Nutritional Deal or Dud
When you are face to face with a food choice, check out the nutritional breakdown and ask yourself if it is a nutritional deal or a dud.
When you have had weight loss surgery or following a particular diet plan, eating becomes a means of fueling your body rather than a recreational sport. Instead of filling boredom by eating, you fill your time with meaningful activities that fill you.
The nutritional breakdown of foods doesn’t begin and end at calories. Check it all out for the full picture of what you are considering as a food choice. How many portions are in the package? What is the nutrition you will be putting into your body – high quality with a punch of nutrition or empty low quality (or no) nutrition? Check the fat content, saturated fat, carbohydrates and grams of sugar, fiber content and protein. Then ask yourself if this food choice is a nutritional deal or a nutritional dud?
You wouldn’t purchase a car that qualifies in the legal definition as a lemon. Who wants to pay premium money or calories for sub-par nutrition or junky food? That is what we do every time that we make a poor food choice. Every now and then, you can indulge in a less than nutritional deal. If your daily dietary intake consists of mostly nutritional duds, your body and health will pay the price.
Consider 1,200 calories. You can either think that is not very much or enough for you. If you eat 1,200 of high quality calories such as lean proteins, complex carbohydrates of whole grains, fruits and vegetables then that 1,200 is a lot of nutritional deals. If you eat 1,200 of simple carbs, that isn’t much food. You’ll zoom through those 1,200 in no time and it will leave you wanting more and more. The nutritional deals will leave you feeling full and satisfied where the nutritional duds leave you empty and craving more never feeling satisfied.
Just as you wouldn’t purchase a car that was legally defined as a lemon, why would you consume nutritional duds. Just as you want to spend your money (calories) in smart ways to get the most for what you spend, the same applies to your food choices. Spend your money wisely; spend your calories wisely as well.
When you adopt the mindset of nutritional deals as the majority of your food choices, you’ll feel full, satisfied by the fuel you give to your body thus reach your weight loss goals.
Spend wisely in all areas of your life – your time, your money and your nutrition!
Believe In Yourself,
Cathy, CLC
Certified Life Coach, Weight Loss Surgery Coach
Certified Back On Track Facilitator
