I don't know about you but I am the type of person that needs to know "why"? But when it came to food I never asked why I just put it in my mouth and thought "oh yummo that was tasty!" Every time I would put the tv on or read an article I would hear different things like "Butter is bad" and then the next week "Margarine is bad". I would hear "it clogs your arteries, or it makes you fat". But me, I looked at food to fill me up, and usually I wanted what tasted good, I mean why not really enjoy what I was eating right? Problem was, what I was eating was only making me feel good or at least what I thought was good, for a short period of time. Then in 2-3 hours I would need "my next fix" usually in the form of carbs or sugar. When I started to really learn about food I found I was totally missing the boat! Wayyyyy to many carbs! But I didn't know how to fix it? So I started to learn and I started out slow and found it easy to "balance" what I was eating and I started to notice changes right away.
Surprisingly, a lot of people don't realize that ALL food fit into 1 of 3 categorys: Carbohydrate, Fat and Protein. I first want to stress this is the basics! If your wanting to clean up your diet this is how you start, if your wanting to add or loose weight, feel better and resolve health problems there is SO MUCH more information! click HERE to sign up for the class!
Here are the basics: It's easier to learn what Fat's and Protein's are first: A protein is: anything that comes from an animal; Beef, Chicken, Eggs, Fish. There are other proteins but they are not considered complete proteins (this means it is missing some key things like Amino Acids) incomplete proteins are: Beans, nuts, soybeans,lentils, chickpeas.
Fat's: talk about healthy fats: Olive oil, Coconut Oil, Pumpkin seed Oil, Butter, Avocado and Nuts (because they are higher in fat I put them in the healthy fat category verses protein). Then you have BAD FATS: Vegtable oil, Margarine, canola oil. TRANS fats are BAD they raise your cholesterol, but monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats are GOOD and actually help to LOWER cholesterol! Here is my rule of thumb, if when I look at it it only took one or two steps to get it to that point it's probably a good fat. Example: Avacado I just cut it open and eat (really not even a step) Olive oil: it was pressed and whalaa oil! Butter; milk a cow and churn it, mmmm butter!
Lastly Carbohydrates: EVERYTHING ELSE! that was easy :) Everything else you eat fits into the carbohydrate category! Here is that bad about Carbohydrates (in a nut shell), Carbs make you fat! Carbohydrates are used in the body as fuel it turns to sugar or glycogen and is used to help you perform. But here is the tricky part if you don't use all those carbs or all that fuel, all that sugar turns to fat! I started to really look at my plate and I kept coming up with about 60%carbs, 25% fat and 15% protein. When really it should be about opposite for me. Take that times 30+ years and you have a lot of weight gain!
Like I said this is just the basics if you love learning and want to know SO MUCH MORE about food and fitness then sign up for the class I am hosting. The class will be held January 4th at 6:30 in burnsville, it will run for 2 hours and you will be able to ask all your burning questions! Sign up HEREI promise you won't be disappointed! Also if you have questions please feel free to Email me.
The class will be given by Jay Altman with Altman Fitness.
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