Strategizing Your Nutrition for Success
Everyone has their own personal obstacles when it comes to achieving their goals. When it comes to fitness and fat loss, some find getting started with and sticking to a workout routine to be the “sticking 
point”. For others, the nutritional aspect is where they have the most difficulty. I find that in our facility for most, it’s the nutrition that needs the work.
I guess in hindsight, that would be because we take the guesswork out of the workout…
Nutrition on the other hand, is something that they have to be accountable for. We give them guidelines, but can’t be there all day giving direction as far as what to eat and when.
This keeps me thinking about how to make nutrition easier to handle, stick to, and be successful with. I recently sat down with a client that has been having difficulty to come up with a strategy for her nutrition.
Here are the three steps we used.
1. Keep at least a week’s worth of food logs, including time of meal, and what the meal was.
2. Review the food log to see the following
~What types of foods you eat regularly
~Where are your biggest obstacles during the day?
3. Based on the review of your food log, come up with 2-3 options for each meal time.
This client walked away no longer feeling lost with her nutrition. We made it simple, we gave her realistic options based on her current food likes and dislikes, and I’ll be checking back in next week to see if there’s anything that needs to be re-visited.
I suggest that if nutrition is your stumbling block, you use the three strategies above, and follow the nutrition guidelines listed here to come up with your own simple, personalized nutritional plan.
9 times out of 10, it’s not having any sort of strategy or plan that will sabotage your success!
