Add Healthy Foods to Your Diet To Lose Weight

We know that weight management doesn't come down to simply calories in vs. calories out. But, it's a good place to start and it goes hand-in-hand with how hormones influence fat storage and ability to put on lean mass. Here, we give you a simplified approach to managing your weight. Basically we are saying, add a nutrient dense meal, like a smoothie, and you choose what foods that displaces. Here's how that works:

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Find your basal metabolic rate (BMR- the amount of calories you naturally burn in a day) and use that as the baseline for the amount of calories you take in through your daily diet. You can accomplish this by using an online BMR calculator or a wearable fitness device.

Use a user-friendly app like Under Armor's MyFitnessPal to track diet calories (do this for at least a week). Once you know roughly how much food is suitable for you and what that looks like in real life, you can begin to tweak your diet. MyFitnessPal will also calculate your BMR and allow you to import workouts from your wearable heartrate/activity tracker.

If your body needs 2000 cals to operate on an average day, then take in roughly 2000 cals through your diet. From there, begin introducing nutrient dense, low glycemic index (GI) foods that make you feel good. Low GI foods don't cause insulin spikes that promote fat storage and lead to type 2 diabetes. Make sure your new foods taste good or else you won't keep consuming them. Because you only have a given amount of food calories you can take in daily, you will begin forcing not-so-healthy things out of your diet.

Once you are consuming more real whole foods- a variety of plants, healthy fats and proteins- and less processed foods your body will down regulate fat storage, you will find the intense simple carb (sugar) cravings dissipate, and you will begin to experience the benefits of a nutrient dense diet. 

Remember, we're playing the long game here, folks. Small positive changes stacked up over your lifetime add up!

Cheers!

RG