Ranking Your Food Choices
Let's face it...you wouldn't be here if you were making great food choices and eating the proper quantities of food. It would be wonderful if we could eat what we want and be healthy, fit, and have rocking bodies. Unless you are a genetic mutant this is not going to happen.
Ask yourself this: Are you ready to eat for results or do you want to eat for pleasure and emotion? Most of us want to look great and be healthy. It's as easy as this, eat the way you want to look. Eat junk if you want to look like junk; eat healthy if you want to look healthy.
For some people it's calories in/calories out and for others all calories are not created equal. At PNP we combo the approach. We find a good calorie range for you to eat that supports our active lifestyle and we encourage you to eat wholesome and good, healthy foods.
How do you know if what you eat is healthy? Tom Venuto has a system of grading your foods.
"Here's an example of grading food. An apple is obviously "A" list. An apple gets the highest grade possible because it's in the way, natural state. Next down the rung you have unsweetened applesauce. It consists of nothing but raw apples and water, but it's been pureed, so it's not in its most natural state anymore and is therefore relegated to a "B" (still good). Turn it into apple juice and you're down to a "C" (still passing). Then if you add sugar (sweetened applesauce or apple drink), now you're down to a "D". Finally, if the apples eventually become an apple pie, now you're down to an "F". "
Your task is simple: look at your past week's food journal, grade your food choices, and find places where you can improve your grade. Anything below a C should be replaced and not eaten except in rare cases. Shoot for mostly A's and B's daily.