Challenge Tip: Read the Nutrition Facts
"Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations."
Read the Nutrition Facts! Have you ever looked on the back of your favorite foods to see what the actual ingredients are? This is so important and is essential to your journey. Understanding what's in the foods you eat helps you make healthier choices. Checking food labels also makes it easy for you to compare the nutrient content of different options.
Did you know?
Reading the nutrition facts:
Provides Key Information: The nutrition label provides key information such as serving size, calories, total fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, protein, carbohydrate and vitamin content. The label also contains a list of the ingredients.
Helps You Cut Back: Checking nutrition labels so that you know what and how much you're eating plays a central role in being able to determine how much you can have of your favorite foods.
Helps You Improve Your Diet: Despite a wide variety of available nutritious foods, many Americans fail to eat recommended amounts of key nutrients. Reading the nutrition label will help you to fill this void.
While nutrition facts labels can be helpful, not everyone understands the information included or the importance of it. If you want additional information on How to Read a Nutrition Label, please check out my other blog post.
Weekly Tips for Meal Plan Members:
Remember no fruit or dairy (outside of eggs) this week or next week.
Vegans — focus on Whole Foods and limit the overly-processed vegan imitation food. Sometimes it can be just as unhealthy as their original animal version.
Start tracking your food. Check out MyFitnessPal or Lose it! This will let you know the macronutrients for what you are eating daily.
Weekly Tips for Workout Guide Members:
Try putting all of your exercises into a circuit. Check out an app like the Intensity App or similar apps. It helps you get through the workout quicker.
Get an accountability partner to do the workouts with. Grab a friend or family member and make it a group effort. Again, only 2 people requested a Facebook Group. I don't think that will be enough to start the group. I do think it will be helpful for those who would like the extra encouragement. Please let me know!
Please read the labels below. I am comparing Whole Greek Yogurt to Non-fat Greek Yogurt. If you are on a low-carb diet, but high protein diet, Whole Greek Yogurt would be the better option. If you are looking for a low-fat, high carb, high protein — Non-fat would be the better option. This is an example of eating for your goals and I will do another tip on this later on.
