Vaults - The Calorie Trap

I talk to a lot of people every day who are actively working on themselves trying to get healthy, fit and strong. Unfortunately, when most people try to change their eating habits they start by asking themselves how many calories of protein carbohydrates and fat they should be eating daily.

This is old thinking from yesterday’s diet mentality and what I call the “Calorie Trap.”

In fact, most people have been conditioned to think that knowing the ratio of protein, carbs and fat is a very important thing in order to lose weight or change your body.
The truth is you don’t need to know any of that because there is a lot more to food that its protein, carbohydrate and fat content.

So you don’t have to waste your time thinking about how many calories you should be eating every day. You don’t need to be trapped in that protein-carbs-fat conversation because there are so many more nutrients in food than just protein carbs and fat.

Instead, think about how can you devise a meal plan where the majority of your meals every day come from the most nutritionally dense whole foods like fruit and vegetables, and other plant foods like beans and legumes, whole grains, like oatmeal brown rice, wild rice, quinoa, millet, buckwheat, and healthy plant-based fats such as nuts, seeds, and avocado.

Here’s a secret about plant-based food many people neglect… they’re very dense in nutrients and very low in calories.

This means if you’re trying to lose weight isn’t that the ideal food group to choose from? Foods that give your body an abundance of nutrients but are very low in calories?

Making this choice allows you to eat as much as you want without having to count calories.

Doesn’t that sound more attractive that counting calories everyday? Obviously, over the long term, this is the most sustainable approach.

So if you’re tired of being caught in the calorie trap, there is another way, a simpler, healthier and more sustainable way. Start by getting rid of the junk that you eat and

If you strive to get 90% of your meal from plant sources, you would never have to count calories again.

You can go from obese to your ideal weight in less than a year.

You could reverse health conditions like diabetes, coronary artery disease, insulin resistance, as well as prevent strokes and many cancers.

So don’t get caught in the Calorie Trap. Change your mindset, change your habits and change your life.