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Real people, real food, real results — stories and tips from My Fit Foods.
What Are Macros and How Do You Count Them?
Those who follow the keto diet, as well as people who are looking into it as an option, are more than likely familiar with macros and are able to count them pretty accurately and easily. They might even feel like experts. To everyone else, macros sound foreign and unusual.So, what are macros? What is the [...]
Vegetarian Meal Prep Ideas for A Healthier You
Meal prepping is designed to simplify your life. After all, there’s nothing quite like getting home from work to find that yourdinner is already prepped, and all that you need to do is heat it up – or finish putting the already cut ingredients together. Sounds heavenly, right? This is particularly true for vegetarians, who [...]
Keto Meal Prep Ideas to Help You Lose Weight
Whether you already follow theketo diet or are thinking about it, you need to understand the importance of meal prep. With keto, you need to follow a very specific ratio of macros (also known as macronutrients), ensuring that you get enough proteins and fats, and as few carbs as possible, throughout the day. With such [...]
Ideas to Make Meal Prep Exciting
Meal prepping is a necessary task, but that doesn't make it fun. In fact, there can be nothing more mind-numbing than spending a part of your weekend prepping salads, measuring spices, and making sauces for your weekly dinners.But we have a solution! Rather than treating meal prep like a chore (which it is, but that's [...]
Dishes That Make Dining in Feel Like Dining Out
While eating out isn’t as expensive as it used to be, it’s no longer as healthy as it was in the past either. Back in the day,restaurant meals had smaller portions and healthier ingredients. Now, as many restaurants have focused on serving people quickly and keeping the menu items (and their components) convenient and cost-effective, [...]
Is It Possible To Eat Carbs and Lose Fat?
Yup [1-7].Are you for serious?YES!!!!In fact, a 2017 study by Veum and colleagues [8] published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that subjects were able lose more than 23 pounds of pure fat in 12 weeks.And they were eating…wait for it…281 grams of carbohydrates(or about 1.25 grams per pound of their body weight).The kicker is that [...]
NEW STUDY ALERT – CAN LEAN RED MEAT BE PART OF A HEALTHY DIET?!?
A new absolute beast of a study by Fleming et al. published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, [1] found that the inclusion of Lean Red Meat at up to 5.5 ounces per day inside of a Mediterranean-style diet still lead to reductions in blood lipids even when people did not lose weight. Furthermore, [...]
Can You Drink Alcohol and Lose Weight?
The answer to this question might surprise you, but it is unequivocally…Yes.Below are the results from a fairly famous 12 week study in which females were put on a 1,500 kcal diet including either ~7 ounces of white wine or ~7 ounces of grape juice (which was around ~10% of their total calorie intake for [...]
Is Obesity All In Our Genes?
The largest genome-wide association studies to date found that obesity specific genes explain about 6% of the variation in Body Mass Index (BMI) [1] and if you throw the entire genome in the mix maybe genes can explain a little over 20% of the variation in BMI [2].So, yes there is some genetic susceptibility to Obesity, [...]
Consistency Is Key for Weight Loss
Are you losing and gaining the same 5-10 pounds of water weight…As a nutrition coach, the first thing I am looking for is…ConsistencyConsistencyCONSISTENCY.There are three pivotal reasons why I annoyingly wrote this word three times. The mental drain of watching early stage weight loss and weight gain fluid shifts can drive people bonkers. We are [...]
How Can We Be Social Without Sabotaging Our Results?
It looks like we generally eat 30 to 80% more in social situations [1], but it is pretty hard to have a good party by yourself so let’s discuss what we can do to potentially make social occasions less about food and more about fun.I am never going to be the “health” guy slapping Doritos [...]
Peanut Butter Alternatives for Those Who Eat Healthy
Peanut butter is no doubt a fan favorite. Kids (and adults) reach for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, some eat the treat straight from the jar, and it appears in a number of tasty recipes, such as chocolate buckeyes and peanut butter cookies. The problem is that it isn’t the healthiest choice, thanks to its [...]
