Let me see if I can paint this picture about right. So you’ve made a decision to eat healthy and start a diet to lose weight. For a while you do really well and your choices are excellent.

But then all of sudden out of the blue you get mad sugar cravings and the wheels completely fall off!

It’s not that you just slipped up and had a few pieces of candy out of the dish at work…it was more like one little deviation in your diet somehow created an avalanche of cravings. As soon as sugar hit your system you wanted more…and more…and more!

I call this getting on the “sugar wheel” and once you get on, the vicious cycle of cravings and crashes just repeats itself over and over.

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Without question one of the first areas you need to focus on when looking to change your body composition is eating a supportive nutrition breakfast. We’ve all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and it’s certainly true.

Eating the right breakfast will have a significant impact on setting up your metabolism, digestive processes, blood sugar levels, and energy for the rest of the day. If you’re someone who frequently skips breakfast or grabs a bagel and cup of coffee on the run for example, you’ll have a hard time seeing the lean physique you desire.

In this article I’m going to explain what foods are your best choices for breakfast and provide you with 10 different metabolism boosting and fat burning examples to choose from.

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I received an email from a client recently who asked me my opinion of using honey as a sweetener instead of table sugar or some artificial sweetener.

While I’m always going to say go with the natural food over anything processed or refined, the subject of honey is a little tricky.

You see there’s quite a big difference between the honey you’d pick up at the local grocery store and honey in its natural, raw form. I figured I’d do a blog post on this to share with you the differences.

For starters, let me come right out and say I’m not a big proponent of using the typical clear honey you’d pick up at the grocery store. This is not how you’d find honey in nature. The only way to get honey to be that perfectly clear is to heat and filter it over and over again.

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When it comes to foods that help create an optimal level of health, there are some that pack so much antioxidant density per serving size that we can label them as “super-foods.” All fruits and vegetables should really be classified as super-foods as they’re truly the most beneficial foods you can eat.

The human body uses the vitamins, minerals, and phyonutrients in fruits and vegetables to rebuild and repair at the cellular levels. The antioxidant content in these foods literally serve as your front line of defense against free-radicals.

While whole, natural foods provide the necessary macronutrients your body needs for energy, it’s the phytonutrients and antioxidants in fruits and vegetables specifically that are the real workhorses.

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If you haven’t watched the movie “Super Size Me� go out and rent it this weekend. It will change the way you look at fast food forever. It’s a documentary by a guy named Morgan Spurlock who takes the challenge to eat McDonald’s food for 30 days.

The rules were quite simple. He needs to eat all the items sold in McDonald’s. If they ask whether he wants “super size,â€� he will say yes.

Within the third day he vomited, and within 15 days he was sick and gaining weight. At the end of the experiment, he gained a huge amount of weight, had high cholesterol, blood pressure problems, and was literally on the verge of being taken to the emergency room.

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Without question probably the biggest obstacle people have when transitioning to a healthy diet is dealing with hunger. I’ve written in the past about the differences between true hunger and toxic hunger.

In case you missed it, true hunger is the physiological response by your body releasing the hormone ghrelin when the stomach is empty.

While this primal response is built in to cue us to start looking for food it doesn’t mean we constantly need to have something in our digestive system.

In fact, if you want to get efficient at burning body fat for fuel you’ll want to condition your body to go through brief periods of restriction.

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Sugar is the enemy to our health, right? The answer is yes and no. There’s no question that a body with consistently elevated blood sugar levels will start to break down.

Over time the cell receptors become less receptive to insulin and a host of problems begin to develop. The problem with sugar is NOT with the calories but rather the hormonal imbalances it causes when blood concentrations remain high for long periods of time.

Once the inflammation, acidosis, and the resulting tissue degeneration starts at the pancreas, adrenals, and other hormonal glands, no amount of caloric restriction or exercise will do the trick. The body must be healed and hormonal levels brought back into balance.

This means you’ll have to get sugar out of your diet. But wait a minute, what type of sugar are we talking about? Watch my video for today and you’ll get the answer.

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We all know that we should be eating more fiber in our diets, but do you know what type of fiber, how much, and what foods have the best ratios?

If not, you’ll definitely want to check out my Fiber 101 coaching video on today’s blog post where I simplify everything down for you.

I’ll also be revealing some dirty little tricks food manufacturers use to try and get you to believe their products are high in fiber. After watching my video you’ll be armed with the truth and be able to spot these little tricks in a matter of seconds by reading the labels.

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