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If you're seeking weight loss for a New Year's resolution, nutrition is crucial for success. Nutrition can be complicated! The media is always preaching to "eat this or don't eat that." Instead of sweating the small details, focus your attention to these two approaches.
Track Your Progress We track your workouts at Shine for a reason. We want to see if you're getting the results you're looking for. Tracking nutrition shouldn't be any different. You can use paper and pen or an online tracking system like myfitnesspal. Tracking your food allows you to see how much you're eating and what you're eating. If you use an online tracking system, it provides the nutrition facts. You may find it helpful to say no to high calorie food and drinks because the calories, fat, or sugar content can be alarming. Another key piece of tracking your food intake is it see if what you're doing is working. If you're seeing results, you know you have found something that is working for your body. If you are not seeing results, ask yourself what you need to tweak to start getting results. Do you need to eat more vegetables and less starchy carbohydrates? Do you need to eat more protein? Drink more water? Tracking allows you to experiment with trial and error until you have found what works best for your body. Read Your Nutrition Labels Some of the best food choices don't even have labels. Consider this your fruits and vegetables. Other items like raw nuts, lean meats, eggs, oats, and raw seeds have a single ingredient on the label. Spend some time dissecting the nutrition label next time you're at the grocery store. Here are a few things to look for on a label:
Read the nutrition label and strive for five grams or less of sugar. Unsweetened Greek yogurt has natural sugar and can still be a good choice, but skip the flavored yogurts. Many dried fruits have added sugar, so if you like dried fruit, purchase one that doesn't have added sugar. We love talking nutrition at Shine. Each client is given two nutrition consultations with their membership. If you are looking to gain more knowledge or are wanting a specific plan to cater to your goals, talk to your coach about setting up an appointment. Some of you may know what to do, but find yourself not doing it. If this is the case, use this appointment as an accountability session so you can stay on track. Jen Wyss |
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