Filed under: Health, Healthy Eating, 30-Day Nutrition Challenge
Kerrin, 21, is the third participant in That’s Fit.ca’s 30-Day Nutrition Challenge. While Kerrin is an avid exerciser (yoga, Pilates, running, lacrosse) who watches what she eats in an effort to maximize athletic performance by balancing protein and carbohydrate intake, she’s lately been experiencing unrelenting fatigue and wonders if a food sensitivity is causing the problem.
I asked Kerrin a few questions about what she normally likes to eat and gave her some tips and ideas on what she could eat instead during the 30-Day Nutrition Challenge. If you missed our other posts and want to follow the challenge here are some resources to get you started:
Benefits of eliminating gluten, dairy, sugar, caffeine, alcohol and processed foods.
What you can and cannot eat
Getting started and getting off coffee
Recipe ideas and resources
Healthy Foodie: What do you normally have for breakfast?
Kerrin: Boost or Ensure nutritional drinks
HF – I recommend moving away from these sorts of nutritional shakes and moving towards making your own smoothies. Although these drinks have a good balance of macronutrients, they’re skipping all the finer points of whole food nutrition and generally have a lot of sugar. Get yourself a protein powder like rice or pea protein, add in some low sugar fruits and veggies and blend up your breakfast. Including a greens supplement like spirulina, chlorella or a green blend is also great as it’s loaded with B vitamins for natural energy and is a complete protein.
HF: And what’s for lunch?
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