Is it Really a Healthy Choice?!

Okay, so you're on a roll with your #balance journey, right?! Your...

✔ Getting your workouts in

✔ Staying active

✔ Drinking your water

✔ Minimizing stress

✔ Prioritizing sleep

Which is AMAZING!!!! But you might not be making as healthy of food choices as you think! Even foods that are marketed to us as "healthy" can be loaded with processed ingredients! AKA....CRAP!

Take almond milk for example. Take a look at the ingredients in this super popular non-dairy milk option! There's a TON of ingredients in there that don't sound so healthy, do they? Then, take a peek at THIS almond milk brand instead! I don't about you, but I'd definitely choose the malk!

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Almond milk (filtered water, almonds) calcium carbonate, natural flavors, sea salt, potassium citrate, sunflower lecithin, gellan gum, vitamin A palmitate, vitamin d2, d-alpha tocopherol

Versus this!

Filtered Water, Organic Almonds, Himalayan Pink Salt.

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Protein bars are another "healthy" food that can be loaded with CRAP! Take a look!

Protein blend (whey protein concentrate, milk protein isolate, whey protein isolate), hydrolyzed collagen, glycerine, maltitol syrup, water, maltodextrin, maltitol, fractionated palm kernel oil, sugar, whey protein concentrate, canola oil, natural flavors, milk, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, tapioca starch, cocoa (processed with alkali), calcium carbonate, soy lecithin, cocoa, butterfat, xanthan gum, salt, partially defatted peanut flour, sucralose, almond butter, tocopherols added to protect flavor.

Try these instead!

Dates, egg whites, almonds, cashews, raspberries, chocolate, cocoa, natural flavors, sea salt.

THAT'S IT!

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Salads are a great way to get your vitamins and minerals from food, but many condiments such as dressings can be a processed ingredient nightmare!

SOYBEAN OIL, WATER, VINEGAR, SUGAR, EGG YOLKS, SALT, BUTTERMILK, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, GARLIC*, MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, XANTHAN GUM, WHEY, PHOSPHORIC ACID, ONION*, POTASSIUM SORBATE AND CALCIUM DISODIUM EDTA (TO PROTECT FRESHNESS), SPICE, PARSLEY*, DISODIUM GUANYLATE, DISODIUM INOSINATE, YEAST EXTRACT. *DRIED

Have this instead!

*HIGH OLEIC SUNFLOWER OIL, WATER, *LEMON JUICE, *MUSTARD (*VINEGAR, WATER, *MUSTARD SEEDS, SALT, *SPICES), *CAGE FREE SALTED EGG YOLKS (*CAGE FREE EGG YOLKS, SALT), *DISTILLED VINEGAR, SEA SALT, *BLACK PEPPER, *ONION POWDER, *DILL, *GARLIC POWDER, *PARSLEY, *WHOLE EGG

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There are a MILLION foods out there. So many options that it's often difficult to decide what a "healthy" option is and what isn't. At the end of the day, if there are minimal ingredients in a food item and you can pronounce all of them, I'd say that it's a good choice!

Try to keep your food as natural as possible....AKA no nutrition label! From the plant or the ground! But when you do venture through the aisles, make sure to turn the item around and dive into the ingredient label. Real food= real results, #balance family!

You've got this!

🖤 Kristie

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