Healthy eating is not a diet. It is a lifestyle and means making changes you can live with and enjoy for the rest of your life.
Diets are temporary. Because most people give up easily when they diet, they also may overeat to make up for what they have been missing.
Eating a healthy, balanced variety of foods is far more satisfying. And if you match that with more physical activity, you are more likely to get to a healthy weight-and stay there-than if you diet.
We need to shift away from the idea of counting calories and move towards the idea of nourishment or fuel. This means we classify foods not based on their caloric value, but on their ability to provide the energy and nutrition the body needs to function optimally.
Gasoline and diesel are both fuel that cars can run on. If you put gasoline in a diesel engine, or vice versa, the engine may run but it won’t run well – or for very long. In a similar way, the human body can run on the entire range of fats, carbohydrates and proteins. Our 60 billon cells run much better on the fuel they were designed to run on, and if you put too much of the others in, the body will eventually break down.
Macro- en micro nutrients
The macro nutrients are the carbohydrates, proteins and fatty acids. We need more of those than of the micro nutrients: vitamins and minerals.
Your body has it’s own unique daily needs for macro and micro nutrients.
It’s Your Health Coach’s mission to help you find out what nutrients your body needs to achieve optimum health.
Because of today’s production methods, pollution and traveling time our food contains less nutrients than it used to. And at certain times of life, or as a result of lifestyle factors, you may need extra vitamins and minerals.
This is why Your Health Coach advises everyone a multivitamin/mineral supplement as an addition to a healthy and balanced diet.
Foods can only nourish our bodies when we can fully absorb the ingredients and break it down into little pieces. This is all influenced by how we handle our food, our age, lifestyle and eating habits.
Our optimum diet consists of enough nutrients that can really nourish our bodies and prevents us from getting any health complaints.
Make sure you follow these healthy eating guidelines:
Our healthy, balanced, daily diet needs to:
- (re)fuel our bodies
- build and repair our cells
- have the right composition of macro and micro nutrients
- consist of the right carbs
- have the right fatty acid ratio
- consist of the right macro nutrients
- consist of the right micro nutrients
- not consist of any unknown substances
- not consist of something that was not here 10.000 years ago
- as much raw, organic, pure and natural!
