Food...

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. If you eat crap food, you are going to get crap results. You can workout all you want but if you don't change what you put IN your body, you will not get the results you want. Food has changed over the years. The Coke we drank as we were growing up is not the same as the Coke today. The serving sizes have changed--super sized, additives are more potent, insecticides are stronger--more chemicals...food has changed! It has been shown that even fresh foods don't have as many nutrients in them now as in years past. That is why it is even more important that we pay attention to what we put in our bodies.

The easiest way to think about it is--REAL. The quote a famous tv trainer--"If you can't pick it off a vine or tree or it doesn't have a mama...it isn't real food." That pretty much sums it up. The last time I checked--Chester Cheese or Tony the Tiger didn't have babies... You want to eat food as natural as possible--no salted, honey roasted, glazed, etc. Fresh food is best but frozen is acceptable too. You just need to eat it. Vegetables and fruits that haven't been processed. Not processed is the key for everything. The less processed it is, the better it is for you. Period.

Color is good. The more colorful your plate is the better. Brown rice over white rice, wheat anything over white, sweet potato over white potato. Are you seeing a pattern here?? The more variety you eat, the better it is for you. I'm not so hot in that department. I tend to eat the same stuff but it is good stuff. My bad is better than most people's good but it wasn't always that way... Back when I had an office job--I had a food "drawer". It was full of potato chips, cookies, chocolate, etc. Now I hardly ever buy the stuff. When I eat it, it makes me feel bad--that helps with cutting it out.

It is all about making better choices. Pay attention to what you are putting in your body. Start looking at labels, the more words you understand--the better it is for you. Read labels, make choices, change your body, change your life!