About Fit4YouNutrition.com

Creating a healthy, lean body depends on how well your body copes with the demands made on it. Fit4youNutrition.com assesses these demands and tailors nutritional approaches specific to you.

This site is intended to give you an overview of the relevant research (see sources/useful links section) providing a base to determine your current stressors and the nutritional approach best suited for you. It will look at the basic Macro Nutrient components as well as the importance of insulin control and mitigation of food allergies and other imbalances that run havoc throughout your body which in addition to adequate sleep and exercise will be the underpinning factors of success.

Once you have a solid baseline, you can then look at tweaking the finer points of your diet to ensure that your specific goals are met. For help tailoring a nutritional approach to meet your needs book a nutritional consulting session through the services link.

Setting the tone…

This forward (borrowed from RobbWolf.com) nicely sets the tone of the material to come: We can infer that we indeed want a complete “fitness”, and since nutrition-the molecular basis of health-is the foundation of an optimized fitness regime, we should want the very best nutritional strategy we can find, especially if our definition of fitness includes all parameters of health. If that is the case, then before we start slicing and dicing our food into exacting proportions we need to have the right stuff on the plate. We can be apologists and try to be all things to all people, but much like the argument that too much powerlifting or long distance running will hamper your overall fitness, so too will consumption of foods that are at odds with health [and those foods that are at odds with health could be different for each individual].

I also liked this one from Marcelle Pick: The bottom line is, most of science is telling us that input must equal output-or that “a calorie is a calorie is a calorie” doesn’t adjust for a persons individual metabolism nor does it take into account the various other physical and emotional factors that create obstacles to weight loss. The truth is a calorie is a calorie is a calorie...until it enters your mouth. What happens next, the way your body burns, stores, or excretes that calorie-is specific to you, and specific to where you are right now.

Starting Point: Eat meat, veggies, nuts and seeds, little starch and no sugar (in that order). This covers food quality and address most food allergies, acid base balance and a host of other nutritional concerns. For food quantity and timing suggestions see Appendix 1.

Overview

1-99% of your shopping can be done on the outskirts of the grocery store. Meat & veggies, nuts & seeds…that’s all you need on hand at home.

2-If it was created by nature eat it, if it is processed, don’t.

3-Animal protein foods, milk and eggs always come with fat and this is how we should eat them. Animal fat supplies vitamins A&D and are needed for the assimilation of protein. Consumption of low fat milk products, egg whites and lean meats can lead to serious deficiencies of these vital fat soluble nutrients. Moreover, animal fats and gelatin rich bone broth spare protein which means that meat goes further.

4- While some lucky people are genetically equipped to digest milk in all its forms, the milk sold in your supermarket is bad for EVERYBODY.

5-You DO NOT NEED CARBS-carbs are not used as structural components in the body; they are only used as a form of fuel. Glucose in the blood stream is toxic to humans unless it is being burned immediately as a fuel. Moreover, humans can exist quite easily without ever eating carbs since the body has several mechanisms for generating glucose from fat and protein consumed.

6-Ideally we should be able to get all necessary nutrients from the food we eat, but with pollution on the rise and the diminishing quality of the food purchased in the supermarkets a good multi-vitamin is becoming essential (as is magnesium, fishoil and glutamine supplementation).

7-Give yourself a break. Can’t be perfect all the time. Allow 1 cheat meal a week where you can eat what ever you want. This also eliminates the potential danger that if you completely eliminate a food group your body will lose the ability to process it. However the rule is once you get up from the table the cheat meal is over. No cheat days allowed ?

8- Changing your eating patterns is not easy and it takes your body time to adjust. You are asking your body to produce energy from new sources so it is completely normal to feel a bit lethargic at the beginning. Give your digestive system the same consideration you would give your muscles when undertaking a new exercise program. When you start replacing starchy carbs with fat it can take up to 3 weeks for your body to learn how to use fat as a source of energy after which point in time it can become a much more effective source than the short burst starchy carbs.

9-All nutrients in some way or another affect insulin resistance or insulin sensitivity and insulin sensitivity is the route of all hormonal imbalances. Without first controlling insulin, all other efforts will be wasted.

10-Persistent cortisol release (which happens when you are under low levels of stress-such as over exercise, constant lack of sleep...) requires other vital mechanisms to effectively shut down-immunity, digestion, healthy endocrine function...among other stress-health associations, the link between elevated cortisol and weight gain has already been established. So REDUCE YOUR STRESS!

REMEMBER: "The Fit 4 You 5" is just a starting point. Real results come from customizing your meal plans to correct your own unique nutritional deficiencies. Look through our service offerings and discover the perfect fit for your needs.