Being proactive they have already done plenty of measurements like hip:waist ratio, heart rate, blood pressure and so on for baseline measures. Many of them are looking to improve their health and wellness and most are wanting to lose weight and expecting that I would talk about what exercises were going to help them lose the most weight.
Once I mentioned that nutrition was so important and that abs were actually made in the kitchen not the gym there was lots of discussion from everyone! So many people are confused with all the different theories and advice that is being pushed out there from all manner of sources - GPs, nutritionists, dieticians, friends, weekly magazines, trainers, neighbours and pretty much anyone else you can think of.
Should we eat eggs or not, can we eat cereal, what is the best breakfast to have, when should we eat and how often each day, what is this thing about coconut oil, is sugar bad for you, my doctor says that my cholesterol is high so what can I eat and probably the most often asked questions of "what will I eat if I can't have what I'm eating now?!"
Big food industry has done a great job of making us think like the 'food' they make is the only food we can eat. I was so glad when one of the people there actually brought up about how we should simply eat what our grandparents ate 2 generations ago - SO TRUE! I'm not sure how many people realise that if we did that we would have about 50kg less sugar per year than we currently do! 100 years ago it was 2kg per person whereas today we are consuming about 70k per person each year (that's on average... so some actually have a lot more than that!).
The best advice I would say is to do your best to reduce all processed foods from your diet (diet as in what you eat for life - not the latest fad 'diet') and eat as many good real foods as you can! Good real foods include things that organic meat and veges, a little fruit, some nuts.
Try it for 7 days and see what happens and how you feel - just eat meat, LOTS of vegetables, eggs, a little fruit, and some nuts and see how you feel your body will actually have a chance to absorb some nutrient dense foods and start to build your body with some good building blocks.
You probably have some questions too about nutrition. I'm about to come up with some short answer type information leaflets for the corporate team I'm working with now so if you have a nutrition related question that you are not sure of flick us an email with your question and we will answer them over the next few weeks and even send you a copy of the leaflets we make up..
Have an awesome week eating awesome foods!!
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