How can I change my eating behavior as a cyclist to support my performance?
Change your eating behavior with self evaluation, short-, mid- and long-term goal setting and coping strategies to empower change.
Why should I change my eating behavior as a cyclist to support my performance?
At The Athlete's FoodCoach, we believe that the real difference in performance is made in your daily nutrition. The daily nutrition of Athletes, making unconsciously over 200 daily food choices, is shaped by habits. Utilizing behavior change techniques is crucial for transforming your eating habits, ultimately shaping your overall eating pattern to fuel your performance. Integrate minor adjustments in your product and meal choices to sync with your training routine. Over time, these changes build new routines vital for reliable performance fueling.
How do I get my eating behavior on point?
Transform your eating habits by making minor adjustments in your product and meal choices, aligning them with your training routine. Follow a continuous process involving:
- Self-evaluation: Utilize the FoodCoach app to log your current eating routines, assessing their nutritional dimensions and identifying patterns. Athletes often overestimate their ability to align with performance nutrition guidelines. Self-evaluation challenges beliefs, revealing oversimplifications or contradictions to scientifically proven insights.
- Goal-setting: Commit to short-term (this week/month), mid-term (this season), and long-term (in 5 years) objectives.
- Coping strategies to empower change: Celebrate small successes, practice mindful eating, optimize your environment, embrace motivation and setbacks, replace bad habits with good ones, and seek social support.
Empower yourself with the FoodCoach app, a tool designed for you to Do-It-Yourself. Enhance your knowledge and confidence with scientifically proven insights from elite athletes and their experts. Most crucially, leverage our challenges to pinpoint small changes in your eating routines, propelling you towards achieving your performance dreams step by step.
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Definitions
- - Automatic behavior: Inherent, reflexive actions performed without conscious thought or intentional decision-making. Like putting fresh fruit on the table to improve healthy snacking. Or using smaller plater to have a full plate and eat smaller portion sizes.
- - Emotional hunger: The urge to eat driven by emotions, such as stress, boredom, or sadness, rather than a physical need for nourishment.
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