![]() ![]() ![]() Everyone is different, so follow your hunger. I prefer to call them meals since I don’t believe in feeding yourself if you have no desire to eat just because it’s supposed to be “lunch time.” Some people do better without even eating lunch and having just a snack instead. In the sample day below, take note that I refer to breakfast as “Meal 1” and lunch as “Meal 3.” For the sake of this article, I will just provide sample meals and snacks that don’t take too long. In this busy day and age, with everyone racing against the clock, I feel it’s important to have healthy choices which can be prepared quickly.įor those of you who do have ample time to prepare your meals and enjoy cooking everything from scratch, then that’s better. I am going to lay out a sample day of eating that consists of foods that don’t take long to prepare. So let’s get to what we SHOULD be eating to achieve a healthy, lean body. Therefore, your body will end up craving sugar later which will result in eating an increased amount of food that your body doesn’t need. Your brain is expecting to get sugar when you are tasting that sweet protein bar filled with sugar alcohol. The same goes for ingesting artificial sweeteners. You might feel satisfied temporarily after your craving is met, but chances are you will make up for it later by eating more for dinner than you would normally have. “Every time they eat those foods, it strengthens their neuro-circuitry to eat that food again,” says Dr. David Kessler, former Head of the FDA, there are documented studies that show that when eating a particular combination of sugar, fat, and salt, your brain will trick you into wanting to eat more, even if you aren’t hungry.Įating a high processed cookie made from refined flour, sugary corn syrup, and other additives will set something off in your brain. That’s great, but soon you’ll be craving other junk foods since your brain naturally becomes addicted to the sugary, processed foods once you’ve eaten them. Every time they eat those foods, it strengthens their neuro-circuitry to eat that food again.” “Eating a high processed cookie made from refined flour, sugary corn syrup, and other additives will set something off in your brain. ![]() “But Lauren, I know they’re cookies, but it’s only 100 calories. But Lauren, there are zero carbs in that bar and 20 grams of protein.” People should be striving towards implementing this type of nutrition into daily life forget about portion control and eating the 100 calorie packets of cookies or eating a protein bar that’s full of highly heated, cheap, protein fillers that don’t even absorb properly and have artificial sweeteners added. The weight they lose stays off, they don’t feel like they’re starving all the time, and they can indulge from time to time. They feel great, hardly get sick anymore, and are stronger and leaner. Not only have these people lost weight, but they have managed to keep it off. Having been a Nutritionist actively working in the fitness industry for over ten years, I have had the privilege of helping hundreds of people change their eating habits by merely educating them. If a calorie-obsessed, point system or extreme diet is what you want to be on, then I suggest you stop reading this article (if you’ve miraculously made it this far) and I wish you the best of luck. This overindulgence makes you feel like a failure, which in turn causes people to give up entirely. It is human nature to not only succumb to the temptations but to over indulge. It’s tough to go around starving all the time, especially with the amount of tempting food that surrounds us every day. The down part was that I was hungry all the time and sometimes I wasn’t able to control my appetite.” That is no way to live in my book. ![]() One client said to me, “I liked such-and-such diet because I was able to eat whatever wanted. “I feel like a broken record, but I don’t think that people are getting the concept of “dieting.” However, the failure rate over time is around 95%, with most of those people gaining all the weight back and sometimes more. When someone attempts a calorie-obsessed and counting diet, they will most likely lose some weight in the beginning. I don’t want to get into any trouble by listing the diet companies out there that rely on calorie counting and point systems, but these are the stories that I hear day in and day out. I can’t tell you how many people have come to me and said, “I lost 50 pounds last year when I was on the “blah blah” diet, but then gained it back after a year.” Well too bad! If you want to have low body fat and a lean looking body, you probably need to make a lifestyle change. They want to do something the easy way and expect to see great results. Everyone wants a quick fix that’s human nature, right? People tend to be lazy. ![]()
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