Beat The Quarantine 15 - Nutrition Tips
1. Add more fats to your diet
• Helps keep you fuller for a longer period of time
• Helps your body absorb nutrients
• Fats produce important hormones
• Avocados, olive oil, nuts
• Monounsaturated Fat > Trans Fat
2. Takes Your Vitamins
• Helps us get the micronutrients we don't get from our diets
• Helps promote strong bones and teeth
3. Eat your weight in protein
• Protein builds and repairs tissue
• Helps build muscles, bones, and skin
4. Drink Amino Acids
• Protein breaks down into amino acids
• Helps build and repair muscles
• Helps regulate the immune system
5. Drink tea
• Tea contains antioxidants that help reduce heart disease, cancer, diabetes
• Aids in meal digestion
• My favorite type of tea is lemon & ginger
6. Eat sweets after eating ‘real meals’
• Sweets kill your appetite. Always want to eat something with some sort of nutrition value first.
7. NEED a late night snack? Eat protein
• Helps repair, muscles
• Cheese, milk, peanut butter, hummus
8. EAT complex carbs before being active.
• Carbs give you energy to perform
• Oats, beans, potatoes
9. EAT small balanced meals every 2-4 hours.
• This helps you to not over eat or under eat
• This helps keep increase metabolism
• Which helps burn more fat.
• If you don't eat often enough, your body will go into starvation mode and start storing fat and burning muscle.
10. Eat a fruit or vegetable with every meal
• Get micronutrients organically through your diet
• Keeps the body hydrated.