Stop Counting Calories Try This Instead Women Over 50

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Discover Sheree’s 3 simple nutrition guidelines that make healthy eating easier, empowering you to stop counting calories. Perfect for women over 50 who want practical steps for long-term health and strength.

Nutrition Tips |  No Calorie Counting  |  Over 50 Focused

Stop Counting Calories, Try This Instead: Readable Version

Simple Rules for a Healthy Lifestyle

So if you're looking at healthy lifestyle, you want to know kind of, I don't want to count calories, that's too much. I don't want to be told what I've got to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Let's make some simple rules.

Protein and Healthy Fats Guidelines

Let's just say that having protein with every meal, every snack, palm size for a woman, two palm sizes for a man and one thumb of healthy fats with every meal, every snack, will actually give you the right amount of fats and protein that you need in a day. So it's simple. If you don't want to count calories, you don't want to be weighing things out because that becomes monotonous, particularly if you're at work, you're probably not going to weigh things unless you pre-weigh them.

Then this is a great way to just work out if you're having enough protein and enough fats. And then the one thing that my husband and I have done now for a couple of years, and it's worked incredibly well for us, is to start the day off when we break our fast, when we have our first meal of the day. So breakfast, breakfast, breakfast, breaking the fast, is we have high protein, high protein, good fats.

High Protein, High-Fat Breakfast Routine

So we will generally have meat of some kind for breakfast. We'll have homemade baked beans. We'll have an egg or two and maybe some lentils as well. But we'll make it high protein, good fat breakfast. I might have some avocado on the side and it is so, so good. Usually some cheese in there as well.

And cottage cheese I really love mixed in like a dollop of that on top. So that is a great way to end off our fast when we get up in the morning to have breakfast because it means that we're not actually starting the day with a any kind of toast like sourdough bread is much better than having the average bread. Even then, being able to start the day with carbohydrates, processed carbohydrates, is not your way to go.

Adding Greens, Skipping Cereal

You may want, like I have often kale or spinach leaves on the side of my high protein breakfast, but I don't, I don't generally, I don't have cereal.