Take Stock: Start a food diary and log what you consume for at least 14 days. Fuelin is one of the easiest way to track what you’re really taking in. A food diary lets you see what you’re consuming and if there are certain foods that stand out. It can create an “aha moment.”
Take Action: Most people know what they need to do, but the action part is where they get stuck. Eating better, whatever specific goal you have, is one of those things where you have to literally buy the foods and stock your fridge or you won’t succeed. What you have in your kitchen, your pantry, your fridge is what you’re going to eat.
After you asses your nutrition intake, get educated and start to learn about food and how they can contain different macronutrients. Fuelin will do an excellent job at showing you how differing foods contain differeing macro nutritent ratios and amounts. A mindset shift can be applied here. Rather than logging to see how little you need to eat in order to lose weight, shift that to how much food do I get to eat in order to meet my body's demands for my training. It is a big difference and Fuelin allows you to do this with ease!
Cement Habits: To get your goals to stick, whatever they are, it helps to commit and make the rules you plan to follow public. Maybe that’s just putting them on your fridge. The rules don’t need to be complicated for the correct nutritional intake. It might be eat food from the ground, have six servings of vegetables per day, ensure I never do a fasted work out or simply I will follow my Fuelin plan for 60 days without question! You just have to solidify them and stick to them.
Reward Yourself: It’s important to link your goals to your “Why”. Why do you want to have a six-pack? Is it meaningful? Why do you care about getting healthier or eating less processed food? Whta is the deep seeded reason you want to eat better to imporve your health & performance. Often it comes down to those closest to you in your life. Keep asking why until you hit at the underlying reason and motivation. Link the why and the process together in order to get the outcome you are searching for.
Adjust, Repeat: Maybe you just start with something simple, like “I will eat in the recovery window after a workout,” and then once you nail that down you can build from there. So many athletes have terrible basic nutritional habits, and you can’t build on a foundation of sand. It’s important to get the basics right. The macronutrients, six handfuls of vegetables, and likely increase your protein intake. Then worry about the sprinkles on top of that, like supplements, carbon drink bottle holders and aero helmets!
Scott