by Coach Aaron Hyatt
Need to get back on track with your healthy eating? Following are five quick tips for healthy eating to kick-start your daily diet to a more healthy state.
- Eat veggies or protein at every meal
- Veggies are loaded with vitamins, minerals, and fiber
- Help maintain a high level of satiety throughout the day while controlling blood sugar and insulin levels
- Increased thermic effect of food, protein has a higher TEF then carbs or fat, which helps boost metabolism
- Only eat higher glycemic load carbs before and after workouts
- When these foods are eaten they cause a fast increase in blood sugar levels
- These carbs will help blunt cortisol release, stimulate insulin release, and replenish muscle glycogen stores so that your body is ready to go for its next training session
- Pre-pack your lunch/meals
- Plan out and prepare your meals for the week, taking the thinking out of eating during the week
- You will have a much easier time making better choices when life gets busy if you don’t have to think about what to eat and where to get it
- The key to nutritional success is finding a plan that you can stick to and adopt as part of your lifestyle
- Drink more water
- A good place to start is drinking a glass of water with each meal
- Never allow yourself to get thirsty. If you find yourself thirsty, you are already dehydrated
- Be accountable to someone/accountability buddy
- The most common problem is lack of compliance
- If you have a great plan but don’t follow it, it is useless
- Have some way to track how well you stick to your plan, whether it’s a friend you can report to or even an app such as My Fitness Pal