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Get Thoroughly Acquainted with Your Food for the Best Weight Loss
Results By Michael Collins
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 Often
while doing consultations we'll get some great questions. If we feel the
answers to those questions would help a vast amount of people, we'll
write it down and use it as a resource for an article idea down the
line.
Last week, during a consultation, I was
asked:
"Should I be weighing and measuring my
portions of food to make sure I know exactly how much I’m eating?"
Yes; For the first week or so of
your diet, it’s a good idea to get thoroughly acquainted with your food.
This would include weighing and measuring certain foods, and reading and
understanding food labels. Although for some people this may seem like a
tedious process, it pays off in the future.
Take a week to immerse yourself in
knowledge about the healthy foods you’ll be eating on a regular basis.
Start a
food journal so that you can keep accurate details. Learn about
the
macronutrient composition (carbs/ fat/ protein) that are in the
foods you’ll be eating, and how they affect your body composition.
Learn how many calories are in the proper
portions of food and most importantly, get an intuitive feel for the
foods. By this I mean that after a few days of measuring and weighing
the foods, you’ll get a reference point for calories and portion
sizes so that in the future, you’ll simply look at that piece of
chicken or steak and approximate how much you should eat, and roughly
how many calories it contains.
Once the training wheels are off, you’ll
never need them again. So, for the first week, pay attention not only to
what you see on your plate and the measurements, but also how you
feel during and after your meals.
How fast or slow are you eating? After
eating that 4 oz of steak, on a scale of 1- 10, are you feeling stuffed,
pleasantly satiated but not quite full, or are you still hungry and
voracious for more? How are you feeling 2 hours after the meal? Are you
energized or sluggish?
Really immerse yourself in a “mind and
body” understanding for that first week, and you’ll see how much easier
the weight loss journey can be. I suggest getting the Black Book of
Secrets, our “Bible” of
weight loss techniques,
which we packed with all the foods you should be eating, when you
should be eating them, and what exercises you need to do to
create synergy in your weight loss efforts.
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