Healthy Meal Plans

Eating a healthy diet is a fundamental part of physical and mental wellbeing, and being healthy has never been more important. According to the CDC, nearly 72% of American adults over 20 are overweight or obese, eating a well balanced and healthy diet is a crucial part of losing and maintaining a healthy weight.

At its core, a healthy diet is one which contains of the basic building blocks of life your body needs. It helps nourish you with the vitamins and minerals and the right amount of energy required to go about your daily tasks, but not too much so as to cause excessive weight gain.

Almost all government nutritional bodies agree that a healthy diet is one which is low in processed foods, these are items which are pre-prepared and not found in nature. Take for example, frozen pizza, icecream, cookie dough or popcorn - all of these items are high in saturated fats and heavily processed. The first step when moving to a healthy diet is to remove these food types from your diet (or at least reduce them to a minimum)

Secondly, a healthy diet should include regular portions of vegetables and fruit.

One useful way of thinking about having a healthy diet is to think about 'all things in moderation', especially processed foods and those high in sugar and refined carbohydrates.