Craving Italian food, you don’t need pasta to eat Italian food
Depending on your journey, pick your version of pasta – hearts of palm, spiraled veggies
Plant-based eating – everyone would eat better if we focus more on plant based and vegan
Mac and Cheese would not be ideal for a vegetarian diet.
Benefits of plant based eating – support micro nutrients
Protein is efficient and takes a lot to support the body
Plants have 59% less nutrients and minerals that it used to have 10+ years ago
Crop rotation meant you were growing different plants or vegetables each season
If food is supposed to be ripe at the grocery store, then its picked before its ripe which means we lessen the nutrients inside those fruits and vegetables
Grass fed beef and organic are going to be better
Fresher is better
Change the types of meats that we eat
Fight to make recommendations but if they aren’t bought in, it’s a challenge
Get rid of your scale as it’s the worst barometer of our health
Check your sleep and how do you feel during the day
Track your data throughout your day
Make small changes
Find the balance and see what small changes can do
Healthy plant-based diet
Building programs
Protein and good fats and vegetables in our diets
Tracking and logging our food has taken a weight in people
Sugar craving was preceeded by a depletion in something else
Not a fan of weighing and measuring
Portion sizes will take care of themselves if you pick the right groups of foods
7-day food log
Take a picture of your food and email it to yourself
Tracking food in your head
Jenn Trepeck has her own podcast “Salad with a side of Fries”