Simplifying Fat Loss Nutrition

The word no one wants to hear about, talk about, or have a conversation about is nutrition.

Let’s be honest, its that 800 pound gorilla in the room that everyone knows is either helping or hindering your performance and results but seems all too often to get ignored.  And its not because we all think it isn’t important…its because we all know it is!

It’s pretty black and white when we say nutrition is 80% of your results and exercise is 20%, but that is pretty conservative in my mind.  I think its more like 95% of your results and exercise is 5%.  I mean, think about it, if you eat for fat loss and perform any exercise (almost) you will get results.  Even if you don’t exercise at all, you will get results from eating the way the body was meant to.

I used to run nutrition classes on teaching people how to eat ‘supportively’ to promote an environment in their bodies for fat loss to occur.  Now I’ve transitioned to more of a support group helping people with accountability and responsibility of answering to someone other than themselves on a regular basis.  So many want to know ‘what’ to eat, but the what isn’t nearly as difficult as the ‘why’.

Why we need to eat the foods are just as important as the ‘what’ if not more important.  History has told us if we know ‘why’ we need to or not to perform a task, we are always more likely to do it or not do it.  It also evokes more learning and habit forming tendencies than the ‘what’ does.  In terms of nutrition the ‘what’ is great and gives you instant gratification, but won’t stay with you and more often than not will eventually get boring and you will not have formed a habit.  Not to mention the ‘what’ is pretty simple, I can tell you what to eat in one line:

lean meats and other proteins, vegetables, fruits, healthy and natural fats.

Eat in priority of that list with most abundant being lean meats.

If you stick to that list 90% of the time or better, you are in excellent shape.  When you start asking ‘what about _____?’ , you start to veer away from this list.  The list is pretty simple, ‘what abouts’ are very likely not on this list for a reason, and if you have a question about it, you are guaranteed to not be asking about something that would fit on this list

No secrets, nothing you haven’t heard before here, just discipline and understanding why before applying the what