Performance and Energy – a Simple Secret.

Performance and energy. To achieve and maintain the “I feel good” factor and perform well in your daily chores, you need to keep those energy levels high. The “I feel good” factor and having our enthusiasm flowing, largely depends on what we eat. I recently discovered how to avoid that dreaded after lunch “dip”. When it happens at the weekend, it is a welcome excuse to have a siesta and who is going to argue with that? However, you don’t want it to happen during your working week before that important meeting. When you have a couple of hours of tough concentration before you, the ‘dip’ is particularly tedious. If you are fit and healthy and you enjoy optimal performance and energy, you may want to give this a try.

THE MISTAKE :

Here is an example of what often occurs: a nice bowl of pasta for lunch, a glass of wine, oh, a small dessert, why not? This is typical of what can leave you yearning to find the nearest bed, couch, comfortable chair, an elbow on the desk to rest upon. Just a few brief moments to rest your eyes. In fact, you may as well because your sugar level is higher than it should be. As a result, your concentration level is low and how very unproductive you have just become! Your sugar level is what triggers off the insulin in your body and the role of insulin is to break down the sugar. This means your body is naturally working on this and while it is doing so, you feel the “dip”. Your body is simply doing its job.

THE SOLUTION:

Here’s the trick: It’s healthy, it’s very effective, at best you will possibly lose a couple of pounds into the deal! At worst, if you find it doesn’t work for you, you can go straight back to snoozing on your elbow as soon as the boss leaves the room.

There are plenty of thick technical books on this subject but you may not have time to wade through those. I will give it to you in just a few lines. For simplicity, mentally put your food into two groups:

simple carbohydrates = all the really sugary stuff
complex carbohydrates = many listed in the paragraph below.

HOW TO:

The idea is to cut out the carbohydrates from the midday meal. This is to ensure that your energy and concentration levels to remain stable. No pasta, rice, potatoes or bread; ( a mini portion of any of these can be consumed if you really cannot do without them). These can all be replaced with pulses, also known as grain legume. These include dry beans, dry peas, chickpeas and lentils. They are high in protein, fibre and vitamins. Marry these with, seafood, sardines, white meat, poultry, eggs, milk, cheese, yoghurt, pork tenderloin, soy, lean beef. Don’t forget your greens! You can go crazy with some fabulously mixed salads and be sure to make them as colourful as you can, https://foodrevolution.org/blog/eating-the-rainbow-health-benefits/ There you have it, you have just found yourself the ideal lunch.

It can all be a bit of trial and error in the beginning. My first ‘try’ seemed fine until half an hour later when I thought, “This isn’t working”. However, after a quick analysis, oops! I realised the culprit was the chocolate mousse I had consumed with the coffee! Temptation has a price.

There you have it. You can achieve and maintain the “I feel good” factor by adjusting your eating habits a little. It works for me and it could very well work for you, I hope it does.

Good luck and enjoy your new found great performance and energy.

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