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Take a good hard look at your eating habits
Over the last few years of working with athletes, people wanting to lose weight, and patients with elevated blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, metabolic syndrome or diabetes I have been privy to a number of interesting nutritional habits! It has also become pretty clear to me that many of us fall prey to one or more nutrition-related health & performance pitfalls, more often a result of nutrition misinformation by unsuspecting friends, colleagues, health professionals, the media and anyone out to make a quick buck. When it comes to nutrition, it is almost unbelievable what people actually believe and the ways in which they go about trying to improve their health &/or performance with nutrition.
Over these next 6 weeks, I hope to improve your nutritional knowledge and encourage you all to take advantage of the nutrition and training techniques you will be reading to improve your health and performance!
Do Your Homework Before You Go Out and Play!
Before you start training to improve your health and sport performance you need to assess your strengths and weaknesses, your current state of fitness and set some health and performance goals. Nutrition is no different. Just like a successful training program, a successful nutrition program requires that you assess your current habits to see where your nutritional strengths lie (things that you are easily doing well on a daily basis) and where your weaknesses occur (barriers or triggers to poor nutritional habits).
This will help you see where you could make some improvements and where you need to do some more homework to improve your nutritional knowledge. When I see a keen athlete being consistently inconsistent I know there is much nutrition work to be done!
Week 1 - Take a good hard look at your eating habits.
Just how big are your portion sizes for different foods? You may need to downsize your dishes and take your cutlery under control! Ask yourself the following questions:
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- If you answered YES to any of these questions then there are changes you can make to your eating patterns, food choices and timing of food intake to improve your health, your ability to train well and achieve peak performance in your sport.
- Meet with one of the Peak Performance Registered Dietitians / Sport Nutritionists - we help you to bridge the gap between the sciences of nutrition and exercise and healthy eating and active living. Our goal is to help you to achieve Peak Performance in your life and in sport!
- Check out the Peak Performance Sport Nutrition Services!
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