Are you eating enough? If not, you may be sabotaging your weight loss efforts and your health and fitness goals. Many people assume that consuming fewer calories is always a good thing, but that’s just not the case! Your body needs to be properly fueled in order to run smoothly. If you are only focusing on cutting calories, there’s a good chance you are depriving your body of necessary nutrients. This can actually backfire by causing your body to go into starvation mode which will lower your metabolism. So what’s a better option?
Forget the diet and focus on nutrient density! Make sure you’re getting the nutrients your body needs by eating the right portions of the right foods. Diets usually leave people feeling hungry, tired, irritable and deprived. That’s why they fail! And it’s nearly impossible to keep the weight off after a diet, because there hasn’t been a permanent change. In order to be successful and maintain your weight loss, a lifestyle change is necessary. I use these foolproof color-coded containers to make sure I’m eating enough of the right foods. And I eat 5-6 times per day!
If you feel hungry, tired and grouchy while you’re trying to lose weight, you’re not doing it right!! Find healthy foods you enjoy eating. Try new things. Focus on cutting out processed, unhealthy foods a little at a time. Make sure you eat every 3-4 hours. There’s no need to deprive yourself, just fuel your body!!
