When you’re trying to get fit quickly, it’s important to sharpen your intuitive eating skills and focus on foods that burn fat and can provide you with ample energy. Below, I’m providing helpful tips and a one-day plan to encourage your progress toward clean and nutritious eating. Friendly reminder: healthy eating is not just a means for weight loss—it’s a lifestyle choice that positively promotes your overall well-being.
1. Don’t over-plan: an elaborate meal plan sounds wonderful on Sunday while you’re beginning to shop and prep. But by Wednesday, you’ll probably be looking for anything in a wrapper that doesn’t make a mess.
2. Repeat meals and get creative: use dinner leftovers for lunch and toss together with a big green salad. Make double and triple amounts of your healthy snacks, so you aren’t cooking every meal or even every day.
3. Less isn’t best: one of the worst culprits in trying to get fit quickly is when hanger strikes. Typically in a famished state, we start pulling from muscle storage for energy to output. That’s no bueno, friends.
Pretty simple, right? Here’s a one-day plan that helps me when I’m gearing up to look and feel my best while in a time crunch.
5:30 a.m.
Wake up and drink 16 ounces of water with lemon
Take probiotics or two tablespoons apple cider vinegar diluted with water
5:45 a.m.
Two shots of espresso with Nutpods creamer
6:30 a.m.
Take vitamins (a women’s multivitamin, vitamin C, and Beauty in a Bottle)
Breakfast veggie egg scramble with at least four different veggies mixed in and 1/4 cup blueberries on the side
Drink 20 ounces water
10:30 a.m.
8 ounces water
Morning snack: Berry Pie Smoothie
• 1/2 frozen banana
• 1/2 cup frozen mixed berries
• 1 small beet
• 2 cups dark greens (spinach/kale/collards/beet/turnip/etc.)
• Juice of a whole lemon
• 1 tablespoon hemp seeds
• 1 scoop collagen peptides
• 1 tablespoon almond butter
• 1 cup unsweetened coconut or nut milk
• Ice, if desired
1:30 p.m.
12 ounces water + turmeric and omega 3 supplement
Lunch recipe: Fermented Salad
• 1 cup mixed greens
• 1 cup mixed cabbage
• 1/4 cup shredded carrots
• 1/4 cup hummus
• 1/4 purple onion
• 1/4 cup sauerkraut
• 1/2 cup quinoa
• 1/4 cup sunflower seeds
• Handful of Siete chips or gluten-free crackers
Another 8 ounces water and 8 ounces kombucha
You can also sip on this fasting tea between meals.
4:00 p.m.
8 ounces water
Afternoon snack: 8 ounces bone broth, almonds, apple, handful of carrots, and two stalks of celery
7:00 p.m.
8 ounces water
Dinner recipe: Salmon Dish
• 6 ounces wild-caught salmon
• 1/2 cup cooked quinoa
• 1 cup roasted veggies, such as broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, onion, pepper
This is a great start for someone looking to make a move in the right direction or feel their best in a short amount of time.
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Cara Clark is the owner and primary Certified Nutritionist of Cara Clark Nutrition. Cara works with individuals and groups to promote overall health and to manage a wide range of nutrition-related issues. With a ‘non-dieting’ approach, she has helped clients manage weight, energy, performance, diabetes, thyroid related disease, allergies, eating disorders, and more.
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