Eating foods that fuel your body is an important aspect of your fitness journey. What you eat can impact your ability to not only build or maintain lean muscle, but it can also influence your body’s ability to properly recover and prepare for your next workout.
We highly encourage everyone who joins the challenge to choose foods that will help them feel and perform their best during the challenge. While there is no one size fits all, this can begin by looking at food as fuel versus just eating a number of calories.
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Tracking your food can also help you see the nutrients you are consuming as well as the nutrients you might be missing in any given day. A great way to do this is with the app MyFitnessPal, which syncs with Sworkit.
Here are some tips to get you started:
- Increasing your plant-food intake (i.e. 1/2 your plate of greens and veggies)
- Increasing water intake (1/2 your body weight in oz each day)
- Increasing healthy fat (fish, nuts, seeds, and avocado)
- Aiming for 25g of fiber each day to help you reduce body fat, digest normally, and regulate blood sugars (fruits and vegetables, nuts, and legumes)
- Quality, minimally processed protein (***Many people are not hitting the recommended .5 – .8g of protein per pound of body weight. And even more when pregnant or injured. Some ideas for protein are eggs, chicken, fish, lean meats, lentils, beans, hummus, and quinoa.)