What a great example that I can share with all of you this fine Monday morning! I have my husband doing this Current Fitness Challenge which he is mostly thrilled to do ;-) and is off to a very great start! I had to chuckle yesterday though as he was logging in his food.....and knew right away it was going to be my next blog post.
Like so many of us, my husband is of the mind set that if he is eating healthy foods (or rather, mostly healthy foods), he shouldn't have to worry with tracking them. Nor does he really think it matters how much of a good thing he is or isn't consuming regarding his waistline. His wake up call was yesterday! I went shopping Saturday and bought for him his requested nuts stash to combine with fruit for one of his daily snacks. I put them in their own little basket alongside a measuring cup so he could snack healthfully. As he is off to such a great start, he prepared his own afternoon snack yesterday consisting of nuts and grapes. Most excellent choice, right? Depends....depends on what nut you select, how many servings you select, etc. Well, it was almost full proof regarding type of nuts as I was careful what I bought for him, so selection, while not what I would have chosen, made him happy and wasn't off the charts bad for him. The problem he encountered was serving size. A serving size of most nuts is a 1/4 of cup. Have you seen a 1/4 cup of peanuts, cashews, almonds, pistachios, or walnuts? Not a ton of content. Makes you very aware how many calories you are consuming when you just sit down with a bag or a can of nuts for sure. Anyway, he mixed a serving of three different kinds of nuts, so he had three servings of nuts with his grapes. As he was logging in his treat, he was astonished at how many calories he was consuming.....over 630 calories!
Lesson is that you can be eating something completely healthy, but if you are not aware of the nutritional breakdown and have not practiced days worth of meals over the course of time to know how many calories, fats, carbs, protein, sodium, fiber, etc., you are actually consuming from the foods you put into your body, you cannot truly know what you are consuming. You can eat numerous, healthy, supportive meals throughout a day but if you do not know what the caloric intake is of those foods, then you cannot truly know if you are consuming more or less calories than your body needs in a day.
Eating "healthy", alone does not equal eating supportively! Need help: Eating Supportively
Like so many of us, my husband is of the mind set that if he is eating healthy foods (or rather, mostly healthy foods), he shouldn't have to worry with tracking them. Nor does he really think it matters how much of a good thing he is or isn't consuming regarding his waistline. His wake up call was yesterday! I went shopping Saturday and bought for him his requested nuts stash to combine with fruit for one of his daily snacks. I put them in their own little basket alongside a measuring cup so he could snack healthfully. As he is off to such a great start, he prepared his own afternoon snack yesterday consisting of nuts and grapes. Most excellent choice, right? Depends....depends on what nut you select, how many servings you select, etc. Well, it was almost full proof regarding type of nuts as I was careful what I bought for him, so selection, while not what I would have chosen, made him happy and wasn't off the charts bad for him. The problem he encountered was serving size. A serving size of most nuts is a 1/4 of cup. Have you seen a 1/4 cup of peanuts, cashews, almonds, pistachios, or walnuts? Not a ton of content. Makes you very aware how many calories you are consuming when you just sit down with a bag or a can of nuts for sure. Anyway, he mixed a serving of three different kinds of nuts, so he had three servings of nuts with his grapes. As he was logging in his treat, he was astonished at how many calories he was consuming.....over 630 calories!
Lesson is that you can be eating something completely healthy, but if you are not aware of the nutritional breakdown and have not practiced days worth of meals over the course of time to know how many calories, fats, carbs, protein, sodium, fiber, etc., you are actually consuming from the foods you put into your body, you cannot truly know what you are consuming. You can eat numerous, healthy, supportive meals throughout a day but if you do not know what the caloric intake is of those foods, then you cannot truly know if you are consuming more or less calories than your body needs in a day.
Eating "healthy", alone does not equal eating supportively! Need help: Eating Supportively
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