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Stages of Nutrition

“Should I eat 30% or 40% of calories from protein?”

“My weight loss has slowed should I start cycling my carbs?”

“If I eat 6% of my fat in the form of coconut oil is that okay?”

These are some  questions that I have been asked over the  past couple weeks regarding nutrition. But in some cases these people don’t have the right to ask these questions because they don’t know what stage they are at in their nutrition. They are trying to tweak the specifics but haven’t mastered the basics.

What am I talking about? See the picture below.

This graph represents what I call the Stages of Nutrition. Your diet (like many things) consists of a progression and you need to master one step before you move to the next. I’m going to steal my buddy Alwyn Cosgrove’s martial arts metaphor to illustrate my point.

If you want to learn Karate you can’t start out training with Jet Li. You need to know how a certain number of basic moves, master those, and progress from there to more advance tactics.

Your diet is no different. If you can’t master certain basic components then you have now business progressing to more complicated nutritional approaches.

The Stages of Nutrition:

• Nutritional Freestyling: You eat whatever you want whenever you want.
• Proper Food Choices Varying Compliance: You try to eat the right stuff but you just don’t do it consistently.
• Proper Food Choices 90% Compliance: You eat the right stuff and you rarely falter (this is the target stage for most people).
• Calorie/Portion Counting, Proper Food Choices 90% Compliance: You need to fine tune your diet more for a specific purpose (weight loss, health, performance) so you start counting calories or portions and you stay on your plan just about all the time.

If you are currently nutritional freestyling then you can’t jump straight to counting calories. That is just a recipe for failure as if you aren’t currently making consistent proper food choices (in line with the 6 Pillars of Nutrition) then what makes you think that you will be able to consistently eat portioned, weighted, and calculated meals?

Making proper food choices and sticking to your plan requires a discipline and behavioral skill  set that will be mastered as you progress through the Stages of Nutrition. Jumping ahead to a more ‘advanced’ stage will not get you better results faster. Instead it will lead to a pattern of brief results, diet relapse, and frustration.

My Question to You

What stage are you in?

What do you need to do to move to the next stage?

Be honest with yourself – do what is needed to move to the next stage and you will be rewarded with consistent and long term weight loss success.

A couple months ago a gave an entire presentation on the Stages of Nutrition, how to move from one stage to the next, and how to identify the best stage for your goals. The entire presentation is free to watch and download for members of the Faster Fat Loss Zone. If you’re not a member you can join today for only $19.95 and you’ll get the Stages of Nutrition presentation plus access to another 100+ fat loss workouts, articles, and videos.

Have a good one,

Mike

P.S. Thanks to all the Warp Speed Fat Loss and Faster Fat Loss Zone members that join Alwyn, Bill, and Myself on the fat loss teleconference last night – I had a great time.

Naked Nutrition Approach

How do you go about losing weight? Should you count calories? Should you just focus on portions? How to you know what is right for you?

These are all very common questions that I get from people regarding their diet and nutrition. Fortunately what you ‘count’ – portions, grams, calories – when you are dieting is NOT a guessing game. Instead it is best when your diet specificity is chosen depending on what you are currently doing with your diet and then you progress from there.

Diet progression is the single most overlook aspect of fat loss nutrition.

I cover it in great detail in this video showing you exactly how to progress on your diet.

This concept is central to the Naked Nutrition Approach. In fact it is the Naked Nutrition Approach. A couple months ago I spoke on this topic for the first time and revealed the secrets and keys that will allow you to stop banging your head against the wall when dieting.

I have formatted the video in two different ways for you.

You can click the image below and watch it online (a new window will open)

Or you can download it below. It is in an iPod friendly format so you watch it on your computer or on your iPod/iPhone.

The one problem with the video is that the audio quality is not the best. I am very sorry about this.

What’s the Best Diet???

There are so many diets out there…What is the best diet?? Just the other day when I was at Barnes and Nobles I came across a book called “The Poop Diet” – are these people serious??? Check out this video to learn more about how you can pick the best diet – for you.

Simple Done For You Dieting

Sugar Substitutes You Probably Don’t Know About

Are you craving a substitute for sugar but don’t want to use splenda, sweet n low, or another artificial sweetener? In the July/August 2007 issue of Men’s Health they had a great list of natural sugar substitutes. Here they are:

Stevia – Okay so this one probably isn’t new to you as stevia is arguably the most popular natural sweetener. Stevia is extremely sweet almost 3x sweeter than sugar. Some people love it, some people hate it. Personally I don’t really like the taste.

Agave Nectar – Agave nectar isn’t calorie free (60cals/tbsp). It comes from the same plant that tequila comes from (cool fact huh?). It can be hard to find.

Erythritol – Erythritol is a sugar alcohol commonly derived from cane juice. I’m not a huge fan of sugar alcohols as they can cause GI destress (i.e. stomach aches and diarrhea) but if used in small amounts (to sweeten coffee, oatmeal, etc) then you should be fine.

Oligofructose – I saved the best for last. Oligofructose is really cool. It is a sweet fiber. I have had trouble finding it in State College but if you find some then definately pick it up. Here is a place where you can get it online (thanks to MH for the good online detective work).

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