Diet:
Problem: Eating three big meals a day.
Solution: More meals (5-6 per day), less food per meal. Most people still stick to the outdated advice of 3 big meals per day. The problem with that advice is most people stagger their meals too far apart often resulting in overeating at each meal. Whatever your body isn’t using for energy gets stored as fat. Eating this way is also metabolically inefficient for calorie burning. By eating before you’re starving at regular 2-3 hour intervals you keep your metabolism working throughout the day often resulting in more energy and more calories burned per day and less food stored as fat.

Problem: Eating processed foods and simple sugars
Solution: Don’t eat anything that comes in a box and avoid simple sugars/carbohydrates. Complex carbs such as those found in brown rice, whole wheat bread etc help regulate glycogen and insulin levels in the body leaving us with more energy for longer periods of time, and tricking the body into feeling fuller longer. Simple carbs such as those found in white bread, white rice, soda etc are processed quickly resulting in quick bursts of increased energy and the subsequent crash. Furthermore if those simple carbs are not being used for energy as you eat them your body will store it as fat! Processed foods have so many negative effects and short comings compared to their non processed counterparts it would take pages to explain. For brevity’s sake, try to only eat foods that ran on land, swam in water, or grew from the earth, minus the human additives. Organic is good.

To learn more about what to eat to fuel your workouts, please contact one of our registered dietitians.