Eating Fully Balanced

*Disclaimer I am not a dietician or a doctor, I’m just a human trying to eat healthy*

My Journey

With the disclaimer out of the way, what does eating healthy even mean? So many people have different ideas and opinions about this and diet fads come and go. Over the short span of 21 years that I’ve lived on this planet I’ve tried a bunch of them: The South Beach Diet (low-carb), the vegan diet (high-carb edition), the vegan diet ~raw food~ edition, the vegetarian diet, and of course there’s SAD (the Standard American Diet full of processed foods and sugars). [Granted, veganism and vegetarianism aren’t necessarily “diets” since you can tailor them to your needs and they don’t come with strict guidelines and or meal plans.]

But! through all this I have come to the conclusion that the best way to eat is balanced with lots of vegetables, fruits, grains and proteins. I think we all know this at some core level but ignore it because of convenience or cravings. And it was definitely fun to experiment.

What is Fully Balanced?

But the best way to eat is to eat balanced. This means meals that meet all of your daily needs for macronutrients: protein, carbohydrates, and fats and also all of your daily requirements for vitamins and nutrients. I believe that if these milestones are what is best for our bodies, we should be able to meet them without the need for a million supplements, we should be able to get it from food. So, I started searching around for daily meal plans that would meet all of these daily needs but I couldn’t find any, not a single one.

So, that led me to create my own! The meal plans will be recipes I have gathered from other blogs and internet sources, or made myself and combined so that all daily vitamins and nutrients are met in addition to macronutrients, etc. (I put them all in cronometer, a website that tracks this to make sure). Like I said earlier, while I’m not a doctor or dietician (and is NOT a substitute for advice, diagnosis, and/or treatment by a qualified medical professional) I believe being more intentional about what we put into our bodies and meeting our bodies’ needs naturally is the best thing we can do. And it doesn’t have to be hard! It just takes a little time to find the right recipes and make sure that no key nutrients are missing. So, I’ve done the legwork for myself (and you if you want).

Fully Balanced Friday

That’s what Fully Balanced Friday is. Every Friday, I’ll post a day’s worth of meals and snacks that are easy, delicious and fully balanced. The first one to be posted this Friday, May 3.