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Nutrition Tips & Tricks Kate Lyman Nutrition Tips & Tricks Kate Lyman

THE PROS AND CONS OF A PLANT-BASED APPROACH: WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO EAT WITH INTENTION

Ideally you are starting with a diet that is already well-rounded and focused on whole foods, then reducing/eliminating meat consumption and replacing animal based proteins with plant-based alternatives. The unfortunate side effect of a plant-based diet being a fad right now is that many people skip this part and move right to just cutting out meat and dairy.


With the surge of popularity of plant-based diets has also come the increase in plant-based marketing. Walking around the grocery store, you’ll find “plant based” whole wheat pasta, donuts, and chips - all foods that are generally free of animal products anyway, and foods that don’t become automatically healthy just because of a plant-based label.

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Fat Loss, Tracking Macros Whitney Landon-Berg Fat Loss, Tracking Macros Whitney Landon-Berg

YOUR WEEKENDS MATTER

If your focus begins on Monday and ends on Thursday, you’re really only working toward your goal 4 out of 7 days per week. Even if you only loosen up on Saturday and Sunday, you can still cause your progress to lag or even stall out, depending on what your weekend intake looks like.

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Advice from the Coaches Diana Dewan Advice from the Coaches Diana Dewan

MEAL PREP FROM NUTRITION COACHES

Just as there is no one size fits all approach when it comes to nutrition, there’s also no one size fits all approach to meal prep.  Everyone has different macro targets and every individual can choose how much time is spent in the kitchen in order to hit these targets. However you choose to prep your food should suit your lifestyle and be sustainable for long-term success. 

To give you a bit more insight into what meal prep while tracking your macros can look like, we are showing you what a week of meal prep looks like for each of us. While we all follow the same concept of flexible nutrition, our approaches are very different and are dependent on our personal lifestyles.

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