Nutrition

Nutrition plays a huge role in achieving even the simplest health or fitness goal. We have 7 days in a week to workout. We eat, on the average, 3 times a day. Over the course of a week, that is 21 meals! We have, minimally, 21 opportunities over the course of a week to make a difference in our health.

To maximize our success we have to make sure our clients are properly informed, adequately prepared, and completely motivated to capitalize on each one of these opportunities. We utilize food logs and ongoing nutritional counseling sessions to guide our client’s lifestyle nutrition changes.

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What guides us as counselors?

Nutrition is the only input that our body gets from the outside world, and the only source of materials it has to complete the regeneration or growth of tissue. It is our responsibility to provide our body with best quality materials in order to insure that we are the finest human machines we can be. Failure to do so results in disease and dysfunction. You wouldn’t use cardboard and tinfoil when planning your kitchen remodel, would you?

We have certain physiological needs for nutrition, that must be met on a daily basis. If we do not meet these needs, we will continue to be hungry until they are met. If we consume poor quality food, that hunger will not go away, and weight gain is a likely result. If we consume quality foods and meet our needs first, we satiate our hunger. There is no such thing as a bad food, just bad quantities. If that is all you eat, you will never be satisfied.

Quality foods consist of just that…food! Things that are grown, harvested, and butchered. The less something looks like it did when it’s ingredients were first created, the worse it is for you. There is no such thing as a Twinkie tree or a Hot Pocket bush. These are not quality foods that will meet your needs or fill your hunger.

Quantity is important, but remember that food doesn’t make us gain or lose weight – hormones do. We can control some hormones with food, but there are some that must be controlled through other methods. If the quality of your food is excellent, the quantity becomes less important. If the quality of your life is excellent, the food becomes less important.