veggies

ADD MORE VEGGIES TO YOUR DAY

This week is all about color, so let's focus on adding more color to your plate. Why is adding more veggies so important for weight management specifically? Because both fruits and vegetables have a high water and fiber content and they’re low in calories relative to their volume. Consuming them on a regular basis can result in a higher volume of food intake. Since humans consume a consistent volume of food, a high consumption of low calorie density foods can help to control overall food intake and manage body weight.

This week, we encourage you to focus your food tracking in your CorSync app on taking pictures any time you include veggies at meals and snacks. By doing this, you will learn if you are fitting in veggies consistently throughout the day and from day to day. A goal to strive for is having at least 1 fist sized serving at meals for women and at least 2 fist sized servings at each meal for males. Again, focus on doing better than what you normally consume. When trying to improve our relationship with food, a simple mentality to practice is ADD vs. SUBTRACT. This simply means that rather than making a list of all the foods you should SUBTRACT or take out of your diet, focus on ADDING more of the good stuff to your diet. This will crowd out room for foods that do not move you toward your health goals. Each day, we encourage you to look at your food story board in your app and ask yourself... Are you getting more color consistently each day? Are you eating less processed foods as a result?