This is one of the most popular questions our team gets asked.  And the answer isn’t as black and white as you may expect.  Many years ago, a solid approach to “losing weight” and being “healthy” was to follow a low calorie diet or adhere to certain calorie restrictions.  Dietitians created meal plans for their clients based upon a certain amount of calories per day.    As diet after diet has come and gone, research has proved that stabilizing blood sugar rather than following a certain calorie limit, is the permanent and natural way to get lean, fit and healthy.  

At Venice Nutrition, we understand that our clients are searching for a simple and permanent way to achieve their goals.  Whether we are working with a client in one of our offices or a new member joins our online program, our approach for success is always education.  We teach our members the science of blood sugar stabilization and how the human body works.  Why?  Because once you understand how your body works, you can learn to make it work for you.  And then all of your nutrition, fitness and health goals are well within your reach!

Stabilizing your blood sugar is a permanent solution to reducing body fat and weight, increasing lean muscle mass and metabolism, increasing energy, eliminating sugar cravings and improving overall health.   The key to stabilizing blood sugar is based on three main criteria; eating every 3 to 4 hours, making sure all of your meals contain the right amount of protein, carbohydrate and fat, and lastly making sure each meal is composed of the correct amount of calories for your body, goals and activity level.  At Venice Nutrition, we customize each of our clients and members nutritional parameters depending on their weight, body fat percentage, current eating habits and lifestyle, individual goals, health issues and activity level.

Rather than focusing on how many calories an individual should eat per day, we focus on blood sugar stabilization.  Our clients are thrilled that they no longer have to count calories, stop eating late at night or eliminate their favorite foods.    Instead they learn how to eat frequently, recognize protein, carbohydrates and fat and how to create balanced and tasty meals. 

As nutrition coaches, we figure out how many calories one needs every few hours to boost their metabolism and energy, reduce body fat and improve health and performance.  How many calories per day depends on how many hours you are awake; as long as you are awake, you should be eating.   And so there are some days that you will wake up earlier and go to bed later and on these days you may be consuming an extra meal compared to other days.  The science of blood sugar stabilization also proves that a calorie is not just a calorie.  In fact, even if you are eating frequent meals and the correct amount of food at each meal, if you are missing the correct ratio of protein, carbohydrate and fat, it’s impossible to stabilize blood sugar.  

We invite you to let go of dieting and counting calories and instead learn the science of blood sugar stabilization and how your body really works.  When you learn how to stabilize your blood sugar, you can achieve all of your goals permanently….. and never worry about counting calories again!   You can read more information at www.venicenutrition.com.  Click on “The Venice Program” button.    You can also take the free health assessment here as well.

Our best,
The Venice Nutrition Team