Lifelong Habits 🥩🧀🍓🥝🍌💪

Staying healthy is a daily responsibility. You have to develop and maintain healthy habits consistently if you want to stay healthy. These days you hear so many strategies and it can be difficult to figure out which healthy routine is best for you. I’ve experimented with all sorts of different diets and lifestyles to experience what worked best for me. When I finally found the lifestyle that worked, I started teaching it to my patients and named it the Chiropractic Lifestyle.

The first principle of the Chiropractic Lifestyle is health food planning. I have found that my body functions the best with a high protein, moderate fat, and low carbohydrate food plan. I create my macros based on my BMR, activity demands, and body composition goals. When I’m trying to lean down, I drop my carbs to really low levels. However, I keep my protein and fats at the same level.

I find the easiest way to food plan is to eat the same thing every day. The food plan I outline here on my blog is what I eat every day. It’s too burdensome for me to constantly change my food every day. I may stick with a food plan for several weeks at a time. Usually, the only thing I end up changing is the primary protein source. This week I’m doing beef but several weeks ago I was doing chicken.

I’ve been keeping my carbs low because it helps me stay lean. I have found with old age; my metabolism is a lot different than when I was in my 20s and I have to be strict with my carbohydrate consumption to avoid fat deposition.

The second principle is exercise. Our bodies are made to move. If you don’t move it, you lose it. You have to find a way to keep your body stimulated by subjecting it to resistance daily. I  like to split up my body parts that I exercise on different days. Currently, I’m training chest and triceps together, then the following day, back and biceps, and the last day legs and shoulders. I then repeat this sequence.

Last but not least is the most important principle of the Chiropractic Lifestyle which is spine care. The vast majority of people have no idea what it is. If you ask the medical profession they will tell you it’s managing spine pain with drugs and surgery. Chiropractic spine care is taking care of the spine by maintaining spinal mobility, alignment, and spinal stabilization. These three elements of Chiropractic Spine Care will help a person suffering from spine pain and it will help a person keep their spine healthy.

With spine care, you have to be proactive and take action regardless of how you feel. Don’t wait for pain before you take action. The daily stress of life is accumulative and can pull your spine out of alignment which will affect function in your body.

Carpe Diem

Chiropractic Lifestyle Food & Exercise Plan

5:00 am 👉 Weight training

7:30 am 👉 225 g Organic Assorted Berries, 2 Kiwis, 3 Organic Figs, 1 organic banana, 16.9 oz Organic coconut water, 2 scoops whey protein, 1 scoop collagen powder, 1 scoop wild berry superfood powder, 1 scoop organic cocoa powder, 5 grams creatine, 6 grams BCAA, 220 mg Magnesium Glycinate, 10,000 iu Vitamin D, and Vitamin K.

10:00 am 👉 6 pasture-raised organic eggs, 2 tbs grass-fed butter, 2-3 oz raw cheese from grass-fed cows, and sea salt.    

1:30 pm 👉 14 oz Beef, 1 Avocado, sea salt, cayenne pepper, hot sauce, and 220 mg Magnesium Glycinate.

Macros Breakdown

Calories: 2,316 Protein: 187 grams Carbs: 242 grams Fat: 107 grams