How do I balance my meals?

Maintaining a healthy weight and physique comes from a balanced healthy diet and routine physical activity. With all the new crazy diet trends, and mixed messages that the media sends to us, it is hard to know what a balanced healthy meal really is. Protein helps us maintain and build lean muscle, carbohydrates/starches give our body and brain energy to function, and fruit and veggies give us the nutrients we need to stay healthy. Let’s go back to the basics and remember that a meal should look like this picture.

  

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     Healthy Proteins: chicken, turkey, white fish, salmon, lean ground beef, eggs, beans, tofu, greek yogurt,

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     Healthy Carbs: sweet potatoes, yams, brown rice, oatmeal, quinoa, cous-cous, Ezekial bread, whole wheat breads and pastas.

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     Healthy fats: olive oil. Avocados, almonds, nuts, peanut butter, soymilk, almond milk, tofu, fish

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          Fruits and Veggies: ALL!!!!

BURN THE MOST BODY FAT BY STRENGTH TRAINING!

Body weight push up

Hop off the elliptical and pick up some weights...strength training has been proven to be THE MOST efficient way to lose body fat.  Use weights (such as dumbbells or machines) or simply your own body weight (squats, lunges, push ups, etc) as resistance to build lean muscle.

Muscle is your body's most potent and active tissue for burning calories and body fat. Adding 1lb of lean muscle will allow you to burn roughly an additional 50 calories a day AT REST. Also, muscle is dense and takes up only a mere 1/3 of the space of body fat. Strength training on a consistent basis, is simply the most efficient way to create a fast, fat burning metabolism. 

BOSU workout by GirlFit

Awesome BOSU Ball workout by GirlFit - Kacia Snyder.  Train your whole body while tightening up your core. www.getgirlfit.com

Try a healthy breakfast option that will keep you full for hours! (Veg egg scramble/whole wheat english muffin/with fruit)