Whole Body Wellness

What's Your Metabolic Type?
Do you know what foods work best for your body? If so, great job! This can be tricky to figure out, but once you do, you’ll find it’s much easier to feel satisfied, have great energy, and make lasting changes in your body.

Have you ever beat yourself up because you had a tough time following a particular eating style or plan? I know that I have. A few years back I looked at friends and family who appeared healthy and at their ideal weight, and I tried to eat how they ate. I thought, “it’s working great for them, so this must be how I should be eating.” I would try these various eating styles and when they didn’t work (or I didn’t feel good eating that way) I would judge myself. What I didn’t understand at the time is that those eating styles simply weren’t the right fit for me.

What I have come to learn is that there’s no one right way of eating that works for everyone. This is at the cornerstone of the work I do with clients. Learning what foods work best for you is a like putting the pieces of a puzzle together. One way to help you with this puzzle is to determine your metabolic type.

What type are you?

The Protein Type
If you are a protein type it means your cells tend to burn carbohydrates too quickly. You need a high-protein intake in order to slow down your overly rapid cellular oxidation rate. Protein types do very well on a diet that includes plenty of high-density, high-fat proteins.

The Carbohydrate Type
If you're a carbohydrate type you need a higher percentage of carbohydrates in your diet in order to speed up your naturally slow cellular oxidation rate. Carbohydrate types typically do well on a low-fat, relatively low-protein diet -- one that includes liberal amounts of carbohydrates in the form of vegetables, fruits and whole grains.

The Mixed Type
If you're a mixed type, it means you're somewhere in the middle of the other two types, which have more pronounced or clear-cut metabolic imbalances. You actually need to eat a mixture of protein type foods and carbohydrate type foods. This will keep your cellular oxidation rate, which is neither too fast or too slow, in balance.

Are you feeling confused about how and what you should be eating? I know how you feel because a few years ago I was exactly where you are, and I don’t want you to struggle (as I did) to figure out how to eat in a way that works for you.