Healthy Diet Makeover

Let’s get started on your healthy diet makeover! In this lesson, we’ll take a look at the program Roadmap to help you navigate the course.

Begin your Healthy Diet Makeover by creating your Nutrition Snapshot. This bird’s eye view of your current eating habits & calorie intake will help you to make healthy eating habits stick later in the program.

Learn how to track what you eat using a variety of tools like the Nutrition Tracking worksheet, MyFitnessPal, or the ABC Trainerize app.

Reflect on your Nutrition Snapshot by answering a series of questions before moving on to the next chapter of your Healthy Diet Makeover.

Let’s start your Healthy Diet Makeover by looking at what it means to eat a nutrient-dense diet by following the Healthy Plate Model.

Let’s look more in detail at the protein food group that makes up 1/4 of the Healthy Plate Model.

Let’s look more in detail at the vegetables (veggies) food group that makes up 1/2 of the Healthy Plate Model.

Let’s look more in detail at the grains and starches food group that makes up 1/4 of the Healthy Plate Model.

While the Healthy Plate Model is a good rule of thumb to follow, there are other variations that may be helpful to follow according to your unique preferences and goals. In this lesson, we’ll look at variations that you can follow as you develop your own healthy eating pattern.

Let’s make your diet even more effective by taking a look at your daily calorie consumption. In this lesson, you’ll learn more about what calories are and how they impact your body’s fat storage and muscle-building.

Start the process of figuring out how many calories you should eat every day, beginning with your maintenance level of calories.

Reflect on how your body responded to the number of calories that you ate last week while trying to find your maintenance level of calories.

Using your maintenance level of calories as a baseline, set a new calorie goal for losing fat, building muscle, or boosting your metabolism through reverse dieting.

Make your diet even more effective by looking at your daily intake of protein, carbohydrates, and dietary fat (macronutrients).

Protein is the building block of our muscles and other body tissues. Let’s look more in detail at how to set a protein goal and what foods make the best sources of protein.

Carbohydrates are an important source of energy for our bodies. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to set a carbohydrate goal for yourself and which foods are the best sources of carbohydrates.

Dietary fat plays many key roles in your body’s functions and energy. In this lesson, we’ll look at how much dietary fat you should be eating every day as well as good sources of healthy fats to include in your diet.

Getting into a consistent routine for your eating is important for sticking to your healthy eating plan. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to set an eating schedule before learning how to plan your meals and snacks.

In this lesson, we’ll go over the example 7-day meal plan that I’ve included in the program. You can use this meal plan as a base template for your own meal planning.

In this lesson, we’ll go over how to create a unique meal plan from scratch using all the tools that we’ve covered in the Healthy Diet Makeover program.

Let’s quickly review what you’ve learned and go over next steps for getting your Healthy Diet Makeover to stick!