 Find out your Calorie Budget with Body Smart In a previous post, I shared with you how to make your divide up your Calorie Budget by meal groups. This may have left you thinking great!!, but how do figure out what foods fit my budget? Let’s take a look at some Calorie Tetris to figure this out! 1. First, start with your calorie budget by testing with Body Smart. For example, if your budget is for 1800 calories then you might break it down to calorie budget meal groups like these: Breakfast - 400 Snack - 100 Lunch - 500 Snack - 100 Dinner - 700 There’s no perfect way to break it up. It’s a process of trial and learning to find out what works for you! 2. Write down a list of all of the foods that you like to eat (or that you will eat) for each meal. By writing down a list, it eliminates the problem of staring into the pantry with a blank look wondering what you should do. Instead, you’ll just refer to the list and pick out some items. Breakfast Lunch Snacks Egg, Boiled 2 Slices bread 20 Almonds Toast 1 slice cheese 13 Cashews Milk, 8oz Deli turkey 3oz Hummus 2 oz Cheesestick 1 Cucumber Tortilla Chips Banana Carrots 3 oz Pita Chips Apple Hummus, 2 oz Beef Jerky Peanut Butter Greek Yogurt Dip Nutella 1/2 Avocado 3. Take your lists and put some calorie amounts to them. There are great apps that can help you calculate how many calories and what a serving size is for each item. Some of these you can round up just to make the math easy. Breakfast Lunch Snacks Egg, Boiled 100 2 Slices bread 225 20 Almonds 150 Toast 100 1 slice cheese 100 13 Cashews 150 Milk, 8oz 100 Deli turkey 3oz 100 Hummus 2 oz 100 Cheesestick 100 1 Cucumber 50 Tortilla Chips 100 Banana 100 Carrots 3 oz 50 Pita Chips 100 Apple 100 Hummus, 2 oz 100 Beef Jerky 100 Peanut Butter 200 Greek Yogurt Dip 100 Nutella 200 1/2 Avocado 1504 4. Stop staring blankly into the pantry, look at your list and add up a few items that sound good in the moment. Instead of wondering, you can pick from a list of food you LIKE, that tastes GOOD to you, and that works for your LIFESTYLE! 5. Watch for dinner time tips coming in the next few weeks. Dinner time tends to a bit more tricky for calorie budget management due to social eating. It has its own set of challenges that we’ll address though up-coming posts. The key to Calorie Budget Tetris is the METABOLIC TESTING with Body Smart. When you know your true Calorie Budget it empowers you to make DECISIONS about your food choices instead of REACTIONS! You won’t just get frustrated and go for the microwave meals. Instead you’ll be able to have a workable plan in place. If you wanna be a Calorie Budget Tetris Champ call 801-479-4471 and learn about YOUR metabolism TODAY!!
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