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You are what eat. Don’t let anyone kid you that you are not. So why not eat good foods. Like foods low in fat and high in protein. For example, chicken, turkey and fish. These meats prepared properly, baked, preferably skinless will keep the fat low but maintain a high protein source. Complex carbohydrates are essential like broccoli, cabbage, green beans, zucchini, carrots and celery. Simple carbohydrates such as breads, cakes and macaroni are high in carbohydrates and calories. As we all know, excess calories are stored as fat.

Lets compare a fast food meal versus a high protein low carb meal.

	Fast Food Meal One Cheeseburger, a single patty has a Total of 359 calories. Calories from fat equal 178. Total Protein – 17.8 grams. Lets add a Large Fry, Total Calories 539. Calories from Fat 259. One Soda, 180 calories Total Calories = 1078, Calories from Fat = 437.

High Protein Meal

One Skinless Chicken Breast – 231 Calories. Calories from Fat 45. Total Protein – 43.4 grams

One Serving of Fresh Steamed Broccoli – 25 Calories. Calories from Fat equal 0.5g.

One Water.

Total Calories = 256, Calories from Fat = 45.5

Wow, what a big difference. The fast food meal has four times as many calories as the high protein meal. Now, as everybody knows one cheeseburger usually doesn’t get it. So lets add another 359 calories to the fast food meal. Now we have a total of 1437 and 615 calories is from fat. So we wonder how we get fat. One meal is over 1400 calories.

Now, Lets look at the chicken breast meal. We could eat five chicken breast meals and would not equal one fast food meal that I described.

The point that I am trying to make, with a strong exercise program you need to eat healthy and be concerned with the types of food that you eat. We must understand that we eat to live not live to eat. Success is what we are after.

We can become creative with our meals. Three to four small meals a day works well with a good exercise program. Lean meats, skinless when possible. Fresh fruits and vegetable preferably steamed, frozen are ok when the fresh ones aren’t available. Stay away from canned foods that are high in sodium. Eat enough to satisfy your hunger, not until your overly full.

Get in the habit of reading labels on all food products. Look at the total calories, how much sugar, fat and sodium. Don’t be fool by names promoting health, you must read the labels. Here is an example, Fruits juice, is it 100 % pure juice or is it 20 %, this is very important. What you could be drinking is a fruit drink made from very little juice if any at all

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