SPICE Up Your Life and Your Food

When people see the healthy food I eat they often ask me “Don’t you get bored eating like that all the time?” My answer: NO WAY! There are many ways to keep your pallet guessing. Below are a few of my favorite secrets on keeping a healthy eating plan delicious and exciting.

Produce: I encourage everyone to consume fresh, whole food. The best way to incorporate this into your nutrition plan is to focus on your fruit and veggie selections. Next time you go to the store, try picking up a fruit or veggie that you haven’t tried before. The internet is a great resource to learn the best and healthiest ways to prepare them. Better yet, try some of the seasonal produce from your area! Farmer’s markets have cropped up across the country. Take advantage of access to the freshest ingredients at incredibly low prices straight from the source.

Spices: There are so many options I don’t know where to begin! Fresh garlic, onion, and/or ginger are the easiest way to flavor up a dish. Spices are yet another opportunity to try something new. For a South American flare, try cumin and red pepper flakes. Craving tasty Asian flavors? Try mixing in some Chinese Five Spice in with your chicken and veggies! There are also many spice blends available that take the guess work out of what might be good together. Ms. Dash and McCormick both make tasty blends.

Dressings: If you choose a bottled dressing, of course, I would always recommend low fat/low carb dressings. Vinaigrettes are my favorites. Have you ever tried making your own dressing? As an example, vinegar, Dijon mustard, garlic and a packet of Splenda (show me a dressing that doesn’t have some sugar in it!) mixes up to a very tasty low cal, low carb, and low fat dressing. Let your imagination free and come up with your own favorite concoction.

Diverse Protein Sources: We’ve all heard of people going on a “diet” and eating canned tuna or boiled chicken for every single meal. BORING! You can easily incorporate all sorts of protein sources into your nutrition plan. You just need to enjoy them in the appropriate portion sizes. Chicken and turkey breast are quite common in most healthy meal plans, but there are many more options. How about trying a new type of fish? Even considered shrimp or scallops? How about extra lean pork or beef?

All of these are delicious options and yes… you can have them all AND keep yourself from getting bored with your eating regimen. Don’t be afraid to try something new! Your taste buds will thank you for it and you’ll easily keep your nutrition plan on track.

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Never Gain a Pound - Learn to Eat What Ever You Want

"I EAT ALL DAY LONG AND NEVER GAIN A POUND." Why It Is Important to Eat Five Meals a Day

How would you like to become that skinny person who says “I eat all day long and never gain a pound.”?

It’s true that for some people, that way of life is so natural that they never even realized that they were doing anything right. We ask them their secrets and ultimately we chalk it up to the mystery of a “great metabolism,” and wish that we had one too.

It’s not a mystery.

The truth is that anyone can maximize their metabolism not just personal trainers if they just learn to eat like a skinny person. We’re not talking about a lifelong sentence of salads and carrot sticks. We’re talking about eating little meals all day long.

From a health standpoint, one of the worst things that happened to us as a society was the advent of the three meal day that came with industrialization. The problem with eating three times a day (or fewer for some of us), is that it allows too much time to pass between meals. We let ourselves get too hungry, and then eat to overcome that sensation.

We are just innocently eating the way we were taught. Meanwhile, we are sending signals to our bodies that are not so innocent. We get overly hungry and that tells our body that there is a shortage of food; it’s time to store fat just in case. Then, we get so hungry, we eat more calories in one sitting than our body can process. Our bodies can’t discern how much to feed itself. It just knows that it can’t process it all and dumps everything we’ve eaten to fat storage as well.

The key is to eat five, small meals throughout the day to avoid the valleys and peaks of hunger and fullness (see Live’s sample nutrition plan). By providing enough calories for your metabolism to burn at a steady rate throughout the day, you are telling your body that there will always be enough food for it to burn at a higher rate and feed off of the stored fat in your body as well as the food you consume. When you combine this eating plan with exercise, you will be able to raise your metabolism even further, making you that skinny person who eats all day and never gains a pound.

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