“So let me get this straight:  You said I can have BBQ for breakfast?”

That’s right! This month’s challenge is to eat protein with every meal.

We believe, as do most nutrition experts, that high quality protein is the most important food type.  Apart from Step 1 of Eat By Design – EAT REAL FOOD FIRST – Eating protein at every meal is the most important step.

Here are 10 tips to make it easy to get protein at every meal.

Meal planning for beginner’s is the perfect place to start if you’re new to the world of “dieting” or like most, you’ve been immersed unsuccessfully for far too long to remember.

It’s time to get back to basics.

No matter what diet you’re following or attempting to follow – Eat By Design, Paleo, Vegetarian, Standard North American, Mediterranean – the only way for sustainable success is to plan your meals in advance.

While one week is a good starting point, “in advance” could just be the day before or morning of at the start of this new habit.

What it can’t be (assuming success is the goal) is right now, in the moment.

Only someone with exceptional dietary habits, who has been eating the same way for years and has thousands of meals “under their belt” can get away with this strategy, for everyone else, it’s meal planning for beginner’s!

Have you seen these headlines?

Meat-heavy, low-carb diets can ‘shorten lifespan’: study – CTV

Low-carb diets can shorten life expectancy: study – CBC

Low-carb diet linked to early death, medical study suggests – USA TODAY

Low carb diets shorten your life unless you are mostly vegetarian, study suggests – The Independent

This comes at a time when everyone and their dog is raving about the benefits of the ketogenic diet (low carb/high-fat), and its’ ancestral relative – the Paleo diet, both which are top trending diets of 2018.

And for good reason…

Healthy TV Episode 075

There are costs and benefits to specific foods, and in Episode 074 I gave you a good strategy for choosing the right foods to fuel your body…

Click HERE to go back and watch it now.

But there is one other food cost that is rarely considered, and it could be the difference between a good meal and a great one…

Watch the video to find out to find out exactly what I’m talking about!