3 tips for Proper, not less nutrition

So what is this eat more not less to lose weight concept? 

Well, it’s not so much about eating more but about consuming the proper nutrition...not less nutrition.  We all need to eat, and if you workout regularly you will need to eat more than someone who doesn’t workout.  If you decide to go on some silly starvation diet you are telling your body you are in trouble and it will start conserving fat stores and start burning muscle for energy.  This will cause your metabolism to slow down making it even harder to lose the fat your body thinks it desperately needs to conserve.  
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This is obviously the complete opposite of what we want to happen when we’re trying to shrink our waistlines.  So how do we make sure we are nourishing our bodies properly? We do a little planning mixed in with some better decision making.
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1. You’ve all heard it before but meal prepping is extremely helpful.  How you meal prep can vary widely: you can prep for one meal per day or all your meals. You can do all your prepping over the weekend or prep each meal the day prior, it's all about what works best for you.  
2. Dinner is the roadblock for most of us when we are feeding more than just ourselves.  For dinners we can partial prep, meaning we prepare and pre-package ingredients ahead of time.  That way when it comes time to cook dinner, all we have to do is literally throw it together and stick it in the oven.  Prepping ingredients for a nutritional, healthy, dinner, makes it much less likely we will reach for the oh’so easy and highly processed hamburger helper when we’re in a time crunch to get dinner on the table. When you have a healthy dinner on the table for everyone to eat, you are more likely to have the proper serving and not starve yourself.          
3. One more very important thing...Always have healthy snacks around. There is nothing wrong with snacking between meals, it’s encouraged in fact.  When you are hungry, EAT!