Healthy Eating is Common Sense and Easy!

You know that healthy eating and physical fitness go hand in hand. You know some of the principles but would really like something simple.

What information is the best? What works? Start by counting your calories! How consistent is your diet? Do you vary by more than 500 calories per day? The first thing is to get consistent. Multiply your weight (in pounds) by 10 calories. This will be your target. Don't worry, you are neither going to starve or get obese on this dosage of calories in a short period of time. So if you weigh 150 pounds you should aim at 1500 calories per day, but do not vary between 1300 and 1700. Watch your weight over two weeks. Does it go up or go down or stay the same?

In order of importance.

1. Follow the Food Guide or the Food Pyramid. Minimums and limits of Grains, Dairy, Vegetables and Fruit, and Meat are carefully researched and artfully presented.

See Canada food guide or the Food Pyramid

2. Do not over eat. Consume the amount of calories that fit your model.

3. Eat three meals each day and three snacks each day. Make sure the meals and snacks include the food guide!


Meal planning does need to be complex. Alternate breakfast between three or four easy recipes and a variety of cereals and that's it. Simple.

There are so many dietary components and it is difficult if not impossible to stay in touch with the latest developments on every single one. There are four basic components of your diet that you will need to become familiar with and they are: