Do you eat the same breakfast or lunch every day?
Its easy to fall into the habit of eating the same food day in and day out. I find myself doing the same thing sometimes, sticking to my breakfast favs of homemade muesli, coconut yoghurt and fruit or blueberries and coconut yoghurt and crispy bacon or my other personal fav eggs. 🙂
I have to stop myself and mix it up, but its still hard for me to think of having left-over dinner as breakfast. You may be the same, programmed to think that breakfast is cereal and toast or eggs and bacon. Breakfast can be anything you want, and if you have a small dinner you will be hungry enough for a good breakfast come morning!
If you have any digestive problems or skin problems, you will have some food allergies whether or not you are actually aware of it. You could be sensitive to gluten or dairy, but also to other individual foods. Having a rotation plan of eating could be really important in creating real health and assisting with weight loss.
It doesn’t have to be complicated. Most people only eat around 10 different meals. Why not try a new recipe or an ingredient you haven’t tried?
What I Do
This is what I do, when I go shopping each week I buy different varieties of meat and vegetables. I might get beef in some form like steak to go with a salad, or beef for slow cooking and then some beef or lamb mince for mixing with tomatoes and other vege like spinach or beans. Then I buy a whole chicken for slow cooking or roasting and use the bones for a broth or soup with left over chicken and plenty of vegetables, then two varieties of fish and then maybe pork. I have a vegetarian meal once a week as well. With these proteins make sure you have a plentiful variety of salads and vegetables. Then make enough food for breakfast or lunch the next day 3-4 times a week. You can then have your homemade muesli, smoothie or eggs for brekky on another day that week.
What You Can Do
I encourage you to eat a variety of foods to identify foods that could be causing problems and to get all your vitamins and minerals, so helping to maintain a healthy you! Keeping your diet interesting, will stop you getting bored and breaking out the french toast or muffins one day and feeling rubbish afterwards.
Learning to read your body and understand what works for you will go a long way to helping with long term health, longevity and a healthy weight, which is what we all want. Eat according to your body’s make-up, by eliminating problem foods for you, and you won’t have to think about weight loss it will just happen. So, mix it up, your body, health and waist-line will love you for it!
Whats a 4-Day Rotational Diet Plan?
If you want to go even further you could try a 4 day rotational diet plan. The thought behind a 4-day rotation diet plan is that it takes 4 days for food to pass through your system, and so you want to avoid eating any one food more than once every four days so you can discover if you are sensitive to it. Foods are grouped into ‘food families.’ I go into this more in a later article. If you have food intolerances or digestive issues you could benefit from a 4-day diet rotational plan. I have more detailed information and the 4-day rotational diet plans in the Online Gym.
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