- Eat breakfast. Your mom was right. Breakfast is critically important to your success. A properly proportioned breakfast will help you to regulate your blood sugar levels, help you to control and balance your energy level, and help you to manage those afternoon and evening cravings for processed junk, like chips and sweets.
- Eat small meals and snacks throughout the day. By eating small meals and snacks throughout the day you avoid the typical spikes and dips in energy levels that may lead to “quick fix” eating, which is usually junk, just to get something in you. This type of plan also helps you to avoid eating that giant meal in the evening.
- Start with protein. Too many of us eat too little protein during the day and then try to make up for it in the evening with a 16 ounce T-bone. Build your meals around a healthy portion of a protein source and your body and overall health will thank you.
- Color your plate. Fruits and veggies. Grow up and eat them. A lot.
- Make fat your friend. If what you want to purchase has the term “hydrogenated” or “partially hydrogenated” as one of the contents, put it back on the shelf. Healthy fats, like those that come from avocados, olives, eggs, salmon, lean beef and such are very good for you and will actually assist you in losing excess fat.
- Eat it like God made it. We need vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants, enzymes and more from our food. The best sources, bar none, come from naturally occurring foods that are fresh from the ground, off the vine, plucked from the tree, right out of the air, water or on the hoof. As close to their natural state as possible, just like God made it. Why would bread need to be enriched from its original version?
- Yumm, fiber! Cheeto’s don’t have it. Neither do Twinkies. You need it. It comes from whole food sources (See #4 and #6) so get it in you. The effect of too little? Well, let’s say it makes sitting in the smallest room in the house very uncomfortable.
- Post workout nutrition is smart. Progress from your workout sessions takes place during recovery. In order to recover you must replenish what is lost during the workout. A protein/carb combo shake or meal is a great place to start and will boost your way to success and transformation.
- Plan your meal, eat your plan. Every diver knows this mantra: “Plan your dive and dive your plan.” Our days and meals should be as well thought out. Plan your meals ahead of time and then stick to the plan. When you plan ahead, your grocery shopping experience can become an opportunity to break bad nutritional choices.
- Smarter snacks. Most pre-processed and packaged snacks contain all sorts of horrid fillers and such, of which one of the worst is High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS). If you’re serious about losing fat, avoid this stuff like the plague. How? If it comes in a box, bag, sack, container or has had the “hand of man” process or prepare it in any way, don’t put it in your mouth. This goes for liquids as well. There’s a reason God made rivers of flowing water and not soda.
God bless,
Steve
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