EAT HEALTHIER WITHOUT SACRIFICE

 

Easy Ways to Eat Healthier Without Sacrifice

This is certainly the time of the year where many people are coming to me to find ways to improve their fitness level and regain what they once had.  Whether they are looking for an avenue to weight loss, energy, health, diet, or alertness, being active will give that to you.  The hurdle is that there is no way to truly hit your physical goals without a plan for what you eat.  It is not the forte of a personal trainer to give you nutritional advice, so I will instead give you subtle substitutions that will better your diet and have very little effect in the way of the psychological challenges that a new diet can give you.

Changing the way you eat can be difficult.  There are things that some of my clients eat and love that just will not get them where they want to be physically and they have to give it up.  Rather than taking things away from you, I'm here to tell you what I would add. 

SUPERFOODS

In every major food store, there is an aisle to buy these various additions to your food that will deliver variables of priceless quality to your meals.  Some simply put suggestions: Chia Seed, Pignola Nuts, Flax, Wheat Germ.  Getting these items ground up already is the best way to buy them.  Sprinkle them on everything from meatballs and pasta dinners to cereal and eggs.  You are much better off in life incorporating these sources of Omega 3, antioxidants, proteins, vitamins, fibers and more.  Nothing to lose in the way of taste and everything to gain in the way of nutrition.

EASY "NO BRAINER" SUBSTITUTIONS

* Very Easy

**Easy

***Slight adjustment

**** Takes some getting used to 

You can easily super-start your quest to healthiness by making moderate changes that will enhance your lifestyle and will pose very little of a challenge to you in the way of accepting these changes.

*BROWN RICE: Brown rice actually has more of a flavor and is far better for you than white rice.  No one should be eating white rice anymore.  

*WHEAT PASTA: A lot of trainers will advise against pasta as a form of carbohydrates, but I know that most people will not abandon pasta.  I eat pasta and I have a 6 pack.  Wheat pasta is a simple, more nutritious, and better tasting outlet than regular white pasta. 

*WHEAT & WHOLE GRAIN BREAD: White bread is cute.  Maybe it brings back memories of your grandparents or something.  If you eat white bread now that there are 30 variations of excellent and wholesome wheat and grain breads out there that actually taste better, I don't know what to tell you.  Do you still insulate with asbestos and paint your walls with lead based paint? J/k 

**PEANUT BUTTER: This is staple of the American lifestyle.  Easy change is getting natural peanut butter.  Jiffy & Skippy and whatever else are loaded with sugar additives and chemicals.  We use Smart Balance.  Easy Change

***AVOCADO: You can whisk up some avocado or just spread it on your sandwich as a dressing or a mayo substitute.  I think it is delicious and it is a very rich source of many health friendly qualities.

*ORGANIC: If you buy nothing else that is organic, buy organic root vegetables like potatoes and carrots.  Anything that grows underground in today's corrupt soil environment on a non-organic farm would be better to avoid than eat.  You get more issues in your food than value when they grow underground on a farm that uses pesticides.  Take my advice, or learn about it in 10 years from the FDA when someone finds a way to make money scorning these vegetables and it is worth telling you.

****ALMOND MILK: We are the only beings on earth that drink the milk of other animals.  So lets say that this is not weird.  Nutritionists are always talking about limiting dairy.  One great way to do it is to try almond milk in your cereal and any recipe that calls for milk.  This is the most challenging transition in this post to go for, but it is still not that hard.  I prefer almond milk over regular milk.  Give it a shot.  It has more calcium and far less sugar than milk and the taste is just slightly different.  We like Blue Diamond if you wanted a recommendation.

ENJOY LIFE, START WITH THESE SIMPLE CHANGES, AND BE THE BEST YOU.

"YOUR BODY IS POWER"