3 Keys to Your Best Body

Foods are broken down into three basic categories:
A. Carbohydrates
B. Protein
C. Fats
The optimum diet to achieve the lean, healthy, fit, best body follows the "321" guideline.
This means that each day you should strive to consume:
3 parts carbohydrates,2 parts protein and 1 part fat.
Following this simple guideline for a healthy diet should make it very easy
calculate your meal content, even if you are eating out.
It is most convenient to break these portions down by calorie but,
you can also use gram weight by following these easy formulas:
Fat - 9 calories per gram
Protein - 4 calories per gram
Carbohydrates - 4 calories per gram
There are three optimum food groups to provide you with your daily carbohydrates:
A. Fruits and Vegetables
B. Whole Grains
C. Potatoes
As with all aspects of our diet we are striving for a balance of carbohydrates.
One of the main keys to achieving your best body is to try to avoid highly
refined carbohydrates. Refined sugars and other heavily processed carbohydrates
that are broken down quickly will trick our body into making us feel hungry
again before we really need to eat.
No aspects of any diet are 100% set in stone. If you are looking to strictly burn fat
to achieve your best body you may want to try reducing the carb portion slightly
and increase the protein portion. Be careful though! Carbs are your primary source
of energy and too few carbs can cause drastic energy spikes, headaches and even
trouble sleeping. If you are working on building large quantities of lean muscle mass
you may want to increase the protein portion without reducing the fat or carbohydrate
portion in order to give the muscles the nutrition they need to recover and grow.
Whether your best body is achieved through trimming or building start with the
basic 321 and adapt to your optimum ratio.

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One of them most critical aspects to achieving your best body as quickly and
easily as possible, is using the correct frequency and timing when eating your
meals. Ideally you should eat 5 small meals spaced evenly throughout the day. When
you eat larger meals less frequently your body gets the signal that it should store fat
and nutrients until the next large meal. If you eat smaller meals more frequently you
send your body the signal that there will be food coming soon so it will burn what you
feed it as opposed to storing in anticipation of a long delay before the next meal.
In this scenario the quantity of food you take in should gradually decrease through
the course of the day. This is the most efficient way to fuel your body when it needs
it most, during activity, as opposed to right before a long period of inactivity.

In order to lose 1 pound per week you need to reduce calories by roughly 500 per
day. The most efficient way to do this is to reduce your caloric intake by 250 daily
and increase the amount of calories you burn through exercise by 250 daily. The
general rule of thumb for overall caloric intake is 12 calories per pound of body
weight for men and 11 calories per pound of body weight for women.
These are basic guidelines and it is very important to remember to take into
consideration current caloric intake, current activity levels and body build. You can
go up to as much as twice these amounts safely but, any more than that is not advised
Trying to change your body too quickly in too short a period of time can put your long
term health at risk.

The first step to making positive change in your life is to have the knowledge of what to do
and where you want to get to. Hopefully this article has given you some helpful information
with regard to proper food intake to help you trim your body and live a healthier life. If you
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