Do you struggle to hit your nutrition targets and struggle to find what's right to eat a lot of the time?
We've put together our top 10 tips on how to ensure you are adequately fueling your body and doing everything you can to hit your fitness goals!:
Hit your protein targets: Ensure you are getting adequate protein in day-to-day. Our standard suggestion for our clients is 1.2g-1.8g per Kg of bodyweight.
Ensure adequate hydration: make sure you are getting enough water in throughout the day, minimum should aim for hitting is 1.5L-2L daily, and ensuring more intake on hot days or days of intense exercise or sports.
Understand your nutrition targets: even if you aren't working with a professional, you can still find plenty of free online resources to calculate your calorie, carbs, protein and fat goals, so that you can track towards them.
Try substituting instead of overhauling: Instead of completely overhauling your eating patterns, start with small simple substitutes that are more in line with your nutrition goals.
Don't cut out major food groups: Ignore the trends and hype videos, unless you have a medical reasons, there's no need to cut out entire food groups, don't listen to the latest trends, follow the long-term research.
Find what works for you: Don't like fasting? Don't fast. Don't like high fat foods? Don't eat keto. Find the best, nutritious eating plan for yourself. It's not going to work if you hate what you eat.
Ensure a healthy relationship with food: Don't treat foods as good or bad, foods are food, any can be enjoyed as long as they can fit in your daily or weekly goals.
Having meals off is fine: A meal or night off won't ruin your progress, it's going to be much more sustainable and much better for long term success if you can have times out with friends and family without worrying.
Aim for variety: Aim for variety in the foods you have, variety of food groups means a higher likelihood of getting adequate nutrition in.
Diet drinks are fine: Substituting diet soft drinks or zero sugar drinks is a great way to lower calories, especially when first starting out. The current studies discussing the negatives of these are being misrepresented (unless you're a rat or consuming about 70 cans per day!).
What do you struggle most with hitting your nutrition goals?
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