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Spring-cleaning Your Body
Controlling what you put in your mouth is key to achieving your fitness goals. First - establish your current eating habits using a 3-Day Food Diary. Record exactly what, how much, and what time you eat and drink.
Next - compare your diary with the simple fact sheet we've compiled and see where it differs:
- Eat every 3 hours. It optimises our metabolic rate and controls blood sugar. Nutritional, low-calorie snacks between meals are ideal.
- Humans need a blend of proteins, carbohydrates and fats at each meal.
- PROTEINS ~ Red meat, poultry, fish, eggs, nuts, tofu are all excellent sources
- CARBOHYDRATES ~ Best are fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Worst are refined and processed carbs - most bakery goods. Replace white rice, noodles, bread and pasta with brown and whole grain alternatives that add more fibre to our diet. These starchy carbs are best consumed at breakfast and lunch.
- FATS ~ Unsaturated fats are good for us! Minimise fried food. Choose lean red meats, avocado, extra virgin olive oil for salads and grape seed oil for cooking.
Flaxseed oil is an excellent source of Omega 3 fatty acids.
- Consume foods as close to their natural state as possible. The more we cook, process or refine foods, the less nutrition received.
- Taper your meals as the day goes by. The body doesn't need excessive calories just prior to sleep.
- Drink more water. It's vital for our health and well-being. Tea and coffee don't count!
- Supplement your diet with a decent brand of vitamins and minerals.
- Choose organic foods, especially grown in your own country (help reduce carbon foot print). Organic foods offer superior nutrition without the dangerous toxins and hormones.
- Alcohol has no nutritional value, but many calories.
THE BOTTOM LINE - Consume more calories than your body requires (burns), and they will be stored for future use as body fat.
PERSONALLY SPEAKING - Yours truly has been working on a variation of a 10-day Detox. I replaced 2 meals a day with a meal replacement drink (all natural ingredients), only eating certain food groups for the remaining meal.
My aims were to lose fat, sleep better, think clearer, give the liver a rest, have regular bowel movements, and feel great while having enough energy to exercise daily.
A body composition analysis under strict testing conditions before and after yielded the following results:
DROPPED 2 kg of fat, GAINED 600 g of muscle mass and INCREASED my Basal Metabolic Rate by 15 kcals. Success!
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by David Menhennett
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