After we start our physical activity program, our remaining account is always to improve nutrition and the way we eat. Eating healthy, including selecting quality products can make our adaptations to physical activity more efficient and can make a significant difference. And how difficult this is…
Let’s look for quality and fight myths
The difficulty is not only in the temptations that the food itself (if we can call it that) provokes us and makes us consume it. Also because, even if we have good intentions to eat healthily, it is very difficult to find food that we can classify as such when we eat out or even in the supermarkets and in the selection of products.
On the other hand, there are many myths about nutrition, and many times society is confused or simply does not know what “eating well” is. How many people would bet that eating 5 meals a day is the right thing to do? And like these, there are many more. How important I consider education in this area, and how little there is. Spain is still the only European country that does not have nutritionists in its public health system.
“Our country is on the podium (third place) of those with the highest obesity rate in the world, only behind the United States and Great Britain”
As for your meal plan…
If we said that a specific training plan should always be prescribed by a physical activity professional, an eating plan that pursues a specific goal should also always be prescribed by nutrition and dietetic professionals.
Miracle diets do not exist. And many times desperation or haste make us access to food models that put our health at stake. Each person is different and reacts in a different way to stimuli. This is also true of eating plans. What worked for your neighbor, who lost 40 pounds in one summer, may be able to hospitalize you. That’s how raw. It’s very hard for an ordinary person not to know that food (if you can call it food) is a nutritional disaster for the body.
“A first step would be to stop consuming all these junk products: soft drinks or sugary juices, industrial baked goods or fast food”
Remember that your way of eating must also be sustainable over time. If a person is “addicted” to cola and consumes 2 liters a day, removing that stimulus from their daily life can be traumatic. Therefore, in this section, let us also think that we have to add little by little and that a can a day is perhaps less bad than a two-liter bottle. Apply it with the other products that you know are forbidden, consume vegetables in all your meals and increase the consumption of proteins. That way you’ll be on the right track…