Hitch Fit Living Magazine Volume 11 - April/June 2017 | Page 13

"I eat healthy, but I can't seem to lose weight." "I eat healthy foods, but nothing is
changing." I can't tell you how many times over the last 15 years I've heard this statement
from a person interested in the transformation process. What's the answer? The simple
version is NO. But let's dig a little deeper.
1. What is your definition of "healthy" eating? If to you, this means eating a variety of
whole foods the majority of the time, eating good combinations of lean proteins, high quality
carbohydrates and fats, then you're on the right track! This still isn't enough in and of itself
for fat loss and visually changing the body, but it's a good foundation.
Too often I hear that people feel their diet is "healthy", and then they describe all the
processed foods they are eating. Or they think that if they eat something "gluten free" or "fat
free" that means that it's healthy, or could be the box has a picture of a plant on it, or big
green words that say things like "Nature" or has "healthy" somewhere labeled on the
packaging (next to a huge list of ingredients that you can't pronounce). Don't feel bad if this
describes you though, we live in a world of confusing media and product marketing all geared
towards trying to sell product and make you think it's "healthy". You are not alone!
Know ledge is power when it comes to choosing what you put in your body, you just have to be
careful of where you get that knowledge from!
One thing you can start doing is reading labels, both ingredient labels and nutritional
information labels. The fewer ingredients listed, the better. If there's just ONE ingredient
listed, well that's the best...(unless that one ingredient is sugar of course!). Start looking at
the amount of carbohydrate, sugar, fat and protein are in the foods that you're eating. And
also make note of what a serving size is. Ignorance truly is bliss when it comes to how you fuel
your body, the more you know, the harder it makes it to make a poor choice.