Beat The Quarantine 15 - Nutrition Tips

1. Add more fats to your diet

• Helps keep you fuller for a longer period of time

• Helps your body absorb nutrients

• Fats produce important hormones

• Avocados, olive oil, nuts

• Monounsaturated Fat > Trans Fat

2. Takes Your Vitamins

• Helps us get the micronutrients we don't get from our diets 

• Helps promote strong bones and teeth

3. Eat your weight in protein

• Protein builds and repairs tissue

• Helps build muscles, bones, and skin

4. Drink Amino Acids

• Protein breaks down into amino acids

• Helps build and repair muscles

• Helps regulate the immune system

5. Drink tea

• Tea contains antioxidants that help reduce heart disease, cancer, diabetes

• Aids in meal digestion

• My favorite type of tea is lemon & ginger

6. Eat sweets after eating ‘real meals’

• Sweets kill your appetite. Always want to eat something with some sort of nutrition value first.

7. NEED a late night snack? Eat protein

• Helps repair, muscles

• Cheese, milk, peanut butter, hummus

8. EAT complex carbs before being active.

• Carbs give you energy to perform

• Oats, beans, potatoes

9. EAT small balanced meals every 2-4 hours.

• This helps you to not over eat or under eat

• This helps keep increase metabolism

• Which helps burn more fat.

• If you don't eat often enough, your body will go into starvation mode and start storing fat and burning muscle.

10. Eat a fruit or vegetable with every meal

• Get micronutrients organically through your diet

• Keeps the body hydrated.