A six-point formula to staying healthy
Many experts suggest that being lean and healthy depends on three-quarters on diet and only one-quarter on exercise.
⚡️ Enjoy food that is clean, real, and good enough.
Tim didn’t entirely agree with the above suggestion. He sees it as a 50-50 scenario because a solid workout habit plays a significant role in how your metabolism burns food for fuel. It also leads to a positive lifestyle where you have the energy, clarity, and confidence to make nutritious eating habits stick. Tim suggests some basic food rules:
- Start making your food as often as you can. Make it from a whole, unprocessed ingredient.
- Stay away from empty calories. As a rule, don’t drink your carbohydrates, especially soda and ridiculous coffee-shake concoctions, and beer and cocktails.
- Eat enough good-quality fats like extra-virgin olive oil, grass-fed butter, avocado oil, unrefined coconut oil, flaxseed oil, and the naturally occurring fats in foods.
- Keep super-starchy foods like bread, pasta, baked goods, and tortillas for the occasional indulgence.
- Keep a sharp eye on sugar —not just the kind you add to things, but the grams of sugars listed on the label of any packaged foods or drinks, too.
- Don’t starve yourself! Getting fit, strong, and healthy can’t happen from a place of deprivation.
When Tim started getting fit, he discovered that to build a leaner, more defined body, he had to eat more than he thought.
Healthy eating doesn’t belong to one kind of expert; it’s a journey of getting to know yourself. And pretty much whatever way you want to cut it, healthy eating starts in the same place: cooking food in your kitchen.