Anti Aging Diet

An anti aging diet to keep your health, youth and beauty!

A healthy anti aging diet includes choosing foods that are high in antioxidants and the nutrients our bodies need. It also includes eating as much whole live foods as you can, and limiting processed/packaged foods.

It also includes keeping to a schedule of WHEN to eat to help your body keep its natural balance throughout the day.

It’s a well known fact that reaching and maintaining a healthy weight is a key component to living a longer, healthier life.

Here in America, the fattest nation on the planet, it is even more important for us to focus on eating healthy. A healthy anti aging diet will help keep you youthful, healthier, and will make you look AND feel better!

SO WHAT’S THE ANTI AGING DIET SECRET?

After years of scientific research and the testing of thousands of products and machines, the incredible secret of reaching and maintaining a healthy weight has been discovered: EAT LESS and EXERCISE MORE!

Okay, okay, that was a joke, but it’s also absolutely true! If your goal is to lose weight by burning off excess body fat, you basically need to eat 500 fewer calories per day than your body’s daily caloric needs, and then at least maintain, or even better, increase your exercise activity.

So first let’s find out how many calories your body needs per day.

Click on the Calorie Calculator to find out.

You enter your sex, height, weight, age, and activity level, and it will calculate how many calories you need to maintain that weight.
Now since we’re going to subtract 500 calories from that total, the next step is to make those calories count by eating nutritious “anti aging foods”: plenty of fruits, vegetables, lean protein, and whole grains.

ANTI-AGING DIET – ACHIEVE AND MAINTAIN A HEALTHY WEIGHT BY EATING MORE! (OFTEN)

I’ve learned that it’s better to eat a small portion every 2-3 hours. That keeps your body’s nutritional needs balanced throughout the day, and helps eliminate overeating at one big meal. What has worked for me is the following daily schedule:

8am Breakfast
10am Morning snack
12n Lunch
2 – 3pm Afternoon snack
4 – 5pm Afternoon snack
6pm Dinner
8pm Evening snack

For each meal, I eat a huge portion of vegetables (or fruit), a palm-size portion of lean protein, and sometimes a small portion of whole grain. For snacks, I eat vegetables (or fruit) and lean protein.

By eating small nutritious mini-meals every 2-3 hours, I am never starving, my blood sugar level stays more constant, my metabolism keeps active, and my energy levels stay up.

If I go for a long period of time without eating, I tend to overeat at my next meal. By eating more often, I don’t get so hungry that I overeat.

Common breakfasts are carbs such as pancakes, waffles, cereal. What our bodies need in the morning is healthy protein. The formula for an optimal healthy breakfast is: vegetables and/or fruit, plus protein.

Here are some sample breakfasts I use for my own anti aging diet that has allowed me to lose excess weight, and then keep it off:

My go-to breakfast is a greens juice (yes, I juice!) on an empty stomach. You can read more about juicing here.
Then, I have protein, such as a hard boiled egg (seasoned with pepper & turmeric), and a good quality Protein Shake. If I’m still hungry, I’ll have fresh fruit, such as berries, or an organic green apple.

Vegetables and/or fruit can be greens juice, fresh berries (blueberries, rasberries, blackberries)
Protein can be hard boiled eggs, veggie omelet, scrambled eggs, a good quality Protein Shake, low-fat or nonfat Greek yogurt

Vegan breakfast ideas:
Natural Almond or Peanut Butter with apple or banana, Protein Shake
Organic Oatmeal made with water or almond milk, add some flax, chia, or hemp seed, sprinkle some Cinnamon, fresh berries/fruit, Protein Shake
Overnight Oats made with almond milk, add flax, chia, or hemp seed, sprinkle some Cinnamon, fresh berries/fruit, Protein Shake
Fruit Smoothie with Protein Powder, Chia Seed
Coconut Yogurt with fresh berries/fruit, sprinkle flax or chia seed, Protein Shake

I also have a great 2-Ingredient Pancake recipe!

And some sample lunches:

A huge greens salad, tomatoes, home-made salad dressing with extra-virgin olive oil, should always be part of your lunch.
Then, add lean protein such as tuna, wild Alaska salmon, chicken breast, turkey breast.

Or along with a huge greens salad, you can have a healthy soup, such as lentil, minestrone, or chicken noodle soup.

Sandwich made with whole grain bread, mustard, lean protein such as turkey breast, tuna, or egg salad (made with low-fat mayonnaise), with a lot of lettuce and tomatoes.
Try eating them with baby carrots or sliced cucumber chips instead of potato chips.

And here’s a sample dinner:

Your main dinner meal should be a 50/25/25 meal. Meaning, half your plate is a huge greens salad or steamed vegetables, ¼ of your plate is lean protein, ¼ of your plate is whole grain (if you need to eat a whole grain), such as brown rice, whole grain bread, or whole grain pasta.

Lean protein can be wild Alaska salmon, chicken or turkey breast, seafood, tofu, beans/lentils, etc.

We’ve changed from white rice to brown rice, and now the whole family loves it.

We also eat whole grain pasta and whole grain bread. It will take a little “getting used to” for those of us raised on squishy white bread and white rice, but we’ve found that if you eat something new for a couple of weeks, you acquire a taste for it, and your craving for the old stuff will go away.

We try to limit carbs when we can. For pasta, we love substituting zucchini noodles .

Here are some sample snacks:

Hummus with baby carrots, organic sweet peppers, or other veggies.

Light string cheese, with veggies or fruit.

Low or non-fat Greek yogurt with flax seed and fresh fruit or raisins mixed in.

Banana or organic apple, or organic celery, with natural peanut butter.

Smashed avocado on whole grain toast.

Peanut butter on whole grain toast, and you can add slices of banana or apple.

To liven up simple meals, enhance the flavor with seasoning. I personally love to put cayenne pepper on everything! Cayenne is a medicinal and nutritional herb. It is a very high source of Vitamins A and C, has the complete B complexes, and is very rich in organic calcium and potassium, which is one of the reasons it is good for the heart.

CHEATING IS OKAY!  I also give myself a cheat day every week when I can eat whatever I want. Of course you should always use a LITTLE moderation!

Whenever I crave any sweets, I’ll eat a small portion of dark chocolate (at least 70% cocoa.)

We’re really talking about making a healthy change in lifestyle, so that your anti aging diet of nutritious foods eaten every couple of hours becomes a daily habit.

Planning ahead makes it much easier, too. Whenever I have a busy day, I make sure that I pack an insulated lunch bag with my healthy snacks, so that I don’t end up at a fast food restaurant. I keep a small ice pack in the insulated lunch bag to keep everything cold.

Please remember that this information is what worked for us. It is not intended to cure any disease nor is this information to be used without the guidance and approval of your physician. If you have any diet restrictions or specific health conditions, again, please refer to your physician before starting any new diet or workout regimen.