Food Guidelines

Here is a list of small changes that will have a big impact on your healthy lifestyle. Can't do them all? Pick one at a time to try and when you've got it down, move to the next... you'll be glad you did.

1. Only whole grains!!!!

2. No foods that contain high fructose corn syrup or hydrogenated oil (in any form).

3. Eat a vegetable or fruit at every meal.

4. Stop drinking soda (not even diet!)

5. Eat less than 40g of 'added' sugar a day.

6. Add fish to one meal per week.

7. Add 2 vegetarian meals per week.

8. No artificial food colorings

Bonus: Have a smoothie that contains blueberries and spinach each day (the rest of the ingredients are up to you: mango, pineapple, apple, carrot, orange, banana, pear, peach, any berry, honey, wheat germ, coconut--juice/water/milk all work for base...)

Bonus 2: If you have to eat cereal for breakfast shoot for one containing less then 10g sugar per serving and at least 3g fiber (less than 6g sugar? even better!)

Oatmeal can be exciting if you add: pumpkin pie cranberries, orange zest, coconut, blueberries, chopped nuts... (with a nice spoonful of dark brown sugar of course!)

~Kandis