Do You Need To Be A Nutritionist To Succeed With EET?

By Mr. EET January 9, 2010

You don't need to be a nutritionist to succeed at EET, but you do need to be willing to learn as you go.

As always, EET encourages the use of progressions.

And when it comes to the nutritional content of the foods you eat this means:

NOTE: Remember EET provides guidelines, you can vary from these to make your plan work for you, but this is what EET recommends.

1) You can begin your EET plan by simply ensuring you have a good supply of a few of foods that the guidelines strongly recommend. Green Tea, Canned Salmon, Chicken Breasts, Fish Oil pills and a quality vegetable to add to your meals like red peppers, spinach or broccoli.
Ideally some, most or all of these foods can become part of your "core" foods.

2) You then focus on EATING TIMING which means you make sure you have prepared a forecast to start your week and that you do the best you can to eat a meal whenever it's time to eat. At this point, if you can understand IN GENERAL what sorts of foods have carbs, protein, etc., You can begin to make better foods choices.

This step means it's likely that early on in your efforts, you will make mistakes and eat foods that have carbs or high fat and the wrong time. Those mistakes are a PART of the EET Plan and should be expected. What plan could you possibly follow perfectly from day 1?

3) As you improve your eating timing (as well as exercise and activity), you can slowly but surely start to become aware of the nutritional content of the specific foods you are eating. You can always check the nutritional label for foods that include them, or you can find most specific foods (or similar comparisons) data on the internet simply by searching that food and "nutrition" or "calories" (calories is a more effective search to find the data than Carbohydrates or protein, but you can try all of them).

4) Build your nutritional content knowledge base. Set a goal to review and try to remember 10 foods you are interested in per week. Also, Start to look at the nutritional content of potential core foods for you as you grocery shop. Over time, this will make you familiar with what is contained in almost any food you eat, even when you go to restaurants.

5) You should be looking at this process in terms of months or even years, not days or weeks. You have a lifetime goal of weight loss and fitness and EET is a lifetime plan, so follow EET guideline by building your knowledge slowly and steadily and you will gain the knowledge you need to succeed.

To succeed long term using the EET plans, you need a solid working knowledge on what foods have protein, carbs, fiber and fats. But you don't need to know it all today. You just need to commit to a progressive learning process and you will succeed.