"That's it?"
"What do you mean, that's it?"
"That's all you ate...for the whole day?"
"Yes! I was full though. I couldn't eat anymore..."
"Your body is holding onto fat because of two things. #1 is your infrequent eating schedule. #2 is that you simply aren't eating enough calories for your fitness levels or your desired goals..."
As you can see, this conversation happened so many times that it is ingrained in my head. All jokes aside, I can't stress this enough. Think of the food you eat as fuel. If you're putting good fuel in your body, your body will run like a well-oiled machine but if you don't have some kind of schedule (i.e. skipping breakfast or eating dinner whenever you get to it), your body will process the good things as fuel but will store all that bad stuff for later! Your body wants to make sure that if you don't eat again when it's low on fuel, it'll have some kind of reserve to go to. I know it's not science but you can get the fancy lingo here (courtesy of Liza Barnes & Nicole Nichols, Health Educators)
That being said, 6 meals may not be for everyone but if you are looking for ways to snack better, try out this recipe that I actually did myself yesterday. It's for Dark Chocolate Granola Bars and the best part is that it doesn't require ANY baking! They taste great, they're healthy and the best part is, you know exactly what you're putting into it, therefore you know exactly what you're putting into your body!
After all, you can't Build Rome with cheap material! I'll be posting more recipes that I've personally tried as well as some meals that I really like. If you try them out, comment and let me know how they worked for you and if you changed anything! Let's BUILD together!
LOVE this blog post friend! I was JUST thinking of the days when I started working out and thought that a turkey sandwich for lunch would help me lose weight. Bad carbs AND processed cheese and meat? What was I thinking? That's why I see my fitness journey as just that - a journey! I have learned SO much on the way. Things that I wish I had known sooner. But I never took the time to educate myself. Nor did I believe that I should be doing what everyone that builds muscle says to do. The information IS out there but you also don't know what to ask and what to do. Where and how to find it. And even when you do, we've been so conditioned to think of losing weight as eating less and running. We've even been taught to think abs are made by doing 1,000,000 situps a day. Knowledge is Power!
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Knowledge is ABSOLUTELY power and I'm learning more and more everyday! The only issue in this "Information Age" that we live in, is being able to decipher the truths from the non-truths. But the way I see it, good ol' fashion cardio, eating properly, and paying attention to your body will work better than any of these new fads! Good luck to you too!
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