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Tuesday, July 25, 2017 • Los Angeles, CA 90001

5 Tips for Successful Meal Prep When Dieting & Working Out

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By Alesia Hsiao

 

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There’s been debates going around the fitness community on what is the most effective, less time-consuming way to maintain physical health and reducing body weight. Half of them relies a lot on physical exercise. The other half, believes food intake is a big factor to fitness. Apparently, both of them are needed. Exercising achieves a lot of things to your body, staying fit, burning fat, building muscle and regulating blood circulation. But, these goals aren’t only dependent with physical exercise. This is when you get to realize that working out goes together with dieting on a decent meal plan to attain the best shape you’ve been wanting to maintain.

 

Preparing a meal for the right way of dieting includes factors to consider. Nutrition, time, and effort for  preparation, seem too simple to keep in mind. All of these have to be in sync as to not mess up with metabolism.

 

Let us tackle some important meal preparation techniques that might be helpful to fitness enthusiasts out there.

 

Preparing on the right day for a crucial preparation

 

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Preparing a healthy meal isn’t as easy as preparing on a daily lunchbox for school or for work. Since you are going to focus more on retaining nutrition with longevity, it takes a detailed procedure in preparing them. Thus, assigning the meals for an entire week on a specific day will save you a demanding routine.

 

Easy and convenient packing

 

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For a very busy person, keeping track with the meals wouldn’t be difficult. Eating does take some important time out of an already filled schedule, thus convenient way of packing can save you minutes, and even hours put altogether in a week. Some fitness-obsessed people even consider on automation to make packing fast and easy, with the use of sous vide bags to skip the washing and reusing.

 

Cooler bags

 

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As mentioned, packaging bags like sous vide bags is one option to store food directly. Now, imagine yourself going to work with your sous vide packaged food. Does it look messy, soggy and unfresh? Cooler bags work well in keeping the meals at an optimum temperature. The insulation within the bag retains the freshness and temperature since the last time you pulled out your pre-packaged food from the fridge. Temperature and pressure are elements to consider for an effective packaging of food that would last till the last day of the week, from home to wherever you’d be throughout the day.

 

Metabolism check

 

Metabolism is what’s on the line here, since the main point of the diet is to normalize and maintain fitness. By eating, at least two to three hours, is enough for an optimum rate on metabolism.

 

Self-check

 

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The best person to know everything about yourself, is you. So, getting yourself checked on what nutrients you need and in what quantity would really help on getting the amount and kind of food to prepare.

 

These tips combined perfectly with physical exercise will definitely help you get a healthy lifestyle, may even extend your lifespan! Who knows?

 

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