3 Steps to Creating Your Own Healthy Eating Plans

Create Your Own Eating Plans

What does it take to create your own healthy eating plans? Does it involve spending a lot of money at some diet program or online? Does it require you to stop eating real food and spend your days ingesting vinegar, cider or cabbage? Does it mean you have to throw out all the foods you love and stick to carrots and celery? The answer to all these questions is a resounding – NO!

As the idea implies, healthy eating is the result of eating healthy foods, not junk. If you want to feel energetic, alive and healthy, eat things that will promote good health. Here are three things you can do to get started.

Type your Metabolism
It may sound complicated, but it really isn’t. Establishing what type of metabolism you have will go a long way towards making the best food choices not only for your health, but also if you want to lose fat. There are three basic metabolic types: protein, carbohydrate and mixed.

How you eat, what you eat and when you eat is to some degree determined by your metabolism. The assessment is fairly quick, and definitely simple. As long as you answer the questions honestly, you will have a good idea of what type of metabolism you possess.

If you are reading this article, you are probably trying to figure out how to change your lifestyle, and that could mean that you have junk food in your kitchen. Even the most nutritionally dedicated usually have something less than stellar sitting around. Now is the time to eliminate as much as you can handle.

Have a bag of white sugar? Get rid of it. White flour? That goes too. Freezer meals packed with sodium, artificial ingredients and strange sounding concoctions? Out they go. In fact, over the next several weeks strive to eliminate not just the traditional junk foods that are in your kitchen, work to increase the number of items that are healthy and tasty too.

Relearn to Eat
As you start making changes, and it does take time and effort, you need to relearn what to cook and how to eat. Most of us cook in vegetable oils, but olive oil and coconut oils are much better nutritionally. Organic butter is fine as well, especially on top of a sweet potato or some quinoa.

Choose your produce with care, purchasing as many organics as possible. Not only are there less chemical residues to contend with, they may have better nutritional content. Meats should come from grass fed animals, whether you chose beef or lamb. Pork and poultry should be raised organically, as should any whole eggs you eat. Fish should be wild caught, since farm-raised fish don’t have the same heart healthy benefits.

Perhaps the hardest thing for many people to do is to abandon wheat, even whole wheat. Fortunately, there are other options. For bread, stick to organic sprouted loaves. Instead of endless bowls of pasta, try quinoa, spelt, teff, buckwheat and a variety of brown rice. Experiment until you find the things you like; the adventure waits.Healthy eating plans aren’t hard to create, as long as you start with good ingredients and understand how to prepare them. Have fun!

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