‘Unique Weight Loss’ offers “amazingly good” weight loss meals to help you win the Battle of Big Bellies.
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Let’s start here:
How many calories do you need in a day?
This isn’t a simple question. It depends on your sex, size, and activity levels. More in-depth, it also depends on your metabolic rate or “burn rate.” In addition to these, there is your digestion efficiency level.
Most factors (except sex) can be measured and displayed on a bell-shaped curve. Like many other things (the BMI rating, for example), we must depend on a statistical average for our discussions.
So:
Calories are a unit of energy commonly linked to food intake and a convenient way to discuss eating volumetrics.
The average woman will burn 2,000 calories daily, and the average man will burn 2,500.
So, below 2,000 daily is always my Unique Meal design target. This caloric intake should bring about weight loss in the average man or woman.
This does not mean it always will, and if not, adjustments downward in caloric intake might be necessary.
I do not advocate rapid weight loss. Here’s a short two-sentence axiom to remember:
Weight lost slow goes. Weight lost fast comes back.
Here is my article supporting this statement. This emphasis on slow weight loss helps my unique meals not only take it off but keep it off.
Here’s how my Unique Weight Loss Meals help you fight off Big Bellies:
- I do all the work putting meals together.
- I make them easy to fix.
- They meet your daily macro nutritional needs.
- You get your daily vitamins and minerals from your food.
- They come in meals, smoothies, and snacks.
- They are tasty and filling.
- They are verified by Chronometer, a nutritional tool used by professionals.
Why calories aren’t enough:
If it’s only about calories, put 260 grams (or a little more than half a pound) of white or brown sugar into a one-liter bottle of warm water, add some artificial flavoring, shake it up, and sip it throughout the day.
You would not gain weight, and if you’re strict about your measurements, you would likely lose weight (if you’re average). This is similar to the bad habit of drinking several sugar-sweetened drinks daily – sweet tea, colas, sugared fruit juices…
Well, this is simple and easy, but certainly not healthy. Sugar is extremely low in nutritional value and has little to add to the health of your diet. So, beyond calories, you need several other things to stay healthy during your weight loss journey.
Dietary Values:
Americans are addicted to sweets, but these bear only a tiny nutritional value. Fat, Protein, Carbohydrates, Fiber, Vitamins, and Minerals should be effectively embedded in your calories.
Fat, Protein, and Carbohydrates:
Entire books are available discussing the type and mix of these macro-ingredients in your food. There are many types of diets, from vegetarian to carnivorous. All of them claim to be the best.
How can that be?
It isn’t. Regardless of one’s point of view, one’s body needs all three macros. And yes, the quality needs to be there as well. Don’t believe diet promoters. They’re usually selling something – I’m not.
The truth is that the ratio of your macros is the most important number. This is not a simple issue, but the scientific data linked above says the following about your macro mix: Carbohydrates, 50-60 percent; fats, 30-40 percent; and proteins, 20-30 percent. These are by percentage, not volume or weight.
Fiber:
The importance of fiber cannot be overstated. Constipation is the most common digestive disorder, and it can be severe. Lack of fiber in American diets (thanks primarily to junk food) is the most common cause.
Now, fiber does a lot more than promote regularity. It is a host to good bacteria, and “totes” lots of toxic materials when one experiences a bowel movement.
Fiber is a significant factor in gastrointestinal transit time and cleanses our system. Feces is not just waste but an active biomass and a necessary contributor to our health and wellbeing. It doesn’t get the attention it deserves, but I have written about it in the above link.
Daily fiber, equal to 25 grams or greater. The more, the better, up to 60 grams
Vitamins:
My Unique Weight-loss Meals provide a complete day’s worth of vitamins, including D3 and B-12. Unique Meals are designed to be vitamin-complete.
If they are not, I will offer advice on an addition to make up the difference.
Usually, the meals will not require supplementation. Vitamins from food are more easily absorbed and used than vitamin supplements.
Minerals:
There are numerous minerals in foods – too numerous to mention, but the most notable are Calcium, Magnesium, Phosphorous, Chloride, and Potassium. These will be provided in your Unique Meals.
I advise one-eighth of a teaspoon of pink Himalayan Salt dissolved in a glass of warm water to get your trace minerals (be sure to use a finely ground brand). Do this daily in the morning before eating – this should take care of your trace mineral needs.
Diets:
For a long time, I did not discuss diets. Not because they’re unimportant; they are. The problem is twofold.
First, there is so much questionable promotion around dietary options that it is easy to get confused. I do not advocate trendy or single-target diets (Vegan, Carnivore, Keto, etc.). I wanted to follow scientifically derived data and advice on diets.
(By the way, If you are following one of these diets, that’s OK. However, you should use supplements with them because somehow these diets usually come up short.)
Second, I needed a reliable third party to verify the content of my suggested recipes. This is where Chronometer comes in. Chronometer is a tool that allows me (and you) to devise healthy meals and snacks that meet our daily requirements for nutritious eating.
I have now addressed both of these issues.
About Chronometer:
Chronometer is free. It is a software program that allows you to design meals and know their nutritional values. It also has a vast database of processed and fast foods. This allows you to build a meal and see its nutritional value as you add ingredients.
For a reasonable amount, you can add extra features to Chronometer, like meal sharing with other users and menu building.
Professionals and businesses use Chronometer to devise healthy, balanced meals and snacks.
I highly recommend getting the free version of Chronometer using it, and if you want more capabilities, get the paid version later.
Get your free Chronometer here.
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