It's OFFICIALLY October, which means some of my favorite vegetables are in season.

So this is the ✨perfect✨ time to re-launch our community Eat Your Damn Veggies challenge.

Our community goal is to eat a ton of veggies throughout this month!

Show off your veggie dishes by posting a picture of your plate every day in the #eat-your-damn-veggies channel in my Coaching Corner Discord server.

The people who post the most veggies by the end of the month will win a free download of their choice of either a meal plan or recipe collection from my website.

What Counts as a Vegetable?

Vegetables are plants or parts of plants that you can eat. At every meal, vegetables should make up half your plate.

While fruits and grains are also plant products, we usually reserve the term “vegetable” for specific parts of the plant--such as the roots (carrots & turnips), the stem (celery), tubers (potatoes), leaves (lettuce), bulbs (onion & garlic), and flowers (broccoli).

Vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet because they provide a TON of essential ingredients--including Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Folate (folic acid), potassium, and dietary fiber.

You can eat vegetables raw or cooked whole, cut-up, or mashed. Fresh, frozen, canned, or dried/dehydrated vegetables are all good options!

Vegetables are a favorite food option for weight loss. With their high fiber and water content, they tend to make you feel fuller with fewer calories than other food groups. Most vegetables are also naturally low in fat and calories, and none have cholesterol.

According to the Healthy Plate model for healthy eating, half of what you eat every day at each meal should be vegetables. This challenge is a great opportunity to get into that habit!

Join the Coaching Corner Discord server to participate!

Other Announcements:

• I'll be live for Technique Tuesday tomorrow at 11:30 am EST on my Twitch channel! If you want me to review your lifts or exercise technique, make sure to post video of your lifts to the #🏋-technique-review channel in the Coaching Corner Discord before tomorrow at 11:30am EST (must be a subscriber or personal training client to participate)