A Basic Overview of Nutrition and Weight Maintenance Recommendations

The Top Ten Nutritional Recommendations

1. Eat 1/3 less of everything.

2. Eat a lot less of the starches, especially breads, tortillas, potatoes, rice, and pasta (1/2 cup is one portion, one portion per meal).

3. Eat more of a vegetarian diet.

4. Eat about 4 smaller meals a day to keep your metabolism faster.

5. Eat more organic foods.

6. Avoid sweets and junk food.

7. Take a good multivitamin with 100% of the RDA if you think you need to.

8. Eat a variety of natural foods (colors, types, textures,etc) to get balanced nutrients.

9. Eat more fruits and vegetables as between meal snacks or when you need to cheat.

10. Drink zero calorie beverages (water flavored with a lemon, or tasty herb flavors). Avoid artificial chemical sugars like aspartame (nutrasweet), saccharin, splenda. Healthier very low calorie natural sweeteners are Stevia and Xylitol. I know people who drink over 1,000 calories in their beverages daily.