Build Nutritional Autonomy

What is nutritional autonomy? It is the ability to pick the correct foods in the correct quantities to allow you to you to gain, lose or maintain weight. For simplicity purposes losing or gaining weight comes in the form muscle, bone density, or fat. What the happens to the body is a byproduct of the consistent caloric density and physical activity.

Metabolic Homeostasis

The metabolism is a complex system can operate erratically when dietary calories are not consistently stabilized. Before you tackle nutritional goals make sure you have built the habit of exercising at least 3x per week. When you are ready start with an initial assessment. This could be body weight scale measurement or photos. Then stabilize caloric intake.

In order to stabilize calorie intake at least 90% of the week one must consume around the same number of calories. I recommend to take start with what your current food intake is and make the quantity consistent. This will bring the calories to close to the same. The metabolism can then level out and be where it normally should be. After a couple of weeks. Your assessment should tell you where you are.

Assessment data

If your goal is to weight gain and you are not gaining add 200 calories each day. If it is weights loss remove 200 calories each day by either by adding cardio or reducing calorie intake. I recommend a combination of both. If your assessment reveals you are heading in the direction you want stay the course!

This All Sounds Simple Right?

In most cases stabilizing calories intake is challenging. We are up against lifestyle habits, psychological and physiological constraints. The journey now becomes finding a way stabilize your calorie intake in a way that allows you to consume around the same amount daily calories daily while having foods and quantities that allows you to feels physically and psychological satiated and energized with minimum bodily side effects and lifestyle alternations.