Nutritional Concepts

Hello everyone,

I wanted to throw a couple of concepts at you when it comes to your nutrition and how you may want to prepare your meals. I think we know that the more we can buy quality food and prep food at home the better off we are going to be. We have gone over how fast food does not care about your health and uses substandard ingredients to say the least. If we can focus on quality over macro nutrient breakdown I know that we will most likely get to our goal a lot faster.

How do I design meals that are going to allow me to get to an optimal weight and maintain my general overall health?

Step #1: For every meal, use the best ingredients possible. This means avoiding fast food as much as possible. They use poisonous ingredients because it is cheaper for them, they don't care about your health. The less your body has to deal with detoxing itself from all that stuff the better off that it is going to function.

Step #2: Assuming that we are using quality ingredients, what do I put in the meals? One of the best ways to hit your macros is think about combining 2 proteins and adding 3 different veg. Proteins are made up of amino acids. Different proteins have different amino acid profiles. The different protein sources should allow you to hit the rainbow of a complete profile. The most important amino acid when it comes to building muscle is leucine. Any quality amino acid supplement should have higher concentrations of leucine present.

Ok, so I combine two quality protein sources, what else do I add to it? I like to mix in 3 different types of vegetables. An example would be grilled onions and squash while laying everything over a bed of arugula. We have different colors on the plate and with some raw veg and cooked veg. We don't need to argue or worry about which is the best, include everything so you cover all your bases. The drawback to cooked vegetables is that the enzymes begin to break down when heated thus eliminating some of the cell structure thus the nutritional value tends to lower (Some more than others). I prefer most veg cooked but will try to include some raw veg whenever possible. We want to vary our vegetables as they each carry different vitamins and minerals and we want to be in a surplus of these when we can be.

Pick your proteins, pick your vegetables and combine them altogether. If we go Jordan on this (2/3) we normally have options for tasty meals that are easy to alter by adding an egg to it for example or switching up one of the vegetables to something that possibly has already been batched cooked. I hope this helps, any questions hit me in the comments. Do you need additional ideas? Check out my IG page @bg90day for plenty of examples!

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