food intake so that it comes out to about 40 percent carbohydrates, 30 percent protein and 30 percent fat. As a fast burner, you're allowed a higher percentage of fats than your slow-burning counterparts. Remember that good fats are not the culprits when it comes to being overweight or developing heart disease: Artificial fats are. Some good fats are the monounsaturates found in olive oil, fish, avocados, nuts and seeds.

Make sure to include protein in at least two meals per day. Get your protein from either lean meat (most fish and fowl) or heavier meats (lamb, beef and cold water fish like salmon). Dark meat fowl is another good source and organ meats are excellent choices.

Always eat meat with vegetables. Hearty vegetables like asparagus, cauliflower, spinach, mushroom, beans, peas and lentils are good choices.

(Hint: If you're preparing meals for six people, or if you eat out a great deal, you're probably not going to want to weigh and measure everything and do exact calorie computations. If, however, you cook everything for yourself and feel like using a food scale, you may find it to be an interesting experiment. I once did it for about a month, and learned a great deal about how my body works.)

Avoid milk (commercial cow's milk, that is), unless you tolerate it very well. There are many reasons why commercial milk is overrated as a food. Great alternative sources of calcium include sardines, broccoli, almonds, goat's milk, turnip greens, soybeans, tofu and many other foods, all of which can easily be worked into the dietary guidelines. Among dairy foods, a mere 1 1/2 ounces of Swiss cheese beats milk for calcium by a mile, and with only an extra 50 calories or so. Yogurt just about ties milk as a calcium source and has the benefit of live cultures and better toleration by people who are lactose sensitive. Look at soy and rice milks as well. And, if you really want to increase your calcium absorption ... try cutting out (or cutting way, way down on) sodas (including diet ones).