I stopped counting calories and started eating intuitively. My relationship with food changed overnight.<\/p>\n
For years I counted every single calorie. I knew exactly how many points I had left. I felt like an accountant for my own body. Then I met a nutritionist who told me I was spending more mental energy tracking food than actually enjoying it.<\/p>\n
So I stopped. First week: I ate random stuff. Second week: I started noticing I felt better when I chose whole foods. Not because I had to. Because I wanted to.<\/p>\n
Not the trending diet. Not the supplement stack. The boring stuff. Eating vegetables. Getting enough protein. Drinking water. Sleeping enough.<\/p>\n
The CDC reports that only 1 in 10 adults gets enough fruits and vegetables daily. That’s 90% of people falling short on the most basic nutrition pillar. Meanwhile, we’re obsessed with exotic superfoods.<\/p>\n
Focus on the foundation first. Everything else is decoration.<\/p>\n
I added one thing to my diet and everything else improved as a side effect: fermented foods. Kimchi. Yogurt. Kombucha.<\/p>\n
My gut biome changed within two weeks. My skin cleared up. My digestion improved. Even my sleep got better. Research from Stanford shows that increasing fermented food intake increases microbial diversity.<\/p>\n
The gut-brain connection is real, people.<\/p>\n
Protein at every meal.<\/strong> Not just at breakfast like most Americans do. Aim for at least 20g per meal. A single chicken breast has about 30g.<\/p>\n Eat the rainbow, literally.<\/strong> Different colored plants contain different phytonutrients. Aim for variety over a week.<\/p>\n Don’t fear fat.<\/strong> Avocado, olive oil, nuts, fatty fish \u2014 essential. Your brain is 60% fat. Cut fat too low and everything breaks down. (See what I did there?)<\/p>\n Why I Don’t Eat After 8 PM (And The Exception I Made) isn’t complicated. Eat mostly plants. Get enough protein. Don’t obsess over perfection. And stop buying supplements before you’ve fixed your actual diet.<\/p>\n I’m not a nutritionist. I’m just someone who’s been researching food for years. What’s your biggest nutrition struggle right now? Let me know in the comments. \ud83d\udc9b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I stopped counting calories and started eating intuitively. My relationship with food changed overnight. For years I counted every single calorie. I knew exactly how many points I had left. I felt like an accountant for my own body. Then I met a nutritionist who told me I was spending more mental energy tracking food<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodpoliticsa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodpoliticsa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodpoliticsa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodpoliticsa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodpoliticsa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodpoliticsa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodpoliticsa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodpoliticsa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodpoliticsa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}TL;DR: Keep It Simple<\/h2>\n