Health & Fitness -- Food As Fuel

Please tell me what you need on this page to increase your confidence about your nutrition plan and the probability that you'll meet your goal.

Best in implementing,

On this page you will find useful information on how to take a new perspective on what your body needs to fuel your fitness objectives. Training is essential, but without re-learning how to eat, training alone is not enough to get you to your goal...

Eat Wholesome Foods... Fruits, Veggies, Whole Grains & Nuts (very limited quanties)

HELPFUL TIPS:
- Figure how many calories per hour you should not exceed (I eat no more than 100 calories per hour while I'm awake)
- Never eat over 350 calories at any one sitting
- Eat whenever you're hungry, but if it means "exceeding the speed limit" then
- Ask yourself "what do I really want to eat? Do I want
something chewy, hard, smooth, crunchy, cold, wet or hot?
- Then never eat over 100 calories if you're "exceeding the
speed limit"
- Don't eat an hour before bedtime (two hours is better)
- Drink 10 glasses of water per day

You can do it!

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Avoid processed foods in favor of simpler foods...

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HOW I DID IT: I recommend you do as I did and eat whenever you're hungry, but eat less. By knowing how much I should eat & still lose weight, I created a system of setting a goal of what time I'm supposed to eat next. My daily target was 1,600 calories per day. It occurred to me that with 8 hours of sleep I was awake 16 hours. That made it easy: I was supposed to eat no more than 100 calories an hour for 16 hours. If I ate more I was "exceeding the speed limit." So, for example, if I ate 300 calories at 11:30 A.M. then I figured I shouldn't eat again until three hours later (2:30 P.M.).

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As you know, I lost 140 pounds of excess weight by tracking my food for eight months & eight days which, in my view, resulted in a change in behavior allowing me to eat whenever I am hungry, but obviously less than before.

Step ONE: Establish a daily calorie target that will ensure you are not eating too much. Either do the necessary research or do, as I did, and seek a Registered Dietician to establish the number of calories you should eat during a day to create the greatest probability that you will get lighter over time.

Step TWO: Either track or plan. What I mean by that is you can either keep a journal of everything you eat, or plan out your meals in advance and then honor your plan. I tracked my food on an excel spreadsheet, but now there are some great free web sites
(like: http://sparkpeople.com/myspark/mysparkstart.asp) that will keep track of everything you enter... including calories and nutritional content.

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