Step 2: Too Many Cooks Can Ruin Dinner.

Step 2 is to begin to eat some form of carbohydrate, protein, and fat in your five to six meals that you've been eating equally portioned and equally spaced throughout the day. We're not going to worry too much about the quality of those food sources yet. That's in Step 3. For now it's important to just make sure that you are eating carbs, proteins, and fats THROUGHOUT the day, ALL DAY LONG. But first, here's a tip:

When you are following a plan, specifically the Fit True Nutrition Plan, don't get side tracked by a whole lot of input from other sources. The reason isn't so much because the other sources are wrong, but because once on a path conflicting information can paralyze or even ruin altogether your current plan. Remember, this IS NOT like a potpourri, or a church pot luck dinner where a little of this and a little of that is all OK. It's more like this illustration:

Envision yourself right in the middle of the nuts and bolts of what it is that you do as a profession. If you're a contractor, you're right in the middle of well planned out construction job that's on schedule and under budget. If you're a loan officer, you are right in the middle of the paper work. If your a dentist, the patient is in the chair and your drill and hands are in his mouth.

Now, right at that moment another person of the same profession enters the job and starts digging in as if you weren't there and acts as if everything you've done, up to that point, just happened to be there when he arrived. Furthermore, the newcomer continues to work by "fixing" your work as you try to undo what he's doing because it has interfered with what you were doing before he showed up. The other guy might be good at what he does. Possibly, even better than you. But the bottom line is that the newcomer, in this case, has ruined the project. Too many cooks can ruin dinner.

So here's the Step 2 stuff. Some of the items in each category may raise some eyebrows, but don't worry. It's all part of a larger plan:

CARBS are grains cereals, fruit, berries, sugars, corn, carrots, potatoes, rice, beans, lentils, milk, yogurt, sweets, and treats. I know, you thought milk and yogurt were proteins. They have protein in them but not enough to be a protein.



PROTEINS are meats, chicken, turkey, steak, hamburg, pork, eggs (Eat the whole egg. Don't argue with me), cottage cheese, fish, and whey protein. Sorry vegetarians. I know many of you will be mad at me, but you CAN NOT get all of the protein that your body NEEDS by eating a certain combination of foods (beans and rice) WITHOUT getting way too many carbohydrates.

FATS are nuts, oils, peanut butter, avocados, almond butter, dressings, BUTTER, margarine, buttery spreads (Smart Balance), and most cheeses. Again, I'm aware that many of you thought that peanut butter and cheese were proteins but, like milk and yogurt in the carbs category, not enough to qualify. They are fats.

There you have it. You've done Step 1. Now give Step 2 your all and you'll CONTINUE to see changes in your body and energy levels. Do this for three to six weeks and you'll be ready for Step 3.