The second part of reaching a sustainable lifestyle is nutrition or diet. When it comes to body composition, this is debatably the most important piece of the puzzle. I make a living as a fitness professional, but I will still say your eating habits are most important. The way you chose to eat will either make or break the workouts that you do. Good nutrition combined with good workouts will work miracles, while poor nutrition and a good workout will likely leave you exactly where you started. This week I will talk entirely about nutrition. Although, there may not be any ground breaking information in here, there is what I consider to be essential for great eating habits.
Get Your Nutrition Right
You have at least an okay idea of what you should be eating and what you should be avoiding, so start. Start to fuel your body correctly at least 3 days before your first workout so you have the energy to have a good workout and have the nutrients stored in your body to help recover from the workout. Stick by these few rules and you’ll get off to a good start.
1. Eat fruits and veggies and avoiding processed foods. We like to say “stay close to earth” meaning eat things that either grew on the earth or lived on the earth at one time. All the exercise in the world won’t make much of a difference if your eating habits are terrible.
2. Eat 4-6 small meals a day; I know you have heard it a million times but it is truly the best way to get that metabolism going. Try to avoid any “filler” foods such as chips, cookies or anything with empty calories.
3. Start to use things such as mustard instead of mayonnaise, seasoning instead or marinade and oil and vinegar instead of ranch or blue cheese. Just by making those few simple alterations you will have cut out a couple hundred calories per day. Mainly, start to think of your body as a Ferrari, you wouldn’t put 87 octane gas it would you? Your body is a high performance machine so think of food as fuel rather than something to eat to avoid hunger.
Get Your Nutrition Right
You have at least an okay idea of what you should be eating and what you should be avoiding, so start. Start to fuel your body correctly at least 3 days before your first workout so you have the energy to have a good workout and have the nutrients stored in your body to help recover from the workout. Stick by these few rules and you’ll get off to a good start.
1. Eat fruits and veggies and avoiding processed foods. We like to say “stay close to earth” meaning eat things that either grew on the earth or lived on the earth at one time. All the exercise in the world won’t make much of a difference if your eating habits are terrible.
2. Eat 4-6 small meals a day; I know you have heard it a million times but it is truly the best way to get that metabolism going. Try to avoid any “filler” foods such as chips, cookies or anything with empty calories.
3. Start to use things such as mustard instead of mayonnaise, seasoning instead or marinade and oil and vinegar instead of ranch or blue cheese. Just by making those few simple alterations you will have cut out a couple hundred calories per day. Mainly, start to think of your body as a Ferrari, you wouldn’t put 87 octane gas it would you? Your body is a high performance machine so think of food as fuel rather than something to eat to avoid hunger.