What you put into your body will form 75 – 80% of the results you will see. Therefore, it is  extremely important to be consistent in your eating routine, to eat 5 – 7 small meals per day  and to plan ahead.

An eating routine is a huge topic and I will aim to put up some detailed meal plans, articles  on good foods and healthy recipes. But if I were to sum up the basics of what you should or  should not be eating into a short paragraph, I would say, avoid all refined sugars and as  much processed food as possible. As to what you should be eating, aim for protein rich  foods, such as chicken, turkey, tuna, fibrous carbohydrates, such as green veg and salad  and limited good fats, which includes olive oil, almonds and flax seed.

You can increase your metabolic rate by increasing the number of meals you eat throughout  the day up to maybe five or seven small meals. This works because every time you eat, you  increase your metabolism, though you have to ensure you don’t increase the total number of  calories you eat. If your normal (or desired) intake is 1800 calories daily and you want to  eat 6 meals a day, then you could allow 350 calories each for your 3 main meals, breakfast,  lunch and dinner (1050 calories) and 250 calories each for your 3 snacks (750 calories) at  mid morning, mid afternoon and pre bedtime. These 6 meals total 1800 calories a day. You  can change these around if necessary to account for a training session, but this will be  covered in a later article.

I plan ahead for my meals for the working week, because then I have something ready to  eat when I need it and I am not tempted to buy expensive fast-food from a nearby shop! The  prepared food includes protein for my meals and snacks.

I prepare my week’s food on a Sunday, making sure I check on portion sizes, based on the  “size of your hand” principle. This usually means one chicken fillet, a cup of lean mince or a  palm-sized piece of steak for each adult. Because the protein preparation is the most  time-consuming, this is mostly what I prepare ahead of time. The carbohydrate portion is  usually salad, which I prepare in the morning, or frozen vegetables which only take a few  minutes.

Possible meal choices for the week might typically include two chicken, two fish and one  steak dinner, plus lunches. The fish is frozen, so can easily be cooked on the day of use. I  might cook 8 chicken fillets, 2 steaks and 6 hard boiled eggs. Half the chicken (4 fillets)  goes in the freezer for one dinner and one lunch at the end of the week. The cooked steak  and the other half of the cooked chicken fillets (4), plus the hard boiled eggs go in the  fridge, assuming cooked meat is safe in the fridge for two or possibly three days. The  chicken is used both for dinner and for lunch. The hard boiled eggs can be used for snacks  or for breakfast.

In addition to the chosen cooking day, I use a Wednesday evening to prepare any snacks  for Thursdays and Fridays, such as hard-boiled eggs.

On a closing note, always remember, failing to plan is planning to fail. For more information  on fitness and diet look at the WordPress  Blog – My Fitness Tale

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