We talk all the time about the importance of trying to keep improving your physical performances, how about improving your eating habits?!!
When someone starts off with me for the first time, I like to guide them into things gently or you are likely to ask far too much off individuals in a short period of time.
An easy start for me to give someone is to make just one minor improvement per week.
The usual one I ask for is to try and eat breakfast every day. Believe it or not, most people I bump into tend not to eat breakfast at all, or eat something full of sugar or saturated fat, or most likely both!
So to get to eat the individual to eat well every day all day is quite unrealistic.
Making small changes each and every week will lead to a monumental change over just
six weeks!
Then I move onto the subject of properly hydrating one’s self. If someone can just drink more water throughout the day, then I know that this change alone will make such a difference to the person concerned. They will feel better, look better, burn more body fat and perform better in their workouts full stop.
Then I move onto sleep. Making the effort to get to bed earlier, especially in the week is paramount in order to recover from exercise, and set yourself up for the next day again.
Next is lunch and evening meal. You need to put healthy protein sources in there for your meal, healthy slow-burning carbs and a healthy array of vegetables. These meals can be similar (unless you have a packed lunch when wholemeal bread/pittas are likely to be choice of the day).
Then the snacks come into observation and how you are powering yourself through the day in terms of energy. Natural snacks such as fruit, dried fruit, nuts etc will work for you far better than sugary/fatty snacks every time!
This is a very brief description of the small changes you need to undertake to look and feel your best, so up to you when you implement all of this to get results as soon as possible!
