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Get Thoroughly Acquainted with Your Food for the Best Weight Loss
Results By Michael Collins
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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